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Han Shot first. Helping leaders tell stories that build trust and spark action. Pie baker. ENM. Formerly @AFTunion , @neworganizing , @barackobama
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When I saw Gus Walz moved to tears by pride and love for his dad, I knew MAGA would jump to bully him. That's exactly what's happened. It's gross, and I think it's critically important that we talk about bullying clearly. So here's a story 🧵
#DNCConvention2024
#DNC2024CHICAGO
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wHy wOn'T anYoNe wOrk? doN'T tHey wAnt joBs? tHeSe aRe g0od JobS
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SEEN OUTSIDE TODAY'S JD VANCE RALLY IN THE SWING-IEST COUNTY OF A VERY SWING STATE.
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Let's rewrite this without the passive voice!
Three police officers and two paramedics killed Elijah McClain, a young, unarmed Black man, by forcibly restraining him after injecting him with a powerful sedative.
Elijah McClain, a Black man who died after a police encounter in a Denver suburb in 2019, died because he was injected with a powerful sedative after being forcibly restrained, according to an amended autopsy report publicly released on Friday.
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Old enough to remember when Trump refused to help blue states during the early days of COVID because his team thought it would be good for him if people in blue states died.
Donald Trump today threatened to withhold federal firefighting aid for California - unless Gov. Gavin Newsom enacts Trump's policies on taxes and other issues.
"If we don’t give him all the money to put out the fires, he’s got problems," Trump said.
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Jeff Bezos' personal wealth grew by an average of $87,000 per minute in 2018. Maybe we should discuss that instead of shaming people for eating lunch or getting a haircut. Just spitballing here.
The average adult in the USA spends $1,497 a month on nonessential items. All told, that's roughly $18,000 a year on things we can all do without.
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I would run through a wall for
@AOC
and this right here is why. I am so happy that
@KamalaHarris
knew to put her on the big stage in primetime. When you have generational talent on your side, you make damn sure she's in the game when it matters.
#DNCConvention2024
#dnc2024
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I've worked for bosses like this in every industry I've worked in. Saying goodbye to my last toxic boss changed my life, and I constantly tell people no job is worth their happiness. It is a true joy watching workers realize they don't have to take it and walking the fuck away.
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"We're not gonna stay in their frame... We're not gonna play their game. We're gonna call them out for the weird stuff they believe and we presented a different argument to the American public. One where everybody matters." 🙏 make this man VP
#wewantwalz
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Ah so the vouchers didn't help people move to private schools, didn't even really bring down costs for people whose kids were already in private schools, but they did manage to starve public schools even more? Great work everyone. Great work.
Parents thought the tax credit would reduce what they pay. Instead, many schools raised tuition in a comparable amount to the tax credit.
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Can anyone explain to me how America is NOT a failed state?
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I am so deeply touched to see Doug Emhoff and Tim Walz demonstrating confident, healthy masculinity on a national stage. I am so ready to see this modeled from the White House. Our boys need it.
#DNCChicago2024
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Wait, the guy who's been bragging about sleeping at Twitter HQ is worried about people knowing where he is? Fascinating
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I keep seeing this take from centrist Dems that goes "Republicans got here through incrementalism, progressives need to learn from their example and accept incremental change." It's been getting under my skin, but I couldn't quite put my finger on why until just now...
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Imagine creating a product so toxic that some of the world's most influential and popular people feel the need to go on your own platform to tell everyone they didn't buy it from you 😂 (screenshot on the off chance it gets deleted... By anyone)
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If you think you're all good because you're healthy or your kids are young, my wife has been down for 10 days with
#coronavirus
and my very healthy 9yo is running a fever of 104.5 if I don't keep her topped up on Tylenol and regularly in a cold bath, but sure, you do you
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Lol 90% of replies here are people sharing their own toxic boss stories, but then there are a few like this clown who dropped this clueless reply then blocked me 🤣
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Years ago, I was managing a bar. 3 days after a dear friend took her life and 2 days before the funeral, the GM called me and said "I know you're dealing with stuff but the owners are coming in tonight, it would be good for them to see you here."
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I got to the bar. The owner, Dave, was there. He was like "man, so sad, blah blah, ok see you later..." Then the GM was like "Ok Dave and I are going to a show, thanks for closing for me."
I wish I'd had the good sense to quit on the spot.
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My life would be very different without access to abortion. When I was 22, a woman I was seeing got pregnant. She was almost 20. I was still in college. We worked together at a bar and had been sleeping together for maybe 5 or 6 weeks.
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He spent $44 billion to get debunked by his own platform. Delicious
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That was just my last toxic boss in the service industry - and also it was one of the least toxic service jobs I've ever worked. And the shit bosses expect people to tolerate in progressive activism jobs is often far worse because they also argue "it's for the mission"
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Bill Maher is one of the dumbest people who still has a platform and yet even he grasps this reality
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You can fix that dumb issue with your feed jumping pretty easily. Just follow these three steps (Can't find the tweet that tipped me off, so apologies for the lack of a hat tip/RT)
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I went in expecting to be there an hour then leave. My friend was a rep for a liquor distributor, so everyone knew her. The GM and the owners also knew her partner was one of my besties and I was caring for him and hosting his whole family while making funeral arrangements
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17 years ago yesterday, my boss showed up unannounced while I was doing weekly inventory at the bar I (very successfully) managed. He told me I was fired. I thought it was April fools, but it wasn't. I got circular logic and no clear reason...
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A Seattle Police Officers Guild Vice President. Who has cost the city $2 million dollars in 9 years. 18 investigations. And he's a vice president of the police syndicate.
SPD cop who laughed & joked about young girl who was killed has been the subject of eighteen OPA investigations since 2014 costing the city over $2,000,000 in lawsuits.
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Name one single comparable goal that Democrats have pushed forward.
You can't. There isn't one. Democrats can't even get together on wildly popular incremental ideas like expanding social security, capping Rx costs, or universal background checks.
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When progressives put forward big goals, the response is "that's impossible" or "don't be silly." Then centrists collaborate with the Republicans to weaken our biggest accomplishments, or proactively cave to GOP messaging on everything from abortion to guns to taxes
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Where the R establishment set a goal and pushed toward it, D establishment scolds progressives for being foolish if we put forward big ideas. They say we need to accept incrementalism, but never say towards what. Then they get mad when people don't show up for more of the same
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But most importantly if my friend hadn't kindly but firmly held me accountable to the plan b I'd suggested, I definitely wouldn't have ended up here. Hold your friends accountable, folks.
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MacKenzie Scott has broken the mold that the foundation industrial complex uses to wield power over nonprofits. Her mostly-unsolicited, unrestricted gifts expose Big Philanthropy for the racket it often is. So now the knives are coming out from Big Giving.
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The USPS predates the US Constitution. It is the best postal system in the world. Veterans make up a significant portion of the 600,000 workers who keep it running. We absolutely must save it. National vote by mail could both protect the postal service and our democracy.
Democrats should recognize that:
-The Post Office is very popular as an apple-pie-and-baseball American Institution
-You couldn't ask for a better talking point on Trump's awful crisis response
-A plan to save the USPS could easily include vote by mail
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It gets down to one of my core problems: lack of vision or purpose from the Very Smart People™️ wing of the party.
Every Republican president since Gerald Ford has explicitly supported overturning Roe. They told the base "this is the goal" and so the base kept showing up.
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Every Democrat who's out here scolding Bowman right now is helping create the problem. Blow it off. Ask if Republicans are ready to expel members who collaborated with and encouraged insurrectionists. Whatever you do, don't treat it as an actual scandal or you're just helping Rs
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When Democrats had the biggest mandate in modern history with the White House, 60 votes in the Senate and 254 seats in the House, Mitch blocked every single thing he could for political gain. He is not a good-faith actor and does not need to be treated as one
In his first speech as minority leader, McConnell indicated that he did not believe Democrats had a mandate, given their narrow majority in the Senate.
"Our country deserves both sides and both parties to find common ground for the common good where we can," McConnell says.
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I know rules don't apply to Donald, but if a Democrat's spouse hadn't been seen on the campaign trail in months and video came out of that candidate getting handsy like this with a woman 47 years younger than him who's been flying with him everywhere on his plane for weeks...
It's been confirmed that Laura Loomer has been spending nights at Mar-A-Largo with Donald Trump. At the same time
@MELANIATRUMP
has been stuck in NYC, refusing to go back to Florida which she called "a swamp."
He isn't even hiding it anymore, wrapping his arm around Laura and
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So far we know:
-Secret Service knew of a threat to the Speaker and did nothing
-VP Pence refused to get in the car with USSS to leave for reasons he has not explained
-USSS deleted text messages for Jan 5 & 6
I dunno, kinda seems like we might need to clear house at the USSS 🤷♂️
BREAKING: The Secret Service knew of a threat to Nancy Pelosi on January 6th days before the insurrection, but did not pass it along until hours after the Capitol had been breached
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Duncekirk is truly the GOP in microcosm
1) Trump kkkultists want to prove their love with a parade
2) They refuse to properly distance or follow basic safety rules
3) Large boats owned by wealthy ppl create wake
4) Small boats get swamped, sink
5) They blame outside agitators 🤦♂️
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.
@JBPritzker
goes all-in with his cognitive test for the Trump-Vance ticket. "Sofa. Dolphin. Shark. Cats. Convict." 🤣 I am fucking dead.
#WhiteDudesForKamala
#whitedudesforharris
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I've voted in every election since I turned 18. I understand harm minimization and the stakes of the fight. I will always vote blue in November and work to bring others along. But incrementalism is only motivating if there's a credible end goal and a fight to believe in.
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Joe Biden and Democrats delivered a fix to the multiemployer pension crisis—the Teamsters' top priority for more than 20 years. They did it without a single R vote. I get the whole "we need to show that our endorsement process is real" argument, but it doesn't hold water here IMO
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Moderna is preparing to reap a massive profit off a vaccine that was developed with public dollars, but sure, student debt relief and universal healthcare are the socialism we should be scared of
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As a communications professional, few things make me more despondent than my side accepting the right wing frame on issue after issue rather than setting the debate on our own terms. The stuff I heard from Walz is exactly what I want. Please put this guy on the ticket.
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This is a direct result of Republicans screaming "extremists" at every camera and microphone in sight while Democrats talk about "our friends" and the "good people" on the other side
By a 9-point margin, voters see the Democratic Party as more ideologically extreme than the Republican Party. View more:
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Setting aside the deep misogyny and racism here, worth noting that the reason JV Vance's MIL was able to come live with them for a year to care for their baby is that she is a tenured university professor with paid sabbaticals — jobs that he and his team want to abolish.
NEW VANCE AUDIO: In an interview from 2020, JD Vance agrees with a podcast host who says having grandmothers help raise children is “the whole purpose of the postmenopausal female.”
He also agrees when the host says grandparents helping raise children is a "weird, unadvertised
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I love the smell of record-breaking fundraising in the morning.
#PresidentElizabethWarren
#LFG
#WarrenForTheWin
We just had our best debate day of the entire campaign, raising more than $2.8 million. 🔥
Will you chip in $2 right now to keep the momentum going? We can only do this together.
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The theory of change shifted over time - for Ford and Reagan, it was a constitutional amendment. But the federalist society model took over, and Rs sold the idea of judicial action. But the end goal, as stated clearly in the party platform since 1984, was overturning Roe
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Even in the wake of the Dobbs decision, Democratic leaders won't make a clear promise about what they'll do. Biden finally said we "should" have a filibuster carve out for Roe, but no concrete commitments, much less a vote count to say "with this many senators..."
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Abortion is healthcare. Abortion is economic and social choice. More than anything else, abortion is a right to self determination. Pregnancy and parenthood shouldn't be forced on anyone, whether they were "responsibly" having sex or being careless.
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And Court expansion is still off the table for the White House.
So what's incrementalism pointing us toward?
Until there is a clear goal for us to unite behind with party-wide unity, no, the slow Republican push that got us here is not analogous.
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They told the base it was a game of increments, but the goal was always clear. Along the way, they had to load the lower courts to overtake the Supreme Court. And they kept the base fired up by passing trigger laws and pushing radical bills that were struck down
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And every time a bill was struck down, the party made sure their messaging reaffirmed 1) look, we're right, we need to throw out these judges, 2) we're fighting for the end goal.
They gave passionate voters a clear goal and a consistent reason to keep showing up
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No shade to others but if Big Gretch is out I deeply hope
@KamalaHarris
picks
@Tim_Walz
for VP.
-Instantly your favorite uncle
-Flawless on TV
-Brutalizes MAGA with humor
-Massive progressive record
-Probably the most labor-friendly governor in America
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If that boss hadn't fired me, I may well have just stayed in that rut. If those grad school letters hadn't been waiting for me on the same day, the shock may not have been enough for me to go for something completely different.
Life is weird, man.
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Currently yelling at me over this thread: centrist Dems who think I'm living in fantasyland. Rose Twitter telling me I'm an enabler. Republicans high on Murdoch fumes. Gonna go ahead and mute, enjoy fighting in the comments lol
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Passive voice ALWAYS absolves someone of responsibility. If you find yourself writing or speaking in passive voice, try to stop and think, "Who am I giving a free pass to with this language?" Then take a minute to figure out how you can place the burden of action where it belongs
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This is insane. Self-appointed right-wing militias are stopping random vehicles during evacuations and threatening citizens based on conspiracies peddled by the President and his pals. Be safe, friends
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I get that Pelosi has been a lightning rod and I personally think it would be best for her to elevate a new, younger leader, but the loudest calls should be to replace Chuck Schumer with someone who understands how a knife fight works.
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The best time to ban investment firms from owning rental properties was years ago. The next best time is now.
Blackstone Group purchased thousands of San Diego's affordable housing units in 2021, then raised rent for some units between 43-64% in just two years, the new report says.
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But I also won't tolerate adults who think it's funny for kids to get shoved into lockers. I won't tolerate people who think it's funny to bully a neurodivergent kid (or any kid) for loving his dad. And neither should you. It's not normal just because Trump normalized it.
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Seems like a pretty good day to have officially become one of those scary card-carrying members of the
@ACLU
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This is about creating a pool of cheap, exploitable labor so bosses don't have to pay a fair wage to adult workers. In Indiana, employers can pay teens as little as $4.25/hr for the first 90 days of employment. Corporations profit, kids get exploited, adults lose bargaining power
BREAKING: Indiana lawmakers moved a bill forward to let bosses schedule 14-year-olds up to 28 hours per schoolweek.
That violates federal labor law.
So a GOP state senator, who's running for Congress, wants to "throw out the book of [federal] regulation of employing our youth."
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Since we're still doing this...quitting your shitty job is cool. But forming a union at your job and taking power out of your shitty manager's hands is the coolest
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Biden is "courting" auto workers by becoming the first sitting president to walk a picket line in solidarity. Trump is "courting" auto workers by giving a speech at an anti-union parts supplier that he was invited to visit by its union-busting owners. These are not the same
W/ Biden and Trump both courting auto workers in MI today, a quick refresher on auto industry jobs created/month under recent presidents.
*Clinton: 1,800
*Bush: -5,800
*Obama: 2,800
*Trump (pre-Covid): 600
*Trump (total): -200
*Biden: 4,000
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So, here's my open hand. If you're looking for a reset. If you're tired of bullying and screaming and anger as the primary language of politics. If you're tired of a guy who encourages trolls to piss on kids and send rape threats to women, let's work together at least for now.
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@johnrobertsFox
Hey John, instead of welcoming authoritarianism maybe you should point out that there's a reason this has never been done before and is explicitly out of bounds.
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"Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect." -Frank Wilhoit
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In October I walked into a field office on the SW edge of Las Vegas as an unpaid intern (we were still doing that, ugh).
It's been a long, weird, wild 17 years. I met my wife in that campaign office. I've got 3 kids, a dog, a cat, a house, a (respectable?) career
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Fun fact: the hateful troll who tweeted this is the former Michigan GOP chair who left the party in complete disarray and is currently facing eight felony indictments for trying to steal the 2020 election as a fake elector.
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Fwiw Pete is also fantastic at this - refusal to accept their bullshit as fact, quick to completely reframe. They have very different styles when doing it, but Pete is another to study if you want to learn how to reject their frame and apply your own.
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@chargrille
My favorite part is the guy telling a bartender don't drink so much that I can't call you in the next day with no notice
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For the last nine years, bullies have had a Bully in Chief to egg them on and draw them out. It's his entire appeal — a promise that he'll make "those people" pay for whatever they did to you. And he's fomented the worst, nastiest, grossest instincts in so many people
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The protestors who interrupted Warren are funded by Jeb!...and supported by the California Charter Association... which is heavily funded by Netflix founder and anti-union crusader Reed Hastings... who recently hosted a high dollar fundraiser for... Mayor Pete
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I got home completely shell shocked and found the final 3 grad school letters I'd been waiting on. They were all rejections, marking 3 straight years and a total of 17 MFA programs that didn't think I was good enough...
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That was a rough day. I spent that summer drinking my feelings and wallowing, until a friend reminded me of a conversation we'd had the previous winter. "You said if grad school fell through again, you were going to try to get a job on the Obama campaign. So...?"
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Trump is a bully. He surrounds himself with bullies and creeps. JD Vance wants to punish you for not having enough kids. Stephen Miller wants to punish people for seeking a better life. The Heritage guys want to punish you for dreaming above your "station."
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So if I'm getting this right,
@jaketapper
had time to slam Democrats over couch jokes, but hasn't tweeted a single thing about
#JVVance
slandering Tim Walz 24 years of service? Dude makes a huge deal out of respecting the troops until MAGA disrespects a Dem who served with honor
Making it a point to say the online JD Vance couch smear is gross, Jake Tapper asks, what happened to when they go low and we go higher?
We're long past giving a damn with the vile shit we've had to endure. 😂
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I think about those guys a lot, including the QB. Kids are dumb. They do dumb shit. But most of them, I think, grow out of it. I saw him years later and he wanted to be friendly. He barely even remembered bullying me (or claimed he didn't). But I remember. Bullied kids always do.
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After Doug Emhoff spoke, I posted this. A lot of people loved it. And a lot of the predictable bullies and creeps crawled out from under their rocks too. Most were run of the mill CHUDs, but I've been chewing on this specific reply for a couple days
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When my wife had been sick with covid symptoms for 3 weeks and started struggling to breathe, the HOSPITAL WHERE SHE WORKED took the swab and told her to go home and only come back if she couldn't breathe but sure this checks out
#BREAKING
: Chris Christie is in the hospital after testing positive for
#COVID19
.
@DanaBashCNN
reports he checked himself into hospital as a precautionary measure.
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I'm glad she made that choice. I'm glad the choice was available, safe, affordable, and easy to access. I'm horrified that there are (mostly white male) Republicans trying to deny that choice to millions of women.
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If we allow Trump to win, he will put the worst bullies in America in positions of power. It's not just him we have to stop. It's people who think it's funny to taunt a neurospicy kid for loving his dad, or shove smaller kids into lockers at school. That's what we're up against
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I've got 3 neurospicy kids. My youngest is only 13 but he's been picked on by at least 3 kids who preyed on his blindspots. I know I can't stop all the bullies, but I can be part of making it uncool to be a bully. That starts with saying clearly that bullies don't represent us
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The central question of this election isn't who will cut your taxes or build more bridges (even tho
@KamalaHarris
will do much more for you unless you have nine 0s in your bank account). It's about whether we're a country of bullies or a country of helpers.
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Shockingly, Mitch says FETCH, press gives him splash headlines that make him look reasonable, then Mitch backs away quietly. It's almost as if it were completely, 100% predictable and none of these people should get any credit until the check is cashed
NEWS —> McConnell’s office called Schumer’s people today + told them McConnell would not consent to reconvening immediately under the 2004 emergency authorities, a person familiar says. So the Senate won’t reconvene Friday, or almost certainly before Jan. 19. Trial in Biden term
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A vote for Trump isn't just a vote for a tax cut or a vote for "border security." It's a vote to give the green light to all those people in the comments calling Gus Walz horrible names. It's a vote to empower the bullies who prey on your kids and make life toxic for everyone.
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Just from a political perspective, if Dems want to take the Senate they should jam McConnell hard on stimulus over the next few weeks, then make clear to voters that Republican control of the Senate is the biggest reason their UI ran out and there were no more relief checks
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Today we dropped Amy off at the ER. Spoiler alert, the chest x-rays were ok and she came home. But when I dropped her off I honestly didn't know if that would be the last time my kids saw their mom. Let's talk about a few of the complete failures that got us here
#coronavirus
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I love working in the labor movement because at its core the movement is about linking arms to stand up to bullies. Solidarity is what those players who rallied around me were demonstrating, even if I didn't have the words for it yet. It's why I love my imperfect
#1u
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Can't believe people are shit talking Master and Commander when we're in the middle of a sea shanty revival.
Also, Master and Commander is a perfect movie
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I've tried to live my life like the football players who came to help me over and over again. If I see a person in trouble and I can help, I try. I'm not mad at the kids who pushed me into a locker or tried to beat me up at parties. They had bad examples set for them somewhere
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The subtly nefarious thing about passive voice is it conditions us to expect that some things naturally occur. When you say, "He stalked her," it lands very differently from "she was being stalked." Passive voice lets everyone off the hook.
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Whatever the final result, Herschel Walker's performance should destroy the argument that Dems should invest significant resources trying to persuade R voters. If we peel a few off, great, but c'mon now. Polarization is so strong that a demonstrably unfit clown has a real chance
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But here's the important part of the story. Some decent kids on the team — including a defensive captain and more than a few starters — respected that I stuck it out. And for the rest of High School, they'd come to help me if I was in trouble.
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