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I'm going to be moving (mostly) over to BlueSky and Threads. You can find me there by the same handle.
I'll still post my articles here as they come out, but for the most part, I am trying to get away from this platform.
Starting over sucks, but not as much as Elon Musk.
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Everyone needs to watch this incredible video of
@AOC
absolutely obliterating the scaremongering over the cost of Medicare-for-all. This is how you respond when someone asks “how will you pay for it?”
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A timeless political lesson
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Not great optics here, folks:
- Dems paid company literally called Shadow to create caucus app
- Buttigieg campaign also paid Shadow, FEC records show
- Caucus app fails
- Buttigieg declares himself Iowa winner with no results
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This is so much better than denying him a $738 billion defense budget...
Speaker Pelosi rips up her copy of the president's speech at the end of the address
#SOTU
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In the middle of a pandemic that may well kill hundreds of thousands of Americans, Elizabeth Warren can’t decide between the candidate fighting for universal health care and the candidate who suggested he’d veto it.
JUST IN: Warren expected to refrain from endorsing Biden, Sanders during primary: report
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Kinda fucked that both parties call people who want universal health care “radicals.”
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The new COVID relief bill contains $500,000,000 for Israel.
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Bernie Sanders, Ed Markey, Elizabeth Warren, Ron Wyden, Chris Van Hollen, and Jeff Merkley were the only Senate Dems who stood their ground against Mitch McConnell today to try to get a vote on $2000 checks. They were joined by 5 Republicans.
Every other Dem surrendered.
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Joe Biden sent his supporters to a nonexistent website. He couldn’t remember where the recent mass shootings occurred. He can’t seem to stop calling Theresa May “Margaret Thatcher.” He equated poverty with blackness. He boasted about working with segregationists.
Enough already.
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Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
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Bernie Sanders:
- Suggested primaries should be postponed.
- Doing regular appearances to discuss COVID-19 crisis
- Fundraising for COVID response groups
Joe Biden:
- Spread misinformation about COVID to turn out voters
- Disappeared
- Fundraising unchanged
Differences matter
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The Democrats have a 34-seat majority in the House of Representatives.
BREAKING: A House vote to cut the Pentagon by 10% just failed 93-324.
But this is the first time in decades that Congress has considered a significant cut to Pentagon spending.
The military-industrial complex will fall. We will end our addiction to endless, costly wars.
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They should have released this video without removing the children screaming.
That's the real sound of American leadership...
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Stunning work by Dems. Really, just incredible. The bar was so low.
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The real issue with student debt cancelation is that Democrats do not want to do it.
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Whose COVID burnout we focus on matters.
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Celebrity: I want to apologize for my public statement in support of oppressed people.
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No joke though: If Bernie Sanders is leading in pledged delegates and votes by the convention and superdelegates swing the nomination to someone else, it will be the end of the Democratic Party as an American political institution.
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Ilhan Omar isn’t an antisemite. She’s just hyper scrutinized because she’s a Muslim woman of color who recognizes the humanity of Palestinians.
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We need to defund these assholes and put the money toward education, social services, and public works programs — things that actually better our society.
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Image 1: 2014
Image 2: 2018
Image 3: 2021
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Here’s the thing, Ellen, George W. Bush is a war criminal who is responsible for death on a cataclysmic scale. It’s not a matter of being friends with people with different beliefs—we all have those friends—it’s about having a little perspective on the damage he’s done.
Yes, that was me at the Cowboys game with George W. Bush over the weekend. Here’s the whole story.
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Joe Biden says Bernie Sanders has 9 super PACs.
Sanders corrects him (he has zero).
Biden asks if Sanders wants him to list them.
Sanders calls his bluff.
Biden says "come on, man."
lol...
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Democrats will have complete control of the federal government for two full years.
They can pack the court.
They can end the wars.
They can cut the (monthly) checks.
They can guarantee healthcare.
They can forgive student and medical debt.
If they don’t, you know who to blame.
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Didn't realize people were clutching their pearls over Bernie Sanders saying "fuck" to a reporter who asked him about dropping out after two others had asked the same question.
I'm old enough to remember when Biden threatening to slap a voter in the face was a show of strength.
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Imagining Drake ordering drone killings
Obama says Drake has his "stamp of approval" to play him in a movie
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Rashida Tlaib booing Hillary Clinton was an excellent moment and it’s hilarious that anyone thought it would hurt her.
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The plan is to never cut us in.
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Most CDC staff work remotely.
White House aides are strictly tested and wear N95 masks to meet with POTUS.
Pres. Biden isolated until he tested negative.
But everyone else? Go to work without COVID safety standards; no need to isolate if exposed; take 5 days if you get sick.
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I must admit, something I didn't see coming was Warren folks going after Bernie Sanders for doing fireside chats to raise both awareness and funds to fight coronavirus while providing reassurance to stressed and struggling Americans.
Meanwhile, Biden's basically MIA.
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Here's Amy Klobuchar in 2006 talking taking a hardline stance on immigration, supporting a border fence and even criticizing the Bush administration for not cracking down on companies hiring illegal immigrants.
"We need to get order at the border."
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Nothing ever changes
Beto O'Rourke becomes the first prominent Democrat to flip against critical race theory.
"I don't think [CRT] should be taught in our schools."
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The Washington Post’s Editorial Board
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It is completely self-destructive and horrendous that our country hasn't done anything about guns.
We are a nation where teenagers are able to carry out mass shootings with weapons of war while militarized police stand by in terror.
What a country...
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Democrats are not stuck with Joe Biden. They're choosing to stick with him because of who the obvious runner-up is.
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Barack Obama 2008 (net worth $1m-$5m): Hope & Change
Barack Obama 2019 (net worth $40m): Activism is actually bad
Obama wades into the 2020 race, warning of the dangers of listening to “certain left-leaning twitter feeds” or “the activist wing of our party.”
“Even as we push the envelope and we are bold in our vision we also have to be rooted in reality," he said.
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Tonight we found out the value of Nancy Pelosi's endorsement
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The expression is priceless
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Just an incredible exchange.
Reporter: The White House has pledged to go beyond CDC guidance in caring for President Biden...If the White House thinks that's the right approach for the president, shouldn't that be the right approach for all Americans?
CDC Director:
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Nevada's Democratic Party belongs to the socialists now.
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Nancy Pelosi allowed two amendments that would have checked Trump's ability to make war with Iran to be stripped from the NDAA. She also gave Trump $738 billion for defense without any strings attached. Now, it looks like we're heading for war with Iran.
Nancy is a collaborator
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Unbelievably dishonest. Like really jarring.
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The story broke a week ago.
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Bernie Sanders did something neither Kamala Harris nor Elizabeth Warren was able to do: Win a state. He outperformed both with black voters. He outperformed both with working class voters generally. He got the second most delegates and would unite the party.
He should be VP.
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For an entire generation of young voters, the only time the Democratic Party has played true political hardball is in its fight against the left.
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"The Bernie Bros are here," Biden said tonight in Michigan after getting interrupted by a heckler.
This is not a man who is interested in uniting his party. His attitude is 'win without the left.'
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Nancy Pelosi is worth more than $100 million.
BREAKING:
#Pelosi
says $600 is a "significant" amount for working families.
#LetThemEatCake
#TrillionForBillionaires
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Joe Biden is an extremely risky choice to run against a bully like Donald Trump. Be real.
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Promise broken. Joe Biden will continue U.S. support for genocide in Yemen.
The head of US Central Command has said that the US military will continue to provide certain support, including intelligence, to Saudi Arabia regarding Yemen for defensive purposes.
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How many progressive activists did it cost him?
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If Democrats nominate Joe Biden at this point they will be confirming in the minds of many voters that their outrage is performative and rooted entirely in partisan tribalism.
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The U.S. has reported 3.4K COVID deaths in the first 8 days of this month.
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*Looks around*
U.S. COVID deaths: 4K last week
Biden: I don't really think about COVID; the pandemic is over.
White House: Annual vaccine and that's it.
Major media: Meet the last holdouts...
"The establishment" is trying to acclimate you to a grisly new normal.
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My fiance just got a fundraising call for the Senate Democrats.
She told them she would only be supporting individual candidates because the party leadership opposes Medicare-for-all even as we face the coronavirus pandemic.
The caller asked her to consider overlooking that...
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Centrist Dems are like "Don't politicize the pandemic to push for Medicare-for-all!"
It's the same argument the NRA makes after a mass shooting.
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If Bernie Sanders were where Elizabeth Warren is today, there would be deafening calls for him to drop out.
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Pete Buttigieg’s campaign falsely claimed the endorsements of 400 black South Carolinians. It falsely claimed the endorsement of Keegan-Michael Key.
Now, senior advisor Lis Smith has been accused of engaging in digital blackface—running a fake Nigerian account...wow.
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@elonmusk
Wait, impulsively getting into a purchasing agreement for a platform you had no idea how to run and then firing everyone who did know how to run it, announcing a poorly-thought-out monetization scheme, and cozying up to far right conspiracy theorists isn’t working out?
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The fact that Donald Trump can have the nuclear codes but not social media makes perfect sense for a country that only realized coups were bad when one was attempted here.
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Legend.
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Final note: Lots of variations on this symbol, but I think this one is actually closer to what he has on his phone. The blue of the flag doesn't reach the eye.
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Imagine the US lecturing any country about free and fair elections...
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Wow, this is devastating
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14K estimated flu deaths in the 2021-2022 flu season.
42K automobile deaths in 2021.
49K gun deaths in 2021.
…10K COVID deaths in the first 19 days of this month.
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I’m sure this won’t come back haunt the Democrats.
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The narrative went from:
“COVID doesn’t infect kids.”
To:
“Okay, it does, but it doesn’t spread in schools.”
To:
“Okay, but learning loss.”
Not once have we grappled with the number of kids who have died, have gotten long COVID, or who have lost loved ones to COVID.
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The U.S. has reported 6.8K COVID deaths in the first 15 days of this month.
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I want to clarify this tweet: I am NOT suggesting impropriety. In fact, my money's on human error and incompetence.
But if I were the Buttigieg campaign, I would have waited for the results.
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I want to know what Obama fans think of:
- His extrajudicial killings
- His algorithm-based kill list
- His Citigroup-approved cabinet
- Gap btwn top 1% & bottom 90% growing every yr of presidency
- His admin prosecuting no Wall St execs
- Libya, Yemen, etc.
- Wall St speeches
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Today,
@PeteButtigieg
says embracing socialism will further divide the country.
A year ago, he made the case that embracing the label was smart politically as it moved the needle and set progressives up to win for 20-30 years.
What changed?
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Attacking Bernie Sanders for demanding more from Manchin’s “climate bill,” which opens 600 million acres over 10 years to fossil fuel extraction, while lauding the West Virginia Senator, who killed the much bigger Build Back Better bill, is incredibly cynical.
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I'd like to tell you all about the origins of the "Bernie Sanders has a woman problem" narrative:
He ran against Hillary Clinton for policy reasons, and Clinton had a character assassin named David Brock on her team.
That's it. End of origin story.
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Love to protest for the working man by...*checks notes*...punching down at the poor and welfare recipients exactly like the rich men want me to.
“Rich Men North of Richmond” is the most listened to track in the world in the past 24 hours.
This American working-man’s protest song has millions & millions of plays.
Sung by an off-the-grid farmer in the countryside with his dogs.
Follow Oliver Anthony at:
@AintGottaDollar
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If you had to explain Neoliberalism in a tweet, to an audience of non-academics, how would you do it?
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This month, the U.S. has reported roughly 3K COVID deaths according to NYT numbers.
You won’t much about it. This is our new normal — no workplace protections, no employer liability, no mandates.
Just quietly sacrificing the same number that died on 9/11 every week.
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Can't run on beating COVID; 1m are dead, millions more disabled - and counting.
Can't run on Build Back Better; it's dead.
Can't run on the childcare tax credit; it's expired.
Can't run on the economy; so many are struggling.
Can't run on voting rights; didn't happen.
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If only there were an applicable historical parallel...
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Ronald Reagan was probably the most damaging president in modern history.
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This was a perfect opportunity for Biden to get on the stump about the importance of $2000 checks—maybe even demand they be monthly.
That’s what Bernie Sanders has been doing.
But instead, we get one word—“yes”—while he walks away.
"do you support the $2,000 direct payments?"
Biden: "yes"
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Elon Musk continues to stoke and promote conspiracy theories.
Here he is siding with Joe Rogan and RFK Jr., who spewed discredited anti-vaccine lies on Rogan’s show, over a renowned scientist.
So much for Twitter being a beacon of truth. What a fucking embarrassment.
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Love the low key accusations that I'm self-loathing.
The first tweet should have read "the spending package that COVID relief is part of" and not "the COVID relief bill."
It was imprecise language, but the point is the same: We have $ for everything but struggling people.
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Joe Biden has to respond.
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Here's a video breakdown of
@ewarren
's stunningly misleading answer about her pitch for superdelegates at the 2/26/20 CNN town hall.
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Democrats have a 38-seat advantage in the House.
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A reminder that the push to reopen schools throughout the pandemic came not from the hardest hit communities, but rather from wealthier, whiter parents who framed their exasperation at dealing with their kids 24/7 as some kind of social justice pursuit.
Don’t @ me.
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Elizabeth Warren has placed:
- Distant 3rd in Iowa
- Distant 4th in New Hampshire
- Distant 4th in Nevada
She also has single-digit support among black voters.
Barring a miracle, Warren does not have a path to the presidency.
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This is the home of Joseph Morrison, one of the Michigan men recently arrested for his plot to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.
Can we acknowledge that maybe economic circumstances play a role in radicalizing people?
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It will be 6 years before the next opportunity to oust McConnell.
Well played, Dems...
NEW POLL: McConnell has 17-point lead over Democratic challenger McGrath
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IDK this is pretty fucking racist
when a progressive tells you to delete something because it's "racist"
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“There’s no establishment,” they whine as every single 2020 Democrat lines up behind the guy they spent months attacking for not having a forward-looking platform or record.
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Joe Biden literally threatened to slap a Detroit autoworker.
What the actual fuck? We live in hell.
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No vote on $2,000 checks.
Defense bill passed.
This is what bipartisanship looks like...
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Crime bill author Joe Biden selects "top cop" Kamala Harris for VP as racial justice and police abolition protests continue across the country.
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Here's
@MikeBloomberg
in December 2016 at Oxford explaining how trans rights simply won't fly in the midwest because only the "intelligentsia" can understand why "some man wearing a dress should be in a locker room with their daughter."
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