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1 year

“Stand against atrocities” is a lesson of Jewish history. “Stand with the Israeli government and military while they commit atrocities” is the exact opposite of one.

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Ben Spielberg

@BenSpielberg

5 years

Bernie Sanders is running daily COVID-19 discussions, leading the fight for public health & stimulus measures that focus primarily on the people most in need, & raising money for charity. What has Joe Biden done over the past five days? And why isn't the media covering this?

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7 months

The first appropriate headline I’ve seen on Aaron Bushnell today is from Spain’s daily sports newspaper.

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9 months

Israel is not at war. Israel is engaged in genocide.

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Elizabeth Warren did an awesome job - awesome - exposing Mike Bloomberg tonight. She also once again leaned in to absurd attacks on Bernie’s supporters, undermined Bernie’s Medicare for All proposal, and said she thinks it’s okay for party elites to override voters’ will.

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2 years

Democratic Senators are more united in telling Bernie Sanders that he needs to let go of dental and hearing benefits for seniors than they ever were in telling Joe Manchin he needs to drop goodies for oil companies or accept cash payments for families with children.

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Joe Manchin is bad. Neera Tanden is bad. Joe Manchin’s reason for voting against Neera Tanden is not very good. The fact that Joe Manchin is voting against Neera Tanden is very good.

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You know who has - unlike Schumer, Pelosi, or Biden - been fighting for robust cash relief for everyone this entire time? @BernieSanders .

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@BenSpielberg

5 years

@tedcruz @FranKirkley This bill was not meant to pass; it was introduced to demonstrate how wrong it is to restrict people’s reproductive rights. In other words, the argument you’re applying to this bill shows how your own views on women’s reproductive rights are indefensible!

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Someone threw a rock through the window of a Bernie office. The campaign responded: “We don’t know who did this. But we’re fighting for them too.” Someone spray-painted an accurate description of @MikeBloomberg on a board & his campaign is demanding an apology from Bernie.

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Number of states in which _________ has the most donors: Joe Biden: 1 (his home state) Elizabeth Warren: 1 (her home state) Pete Buttigieg: 1 (his home state) Amy Klobuchar: 1 (her home state) Bernie Sanders: 46

The Donors Powering the Campaign of Bernie Sanders (Published 2020)

These maps and charts show just how much Mr. Sanders is prevailing in the race for donors.

www.nytimes.com

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We’re in the middle of a pandemic, the sky is orange, and the leaders of the Democratic Party remain vehemently opposed to both Medicare for All and a Green New Deal.

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There are 16 people on @JoeBiden 's transition advisory board. Republicans have 2 of the spots. People who supported Bernie Sanders in the primary have 0.

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@BenSpielberg

4 years

How can @JoeBiden reconcile this position with his support for in-person voting in Wisconsin two days from now?

The Hill

@thehill

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#BREAKING : Biden says Democrats may have to hold “virtual convention” due to coronavirus

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4 years

A former corporate lobbyist who was handily beaten in his Senate race despite raising record-breaking sums of money.

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Introducing the new chair of the DNC: @harrisonjaime !

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@BenSpielberg

10 months

You know who had a right to exist? Every person the Israeli government killed in Gaza today.

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4 years

Biden is better than Trump, but voting for Biden tells the Democratic Party that, as long as the GOP is more scary, candidates whose policies oppress millions by design are acceptable. It seriously undermines progressive power in the long run. #WhyImNotVotingForJoe

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@BenSpielberg

5 years

Hi everyone! Fewer than half the states will have voted after tonight is all said and done. I understand why you're disappointed - I am, too - but this primary is not even close to over. Do not despair. Do think hard about what next steps we need to take.

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6 years

The Obama many of us hoped for versus the Obama we got.

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1 month

I guess I will not be voting for @KamalaHarris . And that other people who care about human rights, many of whom live in swing states, will not be voting for her, either.

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Kamala Harris says "far too many innocent Palestinians have been killed," but that she would *not* change policy on withholding even "some" US weapons to Israel.

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3 years

The extremely important missing context for this claim is that it is based on a redefinition of “wealthy” from “has a lot of money” to “does not have a lot of money but went to college.” I kid you not. The numbers here are made up in a way that’s so ridiculous it’s almost funny.

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“almost a third of all student debt is owed by the wealthiest 20 percent of households and only 8 percent by the bottom 20 percent.”

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4 years

I believe the count of Bernie Sanders supporters in the Joe Biden Cabinet thus far is zero.

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11 months

It is hard to imagine things more likely to increase antisemitism than insisting that “Jews” and “Israel” are synonymous while Israel is murdering children left and right.

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4 years

Truly great content on this website.

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@BenSpielberg

5 years

My first conversation at a door while canvassing for Bernie today: voter, who works two jobs, says “no copays or deductibles? That would be amazing. Yes, Bernie can count on my support.” Didn’t know the California primary was on March 3. Now she does. This is how we win. #NotMeUs

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4 years

If alive today, Martin Luther King Jr. would be mercilessly attacked by both Republicans and corporate Democrats for his trenchant analysis of and advocacy against the interconnected evils of capitalism, militarism, and racism. Don’t allow them to propagate a revisionist history.

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2 years

Notice how “we need to stick together” is being used here to tell Bernie “you need to shut up and accept what Joe Manchin and Democratic Party leadership have decided,” and how “we need to stick together” was not used in any meaningful way to pressure Manchin or Sinema.

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5 years

Joe Biden is refusing to debate for the same reason cable news is desperately trying not to cover negative stories about him or Bernie Sanders’s COVID-19 response work: they know, if the public hears the facts & sees the candidates side by side, they’ll likely support Bernie.

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@BenSpielberg

4 years

In 2018, 71% of Democrats said a sexual assault committed in high school should disqualify someone from being a Supreme Court justice. In 2020, only 30% of Democrats say a sexual assault committed when someone was a Senator should disqualify that person from the presidency.

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@BenSpielberg

4 years

If @SpeakerPelosi wanted to, she could draft a standalone universal cash payment bill, pass it quickly in the House, and then relentlessly pressure GOP Senators to pass it. Ask yourself why she isn’t doing this.

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@BenSpielberg

9 months

Confirmation in Thursday’s news that: -Ethnic cleansing is Netanyahu’s objective. -Israel is dropping huge bombs on evacuation areas they designated. -Israel has damaged 70% of schools in Gaza. -Israel lied about why they attacked al-Shifa hospital.

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@BenSpielberg

2 years

In light of @SpeakerPelosi ’s “elect more Democrats to protect reproductive rights” pitch, her support for forced-birth proponent Henry Cuellar over pro-choice Jessica Cisneros in a recent primary that Cisneros definitely could have won isn’t getting nearly enough media attention.

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Ben Spielberg

@BenSpielberg

4 years

Biden’s pick for OMB Director, Neera Tanden, is probably the most Trump-like Democrat in Washington, DC. Her dishonesty and vindictiveness are no secret. Biden putting her in this position is very bad news and a giant middle finger pointed at social justice advocates.

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@BenSpielberg

2 months

They don’t want Donald Trump to win, @KamalaHarris , and you know that. They want your administration to stop facilitating a genocide.

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@JoshuaPHilll

2 months

Pro-Palestine protesters just disrupted Kamala's speech in Michigan. Her response: "If you want Donald Trump to win say that. Otherwise, I’m speaking.”

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@BenSpielberg

4 years

The implication of what @KamalaHarris is saying here is that nothing she says during debates should be interpreted as representing her actual beliefs. This is why people hate politicians.

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4 years

Joe Biden will find Pete Buttigieg a role because Pete helped Biden beat Bernie. This is how Democratic Party politics work: you get rewarded not for your qualifications or commitment to helping people but for doing the bidding of the politicians and donors who control the party.

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Ben Spielberg

@BenSpielberg

4 years

Congratulations to @PeteButtigieg on the widespread Republican adoption of his dishonest arguments against broad-based benefits.

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Ben Spielberg

@BenSpielberg

5 years

By endorsing @JoeBiden , @CoryBooker , @KamalaHarris , @BetoORourke , & @PeteButtigieg have once again confirmed what their detractors said all along: they choose corporate donors over the social justice wing of the Democratic Party. Remember that as we move forward.

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3 years

Imagine if the Democratic Party had campaigned even a fraction as hard against Prop 22 as they campaigned against the effort to recall Gavin Newsom.

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@BenSpielberg

5 years

Someone brought a Nazi flag to the rally of a Jewish candidate whose family was killed in the Holocaust and all the corporate media wants to talk about is how anonymous online commenters who might or might not even support that Jewish candidate have made some rude comments.

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Ben Spielberg

@BenSpielberg

5 years

I find it hard to see how anyone who has watched both Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders talk about COVID-19 over the past few days could honestly think anything other than that Bernie Sanders would be the more well-prepared, confidence-inspiring, and compassionate President.

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Ben Spielberg

@BenSpielberg

6 years

I’ve said it once & I’ll say it again: Larry Krasner’s election may well have been the most important election in the US in 2017.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

@PhillyInquirer

6 years

Philly DA Larry Krasner seeking to develop comprehensive list of tainted cops

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@BenSpielberg

5 years

My most striking takeaway from working in the DC policy world was much the same: there’s tremendous pressure to sell out & write it off as the necessary cost of doing business. Bernie is one of the few veterans of that place who has refused to do so. It’s why we must elect him.

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@BenSpielberg

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Instead of updating their headline to note that Biden’s claim is false, @politico has removed that point from their subheading. Not cool.

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@BenSpielberg

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The Bernie Sanders campaign fulfilled their promise and released the medical information they said they would - in the same format as other candidates’ medical records - exactly when they said they would do it. These are the facts, which are recognized by honest reporters.

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@BenSpielberg

5 years

Great that @SenWarren & other Democratic presidential candidates are calling for an end to private prisons. In doing so they are now joining @BernieSanders , who introduced detailed legislation to do just that four years ago.

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5 years

Thank you to @AOC , @IlhanMN , @AyannaPressley , & @RashidaTlaib for taking a stand here. As Omar notes, the correct course of action would be a strong condemnation that calls on the international community for assistance.

The Hill

@thehill

5 years

The four House Democrats who voted against the border funding bill

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3 years

A "single viral video of shoplifting at Walgreens [generated], dollar for dollar, 474,183% more coverage than the one (1) mainstream media article about @Walgreens admitting it stole $4.5 million from its employees over several years." HT @adamjohnsonNYC

4 Major Plot Holes in the “Organized Crime Rings Are Closing Walgreens!” Narrative

There are key questions mainstream journalists have yet to ask. They probably should before Prop 47 is repealed and more faceless Black and Brown kids are thrown in prison.

www.columnblog.com

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@BenSpielberg

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SCOOP: The @BernieSanders campaign is probably the best employer in presidential campaign history.

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@Datoism

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What is the truth about Bernie's staff's minimum wage? This is the actual content in WaPo article. Without the headline. Spread this to anyone who's asking. #RT

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It would be hard for unions to dream up a better friend in the White House than @BernieSanders , who has tirelessly stood with the labor movement throughout his entire career.

Bernie Sanders introduces labor plan to broaden union power | CNN Politics

Sen. Bernie Sanders, who has frequently done his presidential campaigning on picket lines, unveiled a comprehensive set of proposals on Wednesday designed to revive and newly empower organized labor.

www.cnn.com

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1 year

Condemning Hamas’s horrific violence takes no courage and serves no purpose other than to virtue signal. Speaking out against US support for the repression of and horrific violence against millions of people in Palestine, on the other hand, could potentially help save many lives.

The Hill

@thehill

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More than 700 actors and Hollywood executives — including Michael Douglas and Amy Schumer are adding their signatures to an open letter condemning Hamas for “barbaric acts of terrorism” in Israel that they say “must be called out by everyone.”

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London Breed’s DA pick just fired staffers whose work included trying to reduce unduly harsh sentences, free people who were wrongly convicted, hold police accountable, investigate political corruption, and increase data transparency. And this is how @sfchronicle reports it.

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I’m struck over and over by how insanely low the bar is for this ask - “please stop killing our family members” - and how @TheDemocrats are unable to clear it.

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"Uncommitted voters want to support Vice President Harris but need her to support a policy that stops sending weapons to the Israeli military that is using those weapons to kill people we love." Uncommitted Movement co-founder @AZAlawieh on his message at the DNC.

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Your periodic reminder that Democrats in Congress generally declined to support progressive primary challengers to Sinema and Manchin.

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@nathaliejacoby1 Tipping, service fees, and surcharges that companies use to shirk responsibility for employees making a living wage and/or mislead consumers about the price they’ll be paying.

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5 years

Pretty toxic stuff from #WarrenToBiden Bro @seankent ! Will @JoeBiden denounce it?

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3 years

The worst “present” vote @AOC took this year was not on Iron Dome funding but on Capitol Police funding. Increased Iron Dome funding passed overwhelmingly whereas AOC could have blocked increased Capitol Police funding by herself and chose not to do that.

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Biden's first big selection - Kamala Harris as VP - suggests @TheDemocrats don't think they need to court progressives. The DNC speaking lineup seems to generally confirm that. Progressives should push Biden to announce key appointments & withhold support if they're not good.

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We're in the middle of a presidential election. How the two remaining Democratic candidates are responding to a worldwide pandemic seems like something a responsible press corps would be spending a lot of time on!

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Terrible stuff from @JoeBiden . As the grandson of a Jew who escaped Nazi Germany in 1939, I hope he and his campaign will stop undermining our ability to address anti-Semitism by using it as a euphemism for peaceful opposition to human rights abuses by the Israeli government.

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I really don't know what to say about this. Holy shit.

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In 2003, Congress passed & President Bush signed what CBS called "the most far-reaching abortion restrictions in three decades." @JoeBiden was one of the 17 Senate Democrats to vote for the legislation. @BernieSanders voted against it in the House.

Bush Signs 'Partial Birth' Ban

But Federal Judge Quickly Issues Order Blocking Parts Of New Law

www.cbsnews.com

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I don’t know who needs to hear this reminder, but the Hillary Clinton campaign had a strategy of “elevating” Trump in the 2016 GOP primary and all the evidence for months during the 2016 Democratic primary indicated that Bernie Sanders was Democrats’ best chance that November.

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Corporate Democrats are fond of saying "I'm a progressive who gets things done." Those familiar with candidates' records, however, will note that the presidential candidate this phrase actually applies to is @BernieSanders .

Bernie Sanders vs. The Machine (Published 2019)

In 1981, he was elected mayor of Burlington. But the city’s bureaucracy showed him that winning wasn’t everything. So he learned how to fight back.

www.nytimes.com

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You wouldn’t know it from media coverage, which fawns nonstop over @amyklobuchar while mostly ignoring @AndrewYang , but Yang is polling ahead of Klobuchar in Nevada, in South Carolina, and nationally.

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While it’s true that billionaires don’t like Elizabeth Warren, it’s just ridiculous to run a segment like this in which you pretend Bernie Sanders, who is the real billionaire boogeyman, doesn’t exist. Do better, @Trevornoah .

The Daily Show

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Elizabeth Warren is the billionaire's boogeyman.

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Neera Tanden is a notoriously unethical employer and bully who physically assaulted and outed staff members, busted a union, and targets early-career social justice advocates for retribution. Democratic praise for her is at least as hypocritical as Republican criticism.

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We should never be shocked at the hypocrisy & misogyny of DC! @neeratanden is smart, gifted, & most importantly qualified! Neera, my grandma often says... when one door closes, others open! She often adds... “and the good Lord ain’t done with you yet.” Wait for your 🚪!

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Glenn Greenwald is a Pulitzer-prize-winning journalist who has broken two of the most important investigative stories of the past decade. Andrew Sullivan and Matt Yglesias are pundits who specialize in poorly argued and often-offensive contrarianism. Not in the same category.

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It is important to note that @JoeBiden has not won close to enough delegates to clinch the Democratic nomination. If he were to resign under pressure from party leaders, other candidates could un-suspend their campaigns & a (somewhat) democratic primary process could continue.

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Social justice advocates must commit to vigorously opposing her, as she’s been a major impediment to the progressive legislation we need.

The Hill

@thehill

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Pelosi commits to running for Speaker if Democrats retain House

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@joshtpm @atrupar “Democratic Establishment” refers to a small, insular group of politicians, pundits, and party insiders who are obstacles to social justice. The millions of voters and activists who make up the Democratic base are not fans of the Democratic Establishment, and for good reason!

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For the record, @kylegriffin1 , @wikileaks has been encouraging whistleblowers to leak Trump's tax returns since well before the election.

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Are the @nytimes , @MSNBC , @CNN , & the @washingtonpost just going to pretend that Tara Reade hasn't accused @JoeBiden of sexual assault?

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Bernie Sanders ran a campaign in 2016 that centered this issue. His success has already changed the landscape quite a bit, he’s running again, he remains the candidate most independent of moneyed interests, and he is polling better than Warren. Dan knows all of these things.

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. @ewarren swearing off fundraisers was a risky campaign gambit, but if she is elected President with that strategy, she will fundamentally change the relationship between moneyed interests and politicians forever.

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JUST IN: @amyklobuchar finds out she will not be selected to be Joe Biden's VP, pretends she's withdrawing from consideration out of principle

CNN Politics

@CNNPolitics

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JUST IN: Amy Klobuchar withdraws from consideration to be Joe Biden's vice president, saying the presumptive Democratic nominee should choose a woman of color

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Homelessness, food insecurity, and other forms of material deprivation are not complicated, intractable problems. They are solvable problems that our policymakers have chosen not to solve.

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Worst news of the night so far: Prop 22 passing. Horrible precedent for both labor rights & democracy. @Uber , @lyft , @DoorDash , @Instacart , & @Postmates have successfully bought & lied their way into an exemption from CA law, allowing them to continue to exploit their workers.

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Nobody’s asking you to tell people that, Pete. We’re asking you to stop doing billionaires’ bidding. They are donating to your campaign because of your opposition to policies like Medicare for All, free college, and a wealth tax.

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@PeteButtigieg

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I will not pursue politics by telling people they can't be at our side if they're not with us 100% of the time. This is a time for addition not rejection, for belonging not exclusion. #DemDebate

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Nobody actually believes that snake emojis directed at a candidate from random people are worse than racist, dismissive comments directed at regular people from a candidate. Democrats who professed outrage at the former but are defending the latter are not honest commentators.

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It is both unsurprising and incredibly frustrating that @SenSanders is likely to vote for Tanden and that reporting on this topic continues to cast dishonesty, abuses of power, and work to undermine social justice movements as nothing more than overzealous tweeting.

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Democrats could have easily passed a standalone stimulus checks bill in January, delivering on an explicit promise they made, and they chose not to do that.

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This piece assigns three pinocchios to a demonstrably true point because people who weren’t wealthy got small tax cuts, too. It’s not a “fact check.” It’s an opinion piece designed to obscure reality and defend policy that overwhelmingly benefits the wealthy.

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New #FactChecker --> Sanders’s claim the 2017 tax cut went to the ‘wealthiest’ and ‘large corporations’

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A true #MarchForLife would be against war & for health care & income support for the poor. Today's march is actually an #AntiChoiceMarch .

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Net favorability in the most recent YouGov poll: Mitch McConnell: -23% Nancy Pelosi: -15% Donald Trump: -11% The Republican Party: -10% Mike Pence: -9% Joe Biden: -7% The Democratic Party: -7%

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Behind every “nobody has criticized Bernie Sanders yet” article is an author who, like @JRubinBlogger , spends more or less every waking moment criticizing Bernie Sanders. Incredible that he’s the country’s most popular sitting politician despite these relentless attacks!

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@BenSpielberg

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Warren remains the second-best candidate, and I am hopeful that we’ll see more destruction of billionaires from her in the weeks to come. But her performance tonight should not erase how much she’s tacked away from the social justice wing of the party during this campaign.

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65% of Democrats think "Russia tampered with vote tallies" & 41% believe "millions of illegal votes were cast in the election." These numbers illustrate just how divorced from reality Democratic discourse on Russia has been.

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"Centrist" actually often means having privilege-defending views, drawing false equivalences, & prioritizing etiquette over policy impact.

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Yikes. Very bad look from @ewarren here. Questions about the Democratic primary calendar are totally legitimate, Amy Goodman asked hers in a reasonable way, and Goodman is an important voice for progressive causes.

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@BenSpielberg

5 years

"The best chance of passing progressive legislation is to elect someone who doesn't support it" should be a hilarious argument to any thinking person. The Times has no actual explanation of how this would be true, of course. It's just vague references to "bipartisan credentials."

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Ben Spielberg

@BenSpielberg

3 years

The corporate tax rate was 35% under Obama. He proposed cutting it to 28%. Republicans then cut it to 21%. Democrats now want to restore less than half of what the GOP cut, putting the rate at 26.5% (and only for businesses that make over $5 million). And this is the headline. 🙄

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Ben Spielberg

@BenSpielberg

10 months

Emphasizing antisemitism at this moment is a deliberate tactic used primarily by people who do not care about actual antisemitism to deflect from the mass murder the Israeli government is carrying out and intimidate people who otherwise might more openly oppose that mass murder.

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Ben Spielberg

@BenSpielberg

4 years

Barack Obama, Joe Biden, and other Democrats will say a lot of nice things about Bernie Sanders now and in the coming months because it is a great way to pretend they support what his movement was all about without having to concede any power.

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Ben Spielberg

@BenSpielberg

5 years

Can be counted on to fight relentlessly for you: Bernie Sanders Will do the right thing a solid amount of the time: Elizabeth Warren Have redeeming qualities: Andrew Yang & Tom Steyer Corporate through and through: Joe Biden, Pete Buttigieg, & Amy Klobuchar

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Ben Spielberg

@BenSpielberg

7 years

Here are the results of the poll that Establishment Democrats who hate Bernie Sanders & his economic justice advocacy are so upset about.

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Ben Spielberg

@BenSpielberg

5 years

Let @amyklobuchar , @PeteButtigieg , & @BetoORourke endorsing @JoeBiden remind you of the choice in this election. We can have the continued prioritization of corporate interests over basic human rights or the people-powered social justice movement led by @AOC & @BernieSanders .

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Ben Spielberg

@BenSpielberg

4 years

How about we make both Puerto Rico and DC states?

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Ben Spielberg

@BenSpielberg

5 years

Disappointing that @ewarren ’s Medicare For All financing plan accepts the misleading media/Establishment Democrat/Republican talking point about taxes and gets gimmicky rather than embracing better policy while demonstrating how deceptive that talking point is.

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Ben Spielberg

@BenSpielberg

6 years

No, Joe, Medicare is *not* "headed toward bankruptcy." Today, with no changes, the Hospital Insurance (HI) trust fund is still projected to be able to pay 85 percent of costs in 2092. Its budgetary challenges (exacerbated by tax cuts) are easily fixable.

Joe Scarborough

@JoeNBC

6 years

Medicare today is headed toward bankruptcy. Even if you taxed the rich, slashed military spending, threw in a massive carbon tax and did everything else said here, you wouldn’t save existing entitlement programs. To EXPAND them under current fiscal conditions is economic suicide.

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Ben Spielberg

@BenSpielberg

7 years

Wow. To say the media bias against @UKLabour has been extreme would be an understatement. (via @lboroCRCC ) #GE2017