Aaron Regunberg
@AaronRegunberg
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Dad, organizer, climate lawyer. Senior Policy Counsel at @Public_Citizen . Opinions my own.
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Could there really be enough evidence to prosecute Big Oil for the climate-fueled heat waves killing so many each summer?
@Public_Citizen
partnered with a former DOJ prosecutor to assess. Our conclusion: prosecutors have a strong case to convict. 🧵1/18
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I liked Biden. But right now I’m feeling nothing but rage. His decision to run was profoundly selfish. That selfishness has put my son’s future in danger. There are dozens of Dem leaders who could beat Trump. We need an open convention.
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If you’re not horrified about an army of cops being sent to fuck up a bunch of, among other backgrounds, Jewish students, then you don’t actually care about the safety of Jewish people. You’re also on the profoundly wrong side of history.
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Dude can’t fucking string together a closing statement? I’m done. Not feeling sad, I’m mad. It was pure narcissism for Biden to run. Our kids shouldn’t lose out on a livable future because he wanted two terms. We have dozens of Dems who could win this. Open Convention.
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Worth pointing out that if your position is that civil disobedience on private property is always unacceptable, your position is that the lunch counter sit-ins were unacceptable. And you're entitled to that opinion! But, like, know what you're getting yourself into...
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I find the “Joe had a bad debate but he’s still much better than Trump” line so offensive. No Democrat — literally no Democrat — is saying “oh I’m with Trump now.” We’re saying we have better Democratic options to beat Trump, and beating Trump is absolutely essential.
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I think
@JoeBiden
has been a great president. He's done more on climate and inequality than any in my lifetime.
And today I'm voting uncommitted. Providing military support for the catastrophe in Gaza is wrong. It's also bad politics, and we need to help Biden understand that.
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Who's doing a better job representing our Jewish faith and tradition -- the Jewish director whose Oscar-winning film about the Holocaust calls us to actually live up to our credo of "Never Again," or, you know, whatever the hell this is.
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.
@BarackObama
please give Joe a call tonight. He needs some tough love. We all need him to get some tough love. Tell him it’s time to serve his country by stepping aside.
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Phew, this Jew sure feels a lot safer knowing that such a dangerous member of Congress won't be coming back next year. We already have too many lifetime educators and school principals in the House, right? The place is lousy with them.
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Absolutely stunning. This campaign is telling all the Democrats who 1) care the most about beating Trump, and 2) have the firmest connection to reality, to fuck off. We’re talking about millions of donors, volunteers, and activists — the people you need to win. It’s madness.
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Dems need to begin having a serious conversation about an open convention, tonight.
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Trump is doing awful in this debate. Any other Dem on that split screen — Big Gretch, Newsom, Pritzker, Shapiro, literally anyone — would be smoking him. Open Convention. Start the process tonight.
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We have almost two months until the Convention. It’s enough time. It’s not ideal, but it’s genuinely enough time. Think of the stakes. Pritzker, Whitmer, Newsom, whoever.
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My son, like every other child in Rhode Island, deserves Januaries with sledding and snowmen. Polluters like
@exxonmobil
have condemned them to Januaries of extreme flooding, instead. If you're not furious, you're not paying attention.
The aftermath of the storm on Abbott Street in East Providence
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We need to call out
@AOC
derangement syndrome for what it is. It’s not just stupid and cynical. It's a betrayal of our cause. As leftists, we have a duty to win. Relentlessly tearing down one of our most effective leaders undermines our ability to win. That's unforgivable.
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This is not the position of a country that is making me, as a Jew, safer from rising antisemitism.
Israel expects far-right gains in European Parliament will improve its standing /
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Rep.
@AOC
has taken on corporate special interests to fight for a fair economy and a government that works for all of us, and I’m honored to have her endorsement!
Can you help us take on the corporate lobbyists with a grassroots contribution?
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Bernie transformed our politics. He reminded millions of Americans that politics doesn’t have to be about corporate power games—it can be about improving our lives and coming together to build a better world. Thanks,
@BernieSanders
, for rallying with us today. Let’s get to work!
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We need more progressive leaders in Congress who can organize, build coalitions, and win real change.
I've done that in RI. Now I'm running to bring that fight to Congress. Together, we can take on GOP extremists - and Big Pharma, Big Banks and Big Oil - and win a better future.
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I feel like we shouldn’t need to say this, but continuing to obsessively pursue bipartisanship with a party that literally tried to violently overthrow our democracy probably isn’t the best pathway to maintaining our democracy.
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By knowingly generating and covering up the climate crisis, Big Oil has caused countless deaths. We have a word for that — homicide. And we have an accountability system for such acts — criminal prosecution. Maybe we should start acting like it.
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This is what we’ve been asking for! And he’s going to be massively attacked for it.
All of us who’ve been arguing that his bad stance was bad politics should be doing what we can now to demonstrate that these good moves are good politics.
🚨🚨🚨BREAKING: President Biden tells
@ErinBurnett
that if Israel invades the city of Rafah, the U.S. will stop supplying it with artillery shells, bombs for fighter jets and other offensive weapons
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We’ve got exciting news to share:
@BernieSanders
is coming to RI!
RSVP here:
Next Sunday, August 27th we'll be rallying together in PVD alongside
@FlyingWithSara
and
@VanessaCarlton
for a better future and a government that works for everyone. Join us!
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Here’s the good news — Trump sucks. Literally any of our top-tier leaders can beat him. We don’t need to lose this. Open Convention.
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Big Oil knew. They lied. And because of their actions, people died. Why shouldn't prosecutors treat Exxon the same way they'd treat anyone else who knowingly caused this much death and destruction?
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Trying to remember the last time I’ve felt this deeply, profoundly sad, and it was probably election night 2016.
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This isn’t a progressive or centrist or conservative thing. There’s no ideological valence to it. We simply cannot afford to lose this election to Trump, which means President Biden must step down as nominee and pass the torch to a new generation of leaders
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The idiots hating on
@AOC
don't have a theory of change. Winning requires persuading people, engaging in coalition politics, making once-radical ideas seem mundane. AOC's haters use her efficacy at this *essential* work to brand her an enemy of the movement. It's madness.
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How dare you call my Jewishness into question for taking our values - tikkun olam, gemilut hasadim, chesed, rachamim - seriously. There's no one right kind of Jew. But there are ways that value our principles and ways that ignore them. I know which side of that line I’m on.
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@DavidAnvil
TBC, this comment is not targeted at anyone saying "they engaged in civil disobedience, part of that is being willing to get arrested," it's for the endless comments I'm seeing along the lines of "they are disgusting criminals and scum for breaking the law"
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This fall I'll be voting + campaigning for Biden. But if I wasn't, the vastly dumb "criticizing Biden = supporting Trump" comments on this wouldn't change my mind. If you think we've got to beat Trump, like I do, it's your *duty* to actually persuade people to support Biden.🧵1/3
I think
@JoeBiden
has been a great president. He's done more on climate and inequality than any in my lifetime.
And today I'm voting uncommitted. Providing military support for the catastrophe in Gaza is wrong. It's also bad politics, and we need to help Biden understand that.
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Harris/Whitmer.
Harris/Pritzker.
Shapiro/Warnock.
Warnock/Pritzker.
Whitmer/Newsom.
Buttigieg/Klobuchar (heh).
We have SO MANY possible exciting — or at least competent — tickets. Why are we not putting them forward?!
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I'm furious.
The debt ceiling deal targets working families, slashes healthcare, cuts off vital food assistance, and protects tax cheats. These are life-or-death programs we're taking about, and we need Democratic leaders in Congress who will act like it.
It seems to me that Biden, Schumer and Jeffries are conceding that anytime there is a debt ceiling they will concede to cuts (a “freeze” which is a cut) except for the military. It’s nice how republicans get to control everything without electing people.
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To my Jewish brothers and sisters who’ve convinced yourselves it’s in our people’s interests to let the GOP define and weaponize antisemitism — the party of actual Nazis, Holocaust deniers, Jewish space lasers, “Jews killed Christ” — please, for the love of god, wake the fuck up.
Scott just accused Sanders, who is Jewish, of "speaking with a forked tongue" in calling for a commitment not just to fight anti-Semitism but all forms of hatred.
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This is really significant. Nearly 70% of Democrats, and even a third of Republicans, support the criminal prosecution of Big Oil companies for their climate crimes.
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Election Day is Sept. 5th. I'm so honored to have the support of progressive champs like
@AOC
@BernieSanders
@DeliaRamirezIL
&
@jamie_raskin
. But I'm just as proud of the local leaders who support our campaign, and I wanted to uplift that support below 🧵
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If you're sharing the clip of Biden today - a stump speech, on a teleprompter, to fans, during the day (which shouldn't be but clearly is relevant), in what for any other Dem would have been a C-/D+ delivery - as proof he's up to the job...I don't know what to say to you.
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Folks comparing the Biden situation to Fetterman's bad debate. The Fetterman campaign's message was "he's had a stroke, he's recovering." They bet that voters would accept he would recover, and they did.
That's...not how age works.
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Proud to be endorsed by
@rosadelauro
, one of David Cicilline's closest allies in Congress. She's been fighting to make government work for regular people – not just for entrenched corporate interests – for decades, and I'm honored to have her trust and confidence!
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Fossil fuel CEOs are mass criminals. It's time we start to treat them that way. Congrats to
@ClimateDefiance
on a great action -- let's keep it going!
This is huge. This is absolutely monumental. We just shut down an event honoring Exxon CEO Darren Woods. The whole room fled. We showed up & prevented this monster from uttering a word. We will resist him with all we've got. There is no choice.
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Genuinely don’t understand this argument. 1) All politicians need to earn votes, that’s literally what elections are. 2) We’re still at a point where Biden could make a simple choice - end/condition military aid to Netanyahu - that would earn him a lot of votes. What’s the issue?
I’m against trying to shame or yell at pro-Palestinian activists who don’t want to vote for Biden.
I’m also against this kind of bank shot argument that Biden needs to “earn” their vote.
He just is, factually, the more pro-Palestinian candidate.
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This shouldn't even need to be said, but it bears repeating over and over again: bringing riot police down on student protests composed of significant -- and in many cases disproprotionate -- numbers of Jewish students does not protect Jewish people, IT ENDANGERS JEWISH PEOPLE.
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He couldn’t nail the abortion question? What in the actual hell is happening? I can’t believe this is how human civilization ends
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While I'll be campaigning for Biden, I know a lot of people - Muslims, progressives, youth - who right now just can't support him, and for very legitimate reasons. Want to beat Trump? Help push Biden to make the Israel/Gaza policy changes necessary to secure their votes. 🧵2/3
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Obviously Hawley is a hypocritical weasel. But he's right on this. Note to Big Law folks who want to be judges someday - "As a lawyer I'm not responsible for the evil things I do for my corporate clients" was not an effective response for her. It may not work for you either.
Just an evisceration of Biden judicial nominee and ex-hedge fund lawyer Sparkle Sooknanan. Wow.
@HawleyMO
asks why she repped vulture funds impoverishing Puerto Rico, Sooknanan said every client deserves 'vigorous representation.' Then she lied abt resigning from Jones Day over
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@mattyglesias
I don’t understand your argument,
@mattyglesias
? 1) All politicians need to earn votes, that’s what elections are. 2) We’re still at a point where Biden could make a simple choice -end unconditional military aid to Netanyahu - that would, in fact, earn him a lot of support.
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The sheer stupidity of “but we can’t let Hamas continue to exist” as a response to calls for ceasefire. This is not how you end an extremist organization. It hasn’t ended Hamas, and it won’t end Hamas, however long it continues or however many children it kills.
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Phew! Done with law school and feeling very grateful
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If you’re going to defend Biden, you need to say “Joe had a bad debate but he’s still much better than Whitmer, Moore, Harris, Pritzker, etc.,” which is harder to say because it’s transparently not true.
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Our strategy’s pretty simple: Knock till you drop!
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Increasingly feeling like we all care more about Biden beating Trump than Biden does. Such a profoundly shitty feeling.
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I really think the diagnostically best test right now of whether a "leftist" is serious about changing the world or just wants to do in-group masturbatory preening is their stance on
@AOC
. She's demonstrated again and again she's the best we've got. I'm so grateful she exists.
Supporting Biden in 2024 after he’s got us in this failed proxy war in Ukraine & is funding Israel’s genocide in Gaza, as the US is falling apart economically and socially, makes you an existential, sellout clown. What a pathetic, spineless coward you turned out to be
@AOC
IA🤡
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Phew! I passed the bar exam. So now I can say with absolute and 100% conviction: ABOLISH THE BAR EXAM
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Sending this from the woods out of state, where I’m with family: As I communicated w/team
@GabeAmo
, this weekend was our one chance to get away. I have expressed my support for Gabe’s election in Nov, & will continue to communicate w/my supporters about need to back his campaign.
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Losing our democracy and shot at a livable future matters more than hurting the feelings of one very powerful elderly man. Joe Biden needs to step aside. It’s an abrogation of our responsibility as Democrats, and my responsibility as a father, to not be loud and clear about this.
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Sen.
@MackDistrict6
is a brilliant organizer who's made an incredible impact in our state. Deeply moved by her support for our campaign, and so excited to continue working alongside her to protect working people in Rhode Island who are struggling with the rising cost of housing!
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I'm honored to have the support of a true leader in Rhode Island, State Senator Tiara Mack.
@MackDistrict6
"Aaron has organized with us, marched with us, fought alongside us, on environmental justice, housing access, abortion rights, and more."
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You know who's great?
@AOC
! Let's maybe not relentlessly attack her for working to win over persuadable people, engage in coalition politics, and make once-radical propositions seem reasonable - the exact things we need to do to win real change.
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So honored to be endorsed by Providence City Council President Rachel Miller
@RachelRI
and to be surrounded by so many RI leaders as we fight to build a fair economy and a government that works for everyone!
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Though it may feel good, yelling at people like they're idiots (when many are operating under a more sophisticated political analysis than you are) is not going to help Biden beat Trump. So which is it - do you want to feel good, or do you want to actually help beat Trump? 3/3
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@landrgates
@NoDemLeftBehind
@JoeBiden
Will he? I'll be fighting Trump in the General Election with everything I've got, as I always have. And I hope that what Biden sees in the primaries will make him change course, which is essential if we want to win Michigan, among other states
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Excited this week to start my new role as Senior Climate Policy Counsel with
@Public_Citizen
! Great team, lots of urgent work to do - including helping new boss
@David_Arkush
build out the legal theory to charge fossil fuel companies with climate homicide.
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Who cares that the guy who may be the next senator from Wisconsin uses antisemitic slurs and supports the Great Replacement Theory — Jewish institutions like
@ADL
have bigger fish to fry in defending our community from the real threat, antiwar college students.
From Haaretz -
"Trump-backed GOP Front-runner for Wisconsin Senate Seat Has History of Invoking Antisemitic Slurs"
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We have lots of systems to protect the rich from accountability. The Trump conviction shows how putting cases in front of a jury can cut through that BS. It's time for more DAs to prosecute the powerful, including corporations, for their criminality.
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TRUMP IS DOING BAD. It’s insane we are not winning this debate. We have 53 days until the Democratic Convention, longer than most countries’ entire elections. Many in the Dem establishment will be talking about an open convention tonight. We should encourage those conversations.
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Proud to be going on the air today with a new ad!
We need folks in DC who'll fight for
#MedicareForAll
and a
#GreenNewDeal
. That's why I'm running - to join leaders like
@BernieSanders
to win an economy that works for everyone.
Help us stay on the air!
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Fighting for a better world is personal for me. I learned it from my mom, who raised us on her own after my dad died. From Grandpa Ralph, whose love for democracy was forged in the Holocaust. From Grandma Bunny, who directed her local Planned Parenthood. Here's our family story.
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almost more gutting to read this than to watch last night's catastrophe, given how important Obama would be to any successful push to get Biden to step aside. we're all really just going to tie ourselves to the train tracks and give up? wtf is happening
Bad debate nights happen. Trust me, I know. But this election is still a choice between someone who has fought for ordinary folks his entire life and someone who only cares about himself. Between someone who tells the truth; who knows right from wrong and will give it to the
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That someone named Smith gets cheered for saying this to someone named Aronoff...it's just a really good example of the way "you can't criticize Israel" social and political forces actively disempower *actual* Jewishness. And I don't think it will end well for us.
This is such a vile, pernicious lie that plays into disgusting antisemitic tropes. It also misses the fact that Bowman voted against
@JoeBiden
& his own district on things like the biggest infrastructure package in decades. & he embarrassed his district by pulling that fire alarm
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Not going anywhere till
@UPS
gives the
@Teamsters
who make them all their profits the contract they deserve!
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It's really important to push/call out/protest the administration when they're wrong, and it's also really important to applaud them when they're right. This is great to see! Keep it going!
BREAKING: The Biden administration is holding up shipments of two types of Boeing-made precision bombs to send a political message to Israel, according to a U.S. official and six other people with knowledge of the deliberations. Team effort w
@LeeHudson_
@paulmcleary
@reporterjoe
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Excited to vote with Katie and Asa at the elementary school near my house!
I’m so grateful for the supporters who’ve worked so hard on this campaign, and for everyone who’s put their faith in this team.
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Gonna go out on a limb to say my safety as a Jew is more threatened by influential leaders of one of our two parties spreading the “Jews killed Jesus” message that’s been used to inspire countless Jewish massacres than by college kids protesting the war crimes of a nation state.
We're seeing the Overton Window for antisemitism on the establishment Right creak open in real time today. As Congress debates the Antisemitism Awareness Act, leading MAGA Republicans are voicing a new line of opposition: defending their right to say the Jews killed Jesus
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Shocking heat, fires, smoke – this is the hottest summer in human history, and millions of Americans are suffering. Fortunately, by declaring a climate emergency,
@POTUS
can unlock powers to protect communities from fatal climate threats and spur a faster clean energy transition.
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Truly honored to have the support of one of my electoral role models, Congressman
@GregCasar
. This summer he led a successful thirst strike on the steps of the Capitol to push for protections for workers struggling in extreme heat. That's the kind of leadership we need!
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Glad to speak up for permanent Standard Time!
Thank you, Rhode Island Congressional Candidate
@AaronRegunberg
, for recognizing permanent Standard Time is healthier than permanent DST!
#EndDST
#RID1
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Don’t feel hopeless. If there’s one thing the Dem establishment can be trusted on, it’s acting in their self interest. They know Biden isn’t in their self interest, and there are ambitious Dems who see that an open convention is in their interest. We don’t have to lose this.
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I'm grateful to have the support of former State Senator Bud Cicilline in this race. Take a look!
"Aaron is willing to stand up to the powerful, fight for the people, and outwork everyone else—reminds me of another public servant I know."
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Man, if all these coup accomplices were like, “We are gonna get charged with so many crimes for this coup,” and then this Democratic administration doesn’t end up charging them for their coup, it’s really going to be open season to do coups in America.
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Very honored to have the support of
@janeclimatepac
, and excited to work with
@Janefonda
to take on Big Oil and win the livable future we all deserve!
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"Lawyers advancing an effort to charge oil companies with homicide over climate-related deaths are ramping up their campaign to hold fossil fuel producers criminally accountable . . . Local DA offices are also starting to pay attention."
Damn straight.
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Congresswoman
@DeliaRamirezIL
represents the future of the Democratic Party, and I am so honored to have her support. I cannot wait to join her principled, effective organizing and advocacy efforts in Congress!
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Regular people are paying the ultimate price for Big Oil's greed. Climate victims deserve justice no less than victims of street-level homicides. Though it won't be easy, our analysis shows that prosecutors have a path to secure that justice, if they choose to pursue it. 18/18
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Piles of evidence show Big Oil knew fossil fuels would cause, IN THEIR OWN WORDS, “globally catastrophic” climate harms that would, for example, “submerge New York,” do “great irreversible harm to our planet,” and cause “suffering and death due to thermal extremes.” 4/18
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So honored to be endorsed by
@RoKhanna
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Ro builds bridges to get things done whenever he can, and stands up and fights whenever he must. I can’t wait to work alongside him in Washington to take on corporate corruption and build a government that works for everyone.
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