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Johnnysmithereenze retweeted
The ability of billionaires to influence our politics has destroyed our democracy. So much for one person one vote. They are buying elections. We need a constitutional amendment to rid ourselves of the poison of Buckley v Valeo and Citizens United. Gift link:
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Johnnysmithereenze retweeted
Robert Reich argues corporate Dems taking funding from the same interest groups as Republicans was an unmaking of the Democrat Party
“Once the Democrats began drinking at the same corporate trough as the Republicans, you know it’s very difficult to bite the hand that feeds you and I saw again and again Democrats who were reluctant to take on big corporations and Wall Street…”
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Johnnysmithereenze retweeted
As Immanuel Wallerstein predicted, the distinguishing characteristics of "First" and "Second" and "Third" World are disappearing as all appear at once in more and more countries
The FDA has upgraded a recall of guacamole to the highest risk level, indicating a reasonable chance of "serious adverse health consequences or death" from salmonella contamination.
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Johnnysmithereenze retweeted
That’s because Zionist bombings from 1950 - 1951 targeted Jewish properties and institutions in Baghdad
— according to Israeli-British historian Avi Shlaim, who said Zionist underground members planted explosives to frighten the Jewish community into leaving for Israel
A century ago, roughly 1 in 3 people in Baghdad was Jewish.
Today, just five Jews remain.
Guess which country gets lectured about coexistence: Israel.
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Johnnysmithereenze retweeted
The idea that Palestinians (the local majority) should’ve “accepted partition” of the land they were already living in…
*for the benefit of newly arrived settlers*
…is something only a Zionist could see as reasonable to demand. No other people in history would agree to this.
Mahmoud, your grandparents were displaced not because of zionism, but because of antizionism.
Arab leaders could’ve accepted partition (zionism). Instead, they waged an annihilationist war against the Jews (antizionism). Your family was displaced because Arabs lost that war.
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Jane Fonda has released a statement in support of Mark Ruffalo after Paramount slammed the four-time Oscar nominee as “antisemitic”:
“Calling his criticism antisemitic is a smear to delegitimize criticism of the merger and to distract from the question Paramount would rather not answer: Should one company be allowed to accumulate this much power over our movies, television and news?”
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Johnnysmithereenze retweeted
🚨NEW: Nearly 30,000 pounds of raw beef imported from Argentina has been RECALLED after entering the U.S. without required import reinspection.
The recall comes after Trump ordered increased Argentine beef imports in a desperate effort to drive down prices before the midterms.
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Four companies control most of America’s meatpacking.
Private equity is buying up hospitals & medical practices.
A few tech billionaires control what we see online.
Now the Ellison family wants Paramount to take over Warner Bros., giving one family say over both CBS & CNN.
This isn’t free enterprise.
It’s a concentration of power that enriches the few at the expense of the many.
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Johnnysmithereenze retweeted
CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou:
“There are 10,000 documents [about JFK’s assassination] that will never be released because every single one of them points directly at Israel.”
It’s wild how Israel has gotten away with assassinating our presidents, sinking our ships, and committing genocide in Gaza, all while politicians in both parties still claim it’s “our greatest ally.”
𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐙𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐭 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐞𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐠𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐛𝐞 𝐛𝐫𝐨𝐤𝐞𝐧.
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Johnnysmithereenze retweeted
US workers’ wages and salaries have fallen to 43% of national income, the lowest since the Great Depression.
The majority of the nation’s income is now going to corporations and shareholders off the backs of our labor.
𝐂𝐚𝐩𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐦 𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐥𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐫 𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐠𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐛𝐨𝐬𝐬.
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Johnnysmithereenze retweeted
So: naming the crime is the offense, the one who names it is the guilty, and the one who commits it stands above scrutiny: what a combination of stupidity and viciousness.
Victims are honored by making no more victims not by granting perpetrators impunity.
And @MarkRuffalo rocks!
The accusation that I am antisemitic is appalling and fundamentally dishonest. Criticizing the actions of the Israeli prime minister, a military technology contract, or the executives who supply it is not the same as criticizing Jewish people. This critical and necessary dialogue is then dishonestly framed as being anti-Israel. To be clear, my views come from my own political convictions and should never be interpreted as hostility toward Jewish people, for whom I have deep love and respect. Everything I know about acting, activism, and humanism has been profoundly shaped by the Jewish friends, colleagues, and loved ones who have been integral and family throughout every point of my life.
This merger has real consequences for real people, and for the entire country. Scrutinizing the Ellisons, including Oracle’s business built on data, surveillance technology and government contracts, and the serious threat to editorial freedom and the loss of a livelihood for thousands of families, is fair and necessary. The $111 billion deal would hand one family control over CNN, HBO and Warner Bros., backed in part by foreign money whose influence on editorial decisions has never been fully explained to the public.
Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have called for serious national security review, and regulators still haven’t given the public a real answer. Until they do, the merger shouldn’t move forward. Now is the time to dive boldly into all these issues, not step back or concede.
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Johnnysmithereenze retweeted
It's antisemitic to note that the Ellisons have extensive documented ties to & personal & professional interests in Israel, have already put a fanatically pro-Israel person in charge at CBS, & have an interest in ensuring that US media coverage remains favorable to Israel.
3 Leading Jewish Groups Rebuke Mark Ruffalo for Tying Paramount Merger to Israel’s Gaza War, Demand Response thewrap.com/media-platforms/…
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Johnnysmithereenze retweeted
1 US milk is illegal in Europe
Too many chemicals
2 US bread is considered cake in Europe
Too much sugar
3 US eggs are illegal in UK
They wash off the natural protection
4 US meat is banned in 160 countries
Due to hormones
5 US apples are coated with wax also used for cars
6 In US, 60% of food contains stuff banned in other countries
-@SydesJokes
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Johnnysmithereenze retweeted
They’re handing out Nobel prizes in economics to people in 2026 for things that Karl Marx said over 150 years ago.
Working paper del Nobel de economía Acemoglu: "Finalmente, demostramos que, partiendo de una democracia, la acumulación de capital y [...] una mayor automatización, incentiva a los capitalistas a apoyar un golpe de Estado contra la democracia y a establecer un sistema represivo."
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Johnnysmithereenze retweeted
Trump: “Americans can’t buy a home because they don’t work very hard.”
75% of Americans can’t afford a median-priced home not because we don’t work hard, but because we’ve been priced out by a system that concentrates wealth into fewer and fewer hands off the backs of our labor.
It’s wild that anyone could still support a president who blames the very people he was elected to serve for the systemic corruption that’s destroying our lives.
The problem isn’t that Americans aren’t working hard. The problem is that we’re working hard, but still can’t get ahead because the system is rigged against us.
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Johnnysmithereenze retweeted
You can’t talk about debt without talking about how we got into a bad predicament, and there’s only one correct answer: tax cuts enacted this century
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Johnnysmithereenze retweeted
Angie Nixon was outspent 36 to 1 on the airwaves. In fact she spent $0 on broadcast or cable. I'm truly floored.
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Johnnysmithereenze retweeted
As I've been saying: The corporate Democratic faction is willing to sabotage populist Dem nominees, effectively make common cause with MAGA and lose the 2026 midterms if that corporate faction believes that is the price of maintaining its own power inside the Democratic Party.
Abdul El-Sayed’s victory in Michigan’s Democratic primary has complicated Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s plans to help Democrats retake the Senate in the November, tying his party’s fortunes to a candidate some Democrats say they cannot support. wapo.st/4idISp8
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