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16 Oct, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Absolutely wild that a guy who literally owns a coal producing business that generates millions for him — currently — can make this kind of decision for the whole country and it’s not illegal
It’s like how you go back and read about how Supreme Court justices in the Gilded Age were owners of train companies they’d rule in favor of
Citation theintercept.com/2021/09/03/joe…

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28 Sep
On the Congressional Progressive Caucus conference call today, every member who spoke -- roughly 2 dozen -- said they were committed to opposing the bipartisan bill until reconciliation is ready, per a source. Not one member said they'd vote yes on Thursday.
Two frontliners (means they're in swing seats) argued that anybody who thinks Dems will pass reconciliation if they let BIF go through first are fooling themselves, and that they NEED the reconciliation bill for their re-election. It's filled with popular stuff they can run on.
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27 Sep
Holy shit
Just get the jab, and then own the libs by voting for trump. Doesn't that seem like a sounder plan? Chart is from here nytimes.com/2021/09/27/bri…
Data in that Times article comes from Charles Gaba patreon.com/charlesgaba
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24 Sep
Excellent assessment of the intellectual emptiness of today's centrism as embodied by Manchin, Sinema, @JoshGottheimer etc.

Previous centrists advocated policies they thought would fend off the left and right both. Today's centrist advocate nothing. nytimes.com/2021/09/22/opi…
That's why neither Sinema nor Manchin will tell you what they want in this reconciliation bill. Because they have no idea. They want nothing, but don't know how to say that. So they say nothing and "raise concerns."
Today's centrists are actually just conservative guardians of the status quo, which differs from the previous generation of centrists during the New Deal.
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19 Sep
Credit to the NYT for prominently noting that Joe Manchin makes half a million a year in income from the coal industry
And credit to @DRBoguslaw for injecting that fact into the media bloodstream with this investigation of his background theintercept.com/2021/09/03/joe…
Would have been appropriate of the Times to credit the previous reporting, but then they wouldn’t be the New York Times if they did. At least this is progress.
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13 Sep
Something extremely important went down at the House Education and Labor Committee on Friday, when a group of progressives teamed up with centrists in vulnerable districts to threaten to take down their portion of the reconciliation bill. Here's what happened /1
The bill included means-tested subsidies for child care that could be claimed only by people making up to 150% of the median area income. Typical Dem crap. Progressives, as they do, argued it should be universal. But this time they had two things they didn't have before.
First, they had big numbers, and were willing to vote as a bloc. But second, frontline Democrats on the committee *also* wanted the program to be universal. They collectively lobbied Pelosi and Chair Bobby Scott, and threatened to take it down without it.
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20 Aug
You’re seeing vocal support for Biden’s decision to withdraw from @IlhanMN and @RepBarbaraLee but the rest of House Democrats, Squad included, have not really been loudly out there, even as the public is rallying behind Biden’s decision
Calling to end a war is easy. Ask Trump.

Actually ending one in the face of massive elite hostility is hard.
Absolute cowardice from Trump. Don't be like Trump. New statement from this guy: Image
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