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3 Apr, 5 tweets, 2 min read
Major League Baseball is a business. Moving the All-Star game out of Atlanta was a BUSINESS decision after Georgia passed racist laws.

For years, Republicans have been saying, "Let the market decide."

Well guess what? The market decided.
It's pretty simple, really:

Racism is bad for business.

Want major sporting events in your state? Don't pass racist laws.
Nothing says "American patriot" more than a party that is now pro-Russia, pro-Putin, anti-voting and anti-baseball.
Someday I wish this country would wrestle with the fact that in addition to being immoral, racism is very expensive.
businessinsider.com/us-racism-econ…
The governor of Georgia trying to paint himself as a VICTIM after he took away the basic rights of Georgians to vote.

This is straight out of the Southern racist playbook.

You are not a VICTIM, Brian. You are an OPPRESSOR.

@GovKemp

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26 Mar
Imagine calling yourself a "Christian" and thinking following Jesus means giving people weapons and denying them water.
I don't know how you explain to people that Jesus had a moral philosophy and it wasn't, "Sit in a building once a week looking pious."

It was fierce. Active. You help those less fortunate. You welcome the stranger. You love your enemies. It's not easy, it's not about hate.
You don't have to be a Christian to admire Jesus.

So many who claim to follow Jesus don't understand the first thing about the revolutionary act of channeling God's love for you into your love of others.

Jesus was very clear about these things. He did not mince words.
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18 Mar
This is one of the most heartless pieces I have ever read.

JD, as someone who also grew up in very difficult circumstances and who also wrote a book about it, the fact that you have no understanding of immigration, no empathy for immigrants is sickening.
Why do people come here? Your answer is, because they are greedy.

You don’t care about the poverty and violence they face, which is particularly sad since the REASON you are famous is bc you wrote a book about your own experience w poverty and violence.
You say big business is at the heart of the Democratic Party. You say and again that Republicans are the party of the “working class.” They aren’t. Republicans are becoming the party of the WHITE working class.

These are different things, @JDVance1.
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13 Mar
My father left prison at 27 and went to a drug rehab community which turned into a cult where I was born.

When we escaped, I finally got to know him. He became my best friend.

When he died I wrote this song for him. It’s called HOLLYWOOD PARK. open.spotify.com/track/4oqTFpt6…
This song is about the moment my father nearly died from a heroin overdose. He woke up with tubes in his arms in a hospital bed.

He always said if he ever went back to it, he knew he’d die and that was the only way to change.

It’s called CARRY ME.

open.spotify.com/track/42TPjDlB…
When my dad died, it was like a hole opened up in the sky. I just couldn’t wrap my head around it.

I would talk to him in my head. I could hear him, always telling me to be a better man.

I wrote a song about what he says. It’s called The Common Touch.

open.spotify.com/track/7FKf5Cbv…
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5 Mar
If you're wondering why the music industry is talking about NFTs, beyond cryptocurrency apps, beyond "democratization of patronage" is one simple, glaringly obvious fact:

Music is worth WAY more than it's current price in the modern world and corporations are strangling artists.
Musicians currently only get 12% of all revenue in the music business. That's it. The rest go to middlemen (labels, streaming services, publishers).

This system both undervalues music AND benefits corporations at the expense of artists.

NFTs have the potential to change this.
Music has been undervalued (mispriced) for a very long time. Basically after Napster disrupted the CD-based music economy in 2002, streaming services rushed to fill the void by artificially lowering the price of music so they could still control it.
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23 Feb
OK Twitter, What’s the best music venue in America?

(It can’t be a converted sports venue or a park. I’m talking about a place that was built for music.)

I nominate the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles.
The early front runner is Red Rocks in Colorado. We played there accompanied by the Colorado Symphony. I don’t read music so I spent most of the show counting while trying to remember the lyrics.

Lots of love for First Avenue in Minneapolis, the 930 Club in DC and the Gorge.
To my mind, a rock and roll show is part confessional, part revival, part circus, and on that front the Fillmore in San Francisco will always have a soft spot in my heart. We've had so many wild nights there...
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10 Feb
I don't think the general language we are using in the discourse about covid vaccines is appropriate.

So far, 140 million people have received a covid vaccine worldwide. There have been virtually NO DEATHS from covid after receiving the vaccine. This should be common knowledge.
I admire scientists who use the academic language of skepticism in their popular work bc it translates to a more scientifically literate audience.

But, it's creating a cloud of doubt over vaccinations which is dangerous. A third of Americans say they will not get vaccinated.
The headline should always be, "Covid vaccines mean you will not die of covid." You may get covid, but it will be a very mild form. All this talk of 67% vs. 95% effectiveness clouds the issue that vaccines make covid NOT DEADLY.
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