Jake Johnson Posts

"The EPA is endangering the lives of children to protect pesticide industry profits."

"I am here because the world should know what is happening to so many children inside of ICE detention."

"This is unprecedented. I tease people that Anchorage is the coolest city in the country—and climatically that is true—but right now we are seeing record heat,"

"No one is above the law. And Congress must not allow administration officials like Mnuchin—and certainly not Trump himself—to think they are."

"Our survival is worth more time than vague, irrelevant, and trivial questions posed 80 minutes into the debate."

"As numerous tax experts and members of Congress have already laid out, there is no reason for Chairman Neal to hesitate to use this law once it is enacted."

"Despite desperate attempts by the oil and gas industry to persuade policymakers that their products have a future in a climate-safe world, a rational look at the data clearly shows otherwise."

"It's long past time for Congress to stop letting the Trump administration run out the clock on any accountability for its continued abuse of power."

"President Trump's saber-rattling about Iran has reached a dangerous new low with his threat to 'end' Iran—a country of 83 million men, women, and children."

Facing the possibility of being imprisoned yet again in the coming days for refusing to testify before a secretive grand jury, U.S. Army whistleblower Chelsea Manning on Sunday warned of the grave threat the

"Retreating into learned helplessness and hoping the voters will rescue the country from Trump will only embolden his assault on American democracy."

"His racism knows no boundaries," said San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz

"You can pull out some threads but at some stage the whole fabric unravels and then we will really see the consequences."

"These rollbacks are a hand out to oil company CEOs at the cost of endangering the lives of their workers and heightening the risk for another environmental catastrophe."

"Kids should not be in detention, period. And even considering putting them Guantánamo Bay is inhumane."

The U.S. is reportedly opposing the resolution over language on reproductive health for victims of rape

"We are spending way, way, way, way too much money on the Pentagon."

"The Trump administration's vile racism has emboldened white nationalists and fascists to flagrantly violate the law."

"It's no longer sufficient to have a single token environmental question that 2020 candidates get to brush off with a soundbite."

"Under every single one of these options the average American family will save thousands of dollars a year because it will no longer be writing large checks to private health insurance companies."