.Bernie Sanders pauses to ask the 2,600+ crowd about the economic stresses of the working class. Some of the responses: “Choosing between glasses for me or my kid” “Can’t keep the heat on” “Trying to afford meals in between paychecks” “Forget about buying your kid new shoes”

Bernie asked the people at his rally to yell what stresses them out the most. People respond and he validates what they say. Never seen a politician do this.

The ruling class wants us hopeless. Because hopeless people don’t fight back. At GROWW, we organize working people to win real fights in WI. Hope is a skill—we build it through action That’s why I stood with Bernie Sanders yesterday in Altoona WI youtube.com/live/P16fPx3Sl…

Seeing how Mahmoud Khalil was detained is unreal. A guy wearing an Avengers shirt from an unnamed agency says “we have you,” they refuse to give their names and it seems he has no rights to be read while being arrested, all while his pregnant wife watches.

This is our local food pantry here in Dunn County, WI. Last year, 5,000 people used the food pantry’s services. More than 10% of the 45,000 people who live here. Don’t tell me this isn’t class war.

Reminder that “markets” are not a natural phenomenon like weather or an ecosystem. The handful of firms who dominate the national housing market intentionally keep housing supply low in order to keep prices high so they rake in profits for their shareholders

That means we must recalibrate what we expect going forward. The political conflict isn’t over, nor is democracy destined to be extinguished for good. But let’s finally discard whatever notion of “It cannot happen here” is still floating around. thomaszimmer.substack.com/p/what-authori…

If Wisconsin elects Susan Crawford and rejects Musk-backed candidate Brad Schimel, it will send a powerful message that will reverberate nationally.

STRESS KILLS. 60% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck, struggling every day to keep their families going.   The result: working class people die 7 years earlier than the rich. We need an economy that works for all, not just the few.

Whole thread worth reading

More great stuff from the “pro worker” administration

Corruption.

I live on a dead end road in rural Dunn county, WI Never before has my door been knocked other than by a dude selling science text books 5 yrs ago. That changed today. Americans for Prosperity knocked on my door. I was too late to answer but they left this door hanger

EVERYBODY WATCH. ICE IS OUT OF CONTROL. Video of SEIU California’s President David Huerta getting assaulted & arrested during an ICE raid in the warehouse district of Downtown Los Angeles today. He’s an LA native, American citizen and labor leader. Don’t turn away.

Because Wall Street lobbied Congress to pass a law in 1998 whose whole purpose was to *make us* bad at building affordable housing

Wait you guys think that Barack Obama had a successful presidency

“It takes more muscular forms of protest and noncooperation, like walkouts, labor strikes, and economic boycotts, to stop autocrats in their tracks… It takes a commitment to big-tent organizing.” justsecurity.org/113995/collect…

At a time when trust in the Democratic Party is at an all-time low, hard to think anything more self-defeating than opposing a young dynamic leader AFTER he won a decisive victory. Seems tailor-made to alienate voters even more.

One of the most brutal days in American history, on the brink of 17M losing Medicaid, 3.2M losing SNAP, massive wealth transfer to billionaires, 20x expansion of ICE. But National Apartment Association (landlord lobby) takes a victory lap, calling this cruel bill a "95% win for the housing industry."

This is 8 minutes long. It’s twitter so few will watch the whole thing-but I did and I now have a much better understanding of what motivated Tyler Robinson.