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Victoria Brownworth
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Extraordinary piece from @nytimes on #LGBTQforum
In the relentless MSM effort to keep Biden ascendant, zero mention of @KamalaHarris and her long record on groundbreaking support for LGBTQ people.
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 Joe Biden Has Tense Exchange Over L.G.B.T.Q. Record nyti.ms/30cyzdl
Nor was there any mention of @ewarren's deeply moving recitation of the names of murdered trans women--18 this year so far, two in 10 days. No mention of @amyklobuchar who got fierce applause, nor @JulianCastro, a longtime LGBTQ supporter.
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 #LGBTQforum
While @CoryBooker Is mentioned, it is mostly reactively to Biden. With the exception of @KamalaHarris, few Dem politicians can claim the level of commitment Booker has shown to LGBTQ community.
Oh also, @PeteButtigieg is actually gay and his candidacy is historic.
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The photo caption for @TulsiGabbard asserts she has served with LGBTQ members of the military, when it should read, "As a member of the HI state legislature, Gabbard led opposition to bills supporting LGBTQ people and called them "homosexual extremists."
#LGBTQforum
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The most shocking elision in the @nytimes story is that @BernieSanders was absent.
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Brilliant historical piece by @AdamSerwer, which explicates how Reconstruction, Redemption & the Jim Crow era (literally) bled into each other with regard to SCOTUS rulings. In Serwer's carefully constructed timeline, separate becomes unequal.
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Victoria Brownworth
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The thing is, ALL elections are close now. We are living in the era of the 2% presidential race. 2008 was an outlier in every conceivable way.
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The astounding advantage the Electoral College gives to Republicans, in one chart vox.com/policy-and-pol…
"In the modern period, due to population patterns, Republicans should be expected to win 65% of presidential contests in which they narrowly lose the popular vote."
Remember Wyoming has 500k people and California has 40M and they each have 2 senators. That's your EC.
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Our primaries are largely decided by a total of 4M nearly all white people in Iowa and in NH in the first two contests. These demographics and numbers are not reflective of the nation. And the Electoral College demands candidates ignore non-swing states.
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Well this is awful. How long do we have to live in a reprise of the worst aspects of the 2016 campaign and why hasn't Bernie addressed this?

Black Leaders Condemn Attacks by Sanders Supporters Amid Fallout From WFP's Warren Endorsement splinternews.com/black-leaders-…
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