Pavan Venkatakrishnan
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Manchin in WV: "We had a Senator from Arizona who basically didn't let us go as far as we needed to go with our [prescription drug pricing] negotiations and made us wait two years"
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After two losses in a row, a candidate must accept that maybe voters simply don't like them.
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The correct take is that Peltola’s win proves moderating on certain issues important to your constituency (in her case, energy and guns) while staying loyal to Party stances on taxes and healthcare are a winning play for red state Democrats.
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This is it. This is what revitalizing states like Kentucky and WV looks like. Not “learn to code”. But creating real opportunities.
. coal miner Travis Elswick has struggled to provide for his daughter, 11, since he was laid off in 2015
But he recently learned of a new opportunity — a next-gen battery firm, powered by IRA $, hiring coal miners for new WV plant
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It's just galling and irritating to think about the amount of times that people on here told us that they needed to be convinced to vote for Democrats in the fall, that they needed some sort of incentive, that if only we cancelled student loan debt or enacted M4A, they would care
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Trump tried to get him killed lol
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C-Span should control their cameras this Congress. How many more people tuned into this process because the camera actually gave them a window into the lawmaking process? Probably a fair number.
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"Well, that's not what happened ... he was telling a story ... he doesn't talk like a traditional politician ... I have zero concern" -- Marco Rubio *defends* Trump saying that he'd encourage Russian to attack NATO countries
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The Cheney takes are getting worse. “Actually Cheney is bad” is another one of them. I’m not ever gonna support or vote for her for President. I disagree with her on most issues. That doesn’t make her heroism any less significant.
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Orrin Hatch’s greatest achievement, to me, was his fight to pass CHIP. He fought members of his own party to make it happen. He said “we have a moral responsibility” to enact CHIP because as he rightly put it, “children without healthcare are scarred for the rest of their lives.”
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Again if you’re arguing for student loan debt cancellation on any kind of policy basis aside from a belief that all college should be free, the data is clear: if not properly means tested and otherwise targeted, this is a giveaway to wealthy, white, graduate school grads.
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@dieworkwear
It’s crazy to me that people buy loads and loads of shein garbage without even the slightest thought of “wow, I wonder why these clothes are all only a few dollars a piece”
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Manchin and Sinema both vote to waive parliamentarian’s ruling on the insulin cap.
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Very bad sign for the Republican Party if a reasonable Congressman like David McKinley’s lifetime of service to his constituents can be overwhelmed by a Trump endorsement for a candidate who isn’t even from the state.
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How employees of the 100 employers with the most donors donated.
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Not the first to note this, but Jared Golden is basically what a Democrat in a red state/district should look like. Doesn't whiff on the core convictions of a D: support for higher taxes on the wealthy/corps + a more expansive social safety net + commitment to equal rights, but..
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Yes, why would Republicans vote for a bill that could hugely help energy projects of all types get off the ground when they could play partisan games?
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@besttrousers
@JeffBezos
@LHSummers
Gonna boost this fact check so Bezos sees it in his verified notifs
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One of the few things every ideological wing of the Democratic Party agrees on is that Pete has done a pretty good job at DOT.
If you want to know Biden's problem, consider that Pete Buttigieg is an unmitigated catastrophe at the Department of Transportation. Yet there's no criticism at all of his tenure on the Hill or within partisan media. The Dem political machine has no feedback loop to reality.
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Joe Biden is President of the United States. Pete Buttigieg is the most powerful Secretary of Transportation ever. I’d say that they did pretty well for themselves.
@ppavnr
You worked for biden & pete, I really do not think you should be allowed to add to public discourse on, well, anything
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Abundantly clear that she’s getting a bunch of shit for doing what most people her age do because she happens to be a woman leading a country.
“I did nothing illegal,” Sanna Marin said at a Helsinki news conference Friday. “Even in my teenage years I have not used any kind of drugs.”
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Things only Barack Obama can do, show up to a state dinner without being invited AND leave early
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Umichvoter dude obviously operating on the delusion that if Biden stepped aside, it would be whitmer rather than Harris. Everyone’s got some agenda here
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An inconvenient truth for a lot of the climate activists opposed to permitting reform is that Joe Manchin is more of a climate champion than they are.
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Goes on to say that he doesn’t question how anyone responds to their “constituent base”…
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Doing my part, sending the Elon poll with “VOTE YES” in all caps to my Twitter lurker parents
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Not a partisan matter, it is absolutely not true in any way that Trump handed Biden a “booming” economy.
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“We will be caged no longer” says international affairs student at the George Washington University
George Washington University Students for Justice in Palestine weigh in on the devastation in Israel: "WE WILL BE CAGED NO LONGER."
These are DC college students.
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Far from the worst part of this, but Alito writes "Roe and Casey have enflamed debate and deepened division" in his opinion... as if overturning both precedents will not endanger women, stoke division, and divide our nation further?
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has successfully differentiated himself from the national Democratic Party brand on key issues for his district. And he's become an electoral juggernaut who Republicans are struggling to characterize and generally flailing against.
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Remember when people were writing profiles about her in major media outlets
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Well, here's the incentive. Roe is not the only precedent on the line.
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I have talked with many DC friends who have been puzzled at Cheney's motivations. I heard "maybe she wants a corporate board seat", "maybe she wants to run for President", "maybe she misread the winds on J6 and had to stick with it." She did the right thing because it was right.
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Springfield could be your town next. No, not immigrants eating cats and geese. Irresponsible political leaders exploiting the struggles of your community for cheap political points.
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Continues: "I could not BELIEVE that [Republicans] could not agree on a 15% minimum for the largest corporations in the world that have a billion dollars of book revenue... I'll be damned, if they didn't come out of the woodwork."
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Seeing zero-COVID twitter is like living in a fantasy world which is stuck in some sort of March-April 2020 loop
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Can confidently state that there will be zero D votes for McCarthy.
Something I'm looking into: what will Democrats do? Could any of the Problem Solvers Caucus types throw McCarthy a vote, should the chaos reach a breaking point on the floor? With Spk Pelosi exiting the speakership, will there be more fluidity on the Democratic side to consider?
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Libs of TikTok did an interview with someone who still wears a mask in 2024 and managed to come off as the more deranged one
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Manchin: "Now [Republicans] are saying he betrayed us, he's gone this way now, ok so I'm the villain... I can be the hero and the villain all in a 24 hour period."
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She didn’t “do the bare minimum”, she burnt her political career on the pyre for no reason other than to do what was right for the country.
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Lots of people, including progressives, President Biden, and D congressional leadership misread Joe Manchin. But at possibly the most critical moment in the entire reconciliation negotiation, Republicans screwed it up.
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"A good starting point would be for everyone to admit that this approach isn’t just a second-best alternative to Build Back Better, it’s actually superior — and that the senator from West Virginia has had a point all along."
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Obviously contravening circumstances here like Palin’s unpopularity, Native voter power, and RCV, but if there’s a messaging takeaway, it’s this.
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Democrats did something historically impressive: they convinced millions of independents that the midterms were NOT a referendum on the current President's performance.
It wasn't about a massive jump in Gen Z turnout or something like that.
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Democrats managed to persuade tons of indies who disapproved of Biden to back their candidates but instead folks are intent on giving 100% of the credit to Gen Z voters
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Vivek is the average bluecheck twitter user personified
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@brianschatz
on permitting reform: "If we’re going to actually meet our clean energy goals, we’re going to need to build big planet-saving projects, and that means the federal regulations that slow them down have to be looked at very carefully.”
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Hell of an ad, agree or not
New Hampshire —
If you want normal, you have to actually vote for someone that’s normal.
Vote tomorrow. Stop Trump.
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Genuinely touching moment as Leahy is wheeled onto the floor and Democrats, particularly Whitehouse, cheer.
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My dad showed me an Occupy Democrats tweet and asked me if it was true, in a moment of panic, I took his phone, muted the account, and swiftly followed Matthew Yglesias
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You can ask to be called whatever you want but in general really weird to get prickly about how you’re addressed on a casual platform. Like, you held this office a decade ago.
1. We are not on a first name basis.
2. My name is Senator Turner, former Ohio Senate Minority Whip.
3. As someone who has whipped votes and passed legislation, you did not explain the legislative process, there was no mention of votes needed vs. votes short on the filibuster.
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Comments on TikTok CEO’s vid opposing House bill. It’s over.
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She ran on the truth and making her state’s electorate confront it. She didn’t retire into the night, never to return. I doubt many people shittalking her would have the same stones.
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From
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Many young people seem to be fundamentally unable to recognize that people, politics, and the world are complex and messy. Leads to the TikTok activism, cancel culture, and echo chambers that are stifling political thought among a whole generation.
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The more energy we produce here at home, the less dependent we are on OPEC+… permitting reform is a national security issue
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Manchin defending IRA in response to WV Coal Association:
"We have no choice but to focus on innovation, diversification of both uses for our coal and for our economy, new opportunities for our communities, and taking care of the families who have sacrificed so much for...
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Me watching this thread
🚨 The long-awaited Manchin-Barrasso permitting reform bill is finally out! 🚨
The bipartisan bill strikes a deal on transmission, includes modest NEPA changes, and modernizes leasing for oil, gas, geothermal, and offshore oil and wind.
Some live notes as I read the bill…
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Today in reconciliation: Punchbowl reports Democrats are “closer than ever” to a deal and that Democrats plan to include ACA subsidies; Roll Call reports a potential framework will raise 1T in revenue (500B in spending).
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It’s worth noting though, he tarnished this important legacy with his concerted efforts to repeal the ACA
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I think it’s deeply disappointing and saddening that Gosar hasn’t been expelled from congress yet.
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Bringing up this bill instead of the Collins bill is just bad strategy. We have 52 votes for the latter.
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No Bibi fan but these Instagram infographics kill me. Yeah, I wonder why he rejected an offer that explicitly included “leaving Hamas intact”
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“Over a lunch choice of chicken or fish, Manchin told the crowd of donors that he plans to run for reelection in 2024.”
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I fail to understand why well-off people having loans to pay off is a crisis.
Student debt is a $1.9T crisis. Reducing it to $1.7T isn’t solving the crisis.
That’s what canceling $10,000 of student debt would do.
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Have learned that “never tweet” was in fact good advice
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These guys do a great disservice to their movement by being insufferable weird losers
everything this man said right here. our boycott is PERMANENT.
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Obviously not a Fetterman fan, but he is better than any emerging Republican candidate on literally every issue and we should all work hard to ensure he reaches the US Senate
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Sinema votes to waive parliamentarian’s ruling on insulin cap.
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To be clear, I'm not talking about progressives, like Bernie or Warren voters. They did their jobs. I'm talking about the dumb sect of people online who give us hell everyday for believing that there are a number of good reasons to vote for Democrats.
It's just galling and irritating to think about the amount of times that people on here told us that they needed to be convinced to vote for Democrats in the fall, that they needed some sort of incentive, that if only we cancelled student loan debt or enacted M4A, they would care
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The thesis of the “don’t means test student loan forgiveness” people appears to be that we should all care that people making 200k+ a year/jointly filing for 400k+ aren’t getting their loans forgiven
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To run against and beat a convicted felon, democrats must nominate one themselves. My humble suggestion for VP.
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Walked past a cop on the street near the GW encampment no joke telling his buddies in blue about how TCJA blew up the debt. Unreal and love to see it
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@vahairyuh
I guess the clearest evidence is that if we had gotten a few more votes in 2016, this ruling would not have occurred. And that Democrats in power since then have used every opportunity to populate the judiciary with young, pro-choice justices.
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I’m not sure I get your logic. You want Kelly, a swing state member, to go on CNN and disparage Republican colleagues while also depending on a few Republicans and a whole bunch independents to carry him to victory?
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The IRA gives us a pathway to climate success, but it doesn’t necessarily guarantee that projects get completed. That’s where permitting reform comes in.
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