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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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We are already feeling the early nightmares of climate crisis, & the GOP is doing nothing to stop it - as they have for years.

I’ve been reading docs all week about how much people knew about climate + when.

They knew early. & Their goal has been to sow doubt this entire time.
Do you really think these increasingly regular & horrific wildfires & droughts are a coincidence?

That growing regularity of “100-year floods” is an accident?

We are losing our homes & loved ones *now.* 3,000 Americans died in María.

And GOP doesn’t even care enough to try.
If you want to read more, here’s a starter:
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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This moment made conservatives so mad.

In the larger context of this video, I was talking to young girls about President Roosevelt’s “Man in the Arena”:

"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds... /1
“...could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming...” /2
”...but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause;who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly...” /3
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
@AOC
Leadership starts with our choices.

That’s why I decided that no one on my staff will make less than $52k/year.

It’s likely one of the highest entry-level salaries on the Hill. We pinch pennies elsewhere, but it’s worth every dime to pay a living wage.
rollcall.com/news/congress/…
A lot of people commenting don’t know how Congressional salaries work.

Each member is given a set amount that they disburse. GOP has refused to increase budgets in years to give hard-working staff a raise, which means people helping to run the country are getting paid $30k/year.
It’s pretty sad that people think low Congressional staff pay is a good thing.

Low pay a big reason why money in politics is a problem - you can make a lot more money becoming a lobbyist & setting up a relationship w/ one, since the actual job doesn’t pay enough.

Domino effect.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
@AOC
Not sure how many pundits talking about Amazon even read the deal or where it was going.

$500+ million of the deal was *capital grants.*

$2.5 billion in tax breaks.

It’s fair to ask why we don’t invest the capital for public use, + why we don’t give working people a tax break.
Frankly, the knee-jerk reaction assuming that I “don’t understand” how tax giveaways to corps work is disappointing.

No, it’s not possible that I could come to a different conclusion. The debate *must* be over my intelligence & understanding, instead of the merits of the deal.
There’s NO WAY that this deal - one of the biggest giveaways in state history - could possibly have been bad, right?

Surely there can’t be anything wrong with suddenly announcing a massive restructuring & pricing out of a community without any advance notice or input from them.
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This quote from Andrew Ferguson nails something I've been trying to say, but in reverse.
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Tim Hogan
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1. @JillWineBanks, who was on Watergate prosecution team, is right. There's no bar to charging a President. If the DOJ doesn't, it's for political reasons. It's not mandated by the law or Constitution. Read the DOJ 2000 memo. It's a policy statements. Trump can be charged.
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Let's do a little history lesson on The Heritage Front in Canada.
Why? Because it's connected to the resurgence of neo-nazis and violent hate groups in the US today.
That's Ezra Levant on the cover of this Heritage Front edition.
Ezra Levant = founder of The Rebel Media in Canada.
They hired Laura Loomer, Jack Posobiec, and Lauren Southern, all of whom are American provokunts.
Jack Posobiec was on the Rebel Media payroll when Macron Leaks went down.
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John Schindler
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Look, folks: CI people in the IC were in complete panic in 2016 -- not that Obama WH listened much -- since they KNEW who Trump really was.
2/ OK, time for a mini-rant cum tweetstorm on this since Planet Fox is up in arms now trying to crush the Muller investigation and the FBI.
CI professionals in the IC have known for MANY YEARS that Trump possessed strange, disconcerting ties to the Kremlin. Going back to 80s. /3
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