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Lawyer, DJ, MC, poet, grassroots organizer, won 81k votes in 2020 to serve San Francisco in Congress. https://shahidbuttar.substack.com
Recognize the complicity of Democrats: The Emoluments Clause requires Congress to enforce it, but our body of insider trading millionaires has no interest in establishing precedents that could hold them accountable. shahidbuttar.substack.com/p/democrats-...
On two different issues, Democrats have recently reiterated Trump’s talking points, revealing their own hypocrisy—and the failure of democracy in America along with it
The CEO of a a multi-trillion dollar company went to the White House, openly handed the US president a gift made of gold, and his company got a special exemption to tariffs the president has illegally imposed.
Also, the Founders took bribery so seriously the Constitution bans it 3 separate times.
South Park is doing a better job of holding the administration accountable than the entire profession of journalism.
From immigration to foreign policy, Washington repeats a pattern of foolish policy pronouncements revealing governance by opinion ignoring facts and reality
Congress abandoned the Emoluments Clause, probably because it’s filled with insider trading millionaires from both of the corporate political parties.
Parts of the Constitution were erased from the Library of Congress website, including the section featuring the foreign emoluments clause.
The removal was blamed on a "coding error."
Here's a reminder of what the clause says, just in case Congress ever decides to enforce it...
It’s worth remembering that neither of the impeachment charades to which Pelosi agreed included charges based on the Emoluments Clause—probably because she’s an insider trading millionaire herself.
Constitutional terrorism has sadly bipartisan origins
You’re right, of course, which makes the complicity of Democratic party leaders only more outrageous.
Constitutional terrorism has sadly bipartisan origins
That’s outrageous for both labor and the movement for human rights.
Who is better poised to enforce human rights in Israel than labor leaders in the United States?
The VA’s unilateral termination of union contracts for ~360k workers represents a loss of 2.5% OF ALL UNION MEMBERS IN AMERICA. I’m not sure what it will take for the labor movement to get into crisis mode, but the crisis is here.
I’m watching a live stream
I spent 20 years challenging, the surveillance state, only to watch a generation of complacent liberal sleepwalk into fascism.
News reports have focused on the Pentagon's embarrassment by recent leaks, overlooking how Pentagon leaks expose continuing failures by Congress and the press
