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Aug 24, 2020 • 6 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
WON'T SHARE LYNCHING VIDEOS

I will no longer share videos of police brutalizing and executing Black people. I don't want to perpetuate trauma.

#BlackLivesMatter
I will follow the lead of Black activists and do everything I can to fight #policebrutality and #racism.
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Dec 3, 2023
🧵IMAGINE: Destroying Chicago in "self-defense"

Chicago and #Gaza have roughly similar population sizes. Let's substitute 'Chicago' for 'Gaza' to describe the scale of events:

Imagine in 1948, Chicago's residents are forced from their homes and subjected to brutal occupation...
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🧵Substitute the word "Chicago" for "Gaza"

Between 2008 and 2022, more than 6,000 Chicagoans are killed, mostly women and children, compared to around 300 occupiers. The occupiers also imprison thousands of Chicagoans (including kids) often without legal recourse. Image
🧵Substitute the word "Chicago" for "Gaza"

In retaliation, a Chicago militia storms the occupiers in October of 2023, killing and kidnapping hundreds of civilians. The occupiers decide the appropriate response is to level virtually the entire city of Chicago. Image
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Dec 1, 2023
The fact that #Israel feels so free to annihilate the Palestinian people while the world watches should terrify all of us.
To every Zionist troll spewing propaganda at me:

I grew up in Beirut during war. With a Lebanese Christian father and a Jewish American mother. I see how #Palestinians have been dehumanized. Which is why I vigorously stand up for them in the face of this Israeli massacre.
And to anyone asking in good faith:

Yes, I absolutely oppose and condemn ALL attacks on civilians, no matter which side does it.
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Oct 5, 2023
🇺🇸 BALLOT ACCESS

The fight for ballot access IS the battle for democracy. The ruling parties actively restrict ballot access, in violation of the Constitution.

#CornelWest2024 was already planning to gain ballot access in 30+ states where the Green Party is NOT on the ballot.
🇺🇸 BALLOT ACCESS

Now that @CornelWest is running as an Independent, we will also work to get on the ballot in the fewer than 20 states where the Green Party is on the ballot line. It is a central focus of our campaign, to give voters a better option than the duopoly.
🇺🇸 BALLOT ACCESS

Every state has different rules, but the idea is the same: Gather and submit (in 2024) a certain number of valid signatures = get on the ballot.

It is designed by the ruling parties to be onerous. The idea is to block any opposition, which is anti-democratic.
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Sep 8, 2023
🧵THREAD: Is Biden an improvement on Trump?

I am vehemently opposed to Donald Trump, a bigot, sexist, and criminal. That said, I want to challenge the liberal assumption that Biden is vastly superior. In fact, there are metrics by which Biden is objectively worse than Trump.
COVID CATASTROPHE

Biden has presided over far more Covid deaths than Trump. He declared 'independence' from the pandemic a few months after taking office and never looked back, methodically dismantling the Covid safety net. By his own Covid standards, he shouldn't be president.

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ABUSE OF MIGRANTS

Biden has been downright Trumpian on immigration. Obama and Biden built the child cages that Trump used. As POTUS, Biden continued Trump and Miller's heinous policies, and even exceed their cruelty, particularly against Haitian migrants.

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Jun 17, 2023
Looking objectively at the Dem field, @RobertKennedyJr is a MUCH better general election candidate than Biden.

#RFKJr has high net favorables, independent and cross-party appeal, and would trounce any Republican.

The establishment claim that Biden is more electable is absurd.
Now let's follow up with some facts from today's NYT:

"Polling conducted in May found that only 22 percent of Latino voters and 33 percent of Black voters were aware of 'any specific thing' Mr. Biden had done in office to improve their lives."

nytimes.com/2023/06/19/us/…
To all the outraged Biden defenders who slammed me for making a straightforward observation about electability:

Irrespective of your views about Robert Kennedy Jr., Biden is about as weak an incumbent as one could imagine:
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Jun 1, 2023
RELEASED FROM WILLIAMSON NDA -

@marwilliamson's campaign has agreed to let me speak freely about recent media stories mischaracterizing the campaign's inner workings.

Outlets including Politico and The Daily Beast have published anonymous quotes that are categorically false.
For example, this article falsely suggests that at least 10 staffers left the campaign because of Marianne's personality.

In fact, when I joined as campaign manager, I restructured the team, equalized pay across the board, and began plans to unionize.

It was only fair to donors to run a tight budget, so I made that clear immediately.

A number of staffers who were being compensated at much higher rates than the rest of the team decided (or were asked) to leave.

So the notion of a tumultuous staff exodus is false.
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