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Tara Golshan

10 months

So much more coming January 2024, but for now introducing (like a homonym for notice). So lucky to be working with this great team. Subscribe to our newsletter and follow @NOTUSreports so we can give you early access to what we're working on.

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Tara Golshan

@taragolshan

5 years

. @BernieSanders has a clothes chair.

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A tale of two living rooms

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. @SenSanders on the Senate floor saying we must crush Covid-19 so that young people can start dating again (among a long list of other reasons).

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I cannot get over that a literal field hospital opened in Wisconsin just *yesterday* because of a surge in Covid cases and Trump is holding a rally in Janesville, Wisconsin in two days.

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On her first day in office @ewarren pledges to start a commission to investigate "crimes committed by the United States against immigrants"

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Asked about what he makes of Sen. Manchin’s comment that CTC should have a work requirement @SherrodBrown tells me “I think that raising children is work.”

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Manchin on WV radio saying he knew from the beginning he wouldn't support BBB, but let Democrats negotiate. That he got to his "wits end" after staff (either White House or Senate) did *something* that angered him enough to just come out and say he was never going to get to yes

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Bernie Sanders really watching out for the interests of my grandmother, who is very adamant I have a baby in her lifetime.

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I'm just having a really hard time reconciling what is currently going down in the Capitol with the many times I have personally witnessed disabled protesters demanding Congress not strip their health care be dragged out of hearing rooms, office building hallways etc.

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3 years

How long until Terry McAuliffe is back on CNN sharing his thoughts on how Democrats can win elections?

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"Elizabeth Warren Now Has The Largest Super PAC In The Democratic Field" A headline I did not think I would see this cycle..

Elizabeth Warren Now Has The Largest Super PAC In The Democratic Field

Warren wants her super PAC to disclose its donors before Super Tuesday. The group says that’s not happening.

www.huffpost.com

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7 years

But in all seriousness...This exchange I had with McCain made me sounds like a crazy broken record.

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6 years

Here you go: @AOC and @jvn in pink.

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4 years

Pokémon Go to the polls amirite folks

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SCOOP: The Biden-Harris campaign is rolling out official yard signs for Animal Crossing: New Horizons today. It's part of the campaign's broader initiative to meet voters where they are online.

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. @Sen_JoeManchin met with min. wage and tipped min. wage workers today advocating for a $15 min. wage He told them he was opposed, supports $11, per the workers who spoke with him Rev. Barber said he was "amazed" Manchin heard their stories and still opposed the policy.

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3 years

Patterns I've noticed covering Manchin: When he says he's happy to listen, he's made up his mind already. (ex. $15 wage. Paid Leave. Filibuster.) When he says he's negotiating, he's waiting for Ds to accept exact demands He's fine letting people pointlessly scurry around him.

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5 years

Haven't seen this reported elsewhere: On Saturday, @BernieSanders campaign sent everyone on their email list within 20 miles of the 10 cities ICE was planning on targeting this week with a warning of the raids and a "know your rights" campaign.

Bernie Sanders is using his massive email list to warn immigrants about ICE raids

Hours before Trump was set to send out the “deportation forces,” Sanders’s campaign sent thousands of supporters a distress signal.

www.vox.com

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3 years

seems like some relevant reading today re Manchin's opposition

How Fossil-Fuel Companies Are Stonewalling Sarah Bloom Raskin’s Nomination to the Fed

The industry has donated generously to the campaigns of all twelve Republican members of the Senate Banking Committee.

www.newyorker.com

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4 years

Something worth highlighting in this Covid-19 relief *law*: It subsidizes COBRA premiums at 100% If you lose your job/have reduced hrs and lose your employer-sponsored health insurance, the federal government will cover your premiums fully through Sept!

Joe Biden Signs $1.9 Trillion COVID-19 Relief Bill

The coronavirus relief package will deliver stimulus checks and other economic relief to Americans.

www.huffpost.com

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7 years

Just caught up with (a very tired looking) @SenatorDurbin , lead Dem immigration negotiator. He said “I honestly don’t know what is going on.” ... “This President is just unable to make a promise and keep it”

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Joe Manchin Killed Build Back Better After The White House Hurt His Feelings

Manchin dislikes the bill but also complained of “inexcusable” treatment by the White House.

www.huffpost.com

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5 years

. @BernieSanders is coming out with the most ambitious free college proposal in the 2020 primary. He wants to get rid of all student loan debt. In 2016, Bernie & Clinton cut a deal on free college: it was means tested. He's not compromising this time.

Bernie Sanders’s free college proposal just got a whole lot bigger

Sanders wants to erase all student loan debt.

www.vox.com

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Unimaginably difficult week for the Sanders family.

Rainè Riggs, neuropsychologist and Bernie Sanders’ daughter-in-law, dies at 46 after cancer...

Rainè Riggs, the director of behavioral medicine at Dartmouth Medical School for several years, died Saturday — two days after being diagnosed with neuroendocrine cancer.

www.bostonglobe.com

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4 years

Chatted with @SenSanders yesterday about his first proposal roll out since going back to being a full-time senator. He's proposing temporary universal health care with @RepJayapal . What they're proposing:

Bernie Sanders Proposes Emergency Version Of 'Medicare For All' For The Pandemic

Now off the campaign trail, the senator joined Rep. Pramila Jayapal to float a temporary universal health care program.

www.huffpost.com

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. @costareports : you said busing sometimes results in "racial hostility" @BernieSanders : What else did I say in that? C: You tell me B: No, you got it there. Read it.. C: I don't have the whole quote B: Whole quote is that the fed gov. doesn't give a shit about African Americans

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Inbox: @NationalNurses , the largest union of registered nurses, announces today that it will endorse @BernieSanders for the Democratic Party presidential nomination. They’ll be holding an official event Friday in California with Sanders to make official.

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9 months

Oh my god.

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3 years

I have guess as to what it was that got Manchin so riled up and it has to do with him calling @ArthurDelaneyHP "Bullshit."

Final Child Tax Credit Payments Go Out Amid Doubt Over Program’s Future

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) told HuffPost it's "bulls**t" to ask his position on continuing the payments.

www.huffpost.com

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. @JeffFlake was promised a DACA vote this month. Then GOP leadership switched it up on him. Here are his thoughts tonight, almost 24 hours before the shutdown deadline:

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. @BernieSanders calls out Manchin on CTC: “If Mr. Manchin and Republicans think struggling working families.. shouldn’t be able to continue to get the help, they’ve got to come forward to the American people and say, we don't think you need help.”

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GM has stopped paying for health care for at least 46,000 employees on strike.

Sources: GM offers 2% raises to UAW; company ends strikers' health care

GM and the UAW returned to the bargaining table Tuesday under tension, a picket in front of GM's headquarters and concerns over health care coverage.

www.freep.com

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4 years

uh....what.....

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If Bernie had won the nomination and had become president I'm pretty sure he would have taken the oath of office in this exact outfit

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bernie absolutely crushing vermont dadcore

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The very bottom of @BernieSanders medical debt plan feels very huge. He wants to replace companies like Equifax, Transunion and Experian with a public credit registry through CFPB.

Bernie Sanders wants to put credit reporting companies like Equifax out of business

Sanders’s campaign is calling for a public credit registry, where you can get your credit score for free.

www.vox.com

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Most 2020 Democrats (Biden being an exception) back legalizing marijuana. Most notable in @BernieSanders plan is the regulatory structure it proposes to prevent marijuana businesses from becoming like Big Tobacco. @germanrlopez explains:

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Question: Hey Bernie, since you hold rallies and Trump also holds rallies, aren't you exactly like Trump? Bernie: wtf?

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These workers didn't leave the meeting with @Sen_JoeManchin with a good impression. Brianna Griffith, from Fayette County, WV, said she felt Manchin had his "head in the cloud" when it came to poverty in his state.

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. @BernieSanders final 100-day push in Iowa is going to be about climate change. New details: Sanders is doing a Green Jobs Tour in Iowa's 4th district. Isra Hirsi is joining him&AOC in Iowa. Will be an interesting test of the message. w/ @ella_nilsen :

Bernie Sanders’s new bet: a climate change message can win him the Iowa caucuses

In the final 100 days before Iowa’s caucuses, Sanders is going all in on a climate change message.

www.vox.com

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4 years

Uh....is this really what they're going with to describe the Michigan governor?

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6 years

O'Rourke and Cruz were asked to compliment each other. Cruz, in a backhanded response called O'Rourke a socialist, tying him to Sen. Sanders. O'Rourke's rebuttal: "True to form" #TXSenateDebate

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3 years

Madison, Wisconsin is an absolutely lovely place. That is all.

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A tipped wage worker, Brianna said she got $67 a week from the state when she lost her job, and lost her house. Manchin asked her about the $600 federal UI from last year. She said that ended too soon and hasn't had government help since.

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Elena Kagan dissenting to Supreme Court case limiting EPA ability to regulate carbon dioxide emissions: "Whatever else this Court may know about, it does not have a clue about how to address climate change."

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Ron DeSantis is fine with taxes being raised on Floridians if it means he can further escalate his culture war.

Ron DeSantis Willing To Let Floridians' Taxes Go Up To Own The Libs (And Disney)

Florida Republicans are moving to strip Disney of its special districting privileges which could leave local counties with more than $1 billion in liabilities and increase taxes on local residents.

www.vanityfair.com

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I think a lot about the time DC voters passed a minimum wage increase for tipped workers and then the city council just repealed it. The ballot initiative wasn't even close.

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A contingent of Democrats -Biden, Delaney, Ryan - have argued Medicare-for-all would be bad for union workers. When General Motors cut health benefits for upwards of 46,000 striking union workers, it made @BernieSanders counterargument pretty straightforward.

Vox

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Did General Motors just make the case for Medicare-for-all?

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Absolutely fair to say that Joe Manchin singlehandedly just killed Democrats best hope of passing paid leave in the United States. The United States is the only country in the industrialized world that does not offer some kind of paid leave mandate.

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“Tell Senator Markey to get a life” -Sen. Dick Durbin on Markey’s thought that the Senate should maybe cut August recess short.

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*screams into void* You cannot quit your job to get UI.

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The issue is the bill provides $600/week in federal unemployment insurance on top of what the states pay out. Lindsey Graham say people could quit their jobs because they could end up making more money drawing unemployment. They want the payments capped at a person’s full salary.

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. @BernieSanders has a plan for the media: -moratorium on major media corporation mergers -require media corporations to disclose whether mergers will lead to big journalism layoffs -limit the number of stations a media corp. can own

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7 years

Today Sen. James Inhofe told me how the Las Vegas shooting is more the product of sanctuary cities than of gun laws.

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How much of a difference will the @vox_union contract make? We just secured a salary minimum that's $26,000 more than my first salary at Vox as a fellow.

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Folks, I talked to a lot of Bernard Teens. The teen army behind @BernieSanders ’s political revolution, if you will.

Meet the teens who love Bernie

What do they want? Revolution. When do they want it? As soon as they can vote.

www.vox.com

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At GW, @BernieSanders : “Democratic Socialism means to me requiring and achieving political and economic freedom in every community in this country.”

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NEW from me + @ArthurDelaneyHP . Manchin’s private comments to colleagues about big policies in BBB: He told senators parents just use CTC money to buy drugs. And Americans would use paid leave to hunting.

Joe Manchin Privately Told Colleagues Parents Use Child Tax Credit Money On Drugs

The West Virginia senator just killed Democrats' agenda. In private negotiations, he questioned whether the poorest Americans would spend financial aid wisely.

www.huffpost.com

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Several workers said Manchin's approach was to handle each case as an "individual" problem. That he asked them to call his office so they could settle their problems.

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5 years

please clap

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Buttigieg pleads with silent crowd in Iowa to cheer for him: “come on”

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This is holding up: Lizzie Pannill Fletcher just unseated Rep. John Culberson Colin Allred unseated Rep. Pete Sessions And Democrats are doing well in the competitive Texas state Senate seats.

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. @CoryBooker to @BernieSanders : Why does my girlfriend like you more than me? Bernie: She's smarter than you.

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Joe Manchin is echoing Republican talking points on the expanded child tax credit. Sen. Bennet spox: Bennet “believes punishing the poorest children in America because their family’s income is too low to qualify them for the CTC is self-defeating”

Joe Manchin Doubles Down On Wanting Parents To Work For Child Tax Credit

“I think that raising children is work,” Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown said, defending Democrats' ambitious policy to combat child poverty.

www.huffpost.com

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Also notable: @BernieSanders endorsed Cori Bush early on in January --->

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Biden is asked on the eviction moratorium again and says that the Supreme Court ruled the last eviction moratorium was "unconstitutional." The Supreme Court did not.

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2 years

It’s *very* easy to find Republicans saying they want to cut entitlements like Social Security and Medicare, a thread

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"We're not going to be move into being threatened to default on the debt if we don't respond," Biden says, referring to GOP demands for cuts to Medicare and Social Security. Camera pans to Mike Lee looking OUTraged for SOME reason.

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@SenatorDurbin From my convo w/ @SenatorDurbin “Soon as the guest leaves the office, Gen. Kelly calls in the right wingers and they bat it down and say you can't do it. We'll never reach an agreement unless there's a more open approach at the White House and the president is more constructive”

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Rep. Mo Brooks: For two months I worked tirelessly to foment anger and sow distrust in the nation's democratic system with a perfectly crafted political message. Then people believed me and tried to overthrow the incoming government, ruining everything.

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Manchin walked by me just as I dropped my turkey sandwich on a bench outside the Capitol and was picking up the individual pieces of deli meat that didn't touch the bench to salvage my sandwich. I tried to run after him but he waved me off and I fear he saw the turkey incident

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This has been said a thousands times today but the difference between these protesters pushing the police barricades toward the U.S. Capitol and the BLM protesters pepper sprayed, shot at with rubber bullets whenever police decided to arbitrarily push the line is just so striking

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Hundreds of Trump supporters have stormed the barricades at the back of the Capitol and are marching toward the building.

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A bunch of Republicans clapping for tariffs is a weird sight.

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Wow this is pretty bad. Kennedy used $1.5 million of donations intended for the general election during the final weeks of his primary The kicker here: The FEC "currently lacks enough commissioners to have a quorum to meet, which means they cannot carry out enforcement actions"

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@BostonGlobe

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In surprise disclosure, Joe Kennedy III campaign says it improperly spent $1.5 million in Senate primary

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. @BernieSanders in his NH victory speech makes a veiled reference to Bloomberg, Buttigieg (and possibly Steyer): "In this point in the campaign we are taking on billionaires and we are taking on campaigns funded by billionaires," he says about the path forward.

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Some other @BernieSanders team asks that didn't make it into the final task force report: -A stock buy back ban (currently a bill sponsored by Sanders and Schumer) -Right to strike -Bringing Medicare age <60 -Expanding Medicare for dental/vision/hearing

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Just had a weirdly civil exchange with a package thief on my porch. He said sorry, gave me back my package, and I didn’t know what to say so I just said “thank you.”

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. @SenSanders , @MarkWarner , @DougJones & @SenBlumenthal out with a plan to cover payroll. Direct grants to cover up to $90,000 in salary for each worker + benefits + up to 20% of revenues to cover fixed costs (like what airline workers won) White paper:

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New this morning: @BernieSanders and @JoeBiden have unveiled their joint policy task forces.

Biden And Sanders Unveil Names For Joint Policy Task Forces

The 48 lawmakers, activists, union leaders and academics will work to craft a compromise Democratic policy platform.

www.huffpost.com

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Really important thread here on the Wisconsin ballot deadline case. Kavanaugh repeatedly conflated submission and receipt deadlines, made analogies that don't make sense and actually spread misinformation.

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Kavanaugh's concurrence in the Wisconsin case is sloppy AF. (A thread.)

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my 2021 lookbook

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New tax plan from the @BernieSanders team today: he wants to increase the corporate tax rate for companies that pay their CEOs way more than their median worker. Portland, Oregon put a similar tax on a local level that went into full effect last year.

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5 years

This chart is pretty jarring.

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3 years

Manchin has been incredibly consistent in his demands. That doesn't mean he has negotiated in good faith. I think for the reasons listed above, those get conflated.

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. @fshakir told Bernie Sanders campaign staffers this afternoon the campaign would cover payroll through the end of May and then issue $1000 stipends for those that opt into COBRA to cover health insurance through the general election. There are 500 people employed still.

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Thanks to the leadership of @AriRabinHavt @fshakir and a boss who believes healthcare is a right, team @BernieSanders alums are getting fully paid cobra coverage through end of October. We can keep fighting for people we don’t know.

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Distinctly remember taking Vox off my dating profile after too many encounters with men who only wanted to discuss if I’d ever talked to Matt and Ezra and what they were *really* like.

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Going through my tape from today and I just don't think writing can capture these ~40 seconds. @Segokathy is the mother of a 22-year-old with diabetes. She went on the bus with @BernieSanders to Windsor, Canada to buy cheaper insulin. Here's the audio.

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Sen. Jeff Flake is up. His first question: he asked Kavanaugh to introduce his youth basketball team. The girls are sitting in the front row. Kavanaugh listed their names and ages correctly and got a round of applause. SPORT!

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The most lit part of this @BernieSanders Medicare For All speech was when he mocked the critique that taxes would go up, as if people only hate paying taxes but are totally fine with premiums. "Oh my god dear the insurance premium is here, what a wonderful day! Let's celebrate."

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4 years

Important news: Biden, like every man in DC, owns *the* checkered shirt

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Rep. Hakeem Jeffries nominates Nancy Pelosi to huge cheers and applause from the House Democrats. Jeffries lists Pelosi’s record. “Nancy Pelosi is just getting started.”

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NBC news confirms my reporting.

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This is extremely *not the point* of tonight but it still bothers me that we accept normal photographs as "selfies" in our political discourse

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A read out of today's meeting between Manchin and Poor People's Campaign activists, West Virginia workers. Really shows just how much of an uphill battle the fight for $15 minimum wage still is.

Sen. Joe Manchin Tells Struggling Workers He's Still Not For $15 Minimum Wage

The West Virginia Democrats held a private meeting with workers and anti-poverty activists campaigning for a $15 minimum wage.

www.huffpost.com

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Steps away from a Fight For 15 rally in Charleston, @SusanSarandon has a group meeting with some Bernie volunteers who will be canvassing after the rally.

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Cicadas: They're tripping on shrooms, losing their genitals and have a rampant STD problem. Incredible stuff.

A Fungus Is Pushing Cicada Sex Into Hyperdrive And Leaving Them Dismembered

A fungus called Massospora produces an amphetamine in some cicadas and makes them lose control. Cicadas that are infected lose their genitals — and they don't even notice.

www.npr.org

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5 years

You cannot tell very well from this video by as soon as the music started @BernieSanders got up to go dance by the choir. The other candidates then stood to join the swaying.

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5 years

. @BernieSanders is getting very animated about the lack of federal paid family leave in the United States. Calls it “literally barbaric.”

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5 years

oh god. the NYT ed board explained Mayo Pete for Pete...

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5 years

This is one of those ~professional news~ tweets. Today is my last day @voxdotcom . I’ll be joining the @HuffPostPol team next week and I couldn’t be more excited. Send me your tips, story ideas and funny tweets (but send them starting next week when I have a work email).

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Joe Biden posed a lot of questions about Medicare For All — about what happens to people with pre-existing conditions, people on Obamacare, how the transition works and cost. Turns out @BernieSanders bill answers a lot of those Qs.

Joe Biden has questions about Medicare-for-all. We answered them.

“What happens in the meantime?” and other questions Joe Biden asked, answered.

www.vox.com

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8 months

In the background of that DeSantis Iowa HQ photo, seemingly a staff poll? “Best Drink: water”

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7 years

Roy Moore appears to be confirming parts of the Washington Post story. Most Republican senators couched their disavowals with something akin to "if there's an ounce of truth to any of this."

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5 years

INBOX: @BernieSanders endorses slate of congressional candidates. Two of note here: He's endorsing Jessica Cisneros, who is a primary challenge to sitting moderate Democrat Rep. Henry Cuellar. And Georgette Gómez, who is running an open seat to replace sitting Rep. Susan Davis.

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3 years

In case anyone is wondering @SenWarren did see the @propublica report on billionaires not paying federal income tax and she not happy about it.

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5 years

It's official: we ratified our first union contract. @vox_union won: 1. A $56,000 minimum salary. 2. 3.25% year over year raises 3. 16 weeks universal parental leave 4. 11 weeks severance 5. Health benefits for part time workers who work 20 hrs or more ...there's more

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