Candidate for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States.
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“Nonviolent protests are twice as likely to succeed as armed conflicts – and those engaging a threshold of 3.5% of the population have never failed to bring about change.”
bbc.com/future/article/20190… via @BBC_Future
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What is any of this achieving? How are these troops “fighting crime?” The biggest crime, at least ethically, is the fact that they’re even there.
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Given that I founded an organization which has served 12 million meals to homebound sick people, I think I’ve actually put quite a bit of food on people’s tables. (And I’ve never clutched a crystal)
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I’m curious what he said to her on that phone call. I assume he made it clear that he has the authority to send in troops, but her change in tone is so extreme..
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Definitely what President Eisenhower warned us about when he coined the phrase “military-industrial complex.” The supreme Allied Commander during World War II and 2-term Republican president would be deemed a radical Leftie today.
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A huge pentagon budget Is both reflection of and motivation for finding new theaters of war. Having started to run low, they’re discovered new ground: the United States. theintercept.com/2020/07/23/…
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The psychological and emotional processes at work in the life of an individual also apply to the life of a nation, because a nation is simply a group of individuals. Someone with insight into group psychological dysfunction actually has a lot to add to the conversation right now.
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I’ve sat here for five minutes trying to think of an elegant word for “unfuckingbelievable.” 🤔
CBP has deployed 2,174 personnel, 46 aircraft and 2 drones to assist dozens of police departments across the country since June, per CBP document leaked to me.
This operation is much, much bigger than just Portland:
thenation.com/article/societ…
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