Ben Cohen
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Co-Founder of Ben & Jerry's | “Justice is what love looks like in public.” — Cornel West
Joined November 2012
Pentagon bureaucrats torch $2 million of taxpayer money every minute. In honor of @DOGE, I'm launching @dogevsblob, a meme contest highlighting the biggest gov't spender + waster. We're giving away 1,000 @dogecoin a day. If anyone can slash the Pentagon budget, @elonmusk can.
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A country that "cannot afford" Medicare For All, shouldn't be spending tax dollars to maintain over 800 military bases around the world.
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.@BernieSanders is the best candidate to beat Trump and drive the transformational change that we need to create a country that works for working families. So Jerry + I are cranking up the old ice cream machine to show our support. Sign up 2 win a pint at
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Julian Assange, the publisher of @wikileaks, has been held in solitary confinement in a maximum security prison for 3 yrs. He has not been convicted of any crime. The UN says is being tortured. For telling the truth. While those who committed war crimes go free. #FreeAssange.
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Yo! @POTUS, if you can forgive $742 billion in PPP loans for celebs and thriving businesses, you can #CancelAllStudentDebt.
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I'm proud to be 1 of 100+ to sign this letter. #CeasefireNOW.
U.S. JEWS TAKE A STAND AGAINST AIPAC. 100+ prominent Jewish Americans have signed on to a statement expressing strong opposition to @AIPAC. AIPAC is working to defeat candidates who criticize the violent & racist policies of Israel #RejectAIPAC. READ HERE:
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I'm proud to be joining business owners from across the country in signing this letter of support for @BernieSanders for President. #Bernie2020
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Why is @POTUS asking for an extra $33 billion to help Ukraine and not an extra $33 billion to replace EVERY SINGLE lead pipe in America? We have at least 1.2 million children suffering from lead poisoning here and now.
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BREAKING: Student debt relief will cost $40 billion a year. Or 20x less than what we spend on the US military. .
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This is just the first in a full line of Bernie flavors. We’re going all the way this time. And when Bernie’s in the White House and I become the Minister of Ice Cream— a pint in every freezer, a sundae in every bowl. #BerniesBack #Bernie2020 #FeelTheBern
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“A nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought” @POTUS . Then why is the US spending $1.5 Trillion on a whole new generation of nuclear weapons? Here's what we could do with that money instead:.
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.@BernieSanders is the only top-tier Presidential candidate willing to take on the military-industrial complex and end endless wars. He is the only candidate who has voted against the Iraq war, who voted against the bloated defense budget and wrote the Medicare for All bill.
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The Ben & Jerry's independent board of directors is suing Unilever for violating the merger agreement Jerry and I negotiated in 2000. We're joining @mehdirhasan on @MSNBC tonight to talk about what's at stake for the company & the future of socially responsible business at 8:30p.
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It's been 3 years today since Julian Assange's bail sentence ended. Despite not having been convicted of any crime, he's been held in solitary confinement in Belmarsh prison awaiting extradition to the US for publishing details about war crimes. #FreeAssange.
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Bernie is the front runner! Let's do all we can to get him over the finish line! #BernieBeatsTrump #NotMeUs
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Yo @POTUS, the US is trying to put Assange in jail for life for publishing the truth about war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan. It’s time to end the war on journalism and #freeassange
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Julian Assange’s frustration with the inability to stop the 2003 Iraq invasion, despite the largest, worldwide anti-war protests in history, motivated him to start @wikileaks.
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This is the reason, I'm spending every day working to elect @BernieSanders as the next President of the United States. #Bernie2020 #BernieBeatsTrump #JusticeForAll
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Bernie voted against the Iraq War – one of the worst foreign policy disasters in American history. #CaucusForBernie #IowaToday.
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UPDATE: Jodie and I have been released from police custody after being held for ~3hrs. It's time for @POTUS to follow thru with his promise -- Journalism is NOT a crime. #Dropthecharges and #FreeAssange
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A new poll shows @BernieSanders with a commanding lead over @realDonaldTrump in Michigan! #BernieBeatsTrump #FeeltheBern
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No one should be afraid to go to the doctor because they think they’ll go broke. No one should leave the hospital bankrupt. I’m with @BernieSanders — we must #EliminateMedicalDebt.
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When Ben&Jerry's was sold to Unilever, the agreement gave the independent board of Ben & Jerry’s authority over the social mission. Unilever has usurped its authority and reversed the decision that was made in 2000. We can’t allow that to happen.
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THREAD: One summer, when I was in college, I was stopped by the police for smoking pot. I ended up with a ticket for littering. Over the years I’ve thought about how things could have been different if I were black.
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Assange is now diagnosed with COVID. He’s already weakened by pulmonary problems due to mistreatment in solitary confinement. Stop the torture. Don’t kill the messenger. Drop the Trumped-up charges. There is no free press without a #FreeAssange.
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In NC, black turnout decreased b/c “in 40 heavily black counties, there were 158 fewer early polling places.”
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Bernie will only appoint judges to the Supreme Court who will be committed to repeal #CitizensUnited. #CaucusForBernie.
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Assange is facing prison for telling the truth, while the DoD has entered into more than 15 million contracts with contractors who had been indicted, fined, and/or convicted of fraud. /secrecy/2019/05/defense-contracting-fraud/ #FreeAssange.
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The VA is offering $20 million in prizes for new ideas to reduce suicides among veterans. here's an idea, stop asking people to use robots to rain hellfire on distant shores.
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"Who needs a secretary of defense when you can have a secretary of ice cream?" @BernieSanders #Bernie2020
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I'm going to join @codepink & risk arrest tomorrow (July 6) at the Department of Justice in DC at the Constitution Ave entrance at 1PM to protest the criminalization of the free press and the prosecution of @wikileaks publisher, Julian Assange #FreeAssange.
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"Who am I? I fought for liberty and was deprived of all liberty. I fought for freedom of speech and was denied all speech. I fought for the truth and became the subject of a thousand lies." Julian Assange #FreeAssange.
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There are over 4,500 parties planned all over the country Saturday 4/27! I’ll b at one. Together we can build a better world! Find an #OrganizeWithBernie party near you at
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If I was black, there wouldn’t have been a Ben & Jerry’s. I’m conscious of that. and that’s one of the big reasons I’m supporting @BernieSanders b/c he’s going to put an end to that system. #Bernie2020 #EndProhibition #CannabisCommunity
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Business people need to do more than just say #BlackLivesMatter. They need to walk the talk. Jerry and I are calling on founders, owners, and executives to sign-on to a letter in support of Rep. @justinamash and @RepPressley bill to end qualified immunity
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Nothing is so unstoppable as a flavor whose time has finally come #FeelTheBern #BerniesYearning
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"As long as the Biden administration continues to deploy tools like the Espionage Act to imprison those who dare to expose war crimes, no publisher and no journalist will be safe,"
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BREAKING: Progressive Leaders In All 99 Iowa Counties Endorse @BernieSanders #BernieBeatsTrump #Bernie2020 #IAPolitics #FeelTheBern
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.@agustinduranLA Bernie Sanders is the most popular 2020 candidate among Hispanic voters, new polling finds by @aidachavez --Agustín Darán, Metro Editor for La Opinión.
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If you want to see the US through the eyes of one of our biggest allies, read this letter. 64 Australian Parliamentarians in the @washingtonpost this morning urging the US and @POTUS to stop the attack on Free Press and #FreeAssange
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The young people are speaking up. It's time for us to listen. #Bernie2020 #FeelTheBern #BernieBeatsTrump.
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The single best thing we can do to advance justice -- social, environmental, racial, and economic justice -- is to elect @BernieSanders #Bernie2020 #ClimateCrisis tx u @NaomiAKlein
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Join me and help make history. We need 1 million donations for @BernieSanders by Sunday to show the world that our unprecedented grassroots movement has the power to take on big money special interests, win the Democratic primary and defeat Trump.
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Almost all the early reports on the U.S.-backed Israeli war in Gaza came laced w/lies. I'm thrilled to see the 2023 Pierre Sprey Award recognize some of the journalists providing an accurate account of the war. @MaxBlumenthal @DecampDave @GarethPorter .
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"We have tens of millions of people in the richest country in the history of the world who are struggling every single day to take care of their families in the most basic way." @BernieSanders #Bernie2020
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Me and Jerry setting up to make Bernie's Back. We use the bottom of the pints to create outlines for dropping melted choc to form the discs. #Bernie2020
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"Voters are watching in real-time as @BernieSanders' platform—Medicare for All, a federal housing guarantee, paid leave for everyone, and much else—is looking more and more like a common-sense solution to huge problems."
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The #GOPTaxBillScam, #NetNeutrality, #ANWR, Congress has sold out the American people for campaign contributions and kickbacks. Join me for a massive protest on Jan 21 to #StampMoneyOut
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Bernie will deliver a major speech on how democratic socialism is the only way to defeat the global rise of oligarchy and authoritarianism. Tune in at 2PM ET to watch! #DemocraticSocialism
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"[@BernieSanders] doesn't change things for the public eye. What we need is someone who doesn't do things for the public, but does things because they believe it is morally correct." #Bernie2020 #FeelTheBern #BernieBeatsTrump
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Julian Assange, publisher of @wikileaks exposed war crimes and government lies. So the US is trying to put him in jail for the rest of his life. Join me, @ChrisLynnHedges & more in DC on Oct 8 in solidarity w/ @DEAcampaign in the UK #FreeAssange #HumanChain #SurroundParliament.
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President Biden and AG Garland can make it right and make clear that the US is a beacon for the free press by dropping the charges against Assange immediately. There is no Free Press without a #FreeAssange
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Julian Assange stood up for us by publishing the truth about war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan. Let's stand up for him. Use this tool to send an LTE and urge President Biden to support the freedom of the press and free @wikileaks publisher
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"Julian Assange has long been in solitary-confinement imprisonment in Britain awaiting extradition to America on charges which could bring him 175 years in prison, but he has never been convicted of anything. "
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This article spells out just what @BernieSanders means when he says "Not me. Us." and "Political Revolution" and why Bernie should b the next POTUS. #Bernie2020 #FeelTheBern #BernieBeatsTrump
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The media doesn't talk about it. Congress doesn't talk about it. But the reality is, over the last 30 years, the top 1% gained $21 trillion and the bottom 50% lost $900 billion. Bernie is the only candidate who will reverse our nation's slide into oligarchy. #DemDebate.
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"The International Federation of Journalists, representing more than 600,000 journalists worldwide, calls for Julian Assange's immediate release" #FreeAssangeNOW #JournalismIsNotACrime
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Jerry & I are headed to #NYC -- if you've been waiting to try #BerniesYearning swing by Union Square tomorrow at 5p
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View from my hotel as the national guard packs up and ships out of DC
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The 2020 primary is giving Americans a real choice: "Are we going to settle for a status quo that is leaving so many behind? Or are we going to come together to finally transform our country so that our government works for all of us?" #Bernie2020
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"He is the best journalist of our time in the world. If he is sentenced to die in prison we must start a campaign to tear down the Statue of Liberty. Julian Assange is the Quixote of our time.”.—@lopezobrador_ President of Mexico #FreeAssangeNOW.
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"the cumulative effects of Mr. Assange’s punishment can only be described as “psychological torture.”
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Jerry and I finally found something that we have in common with @realDonaldTrump -- We all love Oreo cookies! In the spirit of Christmas, this is our message to you, Donald. #TaxScam #MerryChristmasAmerica
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I am a member of some of those powerful groups. It is up to us to change this corrupt system. He who is silent consents.
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“Only Bernie Sanders has proven to be an ally and voice for young people throughout his lifetime, and we’re confident that he’ll continue to do so when he’s president,” Sara Castro @IAStudentAction #IAPolitics #Bernie2020 #FeelTheBern.
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We spend 495x more money blowing people up than protecting public health. #GOPDeathPanels.
Ask yourself: How have these priorities made us secure? #DropTheMIC #COVID19. Source: Costs of War Project, Brown University Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs (November 14, 2018)
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If I were Black, I probably would have been arrested, thrown into jail, and ended up with a criminal record. I never would have been able to get a bank loan or help from the SBA. The reality is there would never have been a @benandjerrys.
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President Obama's DOJ rightly concluded that Assange could not be prosecuted without also prosecuting U.S. news organizations and journalists -->
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Yo, #DC Jerry and I are scooping FREE Ice Cream Today (5/20) from 12p to 1p in front of the Supreme Court -- @OurRevolution @CatoInstitute @IJ @Greenpeace @DCJusticeLab are joining to demand Congress #EndQualifiedImmunity -- come by and say hi!.
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Who has power in this country? White people, rich people, politicians, and big business. Until the people with power in America use it to end this affront to our alleged values of fairness, equality and justice, we will continue to be a nation of hypocrites.
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Our country, the last remaining superpower on earth, needs to learn to measure its strength, not in terms of how many people we can kill, but in terms of how many people we can feed, clothe, house, and care for. #GroundTheF35 w/ @codepink.
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People sent nearly 1 million donations to @BernieSanders in the second quarter, surpassing @realDonaldTrump campaign's number by over 250,000 donations. Say it with me: #BernieBeatsTrump! Let's keep it going! #FeelTheBern #Bernie2020
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Me & Jerry w/ the rest of bernie crew assembling for 120th annual Londonderry parade. #bernie2020 #FeelTheBern #nhpolitics
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I don't think Americans would tolerate the repeal of the First Amendment, we should be just as concerned with the groundless prosecution of @wikileaks publisher, Julian Assange
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"The corporate media covers Bernie's campaign while millions of people around the country rise up." @0rf #FeelTheBern #Bernie2020 #BernieBeatsTrump MUST WATCH:
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The only real solution is to end endless wars. Reduce our military footprint around the world, and stop wasting 50+ percent of the discretionary budget on death machines and proxy wars.
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It's time to deliver real economic justice, sign up, get involved, let's win this thing. #Bernie2020 #BernieBeatsTrump #FeelTheBern #HousingForAll
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"The US First Amendment is the gold standard globally on Press Freedom, the prosecution against Julian Assange is the single greatest attack there has been on the first amendment. " @StellaMoris1 #FreeAssange.
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In the time it takes you to read this tweet, the US will have spent $108,828 the Pentagon war machine.
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Way to b rockin, @Mistyrebik! Bernie campaign announces 1,000,000 contacts in #IA! “Pundits in the Beltway might not believe it, but @BernieSanders ’ campaign in Iowa is out-organizing the entire field,” Bernie 2020 Iowa State Director Misty Rebik.
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The US locked up Julian Assange, publisher of @wikileaks, for telling the truth about Afghanistan and Iraq. #FreeAssange cc @ccaryl
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NEW POLL: Sanders at 23%, just 6 points behind first and gaining 12 points in the two months since Biden launched his campaign. Sanders leads the field among voters under age 50, and has a diverse coalition of 23% support from African American voters
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"We support @BernieSanders because he consistently champions our voices, our concerns, and our communities." @lsarsour #Bernie2020
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Q: Who should Democrats nominate to defeat @RealDonaldTrump?.A: The most popular candidate in the field @BernieSanders Source: @538politics -- #FeelTheBern #Bernie2020 #BernieBeatsTrump
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And I know that if George Floyd’s skin color was the same as mine, he’d be alive today.
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Thank you, @BernieSanders for being the spark that helped ignite a political revolution in the US. Campaigns end, but the movement will persist. #MedicareForAll.
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Police violence is not just a Black problem. This is a white problem and for too long, too many white people have sat on their hands while Black people are beaten and killed by bad cops. #mdleg #MDleg #EndQualifiedImmunity #HB1049
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Yo, internet! We need ur help to come up with 7 amazing flavors for 7 amazing up & coming progressives who could be headed to Congress in Nov. To sweeten the deal, Jerry & I will personally make a small batch of each of the winning flavors @MoveOn
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In the spirit of Howard Zinn, we're creating a Facebook page and Twitter account to chronicle the follies of the Military-Industrial Complex and #EndlessWars #DropTheMIC.PLS like our page --> PLS Follow on Twitter -->
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The only obstacle to Justice in the US is the US Senate. That’s why Jerry and I are hand delivering copies of Above The Law: How Qualified Immunity Protects Violent Police to every Senator and urging them to #endqualifiedimmunity
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Tuesday is Election Day in NYC, and I hope you will support @NomikiKonst for Public Advocate. She is a true progressive activist and the independent watchdog NY deserves. Click here to find your polling place and VOTE tomorrow!
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And on top of all that, we could STILL have #MedicareForAll which will provide better care for less money. We could save $10 trillion dollars over the next ten years compared to what Americans are paying for health care now.
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