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Ashton Pittman
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Welp. Unionizing the Revolution was great PR, at least:

“Bernie Sanders' unionized staff wants a $15 per hour living wage & 100% paid health care for those earning under $60k. The campaign leadership has thus far resisted.”

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ washingtonpost.com/politics/labor…
“I am struggling financially to do my job...we’ve already had 4 people quit in the past 4 weeks bc of financial struggles,” wrote a Bernie Sanders organizer.

Another employee said his co-workers “shouldn’t have to get payday loans to sustain themselves.”
washingtonpost.com/politics/labor…
Another Bernie Sanders staffer said the campaign needs to pay higher wages wages “because I need to be able to feed myself.”
washingtonpost.com/politics/labor…
Meanwhile, Sanders is using a video to push McDonald’s to raise its minimum wage:

“Today, we say as loudly and clearly as we can to McDonald’s: Pay your workers a living wage and negotiate with a union!” Sanders says as the video concludes.
washingtonpost.com/politics/labor…
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THREAD: Republican senate candidate Mario Barnes is promoting his campaign with a video showing him punching a man who “questioned” him.

Supporters enthusiastically applauded the pro-Trump candidate for it at a campaign event. #MSelex 1/
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This clip shows Mississippi Senate District 5 candidate Mario Barnes punching voter Lance Acton in Sept. 2018. Barnes says Acton questioned his military service. He is using this clip to promote his campaign after supporters cheered when he told the story. #MSelex 2/
The victim called Tupelo police, but new footage shows officers praising Senate candidate Mario Barnes for “whippin’ that ass.”

Officer 1: “I’m good with that!”

Officer 2: “That’s what I said, shit!”

1: “Rock on, brotha.”

2: “I bet he won’t question him next time.” #MSelex 3/
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Ashton Pittman
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NADIA MURAD: ISIS murdered my mother & six brothers.
TRUMP: ”Where are they now?”
MURAD: “They killed them. They’re in the mass grave in Sinjar. I’m still fighting just to live in safety.”
TRUMP: “I know the area very well that you’re talking about.” washingtonpost.com/politics/a-yaz…
TRUMP: “And they gave you a Nobel Peace Prize? For what reason?”

MURAD: “For what reason? For, after all this happened to me, I didn’t give up. I made it clear to everyone that ISIS raped thousands of Yazidi women.”

TRUMP: “Oh, really, is that right? So you escaped.”
MURAD: “I escaped, but I don’t have my freedom yet.”
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Ashton Pittman
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Democrat Jim Hood says his GOP rivals are “ridiculous” for refusing to meet with women alone:

“If I couldn’t meet with women alone to discuss issues important to them and to Mississippi, I wouldn’t be able to do my job,” the AG said. #MSelex #MSGov
jacksonfreepress.com/news/2019/jul/…
AG Hood says he will right for equal pay, right domestic violence, and provide economic opportunities for women: “I will do all these things while meeting with women—alone if necessary—to hear their voices & champion their causes,” @HoodForGovernor said.
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*fight domestic violence, not right
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Josh Eidelson
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Recently Uber has used its app to tell drivers that "Recent changes to California law could threaten your access to flexible work with Uber," & ask them to sign a petition to get the state legislature "to modernize the law".

Here's some context on what's afoot & what's at stake.
In 2018, CA's supreme court issued a sweeping ruling establishing that if workers aren't conducting “work that it outside the usual course” of a firm’s business, then under CA wage law they're employees entitled to protections - not independent contractors bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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Long, thoughtful, fascinating exploration of #Bernie's history. This narrative makes Bernie immensely more accessible and even likeable. His long financial origin story is quintessentially American in its working-class to riches trajectory.
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I've written about #Sanders over the years and like most leftists, thought his politics were an essential prod to others in Congress. But there are details of his political history here that #Bernie should be pushing instead of hiding: like that he was a Harvard fellow.
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Bernie Sanders in South Carolina: "Today we talk about justice and today we talk about racism. And I must tell you, it gives me no pleasure to tell you that we now have a president of the United States who is a racist."
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I have a few things to say about this piece that just dropped...

Why the #Bernie Movement Must Crush #BetoORourke
nymag.com/intelligencer/…
The insistence by white male writers that there is a two-white-man race out there between Bernie & Beto is so deeply, stunningly misogynist, it takes my breath away.

How is it POSSIBLE that these folks missed the blue wave which was fundamentally female--driven by women voters?
Not just driven by women voters, but driven by women candidates. Left-leaning women candidates, including WOC who ousted long-time older white male incumbents like....Bernie Sanders.

How is anyone missing this fact?
It's a major reason why Sanders' numbers have plummeted.
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Happening in 2018, in the wealthiest, the most powerful country. We've got to get our priorities straight and finally have the backs of our heroic public school teachers. time.com/longform/teach…
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It’s such a lie that millennials hate boobs, every millennial I know wrote the word boobs using their calculator in middle school and thought it was the greatest thing in the world
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