Magically found $768,000,000,000 for a defense budget, but the same folks can't fully fund the $45- $60 billion needed to remove lead service lines in our country.
I sent a letter today with more than 70 of my colleagues in the House and the Senate urging President Biden to do everything within his power to guarantee rail workers the seven paid sick days that they desperately need.
and our coalition demanding #NoDirtyDeal. Stopping Manchin’s push to fast-track fossil fuels at the expense of frontline communities is too important. Take action ⬇️
As if spending $847 billion on the military industrial complex wasn't bad enough, now they want to add sacrificing frontline communities for polluter profits to the package? I'm voting against any rule that includes the #DirtyDeal and hope colleagues will join me.
Kanye West praising Hitler and Nazis is abhorrent and disgusting. Whether it is anti-Semitism, racism, xenophobia, sexism or homophobia there are always those who want to divide us up. Our job is to unite people around a progressive agenda that improves life for all.
Israeli militias expelled 750,000+ Palestinians from their homes in a systematic, violent campaign to erase the land of its indigenous population. This is known as the Nakba (catastrophe) of 1948.
The film #Farha beautifully and bravely works to keep that history alive.
Farha is now available on Netflix.
An excellent film based on true events that portrays the perspective of one young girl who survived the #Nakba.
It is but one story.. one story among thousands that our people continue to carry, and continue to live through, until this day.
interviewed eyewitnesses and asked the White House and State Department if the US will investigate her shooting in our film "The Killing of Shireen Abu Akleh"
It’s been one year since we lost four beautiful young souls in Oxford. One year since a community was changed forever.
One year later, we honor the memories of Hana, Tate, Madisyn, and Justin and reaffirm our commitment to holding the Oxford community close. #OxfordStrong
Thank you Rep. Tlaib. Come stop by the office in Novi after you vote to add paid sick leave to the contract tomorrow. Solidarity! twitter.com/RepRashida/sta…
Local 202, we stared down a national food crisis over resistance to a $1 raise.
Back then, railroad workers stood with us. They turned trains around to not cross a picket line.
We won then, and we can win now.
Let’s get these sick days 💪🏽
Guaranteeing 7 paid sick days to rail workers would cost the rail industry a grand total of $321 million a year – less than 2% of its profits. Please don't tell me the rail industry can't afford it. Rail companies spent $25.5 billion on stock buybacks and dividends this year.
My mom grew up picking cotton in the 1950s. Yesterday, she waited in line to once again pick her son to represent Georgia in the U.S. Senate. We’ve come a long way, but the work isn’t done!
Please vote, Georgia 🗳
I choose workers, not corporations. The rail workers deserve human dignity in the workplace. I will not support a deal without paid sick days workers are demanding. No worker should have to choose between a paycheck and taking care of themselves and their loved ones.
1. The nation's 100K+ rail workers get ZERO paid sick days
They want FOUR
And are threatening to strike December 9
In response, corporate America is demanding Congress intervene and force them to continue working without any paid sick days
https://popular.info/p/railroading-workers…
Happy Thanksgiving from my family to yours. We give thanks to all our blessings that we have and keep those less fortunate on our minds and in our hearts. Grateful to have so many friends and neighbors that have become family over the years. Sending you all love and peace.
BREAKING: Four Overbrook High School students - two boys and two girls - were shot just after dismissing for Thanksgiving break, according to Philadelphia Police.
Warren Buffett, the owner of BNSF Railway's parent company, became $1.38 billion richer yesterday. In one day, Mr. Buffett made twice as much money as it would cost to guarantee 15 paid sick days a year to every rail worker in America. The greed of the rail industry must end.
BREAKING: Israeli soldiers killed 16-year-old Ahmad Shehadeh during an invasion of the Palestinian city of Nablus.
He is the 200th Palestinian killed by Israel this year, and the 51st child.
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has chosen Kyra Harris Bolden to fill a seat on the Michigan Supreme Court, making her the first Black woman to serve on the state's high court. https://detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/michigan/2022/11/22/gov-gretchen-whitmer-makes-historic-pick-for-michigan-supreme-court-kyra-harris-bolden/69670599007/…
There's been such a coordinated effort to convince you that progressive Black & brown women in office—who serve & lead from lived experiences—are the Democratic equivalent of white supremacist right-wingers who persecute, marginalize & incite violence on the rest of us.
Stop it.
According to police reports, the Colorado Springs suspect was wearing body armor and was armed with an AR-15. He was tackled and subdued by someone inside the club - possibly a combat veteran.
It’s the fucking guns. https://nytimes.com/live/2022/11/20/us/colorado-springs-shooting/64b82a9e-3667-5292-8cf6-fcf3fe2840cc?smid=url-share…
BREAKING: Los Angeles has elected its first Black woman as mayor.
Democratic U.S. Rep. Karen Bass defeated billionaire developer Rick Caruso in a contest that took place amid multiple City Hall scandals, an out-of-control homeless crisis and rising crime.
brought this up today. Y’all heard that right?
Alabama diverted $400m in Covid $ to fund the construction of three mega-prisons.
It’s unconscionable that when our state had the opportunity to invest in public health, they went with mass incarceration.
We've seen these fancy renderings before, when Illitch took hundreds of millions to the bank and never built the housing in District Detroit they promised and left us with a sea of $40 parking lots. Surely we won't fall for this billionaire BS again?