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13 Mar, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Sarah Silverman's video is being used by the GOP to "prove" Fox News, McConnell & McCarthy correct. Yet in reality, the #AmericanRescuePlan is the most consequential progressive legislation since LBJ. It lifts 20M kids out of poverty. The elitists--EVERY GOP--voted against it.
And I would argue that a former supporter of Bernie, who fought hard to pass this bill intact without Republicans screwing with it, should be supporting this legislation, not crying over the feelings of millionaire GOP legislators claiming it's too expensive. VERY dusappointing.
There is a lot of fear among some white liberals of losing their race status. The GOP is the party of protected whiteness. The Democrats are half BIPOC and fully diverse. The GOP--eternal elites--want to twist the narrative, but facts are facts. Racism =/= bipartisan.
Silverman aaserts that there are no ideas in the Democratic party. No ideas? Raising people out of poverty isn't an idea? Creating a green economy isn't an idea? Ensuring voting rights and criminal justice reform and LGBTQ equity aren't ideas? They are. Spit out that red pill!

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Short THREAD📌:

At our Saturday night bubble dinner, the three of us were talking about how much better things are from a purely psychological POV without Trump. The Wife was saying how different it was to not have to be in a state of rage all the time. Our friend agreed.
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The Wife had run into some neighbor friends, both women in their 40s, one white, one Black. They were talking about how much safer they felt now under Biden. He wasn't their first choice of candidate, but they were both feeling hopeful about the Biden-Harris administration.
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At dinner, I was saying how different it was to be reporting on policy that would help,not harm, people. And how I didn't feel the same stress, despite the #pandemic, because Trump wasn't always stirring the pot and inventing false narratives every day that had to be debunked.
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8 Mar
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After hours of fielding racist comments on #HarryandMeghanonOprah, I will now be muting or blocking anyone sending me such missives. But I want to clarify some things, since some folks are spewing disinformation based on their racism and misogyny.
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The British Royal family--particularly Harry's immediate family of the Queen, Prince Phillip, Charles and William--all had the opportunity to embrace Meghan and give her full standing and love. They could have refused to repeat the harm they inflicted on Diana. They did not.
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4 Mar
This is false, @JAMA_current.
Many physicians are racist.
The history of American medicine is racist, misogynist, homophobic, transphobic. There are myriad studies on this, as well as a hundreds of books. Your podcast is two white men claiming racism is non-existent. Apologize.
Every Black friend I have has had issues with racist doctors. One of my closest friends was diagnosed late with pulmonary hypertension because her white doctor ignored what she told him. She died in her 40s--she should still be alive. I'll never stop being angry about it.
Even famous Black women like Serena Williams have spoken out about their experiences. VP Harris prioritized Black maternal health as a senator. And women and Black patients have their pain under-treated. This is systemic. @JAMA_current needs to retract this.
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4 Mar
#BREAKING

@SpeakerPelosi just shepherded another civil rights bill through to passage. The House just passed the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, 220 to 212. Only one GOP voted with the Democrats.
The bill require 60 votes in the Senate to pass. Biden supports the bill and said he would sign it. Rep. Karen Bass (D-CA) reintroduced the bill in the House and has been in discussion with Cory Booker and Tim Scott, the two Black senators, about corraling Senate votes.
One of the key points in the bill is ending no-knock warrants of the sort that resulted in the killing of Breonna Taylor, 26. The anniversary of Taylor's death is March 13. None of the police officers involved in her death has been charged with her killing.
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28 Feb
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This 2nd Sunday of Lent, Mark 9:2-10 asks us to revisit Christ as the"beloved Son,"and rededicate ourselves to Jesus. Our Lenten journey should replicate Matthew 5-7--doing good works: caring for the sick, feeding the hungry, sheltering the homeless, helping the poor.
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On this last day of #BlackHistoryMonth, I hope my fellow Catholics and Christians will consider how anti-racist activism can be focal points for our Lenten journey--reading the sermons of MLK, pledging to fight white nationalism, spreading the word of racial justice.
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Lent is supposed to be about connecting our personal faith to the path toward the Resurrection. The suffering Christ endured centered on his activism and the reformist work he was doing which put him at odds with the State. We can follow that model and speak truth to power.
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24 Feb
▪Minimum wage is $7.25. It hasn't been raised since 2009.
▪A minimum wage salary is below the federal poverty level after taxes.
▪80% of minimum wage workers are women.
▪WOC disproportionately make sub-minumum wage in various industries.
▪This perpetuates gendered poverty.
▪If the minimum wage had been raised to meet cost of living increases, it would be at $12 now.
▪GOP proposals like Romney and Cotton's wouldn't raise the minimum wage until 2025 and at that point only take it to $10--or 2018 levels. That makes no sense.
If you want details, this investigation I did explains how gendered wage poverty is. It's from two years ago but criminally, the numbers are worse now.
damemagazine.com/2018/04/12/wom…
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