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Victoria Brownworth 🏳️‍🌈
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Critically important here is that #Biden demanded an apology from #Booker and his wife said on a TV special orchestrated by Biden that "America didn't buy it" about #Harris saying exactly this. Biden's team called Harris "slippery and slick." "Jungle" is such a dog whistle, too.
Why on Earth would you want to promote a candidate with questionable history on race when that is a key issue with Trump? No one is claiming #Biden = Trump, but anyone can hear the debate question right now. And this gives cover for racist white voters.
Biden has consistently asserted "everyone" knows he was in the forefront on Civil Rights, but in fact, no one knows that. There are numerous videos of Biden saying things most would consider questionable at best. Democrats need the strongest candidate, not the most vulnerable.
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Victoria Brownworth 🏳️‍🌈
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When I covered the #SCOTUS for three years, #JohnPaulStevens was one of the great stalwart justices. He was an extraordinary jurist and I feel grateful to have witnessed him on the bench. He penned so many great rulings and dissents.
In 2000, it was Stevens who spoke out against the SCOTUS end run against the election. It was a fundamentally important dissent that was sadly prescient.
Stevens was 99 & died as the result of a stroke he suffered yesterday. His was a life well lived in service to this country,
My thoughts are with #JohnPaulStevens' family and others who loved him. His decency was equal to his intellect. There are few enough about whom that can be said.
#RIP
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Victoria Brownworth 🏳️‍🌈
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Just got a breaking news text from #PlannedParenthood that Dr. #LeanaWen is out and #AlexisMcGill is in and I think this is the strangest story ever in a day chock full of really strange news.
Not my beat, but I sure do want to know what the actual story is.
The "secret meeting" part is concerning. Why did the meeting have to be secret and why wasn't #LeanaWen just told outright, "Listen, you just aren't fighting back hard enough when abortion rights are being trampled across the country." How hard would that have been?
Dealing with conflict this way--when so much time went into finding Wen to replace #CecileRichards after a decade--just looks like there was something else going on. This lack of transparency is an unforced error on #PlannedParenthood's part when PP can least afford that.
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Victoria Brownworth 🏳️‍🌈
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Sanders campaign: Media ‘find Bernie annoying, discount his seriousness’ politi.co/2JGNNNv via @politico
#Bernie looking for some way to again claim that the white male system that has kept him in office for 40yrs is in fact rigged against him, not against women and POC.
If people love your message, you can't hold them back. Yet Sanders lost in a landslide of 4M votes in 2016.
Maybe the fact is what works for Vermont--America's whitest and 2nd least populous state with only 620k people--doesn't work for the country, which is 40 percent POC and eager for a fresh new vision for the nation. Maybe that is Bernie's real problem. Not the press.
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We’re about to be dragged through a bunch of tedious popular media debates over whether Julian Assange “is a journalist.” Let me save you some time: No, and the question is irrelevant.
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