Since 1980 the government has shut down now 11 times—8 times under Republicans and the longest ever shutdown under a Republican—proving yet again that Republicans claim government doesn’t work, then get elected and prove it.
Today I had the rare opportunity to interview Bae Franklin, a Veteran currently on the flotilla as it nears Gaza. Corporate media has barely covered these courageous voices. It is critical you hear directly from these heroes risking their lives to end the genocide
The deadly shooting by a Trump sycophant at a LDS Church in Michigan is yet another reminder of a truth MAGA politicians want us to forget: Since 1999, Americans have endured 2,000+ shootings in houses of worship.
Yes, two thousand plus.
It isn't the "lack of God" that's causing our gun violence epidemic, it's the presence of unregulated, unmitigated, and unregistered guns fused with unhindered, unlimited, and unhinged white supremacy.
On Episode 190 of The Qasim Rashid Show:
•Fired Washington Post Journalist Karen Attiah fights back
•What is the actual point of corporate boycotts? (hint: It isn’t just to stop a corporation’s bad behavior), and
•Why we should welcome new people to our coalitions for justice (even if it feels like they’re joining late).
The corporate Democrats condemning Trump for stripping away healthcare, while themselves opposing universal healthcare, should reflect on their own complicity. Their insistence to support & be funded by for profit health exploitation corporations empowers people like Trump, who is simply taking that healthy exploitation to the next level.
This is what happens when you take a human right like healthcare and make it your for profit enterprise. Shame on all you greedy hypocrites.
Hakeem Jeffries still refuses to endorse the Democratic Nominee for NYC mayor but has plenty of praise for Eric Adams who, left the party, openly supports Trump, & cut a deal with Trump to disappear the DOJ’s bribery & corruption charges against him. Can’t imagine why the Dem Party has 26% approval🤔
Just got word that at the Broadview, IL facility I protested at yesterday, ICE fascists arrested Dana Briggs, a U.S. Air Force Veteran.
Trump claims he's getting "violent criminals" off our streets with ICE. No, he's going after military Veterans who oppose his fascist policies. Indefensible.
1. US soldiers murdered 135 mostly women & children Lakota Sioux at Wounded Knee as they surrendered after forced displacement, i.e. genocide
2. Amazing how we can't pay reparations because no one alive today was enslaved, but we can honor the dead white supremacists who committed war crimes.
Trump is honoring literal white supremacists. This is fascism.
The NYC Mayoral Primary was June 24 (95 days ago) & the General is Nov 4 (in 37 days). And Chuck Schumer & Hakeem Jeffries—the two Democratic Party leaders who should be leading by example—have still REFUSED to endorse the democratic nominee.
I don’t ever wanna hear them or any of their supporters utter “vote blue no matter who,” ever again. What indefensible cowardice and hypocrisy.
Thankfully, Zohran Mamdani continues to rise & the future looks bright.
One fact is clear—ICE is afraid of us.
ICE boarded up their buildings, put up fences, hid behind masks, forced us to move to a new location, & pepper balled peaceful protestors. They fear our unity. They know their only hope is to divide us in culture wars. We cannot let them. Our basic humanity depends on our unity.
