Fox News exits had 70% backing govt healthcare and big majorities for climate action. Florida passed $15 minimum wage with 60% of vote. Dems could have run on these things but instead they chose some vague sanctimonious soul of the nation bullshit.
https://twitter.com/krystalball/status/1324095006802501633
Now that we have a presumptive Dem winner
Now that we have a presumptive Dem winner who claims during a pandemic that he’d veto Medicare for All if it passed Congress, MSNBC runs segments contrasting the USA’s crappy healthcare system with that of other countries who pay a lot less for better care.
https://twitter.com/LADYBUNNY77/status/1324385876349255680
Try and stop me…
I’m listening to Spinning Around on infinite repeat all day. I dare any of you to try and stop me.
Saudi Arabia’s latest PR stunt
Via CODEPINK: Women For Peace: In two weeks, over a hundred European professional golfers will gather to compete in Saudi Arabia’s latest PR stunt: the kingdom’s first all-women golf tournament. Meanwhile, just a matter of miles away from the course, trailblazing Saudi women’s rights activists Loujain al-Halthoul is languishing in prison on a hunger strike, held incommunicado from her family. No woman is free until we all are free. How can these athletes compete and claim to be promoting gender equality when a fellow woman is imprisoned for the “crime” of peacefully fighting for her rights? Pressure prominent female golfers to drop out of the tournament:
https://www.reuters.com/article/saudi-rights-int-idUSKBN27C1TJ
Adeoye Owolewa on MeatBusters
A MUST LISTEN: this episode of MeatBusters features @AdeoyeOwolewa, Dem candidate for DC Representative. Hear about why he went #vegan, his priorities for animals and food justice, and his challenge to the animal rights community. And then go #VOTE
Foundation
Good lord this looks so good.
Living Conditions at Project Chimps
Living conditions & vet care at @HumaneSociety “sanctuary” #ProjectChimps are so poor that #AnimalRights activists are protesting at the homes of #HSUS execs, including board chair Susan Atherton.
https://twitter.com/theirturn/status/1322172149923274754
Story: https://bit.ly/3ecpMgf
Most of the nine billion chickens…
Most of the nine billion chickens who are factory-farmed every year in the U.S. never see the sky.
https://sentientmedia.org/new-study-confirms-inhumane-breeding-of-modern-broiler-chickens/
Humane Society Helps 750 Animals During Destructive Wildfires — CBS Denver
As part of the Larimer County Disaster Response, the Larimer Humane Society is stepping in to help displaced families and their pets.
Humane Society Helps 750 Animals During Destructive Wildfires — CBS Denver
Nuclear weapons will soon be illegal
Nuclear weapons will soon be illegal under international law. Seventy-five years to the day after the founding of the United Nations, the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) began the 90-day countdown until the treaty enters into force.
https://truthout.org/articles/nuclear-weapons-will-soon-be-banned-under-international-law/
