Health is not the absence of sickness; sickness is the absence of health. We have to face that the United States has the highest level of chronic illnesses than any other advanced society. 2/4

My Whole Health Plan doesn’t just call for MedicareForAll to treat disease; it proactively creates greater health. 1/4

There is something horrible about this. Setting a deadline for when mass killing can stop is unacceptable. The United States should not be supporting this war at all. @POTUS

Ending pharmaceutical price gouging is important, given that 18 million Americans cannot afford to pay for the prescriptions their doctors give them. But the President’s post is disingenuous. We are giving tens of billions of dollars in subsidies to pharmaceutical companies that then turn around and sell drugs to us at these exorbitant prices. The problem is not just that we need to bring the prices down through negotiation with drug companies; the Dole Bayh Act of 1980 already gave the govt “marching rights” to do that. The president should not be bragging about giving crumbs to the American people; he should be supporting Medicare For All, which he has said that he would not do. First of all, the top five pharmaceutical companies had a combined profit of $80 billion last year alone, while Americans’ medical debt comes to $88 billion. One in four Americans live with medical debt. This post by the president is everything that is wrong with corporatism. It’s made to sound like they’re really sticking it to the pharmaceutical companies, when, in fact, nothing fundamentally changes. Some people will be less desperate, that is true. But the system itself does not become more just. Given how much American taxpayers already subsidize pharmaceutical companies, many of these drugs should be free.

The biggest threat to the survival of the species is our unwillingness to expand our imaginations, to even consider the possibility that there might be a better way. We keep indulging the magical thinking that it’s someone else’s responsibility to repair the world. But it’s not. It is ours. 3/3

We should have peace games as well as war games. We should have a peace Academy as well as a military Academy. We should have an army of peace builders as well as an army of military fighters. 2/3

Imagine if we imagined a world without war within 100 years and reverse engineered from there. Some people think that’s a naïve idea, but I think what’s naïve is to think the species will necessarily survive another hundred years if we don’t at least try. 1/3

Thanks to @TheYoungTurks for last night’s forum…

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That’s why this moment, and this campaign, are so important. We need to offer the American people an opportunity for a fundamental U-turn, a season of economic repair, and a new beginning. 3/4

Talking about an economically rigged system, the ubiquitous despair of so many today, the inequities that infuse so many of our systems, people are neither unaware nor stuck in denial. They simply don’t know what to do about it. The situation seems so locked up. 2/4

Everywhere I go on the campaign trail, I’m convinced – as I was in 2020 – that the American people are not the problem. 1/4

That means a Republican debate although Trump will not be present. Why not a Democratic debate although President Biden will not be present? @CNNPolitics

Yeah I did. And that’s a message that will defeat the Republicans in 2024. Any less radical truth-telling than that, and they will crush us.

Happy birthday to the magnificent @ninaturner. The world is a much better place because she was born. 🎂💕

For the sake of short term profits for gun manufacturers - having nothing to do with the Second Amendment - we are collectively betraying our young. I was told by a man who was at the UNLV campus yesterday when it happened: “This is our Parkland moment.”