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29 Oct, 4 tweets, 2 min read
.@CoriBush w/ a crucial point tonight: w/o BBB, the infrastructure bill crafted by an all-white group of Republicans & Democrats leaves behind the Black, brown, indigenous and AAPI voters, especially women, who put Biden and that Senate majority in power.
msnbc.com/the-reidout/wa…
It's pretty simple: picture the side of a road where the work crews are, or the big infrastructure jobs in your community. Who gets those huge, lucrative contracts & jobs? Now ask yourself: who largely does elder care, works in daycares and gets hit hardest by the climate crisis?
Here's a hint: the latter are overwhelmingly women... commonwealthfund.org/blog/2020/invi…
It's not just the demographics of who negotiated these bills; though that's really stark. It's also who BENEFITS from these two bills. Democrats can't really think they can tell the people BBB will help; incl many women of color, you need to wait (again) then ask for their votes.

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30 Oct
A thread. The "activist parents" fighting the bogeyman they have named "critical race theory" object to the teaching of history that paints anyone white in a negative light. They demand a version of U.S. history that uplifts white historical figures as both innocent and heroic.
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23 Oct
Slavery in the Americas was an unmitigated evil. Everyone who indulged in it, ok’d it or went to war to preserve it was a villain. Period. That fact shouldn’t hurt anyone’s feelings. But it should make you feel a certain way about how American institutions evolved because of it.
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To be very clear: the coal industry is dying. Joe Manchin can’t save it any more than Donald Trump could. Worse, West Virginia politicians are propping the rotting husk of that industry up by pushing higher electric bills on widely poor West Virginians. mountainstatespotlight.org/2021/03/11/wes…
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Hi Senator. Can you comment on whether/how your financial ties to the coal industry, including the $500k in dividends you collect annually from the coal brokerage Enersystems and your relationships w/ the oil lobby impact your stance? We’ve also tried booking you on @thereidout…
It also seems, per the available polling, that the people of your state SUPPORT the elements of Biden and the House Democrats’ Build Back Better plan, including the climate crisis provisions. Who are you speaking for in opposing them? filesforprogress.org/memos/build-ba…
More on the proposal which you oppose, and it’s potential impact on your state, which has a very high poverty rate relative to the rest of the country, despite the enormous power you wield in the Senate. wvpolicy.org/the-build-back…
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This is such a betrayal of fellow officers, many of whom were injured or pelted with racist vitriol, and some of whom are dead… it’s actually, genuinely shocking.
Was this not a big deal to a fellow officer??
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