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⬛️⬜️🟥 Former art/design director @newrepublic @thebafflermag , etc. Rooting for a proletariat revolution or an O's world series win, whichever comes first
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For
#OpeningDay
, I am once again, super thankful to all the folks at
@baseballpro
for the honor of writing the 2023 Orioles season essay for their annual this year. I somehow got slotted in with some insanely talented writers. You can grab a copy here:
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so, literally this
.
@POTUS
: "What’s been negotiated would...be the toughest and fairest set of reforms to secure the border we’ve ever had in our country.
It would give me, as President, a new emergency authority to shut down the border when it becomes overwhelmed."
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Just checking in on this, how's it going
It’s just common sense as rent comes due and bills start to pile up during this crisis: we need to give people $2,000 monthly payments so they can make ends meet.
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The Democratic Party throwing their full weight behind a global far right alliance (to bolster support for the foreign leader who wanted Trump to win!) while they whine about young voters being too petulant to support more killing is genuinely, genuinely insane
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You’re going to see a lot of people saying “Expand the Courts” today.
I want to remind you all, that legislation has to have a filibuster proof majority of votes to pass through the house & Senate— OR the filibuster would have to be abolished. We don’t have the votes.
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@MKarnitschnig
@BasharZapen
You have a history of picking the wrong side as genocides are perpetrated, true
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Funny that the media can only find *one* guy to cover over and over and over out of what, 8.8 million people in NYC?
This guy’s family owns 100 properties and we’re supposed to feel pity?
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I can’t with this today
Ady Barkan devoted every ounce of strength to building a brighter, fairer future, one he knew he’d never get to see.
It was my privilege to be with Ady, his family, friends & caregivers at the FDR Awards in September. He urged us to Be A Hero – I again told him that he was mine.
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I love voting for Obama twice, being told I voted for a new progressive direction and giving him 8 years to make significant changes, only to be told its *my* fault that his administration failed so spectacularly that his hand-picked predecessor lost to a certified buffoon
Impossible for me not to express my rage today at so many progressives who “couldn’t get excited” or didn’t show up in 2016. You were blind to the fundamental rights that were at stake. The most vulnerable citizens will pay the price of your fucking privilege. Vote.
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100 companies are responsible for 71% of global emissions
100 companies are responsible for 71% of global emissions
100 companies are responsible for 71% of global emissions
100 companies are responsible for 71% of global emissions
100 companies are responsible for 71% of
Scared by that new report on climate change? Here's what you can do to help:
• Eat less meat (about 30%)
• Swap your car or plane ride for a bus or train
• Use a smart thermostat in your home, and upgrade to more efficient appliances
More:
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According to
@nytimes
, if someone from the Left has an opinion they *must* be doing the bidding of an activist group. But someone on the right is offered a whole op-ed and they have ties to conservative orgs, those ties aren't disclosed and they get presented as a "neutral voice"
The
@NYTopinion
published another piece against campus wokes and bylined the author simply as "a senior at Princeton."
@nateffo
found with quick-and-easy searches he was tied to the conservative Leadership Institute.
Background on the Koch-funded group:
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One of these guys lives in a working-class part of Michigan and accurately predicted Trump’s victory in 2016, one of these guys spouts declaratives from his perch in NYC. See if you can spot the difference.
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This first hand account from a Capitol police officer is just insane.
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Democrats signature piece of legislation this century was a health insurance plan from a conservative think tank, implemented first by a GOP governor. When they held all the power, passing a Heritage Foundation piece of legislation was their highest goal. Don’t ever forget that.
"the Democratic Party's rightward shift" is a hilarious laugh line to those who have spent the last 15 years successfully pushing the party left. If you really believe it, I would be happy to tell you what things were like not that long ago.
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Every single mainstream news outlet that never felt the need to do it before now writes “according to the Hamas-controlled Ministry of Heath in Gaza” in their news coverage. This is exactly what the Biden administration—and by extension Netanyahu—wanted. They moved the goalposts.
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suspending Rep. Omar's daughter? The day after Rep. Omar questioned Columbia's president in congress?
Oh we know exactly what this is about
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If Trump were in office he might do something truly heinous, like break with the rest of the world to vote against an immediate humanitarian ceasefire and unconditional release of all hostages, which is why you have to vote for Biden, who just did that
#BREAKING
United States vetoes Security Council draft resolution that would have demanded an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza, and immediate and unconditional release of all hostages
VOTE
In Favour: 13
Against: 1 (US)
Abstain: 1 (UK)
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say it louder for the people in the back
I cannot, in good conscience, vote for the debt ceiling deal.
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Something something When someone shows you who they are, believe them
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If you were around between 2002-2003 and didn’t want to go to war with Iraq, this current media discourse is basically the same discourse you faced. Any antiwar sentiment was either straight up suppressed, or maligned and treated as outrageous and treasonous
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I am begging Liberals to stop pretending the railroad labor situation is over in order to tweet "another W for Dark Brandon" and instead follow some labor reporters who don't work for NPR or NYT or WSJ
One rail worker’s anonymous take:
“It's a garbage deal. Everyone hates it so far. It does nothing for me. I'll vote no. This has been a complete waste of time.”
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They are peaceful protests. They are not lawful protests. Disobedience is not violence.
He’s deliberately using those words interchangeably to lump the peaceful encampments in with white supremacist vigilantes who are attacking them and the Jan 6th mobs. It's a new low.
Biden: Destroying property is not a peaceful protest. It is against the law. Vandalism, trespassing, breaking windows, shutting down campuses, forcing the cancellation of classes and graduations, none of this is a peaceful protest.
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Warren’s stated strategy is to deny the candidate with the closest policies to hers a shot at winning the majority outright, in some slim chance she’ll be installed at the convention. She’s actively kneecapping our chance for M4A, GND, taxing the rich, student debt forgiveness.
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Warren was perfectly fine with calling orgs like the Sunrise Movement, DSA, Center for Popular Democracy and others who chose to endorse Bernie over her "super pacs" when she was behind in the polls. Now everyone wonders why those same people are so skeptical of Warren?
Warren as Vice President would ensure that the policies progressives are pushing for Biden to embrace would be backed up with personnel. She's the most progressive option on the table. Not sure why people are shooting themselves in the foot here.
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Imagine how differently the last 20 years would have gone if 200,000 registered Florida Democrats didn’t vote for Bush
Imagine how differently the last 20 years would have gone if Ralph Nader hadn't campaigned in swing states during the 2000 presidential election.
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Millennials start indie publication, goes mainstream, sells pub out to industry conglomerate who—after fighting against employee labor rights at every step—ultimately decides to squash the publication, is a pretty good analogy for the 00s hipster-turned-professional class scene
News: In a note to staff, Condé Nast announces that Pitchfork is being moved under GQ.
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Its extremely deceitful to have these people claim that the progressive left is "losing" the discourse battle while the exact opposite is happening: the massive pro-Palestine protests are growing, int'l bodies and majorities in recent polls are all in agreement with the left.
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If we lived in a just society, Barbara Lee would be rewarded and lauded for consistently being on the right side of history way before it was popular to do so
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The thing about these mea culpas is 1) they still keep their jobs no matter what 2) their terrible stances on present-day issues won’t change despite “we should listen to the critics” and 3) the people that *were* right are never up for consideration for those same platforms.
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Absolutely not
.
@AdyBarkan
embodied the principle of doing all the good you can, in all the ways you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can.
His life and work will be an inspiration for generations of changemakers to come.
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Liberal institutions unleashing cops on tuition paying students and the only thing Biden/most of Dem leadership has done is disparage the students. The failure of liberals to understand their own culpability in criminalizing protest and cracking down on dissent will be their end.
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Here’s a subtle way that photo editors & art directors help prop up capital in so-called objective news.
Note the photo choice evokes INDUSTRY, not labor.
There are workers on these trains and tracks. Thats the story. But photo editors center the Business and not the workers.
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Can’t believe Bernie spent all that time trying to convince Warren to run in 2016 if he didn’t think a woman could become president, damn
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I defend AOC a lot but i can’t help but notice that tonight she didn’t wear a keffiyeh, she didn’t hold up pro-Palestinian signs like the rest of the squad, and she hasn’t said anything about Biden’s “illegals” rhetoric despite many orgs/members of congress already speaking out.
US Democratic House Representatives Cori Bush, Delia Ramirez, Ilhan Omar and Ayanna Pressley hold signs calling for ceasefire in ongoing war waged by Israel on Gaza during Biden's State of the Union address
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Pete Buttigieg is against revolutionary politics of the 1960’s... like when we got civil rights passed?
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What exactly did they think was going to happen after they bombed the embassy of another country
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This obviously exists on a spectrum but still, only one can win! And everytime Warren supporters make the case for her by explaining how similar she is to Bernie I’m like... why shouldn’t I just support him then?
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@MKarnitschnig
@BasharZapen
I’m calling it one as it’s happening when there’s still time to stop it and save lives, is the difference between you and me.
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90% of the Dem Party who are lockstep in supporting Israel and stand by the ethnic cleansing don’t even realize just how much their base has shifted and revolted against their electeds position.
Tlaib is treated as a pariah by the party, yet she’s the mainstream of the Dem base.
Dems are divided on whether the U.S. ought to send weapons & supplies to Israel. Reps show a slight majority in favor.
The Dems who don't think the U.S. ought to are relatively less approving of Biden's handling of the conflict than Dems who do.
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@kathygriffin
@ChelseaClinton
Actually it’s you, corporate feminist. What you’re doing is bullying. Right now. And other white women like myself are completely embarrassed by your behavior, just like we were when Chelsea wrapped her scolding of Omar in faux patriotic “as an American” language.
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“Imagine a guy who would get paid millions of dollars to make a show called ‘Working’ in homage to Studs Terkel, and then cross a picket line for it.” That is as good a summary as you will find.
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Democrats just refuse to come to terms with how badly Biden's pandemic response has been, just because he says he believes in science.
People got more aid under Trump, and that emergency safety net (along with what Biden passed in the first 6 months) has been all but dismantled.
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For those wondering why Bernie argued in 2016 for superdelegates in their states to honor the winner of that state, a thread of how SDs marginalized his wins:
New Hampshire:
BS 60.1%, HRC 37.7%
Delegates:
BS: 16, HRC: 15 (5 more SD)
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Liberals consistently look down upon working class people in the most brazen and superficial ways, and then wonder why they’re called entitled urban elitist snobs all the time, my god
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Seeing some quietly pro-israel artists, designers and creative types on insta post that they're deciding to "take a break from social media" for a bit and I can only imagine its because they know their stance is incredibly untenable and yet can't bring themselves to abandon it
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@lulumeservey
oh hey, I remember you!
I’m curious what makes me right wing? Or is it not meant to be literal, but just an insult for defending the company’s position that employees should consider reasons they might want to stay independent instead of becoming union members?
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Never forget the assholes who try to convince you every single day that Biden is powerless and blameless in all of this
The Biden administration once more bypasses Congress on an emergency weapons sale to Israel
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@maggieNYT
@MarkMazzettiNYT
@jdawsey1
@GregJaffe
@JaxAlemany
1) not everyone gets to start their career with a dad who’s been employed at NYT since the 70’s
2) those who weren’t lucky enough to be born into a well-connected network should get the chance to work in journalism too, and that requires alternative ways of building a following
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What’s that quote about “when Democrats dream, they still dream about compromise?”
The initial demand was $2k a month, supported by the vice president-elect—what happened to that?
If Democrats controlled the Senate:
- the cash payments would be $1200 not $600
- there would be $175 billion, not $25 billion, to help people pay the rent
- there would be flexible money for states and cities and bonus checks for frontline workers
Let’s win Georgia.
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Insane to me that it’s 2023 and a festival where people are encouraged to dress like this, in a neighborhood made famous for John Waters weirdness, caved to right wing bullying and refuses to stand up for abortion rights
UPDATE: Planned Parenthood of Maryland denied vendor booth at HonFest — the move triggered talk of protests and boycotts on social media and led one Baltimore brewery to pull its sponsorship.
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This is a fact-checker from
@USATODAY
saying the
#EastPalenstine
train wasn’t carrying materials classified as high hazardous. What they fail say is context—it wasn’t classified that way because industry lobbyists got both the Obama and Trump admins to *not* classify it that way
The train was not classified as a high-hazard flammable train, which consists of 20 or more consecutive flammable-liquid rail tank cars or 35 or more flammable-liquid rail tank cars interspersed throughout the train.
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Why do I, art director of a leftist mag, constantly get emails from illustrators who do this cutesy/friendly utopian flat aesthetic?
Oh, right…
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@jonfavs
@ChristinePThoma
So you’re treating Biden the exact way he treats Israel, performative outrage without consequences
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You can't tell people Democracy is on the Ballot only to suspend first amendment rights when people take issue with the genocide you're currently funding and giving diplomatic cover to.
You can't warn people about the rise of fascism when you're currently implementing it.
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Seems like a good time to look back and see who endorsed Kyrsten Sinema in her 2018 primary against the
@justicedems
supported candidate.
You all got what you wanted, I don't see why you're complaining now
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@AJentleson
@sajidshahriar
so you learned nothing and dismissed their complaints and you think this damage control PR makes you look good?
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Ima be honest I’m not really thinking about Amazon orders right now
IMPLICATIONS OF
#KeyBridgeCollapse
: "This is going to be catastrophic for many reasons," one resident said.
"Number one, the harbor's blocked. Number two, we're not going to get any more new car deliveries at this time. Amazon is just on the other side of the river and you can…
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Damn that’s a lotta Chapo/Intercept/Jacobin readers! No wonder washed up Gen-X bloggers-turned-tech-media-barons are worried
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Just wondering if we're still all on the same page about this one, as Build Back Better dot com doesn't mention anything about rent relief or stimulus checks
People will be kicked out of their homes if Congress doesn’t quickly move to ban evictions and foreclosures until this pandemic is over—and pass my $2,000 monthly payments bill.
The time to act is now.
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Thinking about how other media outlets such as the
@nytimes
consistently chose to paint the mob as one-dimensional working class protesters who got out of hand, rather than focus deeper on the militant planning, the bombs that were found, etc.
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This is the core of
@nytimes
's bullshit. They paint themselves as defenders of objectivity but they don't even live up to the basic standards of capital J Journalism. Criticism of their coverage shows basic fact-checking errors and unequal treatment of sources and interviewees.
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As
@nytimes
touts their record profits (this tweet is from last year), here's how their illustration fees have fared over the past decade, as shared by one of the best editorial illustrators out there.
.
@NYTimes
hits 8 million paying subscribers.
•The company expects to end the year with 8.5 million.
• In its quarterly results, it reported holding nearly $1 billion in cash.
By
@edmundlee
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As
@davidsirota
has said, Biden has always been fine with—if not overtly bragging about—his willingness to cut social programs to appease Republicans. Everyone just refused to acknowledge it.
When you vote to “work with Republicans”, this is what you get.
NEW -- White House aides have privately told progressives agitating for the 14th amendment that it's not happening.
via
@adamcancryn
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To be clear, Bernie’s campaign *did not* build the app, nor did they ask for the app in the first place. They pushed for transparency and more of the raw numbers to be publicized. The party should have been able to deliver data without blaming the people who were asking for it.
Instead, it has become a vehicle that anyone can drive. The rules changes demanded by many in the Sanders camp post 2016, helped to make this process way more complicated than it could handle 3/
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@CarlBeijer
I honestly would love to see how many times "stop Sanders" and "Will anyone be able to stop Standers" was mentioned and used in headlines and chyrons compared to Biden's coverage, which has essentially been "Biden's rise" "Biden's comeback" "Biden's return" etc
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The thing about Bari Weiss and Emily Yoffe is 1) they are right wing hacks, and 2) they've also been employed at Respectable Journalistic Institutions. Intentional suppression of facts/misrepresentation of subjects is how elite intellectualism runs cover for right-wing ideology.
Her son was distressed about puberty. The doctors at the St. Louis Transgender Center pressured the mother to approve a drug implant to block his puberty. Then everything got worse. My latest
@TheFP
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Isn’t that what you already had on Jan 20, 2021?
Give me a Democratic House of Representatives and a bigger Democratic Senate, and we will pass a new law to restore and protect Roe v. Wade.
I will sign it immediately.
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Surely U.S. universities will feel a duty to speak out in solidarity and condemn the Israeli government for targeting places of higher education, instead of trying to fire/suppress/punish the faculty, staff, and students speaking out against, you know, bombing universities
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It’s weird to call yourself a progressive and declare “if only our saviors the Dems were in charge” considering the Dems 1990’s track record of 1) killing welfare 2) the crime bill 3) their military interventions + 4) deregulating literally every industry
Imagine how differently the last 20 years would have gone if Ralph Nader hadn't campaigned in swing states during the 2000 presidential election.
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“The most important thing to have a plan for, Republicans have succeeded in rendering completely invisible in the number one political contest in the country,” says Chris Hayes on GOP contenders ignoring the climate issue.
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"The green dream, or whatever they call it" —Nancy Pelosi
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@BarrenMagazine
@JasonDRamsey
If you fucked up things so badly that *your own staff* is now publicly apologizing for this action + statement, then maybe you should give Danielle her job back
@JasonDRamsey
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To all the Covid-minimizing Liberals (who are nearly as bad as the outright deniers at this point), hope this helps
Didn’t realize this brand of person is still at it on here. Impressive stamina.
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You Leftists with your puppies and rainbows and unicorns and demands to not slaughter innocent civilians by the tens of thousands while starving and displacing hundreds of thousands more, says the Gen Z influencer on Biden’s payroll
How many leftists can cancel each other for not being pure enough before there’s a single leftist standing
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thinking a lot this evening about how the IRS is notoriously defunded which leads to more tax fraud and also how it audits more poor people than rich people
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Someone should ask
@ewarren
why endorsing Jerry Nadler is progressive but endorsing Bernie Sanders isn’t
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It’s rather curious how Harris stopped mentioning these $2k checks as a VP candidate, since Biden/Dems refused to support it as a universal benefit to campaign on. Guess we’ll never know how they would have fared downballot if they offered concrete plans!
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and I'm sure its just a coincidence that these are all Clinton-turned-Warren supporters claiming the progressive mantle
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