Paul Brownjohn @Paulos_the_fog@qoto.org

@MEActNOW #AltText

Other98 - The Other 98%

This is Iceland

Iceland let its 3 biggest banks fail after the 2008 financial collapse Iceland bailed out its citizens instead

Iceland prosecuted those banksters that caused the meltdown

Iceland had one of the strongest economic recoveries ever

Be like Iceland

I was a jailer for two years. Not proud of it, I needed the money.

One of the repeat offenders we had was an old man who was HIV positive. He went to jail several times while I was working there and always for the same thing. He would shoplift items from a store while in full view of a cop. This old man had a cane and could barely walk. There was no way he expected to get away with it.

After he was arrested we had to process him and the medical questions always led back to his HIV diagnosis. The state provided him with his HIV medication while he was awaiting trial where he always pleaded guilty. He was always released after serving less than 60 days pretrial. Upon release, he was given six months worth of his HIV medications (which he needed to survive) and he would shoplift again when he ran out of medication.

It would have been cheaper for the state to just give him the medications without him needing to be part of the criminal justice system first.

He was shoplifting so he could stay alive.

#Healthcare #luigimangione #denydefenddepose #Anticapitalism #EatTheRich

This week is another reminder that:

We don't have an energy shortage
We don't have an insulin shortage
We don't have a housing shortage
We don't have a teacher shortage
We don't have a labor shortage
We don't have a food shortage

We have a billionaire excess who buy politicians to deny us access to basic human rights.

Muskolini.

Just a reminder - THIS 👇🏼 is what it's like when government is working for the people...

#WeCanEndGunViolence #BanAssaultWeapons

Trump would be so upset if this image and hashtag went viral. Please do not boost. 😉
#TrumpIsASub

Noteworthy how Legislators instinctively meddle downwards.

It really isn't local government that the British Electorate wants to see fixed, UK Labour, but central government.

They want reform of the bloated House of Lords. A proper Code of Ministerial Conduct, with enforcement taken away from the Prime Minister. A ban on second jobs, honours for cronies, & corrupt donations.

if you took all the money private insurers spend to deny/delay claims, and threw it towards a universal health system, the US would literally have one of the best free health systems in the world, with money left over for other nice things like child care

but somehow no one can convince the population that $2000 in taxes for free and comprehensive, is better than $8000, where you still have huge co-pays and fight every single step

I will never understand humans

#uspol #uspolitics

I’m having difficulty seeing a distinction that is a difference between what RFK Jr. has been doing/plans to do and what a bioterrorist does.

Harm and generating mass death in the service of a destructive ideology is at the center of both.

#vaccines #rfkjr #hhs #health #healthcare #PublicHealth

I offer an anecdote on the RFJ Jr antivax #polio BS to put all in context.

My mom is 88, born in 1936. She knew classmates who were maimed and died from polio in the 1940s.

These events happened within living memory and these anti-science idiots would take us back to that time. Fck them all.

morning toots
THE bitch is still dead :)

Temple Daily Telegraph (1930): The Anti-Vaxxers

Simple question: Do you think capitalism should be abolished? Please explain why not if your answer is "no."

Report: Several US & Canadian universities hire Israeli firms to curb protests

After Trump's election, the universities turned to Israeli security firms to manage anti-genocide protests.

Eg, CUNY signed a $4m contract with Strategy Security Corp owned by Yosef Sordi, a former NYC police officer trained in Israel.

& Concordia Uni enlisted Israeli security firms Perceptage International & Moshav Security Consulting.

https://aje.io/y5lfzx?update=3369792

#StudentProtests #BDS #USPol #CdnPoli .

#OtD 6 Dec 1928 the banana massacre took place in Ciénaga, Colombia, when soldiers killed up to 2000 striking workers of the United Fruit Co., and their wives and children, who were fighting for one day off per week and pay in money rather than coupons https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10599/banana-massacre

Insurance Company CEOs in meetings right now:

CEO: what should we do to prevent me from being shot next?

Employee: Stop denying so many claims.

Employee: Lower premiums.

Employee: Treat our clients like human beings.

CEO: Bodyguards it is.