May 15, 2025 by V Leigh

The bottom 60% of U.S. households don’t make enough money to afford a “minimal quality of life,” according to a new analysis.

The bottom 60% of U.S. households don’t make enough money to afford a “minimal quality of life,” according to a new analysis. https://t.co/Kc8peRJPUi
— CBS Evening News (@CBSEveningNews) May 14, 2025

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.@AOC tells Rolling Stone that Donald Trump and Republicans are “robbing” America and gutting “what is left of the health care and social safety net in the United States” to give it to the rich

EXCLUSIVE from @lorenaoneil: https://t.co/cEv0JhUbrb pic.twitter.com/kSEIMpblPz
— Rolling Stone (@RollingStone) May 10, 2025

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The three decades after WWII ushered in levels of widely shared prosperity the US had never seen.

Things weren’t perfect, but we seemed to understand the importance of unions and that the real “job creators” are Americans workers whose rising wages generated economic growth. pic.twitter.com/DvUe0pp9hs
— Inequality Media (@InequalityMedia) May 8, 2025

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May 8, 2025 by V Leigh

Donald Trump has proposed a 2026 budget. Over 75% is for law enforcement and the military.

At a time of massive inequality, Trump’s budget is breathtaking in its degree of cruelty.

It slashes funding for health care, housing & education that the working class desperately needs in order to pay for more tax breaks for billionaires & the Pentagon.

That is morally…
— Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders) May 3, 2025

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🔥 @SenOssoff: “Who out there is sitting at home demanding we shut down cancer & Alzheimer’s research? We’re going to pay for this for a century. Irreversible damage has been done. It’s an outrage.”

On Trump, DOGE, & the GOP’s budget cuts (to make way for tax cuts for the rich) pic.twitter.com/WzTd3ZRXQm
— The Tennessee Holler (@TheTNHoller) May 7, 2025

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The GOP budget has $0 for FEMA’s emergency management funding, yet provides $300M to pay for Trump’s golf trips.

Extreme weather doesn’t discriminate between red and blue districts.

The GOP is choosing Trump’s golf over the safety and security of their constituents. pic.twitter.com/1Hl37Nz4SM
— Rep. Dan Goldman (@RepDanGoldman) May 1, 2025

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Donald Trump has proposed a 2026 budget. Over 75% is for law enforcement and the military.

Via @stephensemler pic.twitter.com/DXEg6rbX6U
— More Perfect Union (@MorePerfectUS) May 6, 2025

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When you find an ass, ride it.

That’s what the Trump Administration is attempting to do with the proposed tax cuts and budget plans–riding us. Taking from working class Americans to benefit the wealthy–we👏must👏fight👏back👏 pic.twitter.com/KnzaqoGFoX
— Rep. Stacey Plaskett (@StaceyPlaskett) May 8, 2025

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Trump’s budget cuts:

-$4.5B from programs for students in high-poverty schools
-$49M from the Ed Dept’s civil rights office
-$26B from state rental assistance
-$4B from low-income home energy assistance
-$20B+ from the CDC and NIH

All to give the rich another tax cut.
— Robert Reich (@RBReich) May 7, 2025

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April 20, 2025 by V Leigh

The Trump-Supreme Court battle is not really the crisis. The crisis is here now. Trump is enacting an insidious coordinated attack on our institutions of democratic accountability, designed to crater democracy before next fall.

The Trump-Supreme Court battle is not really the crisis.

The crisis is here now. Trump is enacting an insidious coordinated attack on our institutions of democratic accountability, designed to crater democracy before next fall.

1/ A long 🧵to explain the plan & how we stop it. pic.twitter.com/C5rSwO7sVw
— Chris Murphy 🟧 (@ChrisMurphyCT) April 17, 2025

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April 17, 2025 by V Leigh

Musk’s DOGE team may have “violated a court order that prevents DOGE staffers from handling sensitive” Social Security systems. Save Social Security. Protect our privacy. Fire Elon Musk.

Musk’s DOGE team may have “violated a court order that prevents DOGE staffers from handling sensitive” Social Security systems.

Save Social Security. Protect our privacy. Fire Elon Musk.https://t.co/xdaOpVjbyu
— Congressman Greg Casar (@RepCasar) April 13, 2025

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Alex Lawson on @maddow: Musk and Trump are destroying the Social Security Administration.

We’re advising people to make sure they have a hard copy of their Social Security file…We’re not sure it’ll be there online after these DOGE goons are done with their chainsawing. pic.twitter.com/p0BO8NiXuo
— Social Security Works (@SSWorks) April 14, 2025

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DOGE Goons Physically Drag Social Security Worker From Desk: Daily Beast
— Stephen King (@StephenKing) April 13, 2025

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A senior executive at the Social Security Administration was physically booted from his office this week after clashing with DOGE.https://t.co/5lES8anwS0
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) April 12, 2025

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🚨 NEW: President Biden fires back at Elon Musk for calling Social Security a Ponzi scheme — “A Ponzi scheme? What the h— are they talking about? People earn these benefits.” pic.twitter.com/h9gDDYJTKQ
— Chris D. Jackson (@ChrisDJackson) April 16, 2025

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AOC: I saw on Fox, Jeanine Pirro says that they found so many babies and two year olds and four year olds receiving social security. I got a notice for you Jeanine Pirro: those babies receive social security because their parents died. That’s not a waste. That’s humanity. That’s… pic.twitter.com/R2XJWDtBUe
— Acyn (@Acyn) April 16, 2025

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The Trump Administration is trying to dismantle Social Security.

Not on our watch. pic.twitter.com/4Dj929kQl4
— Rep. Ted Lieu (@RepTedLieu) April 15, 2025

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April 16, 2025 by V Leigh

We are at a dangerous, dangerous moment in US history, where the President of the United States is threatening to send US citizens to be imprisoned by a foreign ally, and the foreign ally is saying it won’t respect an US court orders to release people that it’s holding.

We are at a dangerous, dangerous moment in US history, where the President of the United States is threatening to send US citizens to be imprisoned by a foreign ally, and the foreign ally is saying it won’t respect an US court orders to release people that it’s holding. https://t.co/i3FzsHFGFd
— Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@ReichlinMelnick) April 14, 2025

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From the U.S. Holocaust Museum:

“What distinguishes a concentration camp from a prison (in the modern sense) is that it functions outside of a judicial system. The prisoners are not indicted or convicted of any crime by judicial process.”

Welp.
— Max Burns (@themaxburns) April 14, 2025

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NEW: @Documentedny reports that one of the Venezuelans deported to El Salvador is a 19-year-old with with no criminal record and no tattoos who wasn’t even the target of an ICE operation — but ended up sent there anyway. An ICE agent even said “He’s not the one” when arrested! pic.twitter.com/GfiuUFydtP
— Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@ReichlinMelnick) April 14, 2025

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3/4. If we accept the idea that moving a person from one place to another undoes rights and disempowers the judiciary, we are endorsing the basic Nazism practice that enabled the killing of millions.
— Timothy Snyder (@TimothyDSnyder) April 15, 2025

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Bone chilling.

A court ordered Kilmar Abrego Garcia to stay in the United States.

The Supreme Court ruled 9-0 that he was illegally removed. Trump is pretending he won the ruling 9-0.

1/ You may not think this case means anything to you. But let me tell you why it does. https://t.co/oYtQ3x7L0N
— Chris Murphy 🟧 (@ChrisMurphyCT) April 14, 2025

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President Donald Trump and El Salvador’s president, Nayib Bukele, made it clear in a joint meeting that the Maryland man who was wrongly deported won’t be returned to the US https://t.co/teirguPSDq
— CNN Breaking News (@cnnbrk) April 14, 2025

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April 14, 2025 by V Leigh

BREAKING: In a White House meeting with Trump, El Salvador’s president says he won’t release a wrongly deported Maryland man back to the U.S.

BREAKING: In a White House meeting with Trump, El Salvador’s president says he won’t release a wrongly deported Maryland man back to the U.S. https://t.co/phVkofEeWN
— The Associated Press (@AP) April 14, 2025

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MAJOR BREAKING: The President of El Salvador says he WON’T release Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

“How can I return him to the U.S.? How can I smuggle a terrorist into the U.S.?”

Abrego-Garcia was NOT charged with Terrorism and the Supreme Court ordered Trump to facilitate his return. pic.twitter.com/5QLVDw5eLD
— CALL TO ACTIVISM (@CalltoActivism) April 14, 2025

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🧵The Administration is indiscriminately sending people — like Kilmar Abrego Garcia — to El Salvador’s brutal prison system. Donald Trump has openly said he wants to, and will, send U.S. citizens to El Salvador next.
— Joaquin Castro (@JoaquinCastrotx) April 14, 2025

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This is obviously a lie—the cruelty is the point. Kilmar must be returned home to the US immediately. Absolutely no one should be sent to Bukele’s torture camp. Trump ignoring a 9-0 Supreme Court order to bring Kilmar home is an unprecedented constitutional crisis. https://t.co/ddCpU18gi8
— Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib (@RepRashida) April 14, 2025

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BREAKING: This might be the most vile, lie-soaked, anti-American gaslighting yet:

– The Trump administration and El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele are refusing to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia—an innocent man illegally deported and locked in a foreign prison.

– Marco Rubio… pic.twitter.com/9Se32iPnSz
— Brian Krassenstein (@krassenstein) April 14, 2025

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CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS: The Attorney General of the United States blatantly lied—not once, but four times in a matter of seconds.

I’d love for MAGA to explain why they’re perfectly fine with this level of dishonesty:

1) No court has ever ruled that Kilmar Abrego Garcia was a… pic.twitter.com/H3abET2i7V
— Brian Krassenstein (@krassenstein) April 14, 2025

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1) Kilmar Abrego Garcia was here legally
2) Trump illegally sent him to a prison in El Salvador; the Administration admits this was a mistake
3) The Supreme Court unanimously ordered his return
4) Trump refused
5) Trump wants to do the same thing to U.S. citizens

This is sick. https://t.co/8odNp7CReO
— Rep. Don Beyer (@RepDonBeyer) April 14, 2025

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The illegal deportation and imprisonment of a person named Kilmar Abrego Garcia is a test.

My thoughts from @Morning_Joe: pic.twitter.com/cY7s99OTQv
— Pablo Torre 🕳️ (@PabloTorre) April 14, 2025

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Senator Van Hollen threatening to go to El Salvador to check on Kilmar Abrego Garcia is good. What’s happening to him is wrong, and we need Dems to draw attention to it: “If Kilmar is not home by midweek–I plan to travel to El Salvador this week to check on his condition and… pic.twitter.com/FjCZCRyfQd
— Mike Nellis (@MikeNellis) April 14, 2025

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April 12, 2025 by V Leigh

This man knows the market. He predicted: 1) Dot-com Bubble (2000) 2) Great Recession (2008) 3) The COVID Bubble (2021) Howard Marks just went on Bloomberg and said “tariffs are changing everything.” Here is his latest warning:

The federal minimum wage hasn’t been raised in 15 years.

For 15 years, rent has gone up. Groceries are more expensive. Utility bills are higher.

For 15 years, corporations got bigger. Billionaires got richer. And working Americans got screwed.

Americans deserve a raise. pic.twitter.com/I2p3kJEtYH
— Congressman Greg Casar (@RepCasar) April 8, 2025

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This man knows the market.

He predicted:
1) Dot-com Bubble (2000)
2) Great Recession (2008)
3) The COVID Bubble (2021)

Howard Marks just went on Bloomberg and said “tariffs are changing everything.”

Here is his latest warning: 🧵 pic.twitter.com/3LrCmhYfy4
— Oguz O. | 𝕏 Capitalist 💸 (@thexcapitalist) April 7, 2025

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Trump is surprised when a reporter tells him that the EU today announced tariff increases on the US pic.twitter.com/9WpSD9T0FN
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 9, 2025

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Trump’s Trade Rep appeared to learn about the 90-day tariff pause in the middle of a House hearing. Rep. Steven Horsford grilled him immediately:

“Is this market manipulation? Who benefits? What billionaire benefits from this?” pic.twitter.com/NQAug18BoV
— More Perfect Union (@MorePerfectUS) April 9, 2025

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Trump tells his followers to buy stock in the morning, minutes after the market opens, then announces he is pausing tariffs 4 hours later.

Nothing to see here. pic.twitter.com/I6wl3VoGUF
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) April 9, 2025

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BREAKING: The White House caves on most tariffs—then calls it “The Art of the Deal.”

You can’t make this up. These are the most dangerously incompetent people I’ve ever seen:

– Disrupted global supply chains
– Sent American companies into a panic
– Tanked global markets
-… pic.twitter.com/tGveCFntPH
— Brian Krassenstein (@krassenstein) April 9, 2025

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April 10, 2025 by V Leigh

If Trump can claim a “national emergency” to disappear legal residents without due process, what’s to stop him from doing the same to U.S. citizens who oppose him? No one is safe — not even people legally in the country, possibly not even American citizens. Fascism is here.

🚨 SCOOP 🚨

DHS is asking IRS to locate **7 MILLION** suspected undocumented immigrants using confidential tax records.

It’s a massive escalation by DHS to use the tax system for mass deportation.

IRS officials are aghast, say it’s likely illegal.

Link in thread ⤵️ pic.twitter.com/s9k9TSXvdr
— (((Jacob Bogage))) (@jacobbogage) April 5, 2025

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Nazis obtain list of all suspected Jews in Germany, begin process of “locating” them for “mass deportation.” https://t.co/FgIHSJJBIh
— Samuel Sinyangwe (@samswey) April 5, 2025

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In Baltimore, ICE is arresting people so quickly it can’t transfer them out fast enough, forcing people to stay in squalid cells for days; cells designed only for a short stay under 12 hours. No beds. No bathroom privacy. No showers.

Here’s what one grandmother experienced. https://t.co/MFFSBMafdD pic.twitter.com/gFZ5cTR74Z
— Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@ReichlinMelnick) April 9, 2025

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Chinese Woman Dies by Suicide While in Border Patrol Custody https://t.co/GkfWvgxSGq
— Democracy Now! (@democracynow) April 7, 2025

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We demand @smartunionworks apprentice Kilmar Armando Abrego-Garcia be returned to his family. Bring him home now. pic.twitter.com/raEXE2Xvb5
— The Building Trades (@NABTU) April 9, 2025

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Jennifer, the @hispaniccaucus stands with you. We demand that the Trump administration correct this wrong and bring Kilmar home ✊🏽 #kilmarabregogarcia pic.twitter.com/AJm7X79Cv5
— Congressional Hispanic Caucus (@HispanicCaucus) April 9, 2025

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If Trump can claim a “national emergency” to disappear legal residents without due process, what’s to stop him from doing the same to U.S. citizens who oppose him?

No one is safe — not even people legally in the country, possibly not even American citizens.

Fascism is here.
— Robert Reich (@RBReich) April 8, 2025

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April 4, 2025 by V Leigh

What’s the real motivation behind Trump’s tariffs? He believes they’ll bring so much money to the treasury that the U.S. will be able to afford another giant tax cut that will mostly benefit the rich. Who will pay for it? The working class. Here’s what you should know.

Oh my god. At the exact moment Trump announced his tariffs the market crashed in real time.

CNBC is SAVAGE for doing the side by side.

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— CALL TO ACTIVISM (@CalltoActivism) April 2, 2025

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Wanna hear how Republicans talked about tariffs before Trump castrated all of them? pic.twitter.com/HPkAFsR66E
— Sarah Longwell (@SarahLongwell25) April 3, 2025

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If only someone warned us that Trump would enact tariffs…

Oh wait! @KamalaHarris did over and over and over again. pic.twitter.com/LCmZuKLTB2
— Shontel Brown (@ShontelMBrown) April 2, 2025

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Trump’s tariffs are a tax on working people. pic.twitter.com/UQ7ryxw4n3
— Tim Walz (@Tim_Walz) April 3, 2025

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What’s the real motivation behind Trump’s tariffs?

He believes they’ll bring so much money to the treasury that the U.S. will be able to afford another giant tax cut that will mostly benefit the rich.

Who will pay for it? The working class.

Here’s what you should know. pic.twitter.com/TulVv3iL3L
— Robert Reich (@RBReich) April 2, 2025

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April 3, 2025 by V Leigh

Education Dept. warns schools: Eliminate DEI programs or lose funding

Idaho teacher ordered to remove “Everyone is welcome here” sign from cla… https://t.co/gEgIcQFihb via @YouTube
— glenn robinson (he/him) (@glncv) March 11, 2025

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Idaho teacher ordered to remove signs saying “Everyone Is Welcome Here!”

School district lawyer said because the hands pictured were different skin tones, “not everyone would agree they are welcome.”

Adding, “In today’s political environment, it’s considered a personal opinion… pic.twitter.com/HZ2SBpVAl1
— LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 (@LongTimeHistory) March 13, 2025

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The Office of Education Technology at the Dept of Education assists states with implementing AI tech safely & fairly in schools. Without the resources & expertise they have historically provided, states & school districts will not be equipped to navigate emerging technology on… pic.twitter.com/hVR0SOzNfL
— Jahana Hayes (@RepJahanaHayes) April 1, 2025

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I thought they said states would still get their education funds. “State education officials nationwide say the U.S. Dept. of Ed is blocking access to tens of millions of $$ meant for K-12 schools” and firing half the staff has only exacerbated the issue. https://t.co/IXABEIVBFX
— Derek W. Black (@DerekWBlack) March 28, 2025

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Education Dept. warns schools: Eliminate DEI programs or lose fundinghttps://t.co/ttDWlmYQRF
— WOSU News (@wosunews) April 3, 2025

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The bottom 60% of U.S. households don’t make enough money to afford a “minimal quality of life,” according to a new analysis.

Donald Trump has proposed a 2026 budget. Over 75% is for law enforcement and the military.

The Trump-Supreme Court battle is not really the crisis. The crisis is here now. Trump is enacting an insidious coordinated attack on our institutions of democratic accountability, designed to crater democracy before next fall.

Musk’s DOGE team may have “violated a court order that prevents DOGE staffers from handling sensitive” Social Security systems. Save Social Security. Protect our privacy. Fire Elon Musk.

We are at a dangerous, dangerous moment in US history, where the President of the United States is threatening to send US citizens to be imprisoned by a foreign ally, and the foreign ally is saying it won’t respect an US court orders to release people that it’s holding.

BREAKING: In a White House meeting with Trump, El Salvador’s president says he won’t release a wrongly deported Maryland man back to the U.S.

This man knows the market. He predicted: 1) Dot-com Bubble (2000) 2) Great Recession (2008) 3) The COVID Bubble (2021) Howard Marks just went on Bloomberg and said “tariffs are changing everything.” Here is his latest warning:

If Trump can claim a “national emergency” to disappear legal residents without due process, what’s to stop him from doing the same to U.S. citizens who oppose him? No one is safe — not even people legally in the country, possibly not even American citizens. Fascism is here.

What’s the real motivation behind Trump’s tariffs? He believes they’ll bring so much money to the treasury that the U.S. will be able to afford another giant tax cut that will mostly benefit the rich. Who will pay for it? The working class. Here’s what you should know.

Education Dept. warns schools: Eliminate DEI programs or lose funding