Roger Kopet
119.8K posts
Roger Kopet
@scotrog
artist, architect, scientist, humorist, prognosticator, antagonist, sonnetist
New York City Beigetreten Şubat 2010
7.5K Folgt2.8K Follower
As Southern states rush to redraw congressional maps to silence Black voters, it’s time for African Americans and our allies to adopt a new Southern strategy.
I won’t lay out every step publicly, but one thing is clear: mass voter registration and mobilization across the South must be at the center of it.
If you’re ready to organize, educate, and fight back, join an organization like the NAACP and get involved.
#NAACP #VotingRights
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A Black man in Louisiana wins his election with 68% of the vote and is being pushed out of office.
When people start questioning whether their votes actually matter, THIS is where it comes from.
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@RepJayapal STOP MAKING SHIT UP
and ADMIT, That YOU, Are and Have Always Been, The PERPETUATORS of RACISM!!!!
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Trump’s attacks on minority communities across this country are extremely isolating.
We ALL belong.
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Here in Illinois, we’ve protected access to vaccines. But to prevent the spread of measles and other illnesses, we need to bring that fight to the federal level. That’s exactly what I’ll do when I get to Washington.
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The Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act.
I worry tremendously about what this means for communities in Michigan whose representation faces erasure. Congress must pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Act.
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Since Trump launched the war on Iran, gas prices have jumped from $2.98 to $4.55 a gallon.
Working families can’t afford that. We need to invest in the needs of the American people, not spend billions on an unconstitutional war.
This war must end NOW.
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The Trump administration is now:
- Investigating an Atlantic reporter who wrote a story about FBI Director Kash Patel
- Suing the New York Times over its employment practices
- Threatening ABC's broadcast licenses
We say NO to Trump’s authoritarianism. FIGHT BACK.
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Jeff Bezos is seeking $100 billion to put robots into factories. Millions of manufacturing jobs — GONE.
Driverless vehicle companies are expanding rapidly. Millions of transportation jobs — truckers, cab drivers, Uber drivers — GONE.
We are not ready for what’s coming.
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The function of a rational healthcare system is NOT to provide huge profits to insurance companies.
It is to guarantee healthcare to all as a human right.
We must no longer be the only major country without universal healthcare.
We must pass Medicare for All.
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The single largest form of theft in America is wage theft. $50 billion a year are stolen from American workers.
If a billionaire amasses their wealth by underpaying their full-time workers so severely that they must rely on food assistance and government programs to survive, then no, that wealth was not earned by one individual - it was a wealth transfer subsidized by underpaid American workers and the public who get stuck with the bill for large corporations free-riding off our systems.
The point is less about individual morality. It’s more about how our current economic reality of shattering inequality rewards screwing over workers and exploiting essential systems at scale.
We’re talking monopoly power. Rent-seeking. Wage theft. Profiteering. Stock buybacks. Destabilizing housing markets. Companies using SNAP/EBT to underwrite their wages. Massive government subsidies or contracts to corporations following lobbying and dark money in politics with little to no oversight or accountability.
Some people get enraged that I draw attention to this. That’s on them. Let them call me shrill, dumb, inexperienced, girly, uneducated - these folks will say anything to distract from or undercut the truth that working people are getting screwed, and giving people a fair shake means we must have a grown conversation about reigning in abuse of power.
Marco Foster@MarcoFoster_
AOC: “There’s a certain level of wealth and accumulation that is unearned. You can’t earn a billion dollars. You just can’t earn that. You can get market power, you can break rules, you can abuse labor laws, you can pay people less than what they’re worth, but you can’t earn that”
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Someone can certainly *make* a billion dollars. That’s not the same thing as earning.
Growing fast and disrupting markets also often means chasing and wielding market power, political influence, and scale.
Take Airbnb. They heavily lobby politicians against passing housing laws to protect working class residents because it’s bad for their business model.
Airbnb could not exist at its current scale and size without the housing market destabilizations, displacements, and exploits that are supercharging the evictions of working people everywhere from Puerto Rico to Jackson Hole.
Now young people are planning for a future where they will never be able to afford to own a home while others have 20 and live off renting it out to them at extortionate rates with zero protections. Yes, a tiny amount of people can make billions of dollars doing that. And millions of everyday Americans are bearing the cost.
Paul Graham@paulg
Sure you can earn a billion dollars. I've been teaching people how to do it for 20 years. The way you do it is to start a company that grows fast. You don't have to do anything bad to make a company grow fast. You just have to make something people want. paulgraham.com/ace.html
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AOC: “We need to be centering the humanity of these people because they are Americans. You’re gonna tell me that someone came here at 2-years-old and has gone through American schools, someone who’s come here with nothing but the shirt on their back and they’ve been doing nothing but caring for other people’s grandparents and building American homes and putting themselves through school, and you’re gonna tell me that’s not American?”
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