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Gravel Institute
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The long wait is over. We're proud to announce the launch of the Gravel Institute, fighting PragerU on its own turf. Watch this video to find out what we're doing – and hear a special surprise.
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Biden just dropped student debt cancellation down to zero. That’s right, the Biden administration has decided to cancel $0 in student debt.
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In 2006 Amy Klobuchar, then a district attorney, declined to bring charges against a cop who had shot and killed a Native American man. Two days ago that cop, Derek Chauvin, murdered George Floyd. Amy Klobuchar needs to resign.
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You literally run the world
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World leaders toss a coin at Trevi for good luck fighting the climate emergency
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No group, protestors or civilians, have been anywhere close to as violent and sadistic as the police have been tonight.
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"What's the one issue you'll focus on as president?" "Defeating Donald Trump." Joe Biden is an idiot.
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In a better system, an 87-year-old woman dying would not cause people to fear for the future of democracy.
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George Bush created ICE.
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The Hill
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George W. Bush announces book of portraits honoring immigrants
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Hmm...very good point
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In all seriousness, do not actually vote for Kanye West.
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Today, the minimum wage would be $23 if it had grown at the rate of productivity since 1960. You are being exploited.
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We are sad to announce that Senator Mike Gravel passed away peacefully, surrounded by family, at his home in Seaside, California. He was 91, and had lived the fullest live anyone could have ever wanted. We will miss him every day.
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. @AOC just crushed her primary opponent with 69.69%.
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His $6/hour salary in 1977 would be $25/hour today if pegged to inflation.
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Senator John Thune
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I started working by bussing tables at the Star Family Restaurant for $1/hour & slowly moved up to cook – the big leagues for a kid like me– to earn $6/hour. Businesses in small towns survive on narrow margins. Mandating a $15 minimum wage would put many of them out of business.
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1 in 3 GoFundMe campaigns is now for medical bills. GoFundMe is now one of the largest insurers in the country. This system is completely broken.
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Post this image while you still can
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On the 36th day of his presidency, Joe Biden bombed Syria, gave up on a $15 minimum wage, and didn't send out survival checks to the millions of people going hungry.
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Number of citizens who lost health care coverage since the pandemic began: 14,600,000 United States 0 Australia 0 Belgium 0 Canada 0 Denmark 0 Finland 0 France 0 Germany 0 Italy 0 Japan 0 Norway 0 South Korea 0 Spain 0 UK
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Joe Biden is, quite simply, one of the worst Presidential candidates in modern American history.
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These are all real quotes from senior Israeli officials.
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If the NYPD were an army, it would be one of the largest in the world. It has offices in 11 foreign cities. It has six submarine drones. If it can't stop an attack in its own city's subway system, it's not because of a lack of funding.
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This is literally Capitalism. You are talking about Capitalism.
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We support our boys in blue.
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This is not a feel-good story.
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Ilhan Omar just won her primary!
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"Protests got Minnesota to charge the other three cops" means "expand the protests," not "stop protesting."
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Trump just won the highest share of non-white support of any Republican in 60 years. The Democratic Party is an absolute joke.
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41 out of 48 Senate Democrats sided with Mitch McConnell over Bernie Sanders.
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Sorry, it was late, so just to be clear: "blue lives" are not a thing. Thus, "blue lives" don't matter.
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Ian Miles Cheong
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Gravel Institute deleted this, but the internet remembers.
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You are far, far more likely to become homeless than to ever become a billionaire.
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Five people have extinguished the right to abortion for hundreds of millions of ordinary people. None were elected. This is "democracy."
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Damn, rich people don't pay taxes?? Has anyone looked into this???
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Don't get mad at people celebrating Trump's test result. Get mad at Trump for allowing 200,000 people to die before he got sick.
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Bernie Sanders is a National Treasure.
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"89-year-old pizza delivery man" should not be a thing.
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It cannot be made clear enough that if Democrats do not actually make people's lives tangibly better in the next few months, Republicans will win in 2022, Biden will accomplish nothing in his entire term, and Donald Trump will win in 2024.
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As president, Biden can issue an executive order to unilaterally cancel all student loan debt and instantly help 45 million people. He should do that.
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When you’re just a fascist
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This is 0.17 percent of U.S. student debt.
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Forbes
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Biden has now cancelled $3 billion of student loans:
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Legalizing marijuana is worthless if you don't expunge the convictions of those who went to prison for it.
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If only Biden was who Fox News thinks he is.
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How come it’s easier to vote in space than in inner cities?
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NASA astronaut Kate Rubins votes from space in the US election using the "ISS voting booth"
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Pat Tillman called the Iraq War "fucking illegal" and got shot to death by his own men.
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SportsCenter
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On #MemorialDay we remember Pat Tillman, who turned down $3.6 million over three years from the Cardinals to enlist in the U.S. Army and serve his country. He was killed in Afghanistan on April 22, 2004.
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To whoever hacked Facebook: are you familiar with something called "student loan companies"?
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please just give us healthcare
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Jezebel
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Kylie Jenner bought her two-year-old daughter a $200K pony
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This is not a feel good story.
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Biden said he won't be raising the minimum wage. Biden said he won't be canceling any student debt. Biden said he will continue Trump's mass deportations. When will we learn that we cannot trust the Democrats?
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Someone stole $950 worth of items from a Walgreens — there were 309 news stories about it. Walgreens was caught stealing $4.5 million from employees — it got just one single story.
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Biden won the popular vote by millions (and counting) but the entire election came down to a few thousand votes in key geographic areas. This is an insane system.
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Elizabeth Warren has dropped out. Give her supporters one or two days to breathe and collect themselves. It can be tough having a hero of yours drop out. And then we all team up to take down Joe Biden and defeat Donald Trump.
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Don't get complacent. Joe Biden is not your friend. He is not your ally. If we want him to do anything, we'll have to force him.
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Colorado Police literally hogtied a 73-year-old woman with dementia, dislocating her shoulder and fracturing her arm, after she was accused of shoplifting $14 from Walmart. You cannot reform this.
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@DeAnna4Congress
DeAnna Lorraine 🇺🇸
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Does anyone else find it odd that no prominent Democrats have had the virus but the list of Republicans goes on and on?
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@prageru shut the fuck up
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Ed Markey just won.
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If you are defending "child detention facilities" under Biden after attacking "kids in cages" under Trump, you care more about the blue team being in charge than you do about improving people's lives.
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Stop making fun of Elon Musk. He came to this country with nothing more than a dream and millions of dollars in blood diamond money
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Bernie would've won.
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"There is no propaganda in the United States."
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Jimmy Kimmel Live
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President George Walker Texas Ranger Bush! 🇺🇸
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What if – hear us out – the Constitution sucks, and is wrong about everything, and shouldn't be the basis for running a society in the 21st century?
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The fact that Joe Rogan would rather vote for Donald Trump than Joe Biden is not an indictment of Bernie Sanders. It's an indictment of Joe Biden.
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Bernie Sanders now has a 69% chance of winning the most delegates in this primary.
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When GoFundMe is one of your country's largest healthcare providers, your country is broken.
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It took PragerU five years to get 100,000 subscribers on YouTube. The Gravel Institute got there in three weeks.
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Every single congressional Democrat who lost their congressional seat opposed Medicare for All. Every single congressional Democrat who supported Medicare for All won reelection.
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The Koch Brothers (PragerU donors) have spent millions of dollars crushing public transit projects nationwide because they reduce oil consumption.
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America doesn’t have better infrastructure because of two groups: environmental activists and labor unions.
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Rush Limbaugh has died.
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"I am proud and honored to endorse Senator Bernie Sanders for the presidency of the United States."
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Socialist candidate Gabriel Boric has won Chile's presidential election, beating a far-right candidate who supports Trump and Bolsonaro. This is a huge victory for the Latin American left.
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Poverty
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What is the main reason for unhappiness?
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PragerU on political correctness
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The Democratic Party is the most incompetent institution imaginable.
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This is what experts call "propaganda."
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NBC Politics
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JUST IN: President Biden called off an air strike against a second target in Syria last week after a woman and children were spotted in the area, a senior admin. official tells @NBCNews .
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1 in 4 prisoners on Earth is imprisoned in the United States.
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Zapata County, Texas is the second most Hispanic county in America. In 2012, Obama won it by 43 points. In 2016, Hillary won it by 33 points. In 2020, Biden lost it by 5 points. What a disaster.
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Democrats now control the government. They have full power. They have no excuses.
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Mike Gravel qualified for the Democratic debate with a grassroots surge that gave him 67,000 donors. The DNC shut him out. Mike Bloomberg spent $180 million on a massive ad campaign, donated $250,000 to the DNC, and has exactly 1 donor. The DNC let him debate. Fuck the DNC.
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Seriously, Bernie would have won.
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This project cost $1.5 trillion dollars. 1 in 6 American children lives in poverty.
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The U.S. Air Force admitted that the F-35 stealth fighter has failed
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The reason they're only giving $600 is simple. The system cannot survive if you aren't desperate enough to work for as little money as possible.
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I wonder why survivors are fearful to come forward.
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Derek Chauvin got 22.5 years for a cold-blooded murder. Right now, there are people in jail for life for nonviolent drug offenses.
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An officer of the National Labor Relations Board has just ruled that Amazon illegally meddled with the union election in Bessemer, Alabama — and that the election must be re-run.
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Taliban fighters posing with US weapons in a base they just captured easily. This is what we spent a trillion dollars on!
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Ask one of the 186 billionaires who funded your campaign instead of people who can't afford rent this month.
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Joe Biden
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Here's the deal: Because President Trump refuses to concede and is delaying the transition, we have to fund it ourselves and need your help. If you're able, chip in to help fund the Biden-Harris transition.
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American foreign policy since 1945
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Dick Cheney is responsible for more than a million deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Dick Cheney.... welcome to the resistance.
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We cannot "return to normal" when normal gave us Trump.
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"If Chile was the cradle of neoliberalism, it will also be its grave." —Gabriel Boric, President-Elect of Chile
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The socialists appear to have won in Bolivia. Evo Morales is coming back.
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The $15 minimum wage just failed, because 8 Democrats voted against it. The Democrats broke their promise. The Dems who voted no are: Joe Machin (WV) Jon Tester (MT) Jeanne Shaheen (NH) Maggie Hassan (NH) Angus King (ME) Kyrsten Sinema (AZ) Tom Carper (DE) Chris Coons (DE)
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Bernie refocused his entire campaign on coronavirus and raised $2 million for relief. Biden has disappeared until he has figured out Zoom. Who would handle this crisis better?
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It's awesome that Hillary stole the nomination from Bernie and lost a gimme election to a rapist. It's awesome that the coterie of assholes who gave us Trump blame Bernie and shitty Russian Facebook ads so they don't have to hide their heads in shame every single day. Fuck them.
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Pat Tillman called the Iraq War "fucking illegal," got shot to death by his own men, and then had his death covered up by the U.S. military.
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Bleacher Report
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Pat Tillman left the Arizona Cardinals to enlist in the U.S. Army after 9/11. He turned down a $3.6M contract offer at 25 years old. Tillman was killed in Afghanistan 17 years ago today. RIP.
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The $15/hr minimum wage is supported by 67% of the American people. 58 Senators just voted against it. The Senate is fundamentally opposed to democracy.
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Bernie Sanders just proposed lowering Medicare eligibility from 65 to 55 and expanding it to dental, vision, and hearing in Dems' next bill.
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No real person actually cares if the stimulus bill is bipartisan. They care if they can afford food and rent at the end of the month.
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Biden took student loan cancellation out of his budget because Congress won't pass it, but nothing is stopping him from signing an executive order to cancel student loan debt himself. He must do it.
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Hillary Clinton has spent more time denouncing Rashida Tlaib than she has denouncing Harvey Weinstein
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