Candidate for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States.
Joined February 2009
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The people of Belarus have been blowing my mind.
Thousands in Belarus turned out for the funeral of Roman Bondarenko. The 31-year-old military vet and teacher died after allegedly being beaten by plainclothes security officers during a protest against the country's authoritarian leader Alexander Lukashenko.
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He’s actually bragging about this! He’s acknowledging volunteers for doing work that he refuses to do, and for addressing suffering that he himself helps create. #DirectCashRelief
Local food banks have been doing incredibly important work this year – that’s especially true in the weeks leading up to Thanksgiving. More than 6,000 cars and about 25,000 people were served 20 meals by North Texas Food Bank volunteers and staff. cbsnews.com/news/thousands-l…
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The return of Christ is in any moment we choose to love one another and not make excuses for not doing so.
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If we made the goal of all public policy to ameliorate human suffering, the world would not fall apart. The economy would not fall apart. Geopolitical alliances would not fall apart. Chaos would not reign; the chaos would begin to dissolve.
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Until we address the immoral economic dynamics that allow such absurdities as this to exist, American society will never heal. #WealthTax
Jeff Bezos could give every Amazon employee $105,000 and still be as rich as he was before the pandemic.
Instead he's denying paid sick leave to his employees — and has already subjected nearly 20,000 warehouse workers to Covid-19.
Demand Congress tax the rich, and shop local.
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1 million people live on less than $1.25 a day; they’re called the bottom billion. 1 billion above that live on little less than $2. 12,000 children starve every day – which is 1 every 4 seconds. The advanced democracies could easily eradicate deep poverty within 10 years years.
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It had nothing to do with religious expression, and it was only for as long as the pandemic lasted.
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