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#SilverFox Forscher. Bildung. Großzügigkeit. Inordinate love of vacuuming🍷🌛🌈🌪🎶🇩🇪🏳️‍🌈 "The road to success is always under construction." - Lily Tomlin

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4 years
@BillKristol You'll need to be more specific. It is 2020 after all. We could write a book on what alarms us in this tragic year.
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@Jersey_Craig @IvankaTrump "How is that whole process of defrauding the United States going?"
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4 years
I am proud to have Charlie Baker as my Governor.
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4 years
@d_cdh952 Charlie Baker, gov of Mass He’s used science to guide his covid 19 response, anticipated medical needs and outmaneuvered Trump on PPE. He’s pushed through bonuses for frontline hc workers and communicated regularly and reasonably throughout the crisis.
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@EmmaKinery @HouseInSession Once again @RepKinzinger demonstrates courage and conviction. Thank you Adam.
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3 years
@gailendavid @funder @TBD_2021 @HawleyMO @simonschuster Josh is a spokesperson for the white heterosexual male grievance culture in this nation. He's just another example of how self-absorbed and entitled white men can become given the right "nurture". What a fraud he is.
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@thehill @FoxNews is essentially promoting resorting to violence. The entire channel should be terminated. It's basically America's version of state TV.
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@keithboykin Also important, who will be Secretary of Education. I'm so glad to know that Betsy DeVos will soon be gone.
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5 years
@SoSAmerica2019 @smacktuna Politicized Supreme Court
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3 years
@SweeneyABC This is why Americans are hated in so much of the world. Garbage like this. Egad, so disgusting.
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3 years
@LahainaLuv White guy here whose dad was nearly murdered and the police were complicit in not properly handling the attempted murder investigation due to corruption from on high. Have you heard of corruption? Maybe get out more and read some books. Talk to people with other perspectives.
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5 years
@eliehonig And those two things alone should, by themselves, be sufficient to motivate any critically thinking Americans to rethink their support of the Trump nightmare. That and the virtually daily Twitter raging that Trump does. Oh, and his Cabinet filled with unqualified people. And...
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2 years
@NoLieWithBTC Well since the ultimate vote will be 53-47 for Jackson we could still have pulled it off without 2 Dem Senators in Georgia...at least theoretically speaking. But I do not doubt that Senators' votes are sometimes influenced by each other. Georgia voter turnout was crucial.
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3 years
Where will I get my sexy Italian fix now that @GiacomoKG is no longer on @GreysABC ? Seriously, Shonda just likes to kill characters though. Does it occur to the writers that they can tell a compelling story regarding human trafficking without killing a character? Ugh.
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5 years
@brianschatz The next President should be focused on serving others rather than enriching himself (or herself).
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6 years
@StephenKing Have you started writing a horror story featuring the moderate Senator from Maine who was anything but?? I think Kathy Bates might be a good person to portray Susan Collins. Bates was amazing in Misery. And now the nation has a case of misery. #GOPHostage
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1 year
Anyone who takes Senator Kennedy (R-LA) seriously about *ANYTHING* should consider looking for other sources of information. The current @GOP has no credibility. Most of their policies are truly monstrous. They have helped create the most corrupt SCOTUS in many, many decades.
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Since 1850, the entire U.S. contribution to increased global temperatures is about 0.2°C of 1.0°C total (20%) Reducing to Net Zero by 2050 at cost of $50T would probably prevent 0.1°C additional warming out of another 1°C Globally, at least $1000T or $1Q is needed.
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5 years
@funder Collins never wants to experience actually consequences for her positions. She toes the line, talks a good talk but then falls in line. Her conduct regarding Brett Kavanaugh was truly grotesque.
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2 years
@mdnij34 Nope. She is an adult. She knows what she has gotten herself into. She could leave if she wanted. To quote her: "I don't care, do you?"
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@sianoresist The Geico gecko.
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@RonFilipkowski A man known for committing fraud and treating people like trash for DECADES is offering to do something useful?
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3 years
@gartmartin9 @maggieNYT If Fox "News" were ever to be disbanded and no toxic equivalent were to take its place I *might* start to feel convinced the USA was coming back from its wilderness in which "news" has essentially become mostly opinion and childish viciousness hurled about like a food fight.
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8 months
@healingfromlc The power imbalance you describe is sadly not unique to healthcare. Such power imbalances are built into many frameworks. Consider racist policing in which people of color are "kept in line" by white officers. To challenge unjust systems often results in ridicule or far worse.
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3 years
@bigricanman My father was victimized by law enforcement corruption after being nearly murdered by my stepmother. Police were complicit in a cover-up that prevented a proper investigation and processing of the incident. People who mindlessly adore law enforcement ought to open their minds.
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Bernd Geels
3 years
@clairecmc On a related note, @HawleyMO continues to amaze with his unwillingness to cooperate with, well, anyone. I read the other day he basically is the @GOP personified, ie he has voted against most every candidate advanced for Biden's Cabinet. Hawley has nothing to offer other than NO.
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2 years
@GuntherEagleman You've been reported for spreading misinformation.
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4 years
@lisastark351 The GOP deserves to lose all three branches of government for an entire generation. And let's start at the top. Let's ensure @senatemajldr not only loses but is so catastrophically humiliated by the extent of the loss that he slinks back to Kentucky. He is disgusting.
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5 years
@stucam7771 He alone is keeping many lawyers overly employed. If those lawyers spend their money out in the broader economy than it's a contribution...of...some...sort. This episode of "I'm Really Reaching Here" made possible by my couch and some spare time on a Sunday morning.
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5 years
@ChrisMurphyCT Trump's self-absorptiom is extraordinary. It is also DANGEROUS.
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7 months
@healingfromlc This theory makes a lot of sense. Since brain fog can impact a lot of people who are infected with COVID or have persistent long COVID it would make sense that a task as complex as driving could cause serious issues.
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3 years
@gailendavid @IvankaTrump She's an opportunist just like her Daddy. A part of me actually wants to see her run against Marco Rubio in Florida. Just watching the match would be entertaining and maybe feed some schadenfreude. Ivanka belongs in the dustbin of history.
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Who will be the next lucky guy?!
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3 years
@JimSwiftDC It was also made possible by the dispossession, alienation, maltreatment and murder of the indigenous peoples of North America.
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@healingfromlc I self tested for COVID three times earlier this year when I became quite sick. All three tests were negative. But then I got an antibody test last week and it indicated I had high levels of antibodies. So apparently I was sick with COVID earlier this year.
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4 years
@clairecmc You do appreciate that current situation is quite like what helped trigger the (original) American Revolution, namely taxation without representation? Now the issue is blue states effectively subsidize red states; now we have taxation without *proportionate* representation.
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4 years
1/ @ProudSocialist has this completely right. Capitalism as currently practiced in the USA is FUNDAMENTALLY UNSUSTAINABLE on any meaningful time scale. The pandemic caused a brief and welcome decline of greenhouse gas emissions which are driving the #climatecrisis .
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Power to the People ☭🕊
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You shouldn’t be afraid of socialism. You should be afraid that 3 people hold more wealth than half of our nation’s population while millions of Americans cannot afford food, housing and healthcare. You should be afraid of capitalism because it’s destroying us and our planet too.
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@DanielaBrookly1 @FPWellman I already left for Europe. My German ancestors went through fascism once. I don't feel the need to live through Fascism 2.0.
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@fras99 I would ask if her sewer had become too uncomfortable.
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@williamlegate Susan Collins of Maine is one. Her support of Brett Kavanaugh was vile.
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3 years
@JakeLobin Because she is a flippant, unserious fool who has no business serving in the US Senate.
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3 years
@myminutia @Acyn Notice the gesticulations and the suddenness with which Tucker Carlson moves. He comports himself like a distressed, angry animal. It's profoundly sickening to watch.
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3 years
@duty2warn The Employee of the Month recognition dinner for Sarah Huckabee Sanders at the Waffle House in rural Georgia where she secretly works.
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3 years
@ImchllinKim @PissOffTrumpz Actually at least three: Coronavirus, stupidity and greed. And cruelty too. So at least four.
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4 years
@clairecmc @JohnCornyn Having grown up in Texas, and barely survived all the institutional failure I experienced there (law enforcement, Catholic Church, school system, family) it doesn't surprise me that @JohnCornyn passes for "quality" in TX. He is an embarrassment to the people of TX and the USA.
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2 years
@NoLieWithBTC What a shitstorm Justice Jackson will be walking into... I cannot imagine having Clarence Thomas as one of my "co-workers".
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1 year
@EliotJacobson As someone who trained in meteorology and has some sense of weather, climate, etc., I keep asking myself how is this happening? How is something happening that is more than FIVE standard deviations below the recently set mean? WTF is going on in Antarctica???
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1 year
@NatlParkService This is a serious contender for my Dumbest Tweets of the Year category. Yes, it is mathematically self-evident that this is how to avoid a crowd...by avoiding crowds.
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3 years
@MaryLTrump When sociopathy is rewarded in our society it creates a perverse incentive to keep creating more sociopaths. The veritable idolatry on display for your uncle at CPAC was revolting and disturbing. I tend to think America is afflicted with a sort of pervasive Stockholm Syndrome.
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3 years
@EricG1247 That things like this even *can* be said is a measure of how incredibly bizarre our nation has become!
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5 years
@coleyworld @thistallawkgirl They know and they don't care.
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3 years
@davidmweissman Exercise. Write my elected officials. Start support groups. Etc.
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@MaryLTrump This meme will forever win the Internet.
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3 years
@ossoff I trust you to be a reasonable, informed and intelligent voice in the Senate. I don't live in Georgia but I am so pleased you joined the Senate. I wish you the best!
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@sianoresist Betsy DeVos.
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3 years
@SenatorSinema Raising the minimum wage would help. I bet a lot of social workers who work with people in deep poverty would tell you that. No need to curtsy when you vote down progressive legislation in the future. It's tacky.
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5 years
@EdKrassen Don't bother to challenge him. He lost his soul in DC somewhere late in the last century.
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4 years
@clairecmc A lot of reporters and the like have been recording themselves in front of book stuffed bookcases in what look like libraries and studies. The kitchen look is a welcome change.
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3 years
@B52Malmet I honestly think it's some Russian mob connection. I suspect Mueller only scratched the surface. It may take many more years but in time I think we will learn a lot more. I think the darkness revealed will be dark. Think NRA, Epstein, trafficking, drugs, etc.
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@JakeLobin My dad grew up there. Many, many, many, many undereducated, misled people there. MANY.
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4 years
@clairecmc Which is exactly why we need to eliminate the Electoral College. From what I know population trends will only worsen this distortion in coming years. We're quickly reaching a breaking point in the legitimacy of how our government functions.
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6 years
@treasonstickers Shown compassion.
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@GOPLeader Hypocrite.
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6 years
@washingtonpost This reminds me of when W was President. Poor Donnie can't be bothered to see the scale of the population that despises his Administration and all the non-stop drama, deceit and garbage associated with it.
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@JakeLobin And also the rare man who has lost both a wife and child early in his life. Loss can mark you in a profound way...and for some it leads them to a deeper fullness of character. I see that as what happened to Joe Biden. He can empathize.
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@99blackbaloons The Earth will force us to reckon with our destructive economic systems. Whether through disease (pandemics), ecosystem collapse or other means we *will* indeed confront the reality of Earth as a finite system.
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@MattxRed Gave the toddler some time in the world of reality.
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@smc429 @Jim_Jordan That district outline looks like a constipated bird. How fitting that it elected hypocrite and drama queen Jim Jordan.
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@tedcruz I left Texas because the culture fetishizes guns. This culture nearly killed me as a child when I had nobody to defend me. Ted "Green Eggs and Ham" Cruz: You are one of the biggest idiots to ever be a Senator. Every time you speak you mislead people. You're a #moron .
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@morgfair @PernicketyPanda There shall never be forgiveness in my heart for this horrible human being.
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@healingfromlc It's sad but to have long COVID now is something akin to having AIDS in something like 1984. It's dreadful and some of the very same mistakes are being made, namely gaslighting, avoidance, insufficient investment in research and so on.
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3 years
@GreysABC One of my favorite performances of @GiacomoKG and @KellyMcCreary was the weed cookies episode (Season 14): Dr. Pierce: "I don't think I need my neck any more." Dr. Deluca: Petting the walls and looking completely out of it. And Dr. Karev complained of Owen smell.
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@ChrisMurphyCT I'm sorry but 34 year olds should not generally have such power no matter how much they could potentially be prodigies. This is vile. This is the #JaredKushnerTreatment
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5 years
Every culture that has existed has contributed something to the sum of who we are. It's the height of hubris and stupidity to believe only your nation, people and community did something of real value. As a German man I know what can happen when nationalism runs amok.
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National pride has evil consequences. Prefer pride in humanity. German pride gave us Hitler, American pride gave us Trump, British pride gave us Brexit. If you must have pride, be proud that Homo sapiens could produce a Darwin, Shakespeare, Mandela, Einstein, Beethoven.
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@peakaustria Amusing Ourselves to Death is one of the best critiques I have ever read. A really great book.
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@SethAbramson @BetsyOShea The GOP will lose big no matter what they do regarding #Kavanaugh . If they withdraw the nomination they have egg on their faces and GOP voters stay home. If they ram it through after all these accusations have come to light (and will there be more?) the backlash will be IMMENSE.
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5 years
@ProudResister @GOP @BarackObama That is because the @GOP is overflowing with hypocrites. @GOPLeader is but one example of so many.
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@lulu_says2 @2020fight I was truly BLESSED to live and work among the Lakota Native American people in 1997. That experience changed my life and made me deeply respectful of the historical trauma of native peoples. These children are behaving in an outrageous manner.
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@RealMuckmaker "Don't give it a second thought. Just jump!"
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@fras99 I don't call women dogs.
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This is completely unethical and inappropriate. Why should the current Justice Department be representing a now private citizen? @eliehonig your thoughts?
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@cbouzy White House can't find someone even more lacking in character to take the job???
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@Logically_JC No, no, it must be Obama's fault. Everything is still *his* fault. LOL.
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@GeoRebekah The foundation of the USA is unsustainable. We cannot employ a capitalist economic model to continue infinitely growing on a finite planet. Greed and cruelty do indeed destroy lives. There are few better measures of a society than how it treats its own children.
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@TravisAllen02 So let's extend the logic. If we didnt do screening we wouldn't have: Domestic violence Pollution Hunger Coastal erosion Child runways Murder So let's just not screen anything and life will be so much better.
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@UROCKlive1 @senatemajldr McConnell is human garbage.
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@kylegriffin1 That truly disturbed me. To show such blatant disrespect of a Senator when Kavanaugh was the one identified for questioning in the hearing shows, in my opinion, how little respect Kavanaugh provides to many people.
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@Acosta Good luck dealing with Sarah Sanders.
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5 years
@williamlegate @realDonaldTrump @JimInhofe Trump's tweet naturally ignores his lapdog @senatemajldr who continually refuses to hold a vote in the Senate.
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3 years
@DWUhlfelderLaw He looks more and more like the unhinged Joker as each day passes. He's truly like a Marvel Comics supervillain.
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@Dahlialithwick "I incited a riot at the Capitol...for YOU" "I was impeached twice...for YOU" "I called white supremacists very fine people...for YOU" "I daily acted like a minor with conduct disorder on Twitter...for YOU" "I threaten retribution...for YOU"
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@oneunderscore__ That so many people still want Trump is testament to how many Americans are perfectly willing to accept lawlessness, crude behavior, misogyny and cruelty as long as they get what *they* want. Sickening.
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5 years
@briantylercohen Pence's pining eyes continue. #UnrequitedBromance
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3 years
@eliehonig It certainly leaves me already suspicious of the integrity of the presiding judge.
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3 years
@SenWhitehouse The minimum wage should, at a minimum, be $15 per hour.
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