Tag: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Student Services Fair Being Held Later Today Hosted By Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez 🤔

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Student Services Fair Being Held Later Today Hosted By Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (archived)

We will be joined by special guests from the U.S. Naval Academy, the U.S. Air Force Academy, the U.S. Military Academy, the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy, the U.S. Coast Guard Academy, former interns, and last year’s winner of the Congressional App Challenge!

H/T: Lee Camp

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After impassioned speech, AOC’s ban on US military recruiting via Twitch fails House vote

Why the change?! OpenSecrets doesn’t show any weapons contractor donations!? Maybe they’ll show up on her next campaign?! 🤷🏼‍♀️

The specter of socialism haunts US Congress

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

*Trigger Warning*: this talks about socialism, which seems to trigger some of those who follow my blog. If you don’t like something, that I post, either scroll on by or unfollow me!

A specter is haunting Congress: the specter of socialism.

Last week, as the US Congress discussed approving billions more dollars in weapons for the war against Russia and began negotiating cuts to social programs in advance of the debt ceiling expiration, the House spent three days discussing and adopting a resolution denouncing socialism and pledging to reverse all the social gains made by the working class on a global scale in the century since the Russian Revolution of 1917.

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Before the resolution was brought to a vote Thursday, the Republican-controlled House Rules Committee rejected a proposed amendment introduced by Democrats that would have clarified “that opposition to the implementation of socialist policies in the US does not include federal programs like Medicare and Social Security,” according to the Hill.

The specter of socialism haunts US Congress

Climate Activism Isn’t About the Planet. It’s About the Boredom of the Bourgeoisie | Opinion

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Disclaimer: The views expressed herein are solely those of the author and may or may not reflect those of Ms. Cat’s Chronicles.

The downfall of capitalism will not come from the uprising of an impoverished working class but from the sabotage of a bored upper class. This was the view of the Austrian economist Joseph Schumpeter in 1942. Schumpeter believed that at some point in the future, an educated elite would have nothing left to struggle for and will instead start to struggle against the very system that they themselves live in.

Climate Activism Isn’t About the Planet. It’s About the Boredom of the Bourgeoisie | Opinion

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Under Investigation for Ethics Violation

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is formally under investigation by the House Committee on Ethics.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Under Investigation for Ethics Violation

Newsweek claims that American Accountability Foundation is non-partisan. According to Wikipedia, it’s a “conservative opposition research group”. I suppose that Newsweek would deny that PNAC was a neoconservative think tank, as well.

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Railroads Have Invested Heavily in Congress. They Need Their Payoff in the Senate.

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

A showdown over a looming railroad strike heads to the Senate floor this week, after a group of progressive Democrats, led by Rep. Jamaal Bowman, D-N.Y., pushed to modify a tentative agreement to include seven days of sick leave. The expanded agreement passed the House 220-206 on Wednesday, and the fight now moves to the Senate, where it remains unclear if there is enough Republican support to overcome a filibuster and send the agreement to President Joe Biden’s desk.

Railroads Have Invested Heavily in Congress. They Need Their Payoff in the Senate.

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Why America’s Railroads Refuse to Give Their Workers Paid Leave

The answer, in short, is “P.S.R.” — or precision-scheduled railroading