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Briahna Joy Gray
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I know I'm late to post about this, but this piece from @KeeangaYamahtta is unbelievably good.

jacobinmag.com/2019/06/bernie…
"Among both liberals and the Right, then, there’s been an ingrained acceptance of a minimized role for the state in solving the crisis of inequality in the United States."
"Sanders did not resort to flowery homilies that claim this weaponized racism “isn’t us”.... Instead, he argued that the wealthy use racism to destroy the living standards of ordinary workers by constantly fraying the “mutuality” that otherwise might bind us together."
I'm gonna cry. I feel seen!
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Briahna Joy Gray
@briebriejoy
Bernie's plan helps the next generation by:

1) Capping interest rates
2) Controlling the inflation of tuition costs
3) Making public colleges free

It's skewed toward middle class/low income borrowers, women (who hold 2/3 of debt), & POCs.
Twelve years after starting school, the median black student loan borrower owed more debt than they originally took out.

demos.org/sites/default/…
A study from 2013 found families making less than $60,000 a year took out 280 percent more student loan debt than families making over $100,000 a year.

insidehighered.com/quicktakes/201…
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Briahna Joy Gray
@briebriejoy
Here's someone saying the quiet part loud.

Unfortunately, some folks seem to object to making college truly accessible because they understand the value of their own education is in how exclusive it is.
But your ability to thrive in society should't depend on your admittance to a fancy 40K+ school.

People take out debt to go to "competitive" schools bc it does make a difference re career opportunities-- so much so that even the rich cheat. #collegecheatingscandal
Working class people or people from first generation college families are told that this is the path to accessing the American dream. Then the second we do, we're told we were idiots for thinking we deserved to sit in the same classrooms with rich kids -- getting the same access.
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Briahna Joy Gray
@briebriejoy
I would never talk about Warren's supporters this way.

Young people who are desperate for relief from unprecedented loan burdens are not a "cult." They are 1 group of many that Bernie has committed his life to helping.

You can't expect to win if you don't respect voters.
The tweet is also grossly ill-informed. Bernie’s debt relief plan costs $1.6Trillion. Warren’s costs 1.25T. Bernie didn’t “double” her plan. His plan, uniquely financed by Wall St speculation, is larger because it covers all student debt. And with good reason.
Bernie understands that means tested policies like Warren’s tend to crumble under political pressure from right wingers (& moderates) who attack them as going to “undeserving” people who don’t work hard enough. Think food stamps, section 8, and “welfare.”
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TrekkerTeach
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Those who support #BernieSanders #SinglePayer legislation need to get knowledgeable on the specifics and talk w friends & family about the realities of #MedicareForAll.

Talk about the built-in transition period, the supports for impacted workers, the comprehensive coverage...
A good reference article on #MedicareForAll and some of its lesser-known aspects. It includes summaries from the PERI report plus details about the transition period and supports for impacted workers...

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Greg Palast
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Beware of the coming repeat of the 2016 theft of the California primary from #Bernie. The CA primary will have an outsize impact on the nomination.
Is the fix in? Secretary of State Alex Padilla — the Katherine Harris of California — in charge of the vote, is backing Kamala Harris (as she endorsed him last year). politico.com/story/2019/02/…
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@intheMatrixxx @POTUS With the help of Qresearchboard, is how I found the Nunes feed, names a friend of his: Michael Doran @doran - post#835252 & #834796 from 8chanBoards led me directly to article ...

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LOrion
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Published AUG 2016 after #Bernie flipped and slammed Hillary … @ericgarland THREAD what we (#ProDemocracy) had been watching. America doesn’t just have a problem with #Fascist#Trumpies on Right THEY have problem at other side of political Horseshoe too tinyurl.com/y9yznpqt
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BernieBro Kavn:#Bernie2020🔥 will #FreeAngryBerner
@kavn
To that point. it is also, IMHO, about Character and Leadership ...
🔸about the ability to achieve those same policies
🔸the fight in the person
🔸the aptitude for achieving within a group
I may not be saying this very well, but these things matter.
Really?!!
[I'm going to bring this back into the convo thread]

So .. REALLY ?! Come on now. Here's a little of what #Bernie achieved as an Indie in Congress DURING that period..
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Josh Russell
@josh_emerson
Based on this nbc data you can still find lots of bot/troll accounts twitter missed.
how to:
Search hashtags ON a date.
Search for the actual tweets.
the accounts all "look" the same, low status counts, low follower counts, created at the same tnbcnews.com/tech/social-me…gbquNiCcd2
just using that and a tip from @z3dster gets me 6 accounts to look at.

@MarlonStepherd
@Mich_Heart_Rt
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@Joe_B_R
@worynynizuzy
@rogyvahumin

those are all troll factory/internet research agency accounts.
so pull the accounts that follow them.
you get all these shady looking accounts with the same stats.
drop the false positives, drop the duplicates. you get about 180 accounts worth looking at.
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