Candidate for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States.
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Climate as well as nuclear issues are every bit as dangerous and risky now as are infectious diseases. Anybody who doesn’t understand that has their head in the sand.
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Incremental change is an inadequate response to the challenges of our time. We need a fundamental pattern disruption to stave off a wave of cascading calamities. Only the most serious dedication to well-being of planet, people & animals will restore our democracy & save our lives
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“Now that the pandemic has shown just how fragile that system is, it is time to seize the moment to build real change...” nytimes.com/2020/05/08/opini…
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Meanwhile, we are dumping food and destroying food sources. We need a huge wave of humanitarian fervor to save us, expressed not only in our personal behavior but also in public policy. reuters.com/article/us-healt…
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It’s important we remain optimistic despite our fears. It’s a lesson in maturity to simultaneously address the bad & invoke the good; clear about about what’s wrong yet proactive in imagining & discussing how to make them right. Always, to strengthen our conviction that we will.
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4/ Let’s just do this. It’s time. #reparationsnow #repairamerica
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3/ So what’s important to realize is that greatest suffering among African-Americans was not created by Covid so much as reflected by Covid. Important to realize this because otherwise, when Covid is done we’ll think the problem has been handled.
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2/ The less economic advantage there is, the less access to healthcare, less access to higher education, less access to good fresh food, and more living at the effect of environmental toxins.
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1/ A lot of uninformed concern regarding the higher incidence of covid among black Americans. The truth? That this is not surprising, but rather an inevitable symptom of long-standing economic injustice.
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Asked about another round of stimulus checks, Sen John Kennedy said, "Well people in hell want ice water too.”
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Today is VE day, Victory in Europe. It was the day when Eisenhower announced the war was over, the Nazis had been defeated. I was talking to a friend of mine yesterday whose mother was a Holocaust survivor. We were… instagram.com/p/B_7yM6OlZmb/…
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Governors begged him for ventilators. He said that in order for him to be nice to them, they had to be nice to him first. Or as Jared said, “Those are ours.” thehill.com/homenews/adminis…
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These are the kinds of things that it’s good to read about now, because it’s time to imagine what’s possible. To articulate and visualize what can be...
From Vienna to Chile, the success of social housing for the working and middle classes shows how beautiful homes can coexist with urban housing for all. jacobinmag.com/2018/11/beaut…
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Jayapal, Tlaib in the House and Sanders, Harris and Marky in the Senate all proposing bills to give $2000/mo until the pandemic is over +1000/mo afterwards. FINALLY! #directcashrelief the only way.
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