Mark Roddy

@markr51.bsky.social

Retired software engineer. I only eat plants. Unprofessional artist. Unreconstructed 1960’s leftist. They were fascists then too. Zero troll tolerance. He/him.

Our 3 endorsed candidates in Michigan faced over $70 million in combined outside spending. Their people-powered campaigns faced the full weight of a Democratic establishment that’s desperate to maintain the status quo. And all 3 of these real Democratic fighters won! This is a political earthquake!

(around photos of Abdul El-Sayed, Donavan McKinney, and William Lawrence) CONGRATULATIONS
ABDUL EL-SAYED
US SENATE, MICHIGAN
and
DONAVAN MCKINNEY
US CONGRESS, MI-13
and
WILLIAM LAWRENCE
US CONGRESS, MI-07
(Indivisible logo)

Talarico’s argument is simple: Stop treating marijuana like a crime. Legalize it. Regulate it. Tax it. Stop wasting police resources on low-level marijuana offenses. Clear the records of people whose lives have been derailed by nonviolent marijuana convictions.

My column on how capital becomes a death cult. Faced with a choice between profit and human life, the radical right chooses profit. Then it tries to persuade us that mass death is what we want. It's the new phase of climate denial: accept your fate, earthlings. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Murderous heat, an endangered food supply, decimated landscapes: embrace the Mediterranean life | George Monbiot

As climate disaster stares us in the face, the radical right says ‘Embrace the Mediterranean life’. Embrace death, more like it, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

theguardian.com

Outfitting Haitian immigrants who had their TPS status stripped away with ankle monitors is grotesque, fascist, un-American, and authoritarian. It’s the next step by a country that refuses to call ‘detention centers’ the American concentration camps they actually are. #StandWithHaitians #TPS

Michele Dotson 🇺🇸🫶🏾⚖️🗳📬🇺🇦✌🏾🦾@michelesgreenbook.bsky.social · 2d ago

‘Detention centers’ aka (U.S. concentration camps, as they will likely be historically judged) should be another 5-alarm 🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨 issue for all voters.

It’s past time to BAN CONGRESSIONAL STOCK TRADING!  No member of Congress [or the White House] should be trading stocks. Period. The American people deserve to know their representatives are working for them, not corporations and stock portfolios. It’s time to ban Congressional stock trading.

The effective federal corporate income tax rate: 1950: 50% 1990: 25% 2020: 13% Stop asking "but how we will pay for it?" Restore the corporate tax rate. That is how we will pay for it.

www.usatoday.com/story/news/p... The fact that we are tethered to a criminal lunatic president and party-that the White House is a store front for BUY A PARDON and government ICE agents are murdering -tells us our democracy and its institutions failed to protect the Am people. WE CAN'T GO BACK

Democratic Socialists of America propose radical overhaul of US govt

The Democratic Socialists of America want to fight for working-class Americans by offering free healthcare and childcare. It has some other ideas too.

usatoday.com