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From the river to the sea retweeted
FDR was very explicit when creating the minimum wage that it should be a livable wage.
This idea that minimum wage jobs are starter jobs is corporate propaganda used to defend paying people substandard wages.
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For the hard-of-thinking out there : if a defendant accused of rape says "it was consensual", he is admitting that there was pentration. Therefore DNA evidence is NOT NECESSARY. You don't need to prove something that someone admits to...
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Respectfully, I don’t think you should fall for this trap. They don’t need *ANY* alternative to run. They just need to withhold their votes for Jeffries. Once you start drafting people to run, the establishment will just make them say “I don’t want it,” and then we’re back to square one.
All the Democrats in the House are using the excuse that no one else is running for Speaker. That's why they have to back Hakeem Jeffries, who is opposed to all of their policy priorities. Then, why don't one of you run against him? Why do you have to concede power to the establishment?
Presumably @RoKhanna and @AOC are going to run for some sort of higher office. What's everyone else's excuse? Why doesn't @GregCasar run? Or nominate a progressive/populist to run? What's the point of being a progressive leader if you aren't going to lead?
From the river to the sea retweeted
Damn. Looks like forcing the vote is actually a thing.
Note that when it only would’ve taken about 6 votes to hold the speaker hostage in 2021, Ryan argued against it.
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She would be a horrible candidate. She has no legislative accomplishments to her name, she performs abysmally on camera under pressure, and most importantly, lost all credibility as pro-Palestine advocate when she lied about Kamala “tirelessly fighting for a ceasefire.”
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So obnoxious how rightists spent weeks loudly demanding that we all pretend this guy wasn't a disgusting piece of shit just because someone gave him a free tracheostomy.
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Palestinians in Gaza are being flooded out of their tents while SNL tells Babylon Bee jokes pretending to believe that anyone who humanizes them must hate Jews. It’s not just the American news media that’s propaganda; it’s all American mainstream entertainment.
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Israel did this.
A Palestinian man stands helplessly in knee-deep floodwaters as filthy water engulfs the tents of displaced families in Gaza, leaving people who have already lost everything with nowhere dry to sleep.
The video below, shared by Palestinian journalist Ayman al-Hesi, shows a widow whose husband was killed by the Israeli army crying alone as her displacement camp is flooded.
From the river to the sea retweeted
In this video, I am documenting a heartbreaking scene that happened to us yesterday in Gaza.
If you are human and can feel our suffering, please share this video so our voices can reach the entire world. 🙏
Perhaps someone will intervene to save us!!
From the river to the sea retweeted
Israel is not only murdering children. It's a slow torturous death. Paid for with tax dollars now under control of Democrats. Own it.
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Mamdani was asked whether he still supported Jeffries for speaker after the Kushner meeting became public. He said: “I continue to support congressman Jeffries in his bid to become the leader.”
From the river to the sea retweeted
Israel didn’t even allow them to remove their belongings. The soldiers showed up first thing this morning, threw stun grenades into the apartments and made everyone leave. Then they brought in their bulldozers and demolished everything.
The “reason”? Improper building permits.
The real reason: because they can.
This is what American politicians support. This is what American taxpayers are forced to pay for.
Evil is the only appropriate word.
From the river to the sea retweeted
She's side stepping the issue. The question isn't whether *she* can become speaker. The question is whether she + a cohort of other progressives can prevent Hakeem Jeffries from being speaker. And they can.
I explain it all at the link below.
From the river to the sea retweeted
Former Israeli spokesman says The US should force Americans to finance Israel even if Americans make clear in elections that they don’t want to. Read it:
It is absolutely demented that one of the reasons Republicans believe they lost the election is because voters wanted “change our relationship to Israel.”
Not because that might not be true, but because America’s strategic partnership with a loyal democratic ally like Israel should not be a subject of political obsession. Especially not when it is the only ally fighting wing to wing with American forces.
We are not the cause of any of your problems. It is impossible to separate any of this from the multi billion dollar disinformation war waged by adversaries of the West to separate America from its ally—and from a history of scapegoating.
Nothing about this present psychotic moment makes sense outside those two contexts.
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"I want us to get back to being the antiwar party."
The elephant in the room here is the Ukraine proxy war. Since abandoning Obama's relative restraint and blaming Russia for Clinton's defeat in 2016, Democrats have become a pro-war party against Russia. So much so that progressives were shamed into abandoning their mild call for diplomacy in October 2022.
Trump capitalized on that in November 2024. JD Vance will absolutely try to do so again. Anyone committed to winning the antiwar vote will have to reckon with this. Being antiwar doesn't allow you to pick and choose the wars to oppose.
.@TVietor08: We should say we will not vote to fund the government unless you cut off funding for the illegal war. When we take power, Democrats should force votes to constrain him or make him end the war with Iran. We should impeach Pete Hegseth. I want us to get back to being the antiwar party.
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My god I wish the Democrats were the sort of political party who would actually do the kinds of things that shrieking hysterical Republicans are currently claiming they’re about to do.
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In 2006, Dems won a massive midterm victory due to anger over the Iraq War and Bush's unpopularity.
The assumption was they'd end the war. Pelosi's first act when elected Speaker was to say they won't defund the war: in part due to cowardice over the political fallout, in part because so many Dems ideologically opposed ending the war, in part because they wanted to run in 2008 with the Iraq War still ongoing to help them win the WH.
Does anyone think the Dems will now use control of the Senate and House to just de-fund the war, as they clearly have the power to do?
