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Righteous Fighter | Dreaming of the other side of abolition

Oakland, CA
Joined February 2009
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@traceyecorder
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4 years
Today has shown police don’t need de-escalation training, they choose who to escalate on, that’s not a training issue. Police don’t need unconscious bias training, they are conscious of their bias.
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This is not a system that can be reformed.
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Bernie says that our incarcerated brothers and sisters should have dignity and the right to vote. Biden wrote the 94 Crime Bill that had a major hand in mass incarceration. This is not difficult.
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When politics is your hobby and not about your survival it’s easy to do this. Very standard behavior and not really news.
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Shailene Woodley and Aaron Rodgers 'agree to disagree' about politics: report
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Who are the people who get more conservative as they get older? The opposite has happened to me.
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Women who report sexual misconduct get vetted more than men who run for President.
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“My name is Elijah McClain...I'm just different! I'm just different. That's all!” Some of the last words spoken by Elijah 💔
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philip lewis
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BRIGHTON, Colo. (AP) — Jury acquits 2nd officer in death of Elijah McClain, whose name became a rallying cry in racial injustice protests.
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3 years
We had to beg for the life of Julius Jones yesterday meanwhile Kyle Rittenhouse will walk free today. This is not a flaw in the system, this is the design.
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Today would be a good day to abolish the system that killed Breonna Taylor.
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Executing Marcellus Williams is not a flaw of the system, it is the function of the system. Abolition now.
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7 years
Also Susan B Anthony: I will cut off this right arm of mine before I will ever work or demand the ballot for the Negro and not the woman.”
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145 years ago today, Susan B. Anthony was arrested for voting as a woman. Her civil disobedience inspired & changed the world. #MajorSOS
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Carry him to term.
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Media reports rumors that Trump is concerned about his VP pick, J.D. Vance, due to Vice President Kamala Harris's rising popularity and wants a more popular pick.
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Katie Porter said AOC said in her office “I hope I get to be a mom, I hope I don’t die today.” There’s no unity with people who caused that.
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Poverty is a policy choice. Decision makers choose to subsidize the wealthy and reward exploitation like they choose to give out $600 to people struggling through a pandemic.
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Really read this stat. “1 in every 3 people killed by a stranger is killed by a police officer.” This is not safety.
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Samuel Sinyangwe
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1 in every 3 people killed by a stranger is killed by a police officer. So you might think the biggest threat to your life is some random shooter or gang. But the one organized group that is most likely to shoot and kill you is the police, and it’s not even close.
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@traceyecorder
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I’m once again asking you to stop watching Bill Maher.
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@traceyecorder
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What was the snappy slogan in 2014 that made the Dems lose so many seats?
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I don't understand how anyone could be living in the midst of a pandemic and not be for Medicare For All
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Why read dystopian fiction when you can just pay attention?
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Me: Billionaires shouldn’t exist. Y’all: Black billionaires will save us. Black billionaire:
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We sure did blow rape whistles during Brett Kavanaugh’s speech #WeBelieveSurvivors #KavanaughLied
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Atlanta PD for real said “if we can’t murder without consequences than we quit” This is not a system that can be reformed.
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People have more expectations of 20 year old pop stars than of the government and I think that’s a major problem.
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3 years
Joe picking up a pen and cancelling student debt would do more for midterm turnout than any door I could ever knock on.
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School shootings so normalized in this country they don’t get time for discussion on the debate stage.
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Milwaukee is on their 79th night of protest. The people’s movement is incredible and more people should know about it.
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Bernie talking about the human costs to this pandemic. He is the first to talk about incarcerated people and houseless people #DemDebate
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3 years
So we will be closing down all golf courses, right?
@nbcbayarea
NBC Bay Area
3 years
JUST IN: Gov. Newsom asks people and businesses in California to voluntarily cut how much water they use by 15% amid worsening drought.
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@traceyecorder
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The system will sacrifice a few to keep itself intact. Never forget that. Abolition now.
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The Democratic establishment most certainly DID NOT give us civil rights or voting rights - those things were fought for by Black people.
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The Democratic establishment gave us civil rights, voting rights, the assault weapons ban, social security and Medicare. What have you done Senator?
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@traceyecorder
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I do not “have the back” of any politician. These people work for us. I refuse to act like a Stan page for anybody.
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7 months
This being the original video makes the whole thing that much worse. This wasn’t even a “generation war” post!
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I love a good generational smackdown. Millennials up!
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4 years
Casually suggesting a taser as a de-escalation tool - especially on a child - is depraved.
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Seems pretty classist but maybe that’s just me. You have to have access to a car and at least two free hours.
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Ceasefire is a righteous call and church is an appropriate place to call for it.
@IfNotNowOrg
IfNotNow🔥✡️
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BREAKING: Activists in South Carolina just took over Biden's speech to call for a ceasefire. "20,000 dead Palestinians; their blood is on your hands." Biden was shaken. He's starting to understand the reality: his war on Gaza is horrifically unpopular, and people are fed up.
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I would like to see multiple and major news outlets report on Bernie making sure his staff has health care through November vs Bloomberg lying to the general public about paying his staffers through November. This feels important, no?
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3 years
The point is so close but she just won’t reach out and touch it.
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Me: Abolish prisons Also me:
@DemetriusHarmon
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why is r kelly not in jail
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Before you write off the entire state of Texas don’t forget there were hundreds of organizers and millions of voters trying to get rid of Abbott. Sending them love tonight.
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The white women/white men calls that people are doing for Harris are not “segregationist” or exclusionary. From what I can see they are answering the challenge from Black woman organizers to organize their own communities - which is exactly what they should be doing.
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Police do not need body cams, we saw them on TikTok letting white nationalists through a barrier to storm the Capitol. Police need their funding snatched.
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Nothing has changed between the murder of George Floyd and today that would have kept him alive. Abolition now.
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Light them up @AOC . Righteous fights only.
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I truly don’t understand why Democrats are trying to message $600 as significant instead of telling people that it’s the only thing they can get past Republican obstruction and naming that it is not nearly enough. But defund is the problem...
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The writer of this bill and the person who will ultimately sign off on it are both white women. Dismantling patriarchy demands we acknowledge the major roles white women have played in oppression throughout history. It’s not a problem of white men, it’s a problem of whiteness.
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Simran Jeet Singh
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22 Senators voted against including an exception for rape or incest in Alabama’s new draconian abortion law. Notice any similarities?
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While AOC Plus 3 does sound like a mixtape I definitely want to listen to put some respect on the rest of The Squad and call them by their names. Ayanna Pressley Ilhan Omar Rashida Tlaib He knows their names, they keep him up at night.
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I’ve been arrested by Capitol police for chanting or sitting quietly in a hallway.
BREAKING: Trump supporters have breached the Capitol building, tearing down 4 layers of security fencing and are attempting to occupy the building — fighting federal police who are overrun This is the craziest thing I’ve ever seen in my life. Thousands, police can’t stop them
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A reminder that the George Floyd Justice In Policing Act is a police FUNDING bill and is not in any way an adequate response to police violence.
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40 Republicans voted against #HR6201 the #FamiliesFirstBill We should all remember their names and that they chose greed and cowardice in the face of crisis. Shame on them.
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People who can’t even organize 40% of their family to stop being racist should stop speaking on what Black organizers should or should not do.
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This is hurtful.
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Not Joseph tweeting about when will WE do what needs to be done. Are WE the President Joseph?
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Police loot our city budgets.
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People are not rising up right now because they are eager to vote for the author of the 94 Crime Bill. Please keep your “vote” tweets in drafts and open your purse.
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Police have gotten 30 years of free PR from Law & Order and every other cop show Defund police is a culture shift that challenges every level of thinking. It’s budgetary and it’s moral. We don’t bend because politicians w/o courage or imagination don’t know how to message.
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A reminder that nothing in the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act would have saved Sonya Massey’s life.
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President Joe Biden released a statement on the killing of Sonya Massey; calls on Congress to pass the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act
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DNC really waited for the Black and Brown candidates to drop out and then changed up the rules so a billionaire could stop and frisk his way to the debate stage. You expect to see it.
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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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I am glad that @RashidaTlaib is in Congress!
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Former Mayor Pete giving a victory speech without verified results.
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Jaime Harrison was 100% correct in not appearing with Lindsay Graham in a debate after he REFUSED TO TAKE A COVID TEST. Dianne Feinstein hugging Graham was a slap in the face to Harrison and the rest of us who have been taking the pandemic seriously since March.
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It is not lost on me how often my dad talked about Nelson Mandela coming to Detroit w/ UAW and what that meant to him. Biden lying about being arrested in South Africa while trying to see him is what I’ll be thinking about as I make GOTV calls for Bernie.
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I’m glad AOC is calling out that NBC tweet for what it was. They directed hate and harassment towards her by purposely misrepresenting what happened with the nomination process. No more quietly accepting fake apologies and not naming the specific and direct harm.
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It’s really upsetting to have spent years warning about the climate crisis, being gas lit by the government and corporations to believe it’s not real and then actually looking outside of my window - that I can’t open because of bad air quality- seeing it firsthand
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There’s a whole fascist in the White House and Obama is warning about activist...meanwhile activists are the only reason Democrats won the midterms
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Can we defund the police? “Yes we can”
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Obama: You lose people with "snappy" slogans like "defund the police"
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Nobody should be living in poverty. No other qualifiers about how many hours you work or how much you produce. No poverty, for anybody.
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Absurd and shameful. People are trying to financially survive and this is what they have to face.
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Florida residents line up in a Hialeah parking lot to file for unemployment benefits.
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Jeff Bezos about to become a trillionaire and still can't pay his workers. He is actually the real life Lex Luthor and we don't talk about it enough.
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You know the wildest part about this whole Bernie/Warren thing is that Joe Biden wrote the 94 Crime Bill AND at 77-years-old hinted that he would be open to running with a Republican VP
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Listing police among a group of actual identifies is...a choice.
@ABC
ABC News
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"Refuse hate." Tyler Perry accepts Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award "I refuse to hate someone because they are Mexican or because they are Black or white or LBGTQ. I refuse to hate someone because they are a police officer. I refuse to hate someone because they are Asian."
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It continues to matter that Brian Kemp cheated his way into being Georgia’s governor.
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Too Short told us about Nancy Reagan in 1989.
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Calling anyone in this race a “policy wonk” who’s name is not Elizabeth Warren is...I don’t have the words for it (and Mayor Pete does not have the range)
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I don’t like how much y’all give Beto and how little y’all give Julián Castro.
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She was not conned. Stop the rebranding attempt. I was in her office every day, she knew what she was doing. Go back and watch her floor speech announcing her vote.
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Noah Shachtman
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EXCLUSIVE: This is how Trump’s team conned Susan Collins into voting for Kavanaugh ... and killing Roe v. Wade
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Platforming Republicans and not Palestinian Americans at the DNC is offensive.
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I’ve been sitting with this all day and all day I have been furious.
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Vote.
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Constant mood.
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Never in my whole life have I heard of someone driving 300+ miles for weed.
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Not enough headlines about the shooter being a white supremacist who targeted a Black neighborhood.
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BREAKING: The death toll has risen to 10 in a mass shooting at a Buffalo, N.Y., supermarket, law enforcement officials told The Associated Press.
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This moment. This was a meltdown but nobody is questioning his decorum like they did Castro last debate. He straight up yelled at her and took credit for her work.
@TheWayWithAnoa
freeborn Black woman first of her name
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Caption this
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Hi. Hello. Rural is not synonymous with white. K, thanks.
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What is causing me some anxiety about Shelter In Place vs the Stay At Home Order is the idea of enforcement and what that means, especially for Black people.
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The Wisconsin Supreme Court literally doesn’t care that my mom will have to risk her life to cast a ballot tomorrow. An extra slap in the face for a woman from the pre-Civil Rights South who took me on her hip and then by my hand to every election before I was old enough to vote
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🚨 The Milwaukee Freedom Fund is offering their support to Kenosha Protestors 🚨 Info from their Facebook page and their support request link:
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There is a pattern of siding with police when Black girls and women are murdered by them. I won't forget what folks did to Korryn Gaines and what they are attempting to do to Ma’Khia Bryant.
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It took 1 public incident for Will Smith to go from beloved sitcom star and family-friendly rapper to a monster who triggers all of your abuse trauma and can kill a man with his bare hands. Imagine what happens to non-millionaire Black people.
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I had to go make sure this post was real. Motaz - a journalist in his 20s- risked his life for over 100 days to show the story of what was happening to his people and Debra Messing is what…mocking him? Are these people mad he survived?
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Kenosha Department of Corrections is on fire. This is a tactical decision. Wisconsin has an incarceration rate of 676 per 100,000 people. Never forget that this is the violence.
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Joe Biden saying “it doesn't matter what the root causes of crime are” shows me that the mass incarceration that came from the 1994 Crime Bill were not unintended consequences for him - they were very much intended
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Normalize shaming billionaires for wealth hoarding.
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@angelicaross Not even a pandemic can stop men from being trash.
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Today @js_newswatch decided that a little Black girl killed in the city should be used as a fun fact. The level of disrespect and disdain for Black life is on full display here.
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Two things for everyone’s checklist today ✅ Wash your hands ✅ Volunteer for Bernie Sanders
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There are lots of reports that Jacob Blake has died but family report that he is alive and in ICU.
@DanielPoneman
Daniel Poneman
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I just spoke to Jacob’s cousin @PaulyG103 in the hospital. He said they need your prayers and not condolences. He is out of surgery and in the ICU. He can make it through this. He is fighting for his life. Please please please pray for Jacob Blake. #Kenosha #PrayForJacobBlake
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Bringing up Al Franken every time there is sexual misconduct in the news doesn’t do what y’all think it does.
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With the filibuster in place, the lack of urgency around HR 1, Joe Manchin being drunk on power and Krysten Sinema being giddy to keep people in poverty...Dems are in for a rough 2022
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