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9 Apr, 9 tweets, 4 min read

Joe Manchin Votes His Own Interests
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Sen. Manchin Maintains Lucrative Ties to Family-Owned Coal Company

On his financial disclosures for 2009 and 2010, Manchin reported significant earnings from Enersystems Inc., a coal brokerage

archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.co…

Joe Manchin Votes His Own Interests /2

Legal Documents Show Manchin Has Stakes in Companies That Pay Less Than $15 an Hour
Senator's Opposition to the $15 Hourly Minimum Wage Benefits His Undisclosed Financial Interests

tyt.com/stories/4vZLCH…

Joe Manchin Votes His Own Interests /3

What the Media Are Missing About Joe Manchin
The senator has skillfully managed his image, to stay viable in a state that went from a Democratic to a Republican majority.

theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

Joe Manchin Votes His Own Interests
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Citing his ‘leverage,’ Manchin says White House tax plan must change

Manchin said he’d vote against Biden’s proposal to raise the corp tax rate from 21% to 28%, instead saying the rate should be set at 25 percent.

washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2021…

Joe Manchin Votes His Own Interests
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Joe Manchin’s Super-Secret Conflict of Interest

Turns out the Senate’s most-powerful member was motivated all along by the irresistible profits oozing out of the La Quinta in Elkview, W.Va.

nationalreview.com/corner/joe-man…

Joe Manchin Votes His Own Interests /6

Joe Manchin Wants to Keep the Corporate Tax Rate as Low as Possible
A move that could shield private equity firms whose executives boosted Manchin’s campaign and bet big on Trump’s tax bill.

jacobinmag.com/2021/04/joe-ma…

Joe Manchin Votes His Own Interests /7

Joe Manchin's estimated net worth for 2018 is $7,623,534 762 His investments and assets.

Commercial Banks
$32,500
TOP ASSETS 2018
Enersystems Inc
$3,000,000
MVB Bank(Fairmont, West Virginia) Savings
$750,000

opensecrets.org/personal-finan…

@Sen_JoeManchin

Joe Manchin Votes His Own Interests /8

‘Jim Crow Joe’ Manchin Accused Of Racism And Misogyny

“Oh c'mon @Sen_JoeManchin voted for Kavanaugh, Jeff Sessions and Bill Barr. If folks don't see this as the misogynist trolling that it is?”
—Joan Walsh

rawstory.com/jim-crow-joe-m…

#ManchinNeedsAConscience

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#IDedicateThisWeekTo Isadora Duncan, an American dancer who performed to great acclaim throughout Europe. Born &raised in CA, she lived &danced in Western Europe &the Soviet Union.
She believed dance was meant to encircle all that life had to offer—joy and sadness.

So long as little children are allowed to suffer, there is no true love in this world.
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The wind? I am the wind. The sea and the moon? I am the sea and the moon. Tears, pain, love, bird-flights? I am all of them. I dance what I am. Sin, prayer, flight, the light that never was on land or sea? I dance what I am.
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#IDedicateThisWeekTo Elizabeth Van Lew &Mary Bowser,a freed slave who posed as Jefferson Davis’s servant,worked together to bring down political fixtures of the South from the inside out.
Bowser,w/her photographic memory &incredible acting skills,was able to relay critical intel.

Elizabeth Van Lew freed one of her family's slaves& sent her North to be educated.The young woman returned to Richmond and was placed in the Confederate White House as part of Van Lew's spy ring. Van Lew's diary describes her reliance on an AfAm referred to only as Mary.j

Confederate leaders could tell there was a mole in the highest reaches of the Confederacy, but nobody ever figured out it was Mary. In his letters, Jefferson Davis complains that his mental state is collapsing under the strain of not being able to find the spy.

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END THE FILIBUSTER /1
The Civil Rights Act could not be passed until a 60 day filibuster was ended by a 2/3 vote of The Senate.

The Civil Rights Act provided protection of voting rights;banned discrimination in public facilities, and public services.
senate.gov/artandhistory/…

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Georgia Democrat Richard Russell offered the final arguments in opposition. Minority Leader Everett Dirksen, who had enlisted the Republican votes that made cloture a realistic option, spoke for the proponents with his customary eloquence.

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“Stronger than all the armies is an idea whose time has come..
The time has come for equality of opportunity in sharing in government, in education, and in employment. It will not be stayed or denied. It is here!"
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#IDedicateThisWeekTo Bob Moses, American educator & civil rights activist,known for his work as a leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee on voter education &registration in MS during the Civil Rights Movement &his co-founding of the MS Freedom Democratic Party.

Well, I don't think that the Democratic Party to this day has confronted the issue of bringing into its ranks the kind of people that were represented by the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. That is the real underclass of this country.

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What the Capitol insurgency reveals about white supremacy and law enforcement
Rashawn Ray

Make no mistake, the Capitol insurgency was about making America great for white people.

brookings.edu/blog/how-we-ri…

White Supremacy Cops /2
In erecting a hangman’s noose,waving the Confederate flag &wearing white nationalist paraphernalia,including an Auschwitz Concentration Camp shirt,the domestic terrorists showed America they fundamentally believe in maintaining &enacting white supremacy.

White Supremacy Cops /3

Despite repeated warnings from the FBI and other national security agencies, the grossly inadequate security preparation by Capitol Police shows negligence at the least and conspiracy at the most among the upper echelons of law enforcement.

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19 Oct 20

THREAD

When white nationalists chant their weird slogans, what do they mean?
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splcenter.org/hatewatch/2017…

White Nationalist Weird Slogans /2
“You Will Not Replace Us!”
(“Jews Will Not Replace Us!”)

The chant is related to the white-nationalist”WhiteGenocide”meme,
reflective of their fears that white people &white culture are under attack from multiculturalism &nonwhite races.

White Nationalist Weird Slogans /3
“Blood and Soil!” Possibly the most disturbing of all the chants heard in Charlottesville—the English rendition of Nazi Germany’s most fervent chant, “Blut und Boden!”

..adopted by the alt-right, particularly its openly neo-Nazi element..