EVERY DEMOCRAT SHOULD BE SAYING THIS EVERY CHANCE THEY GET.
Thank you to
@RitchieTorres
for getting at the core of the issue.
Republicans are the ones who ran up the credit card and then blamed it on poor people.
CC:
@TheDemocrats
@SenateDems
@dccc
Republicans focused their energy on savaging a program like SNAP, which provides an average of TWO DOLLARS per meal.
Republicans are scapegoating poor people for a debt crisis caused by GOP recessions, tax cuts, and wars.
@ShawnRyan762
Man, I expected better from you than this.
The guy retired to run for Congress before his unit was deployed.
Go ahead and tell us what Trump did when he was called up.
.
@BetoORourke
needs to run in 2020.
I agree with
@jonfavs
that Beto is a once in a generation kind of politician.
He can unite the Clinton/Sanders wings of the party and bring in crucial independent/GOP/non-voters/.
#Beto2020
#BetoForPresident
@davidhogg111
Sending you lots of aloha, David. It’s hard enough caring for our loved ones in such difficult times but the system is inhumane in so many ways and robs us of precious moments we should be spending with them rather than stressing about how to pay for the care they need.
Today would be a good day for
@JoeBiden
to call on Congress to fully de-schedule
#cannabis
and make good on his promise to decriminalize
#marijuana
so that no human gets locked in a cage for a plant.
Omarosa doesn’t think Trump will debate Kamala.
I think the only way it happens is if he’s so far down and not getting any attention that he does it just to generate some headlines.
From about November to literally a week ago, I was on the edge of not being able to make rent + other bills every month.
My wife had our second baby last year and it has been a lot to juggle with both of us working from home.
This isn't about being "wired to save" - it's about
Rene Gonzalez silently deleted his lying Tri-Met statement JUST LIKE he silently deleted his tweet thanking a Proud Boy who led an Islamaphobic protest at PDX.
Pattern of behavior?
Just made a $5 donation to
@JayInslee
so he can make the
#DemDebate
stage. The future of life on this planet 🌎 hinges on this election. His voice needs to be heard.
#ClimateCrisis
@TheRightMelissa
@AggieJack4
@tedcruz
@jack
No disagreement about Hilary running a bad campaign (despite winning the popular vote), she should have never been close enough to lose. However, large swaths of that map are pretty much baked into the cake for both parties because of systemic partisan control of districting.
NEW POLL: 68% of Americans now support legalizing marijuana.
That’s “Gallup’s highest reading” since the firm started surveying voters on the cannabis issue back in 1969.
Folks, listen.
Schedule III will perpetuate our failed approach to
#marijuana
, not end it.
This won't stop any arrests or expunge any records.
It will mean that Trulieve and Curaleaf have free cash flow to further consolidate their market share and political power.
Too many lives have been upended because of our failed approach to marijuana.
So today, the
@TheJusticeDept
is taking the next step to reclassify marijuana from a Schedule I to a Schedule III drug under federal law.
Here's what that means:
@ford5522
@ShawnRyan762
Wrong. He re-upped several times and retired honorably before his unit was called up in order to run for Congress where he worked on veterans issues.
@benshapiro
You’re a disingenuous buffoon.
There has been no systemic change.
And you are basically dog whistling that black people are dangerous and are coming to kill white people.
Nat Turner is coming!!!!
My guy
@ChuckRocha
is on
@MSNBC
spitting hot 🔥 about Biden’s underperformance (16 points behind Clinton) in Miami-Dade.
“I saw a lot of money flow to woke, white, consultants that went right around latino organizations on the ground.”
@deanbphillips
@JoeBiden
@KamalaHarris
@JoshShapiroPA
I’ve seen a lot of legit criticisms including concerns coming from organized labor as well as legitimate critiques about him comparing Gaza protestors to the KKK. I haven’t seen any antisemitism coming from the serious left.
One thing I really wanted to tweet over the weekend as I was watching the
@Calirootsfest
live stream is that
@icecube
is the real deal. I could feel the energy through the screen. Wish I was there in person but it was a friendly reminder that Cube has still got it.
#CaliRoots
@murder_turd
@ShawnRyan762
It’s wild how they fall for this fake tough guy act. You’d think people would see right through it but their Daddy issues get in the way.
Republicans focused their energy on savaging a program like SNAP, which provides an average of TWO DOLLARS per meal.
Republicans are scapegoating poor people for a debt crisis caused by GOP recessions, tax cuts, and wars.
It’s even more important to elect
@TinaKotek
after today’s ruling. We can’t afford the risk of Republicans running this state. We must protect women’s freedom to make her own health care decisions.
#ORpol
@matthewjdowd
@AndrewYang
It seems like a good validator since heʻs one of the people who will be helping to automate away the trucking industry. He sees whatʻs coming down the line.
Thank you to
@SenSchumer
for meeting with the Marijuana Justice Coalition this week and for your commitment to keeping
#cannabis
legislation in the conversation.
Show me another Majority Leader that has been willing to put his political capital behind this issue.
I’ll wait.
I was so proud to meet with the Marijuana Justice Coalition as we work to reintroduce the Cannabis Administration and Opportunity Act in the Senate!
We will not stop working together to end the federal prohibition on cannabis and reverse the harms of the War on Drugs.
Imagine throwing your political career away and 20 years from now trying to explain to people that you were trying to stop trans children (who very much exist) from being comfortable being themselves.
Weird flex, but o.k. grandpa.
#ORpol
#ORleg
@EricRWeinstein
It's not like a conspiracy. She was literally next in line and the party unanimously decided to move forward with her as the nominee because no one actually ran against her in the DNC process which was open and available to challengers after Joe stepped aside.
When
@KevinSabet
says “ingredients” in marijuana, he really means naturally occurring compounds (like THC, CBD, etc). Cannabis doesn’t have ingredients. It’s a plant. It’s compounds are determined by its genetics, not by someone adding “ingredients”.
#SAFEBanking
Finally got a chance to meet
@JamieforOregon
in Milwaukie last night! Had to thank her for running against (and beating) Kurt Schrader. Excited to see her get elected to represent our district in Congress. She even had some words of encouragement for me after a tough race.
#ORpol
It’s clear that
#Portland
is not nearly as progressive of a city as we claim to be.
In fact, I would argue our leadership is openly hostile towards “communities of color”.
Performative “progressives” rules Oregon democratic politics.
#ORpol
The City is trying to redirect money that was pegged for "communities of color" to the notoriously bigoted neighborhood associations.
Mingus Mapps is in support, of course.
Absolutely egregious to promise resources to the marginalized for show only.
A few years ago, I was scraping change to eat.
It feels good to finally be in a spot to contribute to causes & people I believe in.
Today I doubled my monthly commitment to
@tomangell
&
@MarijuanaMoment
to $50 because his reporting is 2nd to none.
@otis_reid
@BenjySarlin
Totally agreed but I’d rather them go one step too far than not go all the way. These are excellent. Even people who don’t understand the memes will be drawn to it and talking about it.
@TimOBrien
Whats your point? This has already been discussed. The difference is that was ‘94 and he’s worked to reverse that damage. Bloomberg was still terrorizing 5 million black and brown people in the last administration.
Can we please get some better Clackamas County Commissioners? Perhaps some that are actually interested in governing rather than just overturning things that voters (or themselves) have already decided.
Locking people up doesn't help addiction.
#ORpol
First off,
@AlchemyAmerican
is one of the best story tellers and educators on the internet right now.
*EVERYONE* should watch his latest documentary not just
#UFOTwitter
.
What I appreciate about his style is that he always overwhelms me with as much information as inspiration.
100 years ago, an American inventor named Thomas Townsend Brown believed he found a link between electromagnetism and gravity. He was immediately written off as a quack. But Paul Schatzkin
@driver49
spent a decade plus researching him, and the truth (as you'll find from his
Respectfully,
@SenSherrodBrown
— cannabis legalization got 100,000 more votes than Biden in South Dakota and 300k more votes than
@JoeBiden
in Arizona, a state that he won.
Apparently more voters think it’s a priority than electing Joe Biden.
Democratic
@SenSherrodBrown
continues to be WAY out of step with voters on marijuana.
When asked about the MORE Act he says, "I just don't think that's a priority” and pivots to other issues.
Tell that to the victims of racist cannabis enforcement.
.
@Oregonian
once again reminding folks that it’s editorial board gives into some of the worst reactionary parts of Portland.
If anyone watched the
@KGWNews
debate last night, it is clear that Vazquez has no plans and everything he took credit for came from Schmidt’s leadership.
Nathan Vasquez brings the experience, focus and commitment to accountability that the Multnomah County District Attorney's office needs. Voters should elect him as the next DA. Editorial endorsement:
@CillizzaCNN
@AOC
It’s called clickbait — Chris knows this. He’s playing directly into the right-wing narrative that AOC (and the left in general) are childish don’t understand the issues.
Tonight:
@POTUS
and
@VP
welcome home
@evangershkovich
and Paul Whelan after years in Russian prisons.
Trump could never pull this off or be this Presidential in such a emotional and human moment.
You can tell
@KamalaHarris
is ready to be President.
Getting ready for bed and thinking about how grateful I am that the universe has chosen me to raise two bad ass women that will leave a bigger impact on this world than I ever could.
2.0 due 7/24/23.
I firmly believe that the only answer when it comes to the cannabis scheduling conversation is to de-schedule, which is more likely to happen through congress than an administrative process.
Schedule III will keep people in jail, despite helping the industry, it's unacceptable.
Before Roger Bannister, nobody had ever run a four-minute-mile but since he proved it could be done, 1,400 people have been able to meet that mark.
All it takes is for one person to achieve the “impossible” for the rest of us to dream of it.
A politically expedient choice to appease fearmongers rather than implement data driven policies.
There will be a lot of legislators who will pat themselves on the back for this bill but will in fact have only perpetuated the problem.
#ORpol
#ORleg
The Oregon House will soon take up HB 4002, which would end the state’s 3-yr-old drug decriminalization policy. Rumblings in the chamber ahead of time are that this will cruise through with 45 or more votes (out of 60). That doesn’t mean we won’t see a lot of debate.
#orleg