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10 Sep, 7 tweets, 5 min read
Donald Trump called dead soldiers losers.
Kamala Harris could be America’s first black woman VP
Nancy Pelosi tore up Donald Trump’s speech
Bernie Bros were mean to me online
Michelle Obama said you can’t find love on Tinder
The entire debate over cancel culture
If anything is to matter, we need to end carbon capitalism. We need to stop the ship from sinking.

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12 Aug
As media combs her record, it’s time to talk about Kamala Harris’ “Back on Track” re-entry program for first-time, nonviolent drug sales offenders. It was nowhere near as successful as media has painted it.

A thread. jacobinmag.com/2019/09/kamala…
Harris’ stated aim with Back on Track was to reduce prison overcrowding. But rather than overcriminalization, Harris had a theory.

As she told a crowd in 2010, “the one most effective issue we could address on this issue of prison overcrowding, is this issue of recidivism.”
Back on Track was really a pilot program designed to prove that recidivism could be reduced.

With that in mind, what Harris’ office did was select a narrow group of offenders—young, first-time, nonviolent drug sales offenders—and cull from there those deemed likely to succeed.
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29 May
The push to reopen is a testament to GOP‘s messaging power. There is no treatment or vaccine for COVID; no herd immunity. The safe path would be an ongoing national shutdown where government provides enough assistance to keep Americans afloat.

Dems are too weak to fight for that
Trump wants to reopen for obvious reasons. It’s an election year and the economy is awful—some 40 million have lost their jobs and their insurance; small businesses devastated.

Dems are afraid to act bc it’s an election year and they’re terrified of being branded big government.
There’s also little incentive to act because the man in the White House is Donald Trump.
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29 May
Social media platforms like Twitter are effectively the new public square. They are too ubiquitous and too integral to our national discourse to have their content governed by private companies.

At the same time, what Trump tweeted could be incitement.
Twitter's rules against "glorifying violence" are, in fact, extremely arbitrary. I've shared images and videos of the humanitarian disaster in Yemen and had the tweets removed by Twitter on those grounds.

That said, again, what Trump tweeted could be incitement.
Ideally, social media platforms would be treated as public forums and content limited only by the First Amendment.

However, even in such a world, Trump's tweet might not be protected...if it were found to be incitement.
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30 Apr
The sexual assault allegation against Joe Biden, which is dividing the party and making Democrats look hypocritical, is only the beginning. There is not a single line of attack they have on Donald Trump that isn't undermined by Biden's record.
How do you hit Trump on his rape allegations when Biden is accused of rape?

How do you hit him for cutting social programs when Biden spent 40 years fighting to cut SS?

How do you hit him on kids in cages when Biden was VP under Obama?
How do you call out Trump on trade when Biden supported NAFTA, PNTR, and the TPP?

How do you criticize him on health care when Biden doesn't have a universal health care plan?

How do you hit him on his right-wing judges when Biden put Thomas and Scalia on the court?
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18 Mar
Trump, who bungled the early response to coronavirus, is starting to take actions resembling Bernie Sanders' proposals—monthly checks, ramping up production via the Defense Production Act, freezing foreclosures & evictions...

All while Dems push things like tax rebates. Baffling
The Democrats really are ceding populism to the right and that's terrifying...
Trump 1) didn't push for early testing out of fear that high reported cases would be bad politically, 2) didn't accept test kits from the World Health Organization, 3) downplayed the threat.

And yet, if his response is big enough now, it may not matter in November.
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9 Mar
IMO, the left after Bernie looks a lot more radical, a lot angrier, and far more fractured. With the economy collapsing and a pandemic spreading, the nomination of a candidate whose platform is less a defined set of goals than a pledge of decorum will likely prompt a realignment.
If Trump loses, liberals will breathe a sigh of relief even as the right consolidates its ownership populism at the worst possible moment.
If Trump wins, the left will say “we warned you,” and they’ll be right. Democratic elites will blame them. The GOP will redraw the congressional districts, effectively guaranteeing the Democratic Party’s minority party status in the House and state legislatures.
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