Jake Johnson Posts

"We cannot sit by and allow corporations, billionaires, and demagogues to destroy the Fourth Estate, nor can we allow them to replace serious reporting with infotainment and propaganda."

"Children finished their first day of school with no parents to go home to tonight. Babies and toddlers remained at daycare with no guardian to pick them up. A child vainly searched a workplace parking lot for missing parents."

"It's these questions that you know the answers to. I mean, connect the dots about what he's doing in this country. He's not tolerating racism, he's promoting racism."

"Amazing what a little bold leadership can do."

"It was a worthless trip, that's the way I feel," said one of the 120 coal miners who traveled to Washington, D.C. to meet with the Republican leader

"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."