Social change advocate and mom fighting to improve the Detroit area and stay sane. Exec Director of TRU but not tweeting for TRU. Opinions are purely my own.
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I'm so excited about this proposal! If a family makes over a million a year, they can afford to invest 5% more in Michigan kids.
Only the deeply selfish could honestly oppose this! – at Detroit, MI
A coalition is pursuing a ballot proposal in Michigan to institute a 5% surcharge against the income of people making more than $500,000 to provide funding for K-12 schools. detroitnews.com/story/news/p…
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Detroit has demolished its way into housing scarcity. Just stunning stuff.
Like being next to plentiful fresh water in the midst of a drought and deciding to just boil it all off. I guess we still have time to do that, too, though.
Amazing turnout of thousands of people spread along 2 miles od Woodward on Detroit demanding #HandsOff!!
So many diverse people from across the region with so many empaddioned reasons to say #HandsOff!
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Oakland County MI is out in force saying #HandsOff to Elon and Trump!
Proud to be part of a peaceful two-nation protest to fight back against Trump / Musk / DOGE on the shores of the Detroit River!!
Megan Owens retweeted
The share of Americans employed by the government steeply dropped in the decades leading up to 2000, and has remained essentially flat since. A bloating federal workforce is a myth.
At a Town Hall with Rep @ShriThanedar - 150+ people are demanding he do more to fight against illegal Trump/Musk firing of critical federal employees and shuttering of essential programs.
He's making good but vague statements.
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Megan Owens retweeted
There are basically 5 ways to accumulate a billion dollars:
1) Profiting from a monopoly
2) Insider-trading
3) Political payoffs
4) Fraud
5) Inheritance
Don’t believe the self-made myth.
Megan Owens retweeted
Instead of illegally trying to shut down huge pieces of our government that serve working people, Elon Musk could cut $2 trillion of actual waste by targeting handouts to the rich and powerful.
Here’s how: (🧵)
Megan Owens retweeted
There is always endless money to bomb people, but not for clean water, health care, and housing. Our elected officials are choosing another record-breaking Pentagon budget when it can't even pass an audit. I'm sick of it.
Love love love this idea!
Billionaires should not exist, not while veterans lack homes and kids go hungry!
Germany's Left Party has a new goal of cutting the wealth of billionaires in half within a decade.
Ultimately, they "believe there should not be any billionaires."
They aim to implement a wealth tax and raise inheritance and income taxes on the rich.
dw.com/en/germanys-left-part…
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