Expect a $833B defense budget for FY25, but not on time, lawmaker says
Israel murders 50 Palestinians in Gaza as Democratic National Convention concludes in Chicago - World Socialist Web Site
Behind silence over foreign policy at #DNC, Democrats prepare escalation of global war - World Socialist Web Site
The most striking aspect of the Democratic National Convention, which is currently underway in Chicago, is the absence of any discussion of the foreign policy of either the Biden administration or a future Harris administration, despite the fact that the United States is currently engaged in a war against Russia and preparing for a potential war with China.
"And at the top of that to-do list is the need to get big money out of our political process.
Billionaires in both parties should not be able to buy elections - including primary elections.
For the sake of our democracy we must overturn the disastrous Citizens United Supreme Court decision and move toward public funding of elections."
#berniesanders #DNC2024 #dnc24
#endcitizensunited #IllegitimateSCOTUS #clarencethomasiscorrupt
These forces are a million miles away from and deeply hostile to the working class.
In #DNC speech, #UAW President Fain covers up role of Democrats and union bureaucrats in mass layoffs - World Socialist Web Site
Fain played to the cameras as a spokesman for the working class, but he is not a workers’ leader. He is a bureaucrat and political operative with decades of experience bargaining away massive concessions onto workers’ backs.
In speech at Democratic National Convention, Biden warns of second Trump coup - World Socialist Web Site
Earl Stephens (@EarlOfEnough on the bird app) gives us a great argument why Atlanta should host #DNC24:
"Georgia has shown itself to be a bastion of liberty and on the frontlines of America’s battle for Democracy."
What do you say, POTUS, DNC?
On this anniversary of Bloody Sunday where John Lewis & others marched peacefully for civil rights, his dying words were never more true: "Democracy is not a state, it is an act"
POTUS, DNC: please honor democracy & Rep Lewis- bring #DNC24 to Atlanta