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The VERY best argument for why @ewarren should be our next president is right here: She’s running to save America from itself, not stroke her own ego.

The men in this race desperately want to be POTUS. @ewarren is the ONLY candidate running for POTUS *as a means to make change*.
I’m not naive. But I’ve spent time with Warren and think she genuinely believes this. You forget she created the CFPB *and was blocked from running it by the GOP.*

She didn’t scream, shout, sulk or pout—she pushed for Cordray and supported him throughout.
I mean there’s *factual historical evidence* that @ewarren’s not been driven by ego throughout her career. She only ran for Senate because she was so popular, Democrats thought she could beat the popular Republican incumbent and convinced her to.

Spoiler: She did.
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I’ve pointed this out to Berners who attacked @ewarren’s M4A proposal; they kept saying “a 4 year transition was Bernie’s 2017 plan.” Apparently it’s also his 2020 plan.

This is 4 years AFTER HE GETS IT PASSED—which will rely on mass protest, since he has no legislative plan.
Meanwhile, @ewarren’s plan envisions using budget reconciliation and EOs to expand FREE Medicare to everyone <18 and 50+—not 55 as in Sanders’s plan—as well as <200% the poverty line.

That’s 3/4 of ALL AMERICANS WITHIN HER FIRST 100 DAYS.

The other 1/4 could buy in to Medicare.
She would then commit to getting free M4A for the other 1/4 passed BY YEAR 3, after 3/4 of Americans (plus those who’ve bought in) have already had it for 3 years and loved it. It’s easier to expand reality once people know it’s not scary—and once you’ve killed the filibuster.
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It's taken a while to get here, but if you've followed my feed you might've guessed I was heading in this direction:
Today, I'd like to enthusiastically endorse @ewarren as my pick for the Democratic nominee, and ultimately, as President of the United States. #AAPIsWithWarren (1)
It helped to have had the chance to meet with @ewarren face to face. As smart and thorough as she is on video—as energetic and passionate—she's more impressive in person. Devastatingly informed. Thoughtful, but also empathic. Quirky, and fully aware of her imperfect humanity. (2)
Still, the reason I held back from endorsing so long is that I genuinely like many of the candidates—including quite personally @AndrewYang, whom I've known and respected for years. His campaign is historic and his is a voice that will shape US politics for decades to come. (3)
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Elizabeth Warren is getting 🐍 Ssswifted by Sanders supporters (and 4Channers, rightwing sock puppets and bots).

Here’s why they should stop: The woman-as-snake metaphor is misogynistic—whether aimed at Warren, Swift, or all the way back to Biblical Eve. billboard.com/articles/colum…
Brigading on the Internet is harassment. Even more so when the root of a fan dispute is so obviously a simple but basic difference in interpretation. But the 🐍 symbol as used against women has a particular ugly resonance that stretches deep into history.
The snake is a creature of horror. But it has no limbs and can’t build or create, that can only make a hissing noise rather than vocalizing, that slithers on its belly, the lowest of beasts. It can’t win with strength, only treachery.

The misogynist implications are obvious.
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anyone got leads on the twitter accounts they deleted?
we are slowly getting the ones that twitter suspended, but what about the deleted ones?
i have partial list of suspect accounts.
i know of 400+ accounts twitter did not suspended.
checking the retweets and mentions those accounts made gives me a nice list of suspect accounts.
has anyone checked the nbc data?
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