Echinocentric @Echinocentric@social.cleverlibre.org

House Republicans are trying to pass a bill to implement a MASSIVE 23% national sales tax on all taxable goods and services — with more tax hikes to come later on.

This would be absolutely crushing for middle-class families.

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NEW: My new co-worker George Anthony Devolder Santos is a distraction and a danger to democracy.

Read my Op-Ed in @nbcnews: 👇

https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/george-santos-new-york-colleague-congress-danger-rcna65794

I gifted this article. It's a hard read on how to love and talk to those that hold downright disgusting world views. I'd. like to think my strength is logic, and nothing about this is logical. #insurrection #politics
https://wapo.st/3krwLZI. Opinion Hug an election denier

We should worry
that they are undercounting
the number of deaths
over there.

But think nothing of it
if we are undercounting
the number of deaths
over here
after all, we wouldn’t want
people to worry.

Honestly I thought I'd have climbed more walls with plunger shoes by now.

We shouldn’t just raise the debt ceiling — we should abolish it. It serves absolutely no purpose.

The only thing the debt ceiling actually does is give corrupt Congress members a "trigger global financial crisis" button.

The fascists unanimously voted for Marge to be on the Homeland Security Committee because one can't be half fascist or nazi. They ALL are ALL IN.

@petersgoodman@twitter.com 4. The economic data backs up Goodman's perspective. The elite meet at Davos each year and talk about "stakeholder capitalism" while the ultra-wealthy take a larger and larger share of new wealth.

https://popular.info/p/the-true-priorities-of-the-global

@petersgoodman@twitter.com @Oxfam@twitter.com 6. This massive increase comes after decades of rapidly accumulating wealth for billionaires.

@petersgoodman@twitter.com @Oxfam@twitter.com 9. The concentration of wealth is not an accident. It is the result of policy choices pushed for by corporations and the wealthy and enacted by government officials. Many of the folks responsible for these choices are in Davos this week.

@petersgoodman@twitter.com @Oxfam@twitter.com 10. Since 1980, taxes for the highest incomes, capital gains, and inheritance have all plummeted in wealthy countries. This has corresponded to a large increase in the share of wealth held by the top 1%.

https://popular.info/p/the-true-priorities-of-the-global

@petersgoodman@twitter.com @Oxfam@twitter.com 11. Tuesday's Davos program included a panel with Senators Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ) and Joe Manchin (D-WV). The pair shared an on-stage high-five in celebration of the filibuster, which has been used to block increases in the minimum wage.

@petersgoodman@twitter.com @Oxfam@twitter.com 8. In 2022, the World Bank announced that "we will fail to meet the goal of ending extreme poverty by 2030" and "global progress in reducing extreme poverty has come to a halt."

In 2021, "between 702 and 828 million people were affected by hunger," nearly 10% of the world's pop

A pelican befriended a stray puppy who use to hang out all alone along the boat docks. The man who photographed this, adopted the puppy, but brings him back every day to see his friend, Petey the Pelican 🐶 🦢 💕

#greenwitchtea #greenwitch #animism #harmnone #love #peace

Erika López Prater went out of her way to make sure an Art History lesson showing a 14th-century image of the prophet Muhammad wouldn’t offend any students. After which, she gave another warning then taught the lesson. One student complained

She was fired.

We have freedom of religion. Practice freely without persecution *but* your sky man can’t impose your views on me the same way I can’t sue you for enjoying bacon on your sandwich.

Or else this country is lost.