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Sheldon Whitehouse @SenWhitehouse
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Right now, budget resolutions often turn into blunt instruments to help the majority ram through partisan agendas or score cheap political points.

The resulting gridlock, showdowns, and shutdowns don’t help solve our debt and deficit problem.
My bipartisan amendment with @sendavidperdue and Sen. @RoyBlunt lets Republicans and Democrats work across the aisle to tackle the big issues.
I am grateful for the support of my colleagues on the Joint Select Committee on Budget and Appropriations Process and believe this amendment will help restore meaning to the congressional budget process. whitehouse.senate.gov/news/release/b…
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This is such bull***t.

First it was a hoax.

Then the science was uncertain.

Then we were “alarmists.”

Then any fix was too expensive.

Now it will be fixed with “innovation.”

thehill.com/policy/energy-…
As the truth emerges, they just fall back to a more credible trench to defend the same industry and its same smelly lies and big fat subsidy.

Give me a break.

Want “innovation”?

Put a #priceoncarbon, so you can reward investors in #carbon reduction;

Strip this crooked industry of its $700 billon/yr subsidy (just in US, per @IMFNews);
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Thank you to @MeetThePress for doing a Sunday show on climate change — at last.

Usually these Sunday shows are televised gossip columns, and climate change and other key issues are never discussed.
Good for you, @chucktodd.

At this stage, #climate denial is fraud, and it has been for a long time — particularly as practiced by the fossil fuel industry and its armada of phony front groups. thehill.com/homenews/sunda…
Precisely... axios.com/climate-change…
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I must respectfully disagree with my friend @SenJohnBarrasso ’s Op-Ed on the @nytimes.

I will explain why in this thread⬇️ nytimes.com/2018/12/18/opi…
1️⃣ The referendum result in Washington State looked like more relentless campaigning by the fossil fuel industry against #climate action;

without that industry onslaught, the #carbontax referendum there would probably have passed.

nytimes.com/2018/12/30/opi…
2️⃣ A #carbontax is not “expensive,” as in our proposals all the money goes back to the public.

Taxing #carbon moves energy markets toward cheaper renewables.
On balance, people save money.

Don’t forget that the savings from avoiding #climate catastrophes are immense.
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TIME's Person of the Year is journalists, including Jamal Khashoggi, who was killed in a Saudia Arabian embassy.

You know who they never mentioned? Jerry Wolkowitz, a white male journalist, who was brutally assaulted and killed in NJ because of his race.
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"'The investigation determined that the defendant targeted the victim because of his race,' Swendeman said at the time, adding that Hubbard, who is black, and Wolkowitz, who is white, did not know each other."
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This story was so widely ignored in 2018, which is infuriating. The media pick and choose who they care about to score cheap political points.
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Because of course @AndrewScheer refuses to address the issue of violence against women in rural work camps to score cheap political points. A #Thread on the horrific record of the @CPC_HQ on women's issues. #cdnpoli #feminism #cdnmedia
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- Under Harper, Canada fell from #1 in the world for gender equality to #18 in 2011.
- Canada's gender pay gap was the world’s seventh best in 2004, but dropped to 25th place by 2009. #feminism #cdnpoli
- The Harper Government Harper government closed 12 of 16 Status of Women regional offices, and cut its budget by 34%
- It also cut funding for over 41 women's organizations. These include women’s shelters, advocates for women's health, equality and security. #feminism #cdnpoli
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Ok time to weigh into this Naija public debt argument. Probably late on twitter street but this is for some of my followers who have asked for my opinion.

So how much is Nigeria actually owing the world? Let’s explain
As you may well know, our public debt profile (FG & sates) is divided into dollar & naira.

Dollar portion is $22b & used to be $10.3b as at June 2015 when PMB took over.

Naira portion is N15.6tr & used to be N10tr in June 2015
So dollar potion has risen by over 120% while naira portion has risen by over 56%.

This should be fairly easy for anyone to discern.
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1 The @NYTimes #anonymous op-ed, annotated.
"We want the administration to succeed." Trump is useful to us. We think an unhinged, racist, sexist, p-grabbing president is a small price to pay...to have a smaller price to pay the IRS.
nyti.ms/2CyF3Jh
2 "and think that many of its policies have already made America safer and more prosperous." Suck it, polar bears (see more on "deregulation" below).
3 "the president continues to act in a manner that is detrimental to the health of our republic." ...except that America is safer and more prosperous now. Hold the phone- is this even about policy???
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I am really loving this new right-wing discovery of the horrors of the criminal justice system.

I can't wait for everyone to join together to reform mass incarceration.

You'll all stand with us, right?

...right?
I mean...

You wouldn't point out the depravity and unusual cruelty of the prison system in which we house 2.3 million of our citizens just to score cheap political points would you?

Nah. You had to be using your platform to stop torturous practices like solitary, right?
I'm presuming because only a monster would illuminate a routine abuse in the prison system to make a political point if they didn't mean to then go on to advocate against it.

And you aren't a monster. So I'm asking. Where do I sign up for your anti-prison torture initiative?
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Thinking about the children separated from their parents by US Border Patrol is testing my usual historian’s reluctance to compare anything to the Nazis. I don’t think the US is planning a genocide. But I do think this policy is designed to provoke terror by echoing history.
Separating children from their parents is something that happens before or during genocides - Germany etc, Armenia, Cambodia, & Rwanda too I think - & it has also been a policy in “cultural genocides”, eg of Indigenous Australians & First Nation Canadians.
The point of separating children from their parents is to break people’s spirits completely. It’s the most terrifying thing imaginable for most children and parents. It says: you are no longer a person with rights. The state owns your whole existence. It can do anything to you.
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