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#McConnell, out sick for two months, voted against medical leave 23 times since 1985
by Judd Legum, Rebecca Crosby, and Noel Sims, Aug 13, 2026
"Senator #MitchMcConnell (R-KY) was hospitalized on June 14 after suffering a fall that left him unconscious. He remained hospitalized until mid-July, when he was transferred to a rehabilitation center. On August 6, McConnell announced that he was discharged and was continuing his recovery at home.
"But, two months later, McConnell has not returned to work in the Senate. Over that period of time, he has missed 59 floor votes. Nevertheless, McConnell has continued to receive his Senate salary of $174,000 per year [!!!].
"McConnell is fortunate to be employed in a job with excellent benefits. There is no federal law, however, that provides guaranteed paid sick leave. In 2025, about 27 million private sector workers had no paid sick leave.
"One reason: Mitch McConnell."
Read more:
https://popular.info/p/mcconnell-out-sick-for-two-months#USPol #GOP #Hypocrisy #MedicareForAll #SickLeaveForAll #GetMoneyOut
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These #corporations are supporting an alleged domestic abuser for Congress
By Judd Legum
#StanleyBlackAndDecker #Pfizer #UBS #JohnDeere #Walmart and more!
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Insurgent Candidate Victories Highlight Growing Movement Against #Corporate & #Elite Power: #JohnNichols
#DemocracyNow, August 05, 2026
Excerpt: "AMY GOODMAN: And let’s go to #WilliamLawrence of the #SunriseMovement —
JOHN NICHOLS: Yeah.
AMY GOODMAN: — who we just mentioned, who won his primary, a co-founder of the Sunrise Movement, defeated two opponents to win the Democratic House primary in Michigan’s 7th District, focusing partly on what you just mentioned: #AIDatacenters . This is one of his ads.
' WILLIAM LAWRENCE: I’m #WillLawrence. And #TechBillionaires want to turn this whole field into a massive #datacenter that’ll jack up our energy bills and ruin our home values.
RANDY: They put that in, it’s going to plummet the values. It’s an existential threat.
WILLIAM LAWRENCE: I’m running for U.S. Congress because I’ve been afraid to stand up to corporate power. I’m backed by #BernieSanders, and I don’t take a dime from #CorporatePACs . '
ANJALI KAMAT: And in Michigan’s 13th Congressional District, #DonavanMcKinney, a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, has a narrow lead over Congressman Shri Thanedar. This is a part of one of McKinney’s ads.
' DONAVAN McKINNEY: #ShriThanedar and the same #billionaires supporting #DonaldTrump are spending millions lying to you. They know that in Congress, Shri fights for them. I will fight for us — lower costs, higher wages, #MedicareForAll . '
ANJALI KAMAT: #AbbasAlawieh also won the Democratic primary for a seat in the Michigan state Senate. He was a co-founder of the #UncommittedMovement, which pushed for President Biden, and then Kamala Harris, to end U.S. support for Israel’s #WarOnGaza. This is Abbas speaking outside the DNC, the Democratic National Convention, in 2024, where the Uncommitted Movement pushed to include a #Palestinian voice at the convention.
'ABBAS ALAWIEH: Here is the scandal, my friends. Here is the scandal. The scandal is that there are forces within #DemocraticParty leadership who do not want us to talk about #Palestinian #HumanRights. But that’s not sustainable. This is a watershed moment. '
ANJALI KAMAT: John Nichols, can you talk about some of these other key races in Michigan and other states where progressives were challenging more establishment candidates, and just what you think is most important as a takeaway from yesterday’s primaries?
JOHN NICHOLS: I sure can. I’m delighted to do it, because the fact of the matter is that our national media too often focuses on the top-line races and misses the real dynamic, which you start to recognize is when you go down-ballot and you look at contests for U.S. House seats and for legislative seats.
And if you look in Michigan, what you’re seeing is, with Will Lawrence, an example of a real breakthrough win for a young candidate who ran a campaign on dynamic, fresh issues, including data centers. With #DonavanMcKinney, that’s still a close race. There are votes still to be counted there. But this is an incredible thing, because this is a candidate who didn’t have anywhere near the kind of money that his opponent did, and yet, with a real grassroots campaign on the ground there in Detroit and that region, ran very, very well.
And if we move beyond Michigan and you look around the country, what you’re going to see is that Tuesday night was a very good night for insurgent candidacies and for outsiders. In the #Missouri governor’s race, what you saw was kind of a remarkable result. #CindyHolscher, who’s a state senator out there and came from the outside — she wasn’t backed by the sitting governor, she wasn’t backed by a lot of Democratic Party leaders, and yet she won her primary for governor. And she did it by talking, again, about data centers and making that a very central part of her campaign. We’re starting to see a thread here. "
Full interview:
https://www.democracynow.org/2026/8/5/john_nichols_aug4_primaries#USPol #DSA #Elections2026 #USElections #IsraeliWarCrimes #FreeGaza #FreePalestine #GetMoneyOut #NoDatacenters
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Primary Elections Live Updates: #ElSayed Wins Michigan Senate Primary
Dr. #AbdulElSayed, a progressive, defeated Representative #HaleyStevens, a moderate, in a bitter and expensive race that had divided Democrats. Both quickly moved to project party unity.
August 5, 2026
"Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, a progressive and a vocal critic of #israel edged Representative Haley Stevens, a moderate, early Wednesday to narrowly win the Michigan Senate Democratic primary, according to The Associated Press.
"It was a high-profile victory for the ascendant political left — though the rancorous race was ultimately far closer than polls had suggested, with Dr. El-Sayed leading by less than a percentage point Wednesday morning."
Read more:
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/08/05/us/michigan-election-results-primary#USPol #MichiganPol #Elections2026 #USElections #IsraeliWarCrimes #FreeGaza #FreePalestine #GetMoneyOut
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Heh. Even #USAToday is talking about the #DSA! Caution - Contains #RedScare Propaganda!
#DemocraticSocialists of America propose radical overhaul of US govt
The Democratic Socialists of America want to fight for working-class Americans by offering #FreeHealthcare and abolishing the U.S. Senate [sic]. What else does their #WorkersDeserveMore platform say?
by Emily R. Condon
Updated Aug. 2, 2026,Excerpt: "Although not all self-described #DemocraticSocialists are in the Democratic Socialists of America, the DSA is an increasingly influential player on the left. Members include New York Rep. #AlexandriaOcasioCortez, New York City Mayor #ZohranMamdani and Michigan Rep. #RashidaTlaib, all Democrats. Three Democratic nominees for U.S. House of Representative seats – #DarializaAvilaChevalier and #ClaireValdez in New York and #MelatKiros in Colorado – also belong to the group, as do a growing list of state and local officials.
"A third of #Democrats identify as democratic socialists, according to a July 30 CNN poll, but it's possible that quite a few of those are not familiar with some of the DSA's more unusual suggestions for overhauling the U.S. government. A July 28 Reuters/Ipsos poll revealed that 47% of Americans say they don't understand democratic socialist policies.
"While President Donald Trump and his GOP allies slam democratic socialists as
'#communists,' the Democratic Socialists of America is defining its own brand in the new platform."The 120,000-member organization's policy roadmap has three sections:
- Thriving Working-Class Communities
- Working-Class Foreign Policy
- Working-Class Democracy "Read more [or not. I'll be posting the official DSA platform soon...]:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/08/02/democratic-socialists-america-platform/91092595007/#USPol #TaxTheRich #VotingRights #Unionize #WealthTax #MultiPartyDemocracy #NoLobbying #NoDarkMoney #GetMoneyOut #SocialistVampires #SocialismIsScaryForTheRich
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#CitizensUnited #OverturnCitizensUnited #MoneyInPolitics #EndDarkMoney #DemocracyNotForSale #FreeSpeechForPeople #CampaignFinanceReform #CorporationsAreNotPeople #FixOurDemocracy #TheodoreRoosevelt #TeddyRoosevelt #CampaignFinance #CorporateInfluence #PoliticalHistory #GetMoneyOut #ProgressiveEra #USPolitics #PoliticalMemes #TR
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H.R.2352 would cap Super PAC donations and close the coordination loophole. 78% of Americans support it. Congress still won't act. Tell your rep to cosponsor it now.
#GetMoneyOut #AZPolitics https://www.mobilize.us/mobilize/event/825590/
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Cosponsor and Vote Yes on H.R.2352 to Abolish Super PACs https://resist.bot/petitions/PXDHNK #GetMoneyOut #CampaignFinance
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Citizens United opened the floodgates. H.J.Res.54 closes them — declaring rights belong to people, not corporations, and money is not speech. 80% of Americans support it. Tell your rep to cosponsor it now.
#GetMoneyOut #Democracy https://www.mobilize.us/mobilize/event/825582/
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Truth doesn’t spread without money.
And the people with money don’t fund truth.That’s the core of what’s broken.
And why we built MakeCampaignsFair.com — to make political voice no longer depend on financial power.🗳️ A fair, public platform. Equal time. No ads. No billionaires.
Boosts welcome. Let’s fix what they’ve sold us.
#CampaignFinance #MoneyInPolitics #Democracy #ElectionReform #GetMoneyOut #MakeCampaignsFair
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🎶 "Never again is what you swore the time before..."🎵 - Depeche Mode, Policy of Truth.
#Democrats Swear They’ll Fight #ElonMusk. But What About the Cash They Took From #SpaceX?
Musk has emerged as Trump’s far-right-hand man, creating some awkwardness for the president’s Democratic foes.
Matt Sledge
February 14 2025,"There’s a pesky fact for congressional Democrats crying foul about Elon Musk’s hostile takeover of the U.S. government: Many of them took campaign cash from a Musk company PAC.
"The SpaceX political action committee doled out more than half a million dollars to Democrats during the last campaign cycle — including thousands that flowed to Democrats after Musk became a party pariah by campaigning for Donald Trump.
SpaceX revenues have been buoyed by more than $15 billion in government contracts since its 2002 founding. The company made headlines this week when, amid Musk’s attempts to purge federal employees and starve numerous agencies to death, SpaceX received another $39 million contract from NASA."Like many Beltway players, the company gives out cash on a bipartisan basis through an employee-funded PAC.
Over the last two years, its spending began tilting toward Republicans, and the PAC’s payouts paled in comparison to the $290 million that Musk himself spent on the election. Nevertheless, the SpaceX donations could open Democrats to charges of hypocrisy."https://theintercept.com/2025/02/14/democrats-elon-musk-spacex-donations/
#CorporateDems #USPol #OnTheTake #GetMoneyOut! -
Read my bio before calling my fellow #Greens (and or #Socialists) "republicans". Seriously. You attack them, you attack me.
My bio: Former Journalist📰 and occasional Librarian 📚, #IndigenousAlly living on #Wabanaki land🌄.
#NonBinary :nonbinary_flag: #Queer :QueerCat_Aromantic: #ActuallyAutistic :QueerCatHeart_Autism: Pronouns: They, them, per, person, human.
#Green🌳 #Socialist🤝 Student of #Archaeology 💀& #History 📜
#NoNukes☢️ Anti-#Oligarchy🎩 #NoWar☮️ #GetMoneyOut💰#HumanRights🕵️♂️ #BLM✊🏿 #IndigenousRights 🌿 #WaterIsLife💧Anti-#Corruption🔍 #ClimateCrisis🌍 #RightToRepair 🪛 -
I updated my profile's description to let everyone know a bit more about me...
Former Journalist📰 and occasional Librarian 📚 living on #Wabanaki land🌄.
#NonBinary :nonbinary_flag: #Queer :QueerCat_Aromantic: #ActuallyAutistic :QueerCatHeart_Autism: Pronouns: They, them, per, person, human.
#Green🌳 #Socialist🤝 Student of #Archaeology 💀 & #History 📜
#NoNukes☢️ Anti-#Oligarchy🎩 #NoWar☮️ #GetMoneyOut💰#HumanRights🕵️♂️ #BLM✊🏿 #IndigenousRights 🌿 #WaterIsLife💧Anti-#Corruption🔍 #ClimateCrisis🌍 #RightToRepair 🪛 -
Drug companies brace for chairman Bernie
by Peter Sullivan, January 30, 2023
"Sen. #BernieSanders has long made no secret that he thinks drug companies and health insurers are ripping off Americans. But now he's chairman of the Senate health committee."
#BigPharma #StillSanders #GetMoneyOutRead more:
https://www.axios.com/2023/01/30/drug-companies-sanders-hearings