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Henry Williams 🏗
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Elizabeth Warren has just kneecapped the progressive movement.
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Why does Beto, the larger specimen, not simply eat Mayor Pete, the smaller one?
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2020: Balkanization begins
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damn...the Bernie campaign really going to make me cry in the club right now with this ad
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current head of the Frankfurt School Axel Honneth trying to get Zoom to work....welcome to the future everyone
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Henry Williams 🏗
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Today, I lost a man who shaped my life so profoundly that I've thought of him as a surrogate grandfather. Sen. Mike Gravel stood fast against the world for 91 brilliant years and pointed a way for all of us. We have to honor his memory by achieving the world he dreamed of. ❤️
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We all know how tomorrow is going to go...
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Your 2020 Candidates for Class President.
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Reminder that Joe Biden voted for the Iraq War despite massive global protests and has never grappled with his actions and the 500,000+ human lives which were needlessly ended. Bernie stood against the war. He is the anti-imperialist candidate.
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Henry Williams 🏗
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Peace out, people. The Bernie / Gravel crossover, here at last. #BerniesBack
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The undisguised contempt which every one of these moderators clearly has for Bernie Sanders, a fundamentally good man, is absolutely disgusting.
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Look, the “toxic Bernie Bro” stereotype has been a bullshit media campaign from day one, but I feel the need to put it out there that I have never received such disgusting and abusive hate mail as I have from from Joe Biden supporters in the past few days.
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it’s the little things
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🚨 Biden is riding a wave of earned media after SC, he is clearing his lane: Klobuchar and Buttigieg are endorsing, so is Harry Reid. Meanwhile, a faction of rad-libs cling to Elizabeth Warren, who is being bankrolled by millions of Super PAC dollars from an unknown source. 🚨
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Almost certainly going to influence more people’s votes than the New York Times endorsement.
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“I think I’ll probably vote for Bernie.” - @joerogan
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America is currently in the "reaping" stage of the "reaping what you sow" model
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PSA: Bernie is fucking cool.
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Henry Williams 🏗
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If you're running a Left campaign, and you've raised serious money, here's some unsolicited advice: • ignore Twitter, delegate your comms • go after community clubs, not natl. groups • find an angle on a small local issue and push it hard • focus money on targeted ads
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And just like that, millions of people slide into long-term unemployment. All the research tells us this is when the scars become bone deep and you never recover. Our society has rendered millions into undesired surplus, and is ready to let them rot.
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Bernie might be 78, but we’re about to make him 46. #IowaForBernie
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We all know why the DNC is working so hard to suppress these results...
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My mom and I on 9/11. The world that followed is the one I grew up in, the only one I’ve ever known. Mourn for those that died that day and for the millions after who paid the ultimate price for a crime they did not commit, murdered by the imperial machine.
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@aquariusacquah turns out my own skill sets as “social media messaging specialist” and “Marxist literary critic” were already filled by a full 100% of commune occupants
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I'm not one of those people who thinks socialism is whatever I don't like. I think socialism is whatever I do like.
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Today, America is wildly undemocratic. How we could change that: • End the electoral college (with a state-level compact) • National referendums • Small donor matching funds • Ban partisan gerrymandering • Pass the Wyoming Rule • Term limits for the Supreme Court
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Sharpest Press Secretary in the game? Icon for every young person who fighting for a politics of justice? Yeah, that’s @briebriejoy .
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Today, you are legally obligated to like every tweet with the name “Bernie Sanders” in it. Sorry...I don’t make the rules that’s just how it is.
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Henry Williams 🏗
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Bernie Sanders suspended his campaign one year ago. F in the chat.
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By all means criticize the @MikeGravel campaign for our methods or because you think it won't be effective, but please stop inventing motives and backstory for people you don't know to make everything seem sinister. This whole thing was an experiment in anti-war politics.
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collapse now in full swing. Twitter is just the dying gasp of the DMT-filled brain of the American project. I smile serenely at the latest Jaboukie “own” and leave a tasteful reply. I haven’t left my house in weeks. this is fine. yes, this is fine
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If your beliefs about gun control don't extend to justice for victims of police violence and ending imperial wars then you clearly don't actually care about the guns.
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The truly insidious thing about the American Empire is that it doesn’t call itself an empire. U.S-backed coups are “Government transitions.” Invasions are “Interventions.” Imperial wars are “Regime change.” Extrajudicial murders are “Targeted strikes.”
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This seems fine. Can’t imagine how this could cause brutal zero-sum economic conflict and misery.
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We no longer live in a society.
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Thank you for everything Bernie, the fight continues 💜
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Met of hero of mine today @briebriejoy at the Bernie's Back Rally.
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So @henrycmagowan and I were knocking doors for Bernie in Iowa the other day and a random news crew asked us why we supported him. Then this afternoon someone sent me this... The whole world is watching.
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Henry Williams 🏗
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Choose your fighter: - Wine Cave Pete - Wall Street Pete - Price-Fixing Pete - Polls-Lower-Than-Trump Pete - Cringe-Posting Pete
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Henry Williams 🏗
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How come “major voting machine malfunction” is a monthly recurring phrase in American news?
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Elect Senator Bernie Sanders President of the United States.
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Henry Williams 🏗
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In light of the events today and to ensure it's as high-quality as possible, we at the @GravelInstitute are going to delay our video on capitalism and poverty (with Richard Wolff) to Friday at 5pm ET.
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Gravel Institute
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Thursday at 5pm ET. Richard Wolff. Join us.
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This really is such a critical time for the Left. A Sanders administration could change everything. Movements don't win overnight, and M4A/GND will be massive fights unto themselves, hamstrung by the Senate. But a President Bernie could singlehandedly remake the American state.
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They always say “you are failing to win us over because you are uncivil,” when what they really mean is “it will never be in our economic and political interests to listen to the working class and we will make up any excuse to ignore them.”
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Throughout his career, Joe Biden has worked to cut, limit and freeze Social Security and Medicare time after time. Bernie has spent his entire life working to protect and expand Social Security and establish Medicare For All.
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Bernard Sanders, 46th President of the United States of America
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Desperately refreshing Matt Levine’s column for his take on the FTX blowup like Napoleon waiting for the news from Auerstedt.
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For a brief moment, as these protests began, Liberal activists felt compelled by the obvious brutality of George Floyd’s murder to offer at least superficial support. Those same people and their media outlets are now desperately looking for any way to take it back and disavow.
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Henry Williams 🏗
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AP Economics is a class with about as much real-world insight as the actual field of classical economics - none at all.
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cOnSeRvAtIsM dRawS fRoM a RiCh InTelLeCtUaL tRaDiTiOn.
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Henry Williams 🏗
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AOC is a remarkable politician, a serious political force, and an important fixture of any serious Left movement in this country. It is unconscionable not to stand with her against the near-constant racist and sexist abuse directed at her by conservatives.
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State education budgets are getting slashed and millions of children are starving. Meanwhile, they are pouring billions into "engagement pedometers" to track student excitement and make the "future of education." This, of course, is just the beginning. A thread.
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RNC + ecosystem collapsing under raging wildfires + biblical hurricanes + fascist violence directed at BLM organizers + man shot dead in front of his children + NBA strike + unending deadly pandemic + eviction and unemployment crisis Why is the election still a fucking toss-up?
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Notice there is nothing specific here, no mention at all of George Floyd or the protests, no support for anyone. Just the overture, the Tweet, the slogan, the reference, the idea, the gesture, the “speaking up” is enough for this brand to reap the rewards of wokeness.
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To be silent is to be complicit. Black lives matter. We have a platform, and we have a duty to our Black members, employees, creators and talent to speak up.
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As of today, I am no longer a Gravel Teen.
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Leftists who do “discourse” go after other leftists, liberals, and Democrats. All potentially worthy targets, but whenever anyone acts like going after Trump and the GOP is cringe and uncool because MSNBC does it neglects the most blatant and cruel enemies of the people.
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Literally any discussion of “what’s the deal with young people “ that does not begin and end with the fact that 80% of wealth is held by people over 60 is pointless.
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Remember when every smarmy columnist on earth said it was absurd to even consider saying “coup attempt”?
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BREAKING: Rich guy uses immense wealth to bend the rules and personally benefit himself at the expense of the Democratic process
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The DNC drastically shifts debate requirements, opening the door for Bloomberg to join the stage starting in mid-February
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Henry Williams 🏗
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Goodbye Gravel - you changed me, you changed my life. I will be forever grateful.
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Gravel Institute
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Today we’ll be ending the Gravel 2020 campaign, as we have been planning from the start. It was an incredible honor to work for Mike, one of the greatest men of our time—someone of boundless courage and incredible tenacity.
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Holy shit this is actually going to happen.
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David Weigel
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Trends: Sanders 20 (+5) Warren 17 (+1) Buttigieg 16 (-9) Biden 15 (-) Klobuchar 6 (-) Yang 5 (+2) Booker 3 (-) Steyer 2 (-1) Gabbard 2 (-1)
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Kornacki is finally free.
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Scraping for a Silver Lining: there is an open Senate seat in California now and the Left needs to win it.
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Tonight, we are all the Joker.
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me and the boys outside Henry Kissinger's house
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ME: this "generational warfare" narrative is a bizarre and utterly false cultural construct pushed on us by glossy magazines and idiotic demographers to obscure the real division - that of class, for which age is just a proxy YOUTH ACTIVISTS: ok boomer
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Henry Williams 🏗
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Our private healthcare system is about to show its deadly underside. Millions of people are going to avoid getting checked out for coronavirus for fear of the costs, crippling our ability to stop its spread and leading to untold preventable deaths.
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the Biden campaign revealing itself to be the dialectical synthesis of plutocracy and socialism
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My two heroes have met at last. There are tears in my eyes.
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Meeting of the minds.
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How much longer are we going to accept this?
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Between media meta-narratives, plutocratic mega-donors, secret backroom deals, superdelegates, and nonfunctional institutions (Iowa caucus disaster), it really is wild to see just how little this whole process has anything to do with “democracy” in principle.
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Henry Williams 🏗
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I'm so excited to finally be able to share what we've been working on for months now: a project to counter the influence of PragerU from the left.
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The long wait is over. We're proud to announce the launch of the Gravel Institute, fighting PragerU on its own turf. Watch this video to find out what we're doing – and hear a special surprise.
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Bill Gates is having a real bad week!
@AmbassadorTai
Ambassador Katherine Tai
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These extraordinary times and circumstances of call for extraordinary measures. The US supports the waiver of IP protections on COVID-19 vaccines to help end the pandemic and we’ll actively participate in @WTO negotiations to make that happen.
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Craven bastards like @RahmEmanuel attack Medicare for All on the twofold lie that it both gives healthcare to too many (those immigrants he despises) and somehow also takes it away from the "deserving" (white) working class. This dog whistle is more like a fucking bull horn.
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Kamala and Bennet made a blood pact to end Biden's candidacy tonight by stealing everything @MikeGravel has ever tweeted
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Bloomberg is trying to distract everyone on this website from his racist, authoritarian right-wing record by focusing on Too Online bullshit. Don’t fall for it. What this really is: a reactionary billionaire trying to buy an election.
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This is being overlooked in the center-left "both sides" line on the Bolivian coup: the far-right forces behind the coup are violent and maniacally racist thugs who view the indigenous Andean people as less than fully human (and want to deny them the vote). Fuck your nuance.
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Luísa Tupinambá Jabbur (ʒabuʁ)
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yikes Fernando Camacho, opposition leader in Bolivia, puts a Bible over the Bolivian flag inside the government palace. Afterwards, he announces that "the Pachamama (a goddess revered by the indigenous Andean people) will never return to the Palace. Bolivia belongs to Christ"
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I hope she sees this bro
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ok but accidentally donating $420 dollars to @MikeGravel is almost definitely praxis
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The fact is that the establishment, the pollsters, the consultant class, all need to preserve their prestige, they need to justify the absurd prices they charge for terrible advice. That's why they are so afraid to poll or legitimize @MikeGravel , he proves they're full of shit.
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The American political system is imploding.
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we really do live in a society, folks
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Wage slavery is real, systemic, and fundamental to the operation of economy. The looming threat of debt, starvation and homelessness as an alternative to labor is an intentional feature of American poverty.
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Folks, you sure do love to see it.
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@YNB @MSNBC @DrJasonJohnson @briebriejoy this is troubling, please get some help
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I promise I won't talk about climate change tonight 3 drinks later:
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America just set a single-day new virus case record for the seventh time in 11 days and Florida's epidemic is exploding. Watching this ad with that in the back of your head it is impossible to see this as anything other than total disregard for human life.
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This is all that Neoconservatives want and it's fucking disgusting.
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This is the first presidential election in which I can vote. 2020 means something different to young people. This is our last chance: to fight the climate crisis, to end forever war, to fight our crushing burden of debt and alienation. Bernie is the only choice.
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A few years ago I was helping a friend run an outsider Mayoral campaign. In looking for issues to focus on against the party favorite, we found out that in a town of 4,500 people and almost no crime there were several police officials making over $150,000/year. What a grift.
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I would descend through the circles of Dante’s Hell and emerge to see the stars to make Bernie Sanders our next president
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Ross Barkan
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The case for Bernie Sanders, ultimately, is that there is a 0 percent chance there won't be a swath of highly motivated people under the age of 35 who would run through fire to make him president. Also, he could probably take the Midwest from Trump
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Look, fighting with Liberal elites (Neera, Clinton, etc) is often quite petty, but the immense, powerful cultural and political infrastructure they control and embody is by far the largest barrier to moving the Democratic party towards even basic social democracy.
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is... is Trump ok? should someone check on him?
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this tweet has aged like a fine wine
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"What's the one issue you'll focus on as president?" "Defeating Donald Trump." Joe Biden is an idiot.
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folks, it’s Bernie time.
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Why this matters: Google’s technical employees are expensive to train and difficult to replace. That gives them leverage over the company with which to win better conditions for contractors and suppliers, and to shape its role in the world. Lot of lazy takes today ignoring that.
@AlphabetWorkers
Alphabet Workers Union (AWU-CWA)
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We're Alphabet workers. We’ve been organizing for over a year, & we’re finally ready to share why. This morning, we're announcing #AWU , the first union open to *all* workers at any Alphabet company. Every worker deserves a union—including tech workers.
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uhh...that’s gonna be a no from me, chief
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