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Comms Director and Policy Adviser @justfp. Journalist @thenation @theintercept @MorePerfectUS @thehill. @JJayEcon
Joined August 2013
“furloughed FBI agents volunteered to arrest roger stone” is the funniest sentence in the english language.
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🚨 News: Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says she recently got a Nintendo Switch and started her Animal Crossing island a couple days ago.
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hey @SenSanders can I make a suggestion
The devastation in Gaza is unconscionable. We must urge an immediate ceasefire. The killing of Palestinians and Israelis must end. We must also take a hard look at nearly $4 billion a year in military aid to Israel. It is illegal for U.S. aid to support human rights violations.
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Amy Klobuchar opened the Culinary Union forum by saying: “My name is Amy, but when I was in fourth grade Spanish they gave me the name Elena.”.
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It’s illegal to solicit campaign contributions inside a federal building.
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Inbox: @AOC is introducing a bill to extend the pandemic unemployment benefits that just expired
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hOw ArE wE gOiNg To PaY fOr It.
Senate committee votes to raise defense spending for second year in a row to $750 billion by @AlexEmmons.
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is this a joke.
Exclusive: Democrats introduce a bill to fund legal assistance for those facing eviction.
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yeah let’s just hit pause
Manchin says Democrats should “hit the pause button” on a $3.5 trillion package incorporating the bulk of Biden’s economic agenda -- a clear challenge to the effort by party leaders to get the plan through the evenly divided Senate, per @LauraLitvan:.
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NEW: With bold immigration plan, Bernie Sanders becomes the only candidate to call for break up of ICE and CBP
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wonder why everyone who freaked out about the rogan endorsement isn’t freaking out about this.
.@MikeBloomberg, I can’t thank you enough for your support—and for your tireless work on everything from gun safety reform to climate change. This race is bigger than candidates and bigger than politics. It’s about defeating Donald Trump, and with your help, we’re gonna do it.
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Sen. Bernie Sanders is going to block Republican Sen. Rick Scott’s resolution of support for Israel on the floor this afternoon. Debate starts in about 20 minutes.
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wait since we’re on the subject, remember the time my journalism school wanted to kick me out of their DC program for tweeting that my parents are immigrants while I was an immigration reporter
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Hill staffer sent me this pic of Ocasio-Cortez they took just now. I’ll tell you something: that jacket and coat don’t look like a girl who struggles.
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Joe Biden has repeatedly lied throughout this debate but denying that he helped write the bankruptcy bill is a fucking shameless Trump-level lie.
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wild how no one cares that amy klobuchar is an abusive boss.
From a story in the New York Times published not even a year ago:
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EXCLUSIVE: political reporter has never heard the very basic term “wage slavery”.
EXCLUSIVE: As Sanders floats at the top of the polls, previously unreported statements from the '70s where he compared predominantly white workers in his home state of Vermont to black slaves may put his past and judgment into question.
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does this mean reporters gotta say bernie hermanos instead.
Hispanic or Latino/a support in Nevada, via new Data For Progress poll: . Sanders 66%.Steyer 8%.Biden 7%.Klobuchar 7%.Warren 5%.Buttigieg 4%.
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when hillary clinton endorses your opponent.
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“bernie calls himself a socialist but has $20 in kohl’s cash”.
“you look like you're wearing about $250 worth of JC Penney”. "Actually, it is Kohl's," Sanders says.
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did they ask the vice president to resign too
EXCLUSIVE: Biden White House sandbags staffers, sidelines dozens for pot use
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remember when the bernie campaign researched whether warren could be both vice president and treasury secretary at the same time.
NEW: Elizabeth Warren is deeply unlikely to endorse Bernie Sanders, and that was true before yesterday's results -- according to those close to her. Almost all allies and surrogates expect her to stay neutral thru the primary. Me and @ShaneGoldmacher.
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NEW: John Fetterman breaks with the left — fiercely supporting Israel and endorsing talks for tougher immigration laws. “I’m not a progressive,” Fetterman tells @NBCNews, brushing back critics. He’s hitting Dems for a double standard on Santos/Menendez.
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White House National Economic Council Director @BrianDeeseNEC reiterates VP Harris won't overrule Senate parliamentarian. "The Vice President is not going to weigh in.". Says, "We'll respect that process".
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Mike Bloomberg lured staffers to his campaign with the promise of employment through November, whether he dropped out or not. But he laid them all off. Now, in the middle of a pandemic, his former staffers are uninsured, waiting on the last paycheck, and bound by NDAs.
NEW: @MikeBloomberg is scrapping his plan to fund an independent expenditure campaign to support the Democratic nominee (he's endorsed @JoeBiden). Instead, he's laying off his staff & transferring $18mil to the DNC. Story tk, w/ @aseitzwald @JoshNBCNews.
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Sen. Tim Kaine to Biden administration: “If you’re defending the commercial ships of other nations” it is “laughable to call that self-defense” - referring to US attacks on Yemen
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only a good guy with a juul can stop a bad guy with a juul.
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Sen. Bernie Sanders and 10 other Dem senators are backing up House progressives in passing reconciliation and infrastructure together
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Chris Smalls, the president of @amazonlabor, to Senator Lindsey Graham: "The people are the ones that make these corporations go, not the other way around".
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The COMPETES Act also includes: $225 million for military training in the Asia Pacific region, $67.5 million to the State Department for military training in Latin America and the Caribbean, $500 million for US propaganda against China.
JUST IN: House passes the America COMPETES Act 222-210, largely along party lines. The bill is aimed at bolstering domestic supply chains and scientific research to make the U.S. more competitive with nations like China.
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Sen. Elizabeth Warren asks Fed Chair Jerome Powell if he expects interest rate hikes will bring down gas and grocery prices. “I wouldn’t say so, no,” Powell said.
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In Kentucky late last night, the Louisville Police and National Guard shot and killed David McAtee, a beloved community figure known to give police officers free meals at his BBQ restaurant. The police left his body on the street for 12 hours. by me.
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Hello, I wrote about the EXTREMELY dystopian vibes inside the bubble at the Beijing Olympics. Exhibit A: Hotel bartenders making specialty cocktails in their full PPE gear
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NEW: For the State of the Union, @AOC is bringing a constituent, Ana Maria Archila, who confronted Jeff Flake in an elevator over Kavanaugh
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girls only want one thing and it’s larry summers never being able to work ever again.
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🧵 Thread on Tim Walz's foreign policy record . In the House, Walz played a significant role in pushing back against a new war in Syria during both of the major pushes for US involvement in 2013 and 2016. He was also a strong voice in defending Congress's war powers.
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Gov. Newsom was partying with lobbyists at a $350-a-plate birthday dinner while coronavirus cases surged across the state
How did California let this happen? They had months to prepare and are running out of oxygen?.
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Context: Elizabeth Warren’s super PAC is spending $9 million on Super Tuesday states.
NEW from me: Our Revolution, accused of dark-money spending for Sanders, took only six donations over $5,000 in 2019
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I wrote this in 2018. @CoriBush just ended a political dynasty that stretched back half a century
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This is huge: @RepRoKhanna, @RepBarbaraLee, @SenWarren and @RonWyden introduced legislation today to investigate the consequences of SESTA/FOSTA and how it’s harmed sex workers. Original cosponsors include: @AOC @BernieSanders @RashidaTlaib @RepJayapal @janschakowsky and more.
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NEW: @IlhanMN's office is calling on Facebook to take down the AIPAC attack ads associating her with Hamas. "Given the number of threats of death and violence [Omar] receives on a near-daily basis, it’s not just irresponsible—it’s incitement," they said
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Asked Rep. @AOC about the Senate parliamentarian’s previous work as a deportation prosecutor. “I think there’s an absolute conflict of interest,” she said. “She should have been recused on these rulings, and I still think she should be recused.”.
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New: Somebody is working overtime to scrub Kamala Harris's Wikipedia page, and a war is raging over it by me.
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for seven minutes.
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Sen. Graham: “I think people in South Carolina are excited about Judge Barrett. I don’t know how much it affected fundraising today, but if you want to help me close the gap…I think the contest in South Carolina has taken on sort of a national profile.”
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there was not one mention of puerto rico at the debate last night.
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All of Trump's Cuba policies are still in place. President Biden could lift all 240 of the sanctions Trump imposed to toughen a genocidal blockade — at any moment, with the swipe of a pen — but won't.
Biden on Cuba: "The United States calls on the Cuban regime to hear their people and serve their needs at this vital moment rather than enriching themselves."
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can we get those stimulus checks.
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Scoop: White House budget will NOT include key Biden campaign pledges -- such as the public option, prescription drugs reform, or student debt relief, per sources. WH squarely focused on $4T in jobs/infrastructure + "families" plans. W/ @tylerpager .
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Kyrsten Sinema's 2012 congressional campaign relied on labor union support
NEW: We've obtained footage of @SenatorSinema addressing Arizona's largest business group about the PRO Act. "The way I make decisions on behalf of Arizona & for our constituents is by listening to the business leaders" she assures them. She never mentions listening to workers.
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Ocasio-Cortez challenger left her job as CNBC anchor to serve on board of company that profits from death by me.
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holding primary elections in the middle of a pandemic is absolutely criminal
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White House needs to listen to women leaders in Pakistan like @ShandanaGulzar . "We had a dozen different welfare programs for the neediest in Pakistan. First they stole them all, then they stole their election.". "We are going to demand our freedom and our justice both."
We share concerns about some of the reports that we've heard coming out of Pakistan in terms of intimidation, voter suppression". "We're watching this very, very closely". "International monitors are still taking a look" . [* @GEJonathan report pending].
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if all this doesn’t radicalize people i don’t know what will.
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New: Top Biden adviser lobbied on behalf of President Donald Trump’s corporate tax cut
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Hundreds of young activists with @sunrisemvmt are headed to Leader Mitch McConnell’s office to confront him over the Green New Deal
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Biden called what Russia is doing in Ukraine a genocide
It's official: Israel has now killed more civilians in Gaza in 30 days than Russia has in its entire war in Ukraine, which began over 600 days ago.
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the video is even worse.
Speaker Pelosi at the Congressional Black Caucus presser after Chauvin verdict: . “Thank you George Floyd for sacrificing your life for justice.”
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This is a major shift by US:. US calls for election fraud investigation & signals it would work with a PTI-led government. "Claims of interference or fraud should be fully investigated. The United States is prepared to work with the next Pakistani government, regardless of party".
Statement from State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller: "We join credible international and local election observers in their assessment that these elections included undue restrictions on freedoms of expression, association, and peaceful assembly. We condemn electoral
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.@JoeCrowleyNY are you gonna let her dunk on you like that.
Nancy Pelosi says a glass of water could win Democratic districts like AOC’s
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I’m a gamer first.
Are you a journalist first or an American first? . With conflict looming, an old question about patriotism is raised anew.
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Conor Lamb voted with Republicans to make the Trump tax cuts permanent, voted for Steve King’s amendment to help fund Trump’s border wall, and supported a GOP effort to prevent undocumented immigrants from receiving stimulus checks.
Conor Lamb email formally announces his PA Senate campaign with a heavy emphasis on Trump. Says democracy is at stake. “The other side denies reality and worships Trump” he says in a video as he aims for Dem primary voters .
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Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-N.J) has tested positive for Covid-19. She believes she was exposed while sheltering with colleagues who refused to wear a mask during the Capitol riot last week, per office.
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tired: what’s going to happen?. wired: what is to be done?.
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Progressives wanted $10 trillion over a decade to fight the climate crisis. Bernie Sanders proposed a $6 trillion spending package (including much of Biden’s agenda - not just climate) and that got negotiated down to $3.5 trillion over a decade. That was the big compromise.
.@RepCuellar says Biden said the number for reconciliation will likely be between $1.9T-$2T — and says Biden essentially told progressives they need to come down.
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remember when rashida wanted to impeach the motherfucker and hill reporters asked members if it's ok to use bad words.
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Oligarch Mike Bloomberg plagiarized parts of at least eight of his plans . He lifted ENTIRE PARAGRAPHS from CNN, Time, CNBC, and a bunch of other groups by @akela_lacy.
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New: Democratic leaders helped a blackface-wearing conservative, who appears to be a fan of Tucker Carlson, get on the ballot to challenge Jennifer Rourke — a progressive Black woman running for Rhode Island State Senate.
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even chuck schumer is voting against trump's USMCA . elizabeth warren supports it.
Despite the improvements Democrats secured to better protect workers:. I am voting against USMCA. Because it doesn't address climate change, the greatest threat facing our planet.
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New from me: Bernie Sanders’s secret to attracting Latino support: Talking to them
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Congressional Progressive Caucus comes out in support of Rep. Ilhan Omar: "We urge our colleagues not to abet or amplify such divisive and bad-faith tactics," @PramilaJayapal says.
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.@BernieSanders in June called for former Brazilian president Lula da Silva to be released from prison and remains the only presidential candidate to do so:
A Brazilian judge has issued the order to release @LulaOficial from prison. He could be freed at any time now.
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Trying to prohibit the US from citing any death figures is as genocidal as it gets. Rep. Jared Moskowitz's horrifying amendment on the Gaza death toll was made in order
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NEW: Progressive wave rolls through Texas with big wins in Dallas, Austin, and Houston by @ryangrim & me.
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NEW from me: Our Revolution, accused of dark-money spending for Sanders, took only six donations over $5,000 in 2019
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Manchin's daughter retired last year and walked away with a $31 million payout from the Mylan merger, which also slashed 1,500 jobs in West Virginia. So many layers of corruption/criminal behavior
NEWS: Damning new email shows Heather Bresch, daughter of Joe Manchin, played a direct part in EpiPen price inflation scandal, according to just-released court documents
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NEW: I interview @AOC about coronavirus legislation, the pandemic’s devastating impact on her district (which is home to mostly working-class people of color), how Congress is abdicating its responsibilities, other internal dynamics, and Animal Crossing
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Democratic leadership strips the $1 billion in funding for Israel's Iron Dome missile defense system from the CR after progressives threaten to withhold their votes.
NEWS: House Democrats are removing the Iron Dome provision from the CR amid pushback from progressives.
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Sen. Bernie Sanders holds a pen and pad with reporters to discuss the reconciliation bill
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Listen to what @AnaMariaArchil2 of Center for Popular Democracy Action.said when I asked her why she was crying at one of the Nevada caucuses
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if you're taking student loan debt to the grave, you can thank joe biden for helping make that possible
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so like 7% of the pentagon's proposed budget for 2022.
We have no time to waste when it comes to making our infrastructure more resilient to a changing climate. The Bipartisan Infrastructure Framework invests $52 billion to strengthen our natural infrastructure — like coastlines and levees — and our physical infrastructure.
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New: Joe Biden promised a 100-day deportation halt during the primary. It’s not in his platform. by me.
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