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Rep. Joe Kennedy III @RepJoeKennedy
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You might not know this about me, but I'm a white guy. And as a white guy, I would encourage @realDonaldTrump & his fellow GOP white guys to consult a not-white-guy in their efforts to enact comprehensive immigration reform in less than 24 hours.
Might just be my cautious side but it feels like there could be unforeseen consequences like entire families being indefinitely locked in cages. Just my 2 cents.
Or taxpayers being asked to spend an extra $100 billion on a wall that @realDonaldTrump promised we wouldn’t pay for…
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They tried to repeal it through Congress. They failed over 60 times.

They tried lawsuits to the Supreme Court. They failed twice.

They tried to undermine it administratively. They failed again.
They found one judge to agree, and now Medicaid expansion could be gone, preexisting condition protections could be wiped out, prices skyrocket and millions lose insurance.

And they call that success.
Remember the millions of voices they ignore, the election they forget and the countless lies they told over this campaign. Remember every one of them.
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Weaponizing critical worker benefits to gain contract concessions has become a too common and toxic corporate practice. National Grid chose to lock out their workers, at great expense to the impacted employees, their families, and our entire Commonwealth. (1/4)
While that choice is theirs to make, they should be held financially accountable for its impact. (2/4)
I applaud the leadership of @SpeakerDeLeo and @RepTonyCabral in stepping up for Massachusetts workers and making it clear their government has their back. I encourage the Senate and Governor Baker to follow suit. (3/4)
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On #TDOR, we say their names because all of our trans brothers and sisters lost to violence and hatred are missed and are loved. Our pursuit of justice and equality continues in their names. (1/3)
Christa Leigh Steele-Knudslien. Viccky Gutierrez. Celine Walker. Tonya Harvey. Zakaria Fry. Phylicia Mitchell. Amia Tyrae Berryman. Sasha Wall. Karla Patricia Flores-Pavón. Nino Fortson. Gigi Pierce. Antash'a English. Diamond Stephens. (2/3)
Cathalina Christina James. Keisha Wells. Sasha Garden. Vontashia Bell. Dejanay Stanton. Shantee Tucker. Londonn Moore. Nikki Enriquez. Ciara Minaj Carter Frazier. (3/3)
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@davidfrum @TheAtlantic This has nothing to do with enforcement. The president is claimig the immigrants coming to our country are some kind of ‘liberal plot’ or somehow associated with the Democratic party - this is a lie. Democrats want border enforcement too - we just don’t think a wall makes sense.
@davidfrum @TheAtlantic You of all people should recognize that this entire story is a propaganda piece being used by the President & his alt-reich pals to create a kind of xenophobic fury in order to get more votes for the midterms. There’s a discussion re enforcement but this is a false narrative.
@davidfrum @TheAtlantic The majority of Dem voters are in favor of border enforcement- it’s just not high on the list of priorities given the current state of our country/ politics. Democratic leaders have voted for stronger border enforcement very recently & have been pushing for immigration reforms.
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Guys, I can't find the statements from Congressional leadership (@SpeakerRyan and @SenateMajLdr twitter accts are working today) RE: Mueller's latest indictment.Surely,they've got some comments about this indictment to reassure Americans that this aggression will not stand. Help.
2/ It's 25minutes until the close of the business day in DC and these two bozos ( @SpeakerRyan and @SenateMajLdr ) are silent going into the weekend. We knew they were spineless before, but today's silence takes the spinelessness to a new level.
3/ Cowardly. Neither @SpeakerRyan and @SenateMajLdr are willing to personally make a comment.
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I have been battling a new health crisis since my surgery was postponed June 15.

There is no way to adequately articulate--even as a writer--the breadth of hardship inflicted on sick Americans by the Trump presidency & Trump-led #GOP, like lame-duck @SpeakerRyan.
#healthcare
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The @CDCgov cites 133M as the number of chronically-ill Americans who have #cancer, like I do, or another illness that impedes their daily lives.

The majority of that 40% of the US population still have to work despite often disabling illness because we cannot afford not to.
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I've been writing about #healthcare in America since I was a cub reporter and put on a small story in the mid-80s that turned into a much bigger story: #AIDS.

When you're in your 20s writing about other 20somethings dying, it changes you.

Then I got #breastcancer at 26.
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🛑BREAKING🛑

THREAD: Cambridge Analytica (CA) assigned dozens of non-US citizens to provide campaign strategy and messaging advice to ­#Republican candidates in 2014, even as an attorney *warned* CA that this was ILLEGAL‼️1/

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This ILLEGAL effort to embed foreign workers was designed to present Cambridge Analytica, whose parent, SCL Group, was based in London, as “an American brand” to appeal to U.S. political clients.🙄 2/
U.S. election laws CLEARLY say that foreign nationals (w/o a green card) must not “directly or indirectly participate in the decision-making process” of a political campaign, although they can play lesser roles.🤨 3/

#Busted
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As you might know, I'm a #FormerGOP .

I voted Republican loyally for over 30 years. But when Trump won the Primary, I was able to see the true and dispicably UGLY face of my party, and I have never gone back again.
Many wonderful people in #TheResistance have taken me in, educated me, and helped me to become a much better person. They have helped me to realize that so many of my hard-core, basic beliefs were incompatible with voting Republican.

I owe you all so many thanks for that!
Today, I learned something else...

When I first saw the #Rose 🌹 symbol in various profiles, I googled it and also asked some people who were using it, what it meant. I was told it was just a symbol of #Resistance, & I thought it was no different than the #Omega / #Ohm symbol.
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You needn't be a fan of Wolff's work to know #FireAndFury depicts a Trump who is dangerously incompetent and utterly lacking in either self-control or control of his own @WhiteHouse.

#GOP leadership can dismiss #SteveBannon, but they cannot ignore the state of the presidency.
What's onerous for #GOP leadership & problematic in recent @nytimes reporting of Trump as merely a guy who's changing things up, is Trump's still the one in charge of the country.

Trump's nearly provoked a nuclear war and threatened a private citizen with jail.

He's dangerous.
Many (inexplicably) believed @GenJohnKelly would pull Trump's @WhiteHouse together as Chief of Staff.But other than several firings--including of #Bannon--and an embarrassing attack on a black Congresswoman, Kelly's been MIA & Trump is worse than ever.

#FireAndFury exposes this.
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