Jake Johnson Posts

"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."

"Awful: Sears just reportedly notified up to 90,000 of their retirees, many of whom are in their 80s, that it would be ending their life insurance benefits."

"Bayer-Monsanto has known for decades the cancer-causing properties of Roundup, and I applaud the jury for holding the company accountable for failing to warn consumers of the known danger."

Arguing against incremental reform, 2020 candidate says, "You are not going to be able, in the long run, to have cost-effective, universal healthcare unless you change the system."

"In New Zealand, they respond to a mass shooting by banning semi-automatics five days later. In America, we respond to near-daily mass shootings by...literally shooting teachers."

"As similar lawsuits mount, the evidence will grow that Roundup is not safe, and that the company has tried to cover it up."

"Curious why I think FB has too much power? Let's start with their ability to shut down a debate over whether FB has too much power."

"Trump has been killing an obscene amount of civilians with drones. Now he's making things more secretive."

"Sorry not sorry," Rep. Pramila Jayapal, the legislation's lead sponsor, tweeted in response to the news.

"He sees that everything is closing in on him. And he knows he's losing the battle of public opinion when it comes to the actual substantive proposals that we're advancing."

"We don't have time to sit on our hands as our planet burns. For young people, climate change is bigger than election or re-election. It's life or death."