Shailly Gupta Barnes

"Almost nowhere in America can you do all the activities you and I do every day and take for granted. Eating, sleeping, resting, sitting. We're all sitting right now. If we were doing that and we were homeless...it might be considered a crime." - @EricTars nevadacurrent.com/2024/12/17/cam…

According to The Lancet, America’s for profit exploitative healthcare system causes 68,000 preventable deaths annually. That means since an assailant killed the @UHC CEO, America’s health insurance corps have killed ~400 Americans who should be alive today. 1 every 7.5 minutes.

#poverty is clearly anything but a marginal experience—and yet, as in the last election, it’s repeatedly minimalized and dismissed in our nation’s politics. @liztheo @shaillybarnes thenation.com/article/politi…

.@liztheo/@shaillybarnes: "#Trump may liken himself to Jesus in his media appearances and election rallies, but his words and actions actually resemble those of Nero and other Roman emperors." commondreams.org/opinion/trump-… #UnitedStates

It is quite the fragile god who needs political power to preserve and enforce their will. It is quite the powerful God who is born in poverty, partners with the poor, washes feet, heals the sick, advocates for the oppressed, is unjustly killed and still changes the entire world.

Whether Donald Trump wins or loses Election 2024, this country is in trouble deep and, four years from now, its situation could be almost unimaginable, says @TomDispatch. commondreams.org/opinion/donald…

Pay attention: If your income is under $360,000 per year, Trump’s tax plans will increase your taxes. The top 5% get tax breaks while the working class pays more. That’s his plan.

BREAKING: One year after Oct. 7, our new analysis reveals that the cost of war in Gaza and beyond to U.S. taxpayers is conservatively estimated to be $22.76 billion… and counting. [THREAD} watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/pap…

Important article on the 80 million poor and low-income voters…and how consequential they are to our elections and politics. @KairosCenterNYC @UniteThePoor

Julie’s late brother served honorably in the Navy. 🕊️ According to Trump, he’s a sucker for that. As decent human beings and veterans, we disagree. #TrumpDishonorsUS #notasucker

"I believe there’s just two classes of people. There’s the rich and there’s everybody else. When I talk about the working class, I always say, union or not. If you work for a living, we’re in this fight together." — @ShawnFainUAW peoplesdispatch.org/2024/09/11/sha…

"ABOLISH RENT: How Tenants Can End the Housing Crisis" by @tracyrosenthal_ shows, through analysis and striking stories of resistance, how tenants can finally re-balance the scales through organizing and collective action. Out on 9/24! haymarketbooks.org/books/2443-abo…

BREAKING: Comedian @jonstewart deftly explains how @TheDemocrats let almost everyone on earth speak at their convention except a Palestinian-American. Silencing a key voice on the great moral issue of the day is inexcusable. ⤵️

If we want the war in Gaza to end, we can’t put our heads in the sand or ignore the voices of the Palestinian Americans in the Democratic Party. If we want peace, if we want real democracy, and if we want to win this election, the Democratic Party must allow a Palestinian American speaker to be heard from the DNC stage tonight.

"The wholesale capture of the state is the ultimate goal of Project 2025's Christian nationalist architects." More from our leadership Rev. @liztheo & @shaillybarnes on why we can’t let extremists misrepresent faith to advance destructive political ideas.commondreams.org/opinion/projec…

This is happening now. Police intervene against Jewish activists protesting Israel's genocide against Palestinians at the US Capitol.

“Trump Campaign Names Project 2025 Leader Russ Vought, an Evangelical Extremist, to Lead the RNC Platform Committee *** Trump nonetheless feigns ignorance of Project 2025’s plans for his potential second term.” #CROW 1/crownewsletter.substack.com/p/christian-ri…

This week, the Landless Rural Workers' Movement (MST) @MST_Oficial launched more than 700 pre-candidates to contest the 2024 municipal elections in October when voters will choose the next mayors and city councilors of Brazilian municipalities.

“I think I would like the government to worry about our lifetimes, not the lifetime of this dysfunctional airplane.” - Bill Hartung , Senior Research Fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft On this week’s episode of The Weekly Show, @JonStewart is joined by @williamhartung and @rtiron, Senior National Security Reporter for Bloomberg. link.chtbl.com/f45prz25?sid=T…

Protesters arrested for seizing Hind’s Hall at Columbia University are refusing any deals unless protesters at CUNY are offered the same, and they stand in solidarity with those facing the most extreme repression in the movement. mondoweiss.net/2024/06/columb…