Candidate for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States.
Joined February 2009
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We can make a just transition from dirty economy to a clean economy & from war economy to a peace economy. The only question is whether we can do that under the auspices of two political parties who both seem to be owned by fossil fuel companies & the military industrial complex.
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Short term profits for defense contractors taking precedence over any shred of human decency is a demonic force in America.
“I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just and that His justice shall not sleep forever.” - Thomas Jefferson commondreams.org/news/2021/0…
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It did not have to be this way. God forgive us.
“Cutting off of hands is very necessary”: One of the Taliban's most uncompromising enforcers during their rule in the 1990s says strict punishments like executions and amputations of hands will return under Afghanistan's new rulers. By @kathygannon. apne.ws/yn5BRuP
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Hear this moving account by @ObaidullaBaheer on what happens in Afghanistan now. mariannewilliamson.substack.…
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So much for “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.”
It is both political folly, as well as moral turpitude, for Democrats to bend even further rightward on immigration in an attempt to satiate the insatiable, writes @natashalennard.
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If we’re selling arms to the UAE, doing business regularly with Saudi Arabia, and whipping migrants at the border, we do not have a “human rights centered foreign policy.” @POTUS
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.@kathyfreston did you see this?
Good piece from Phil Howard on how the meat oligopolies are quietly buying up the startups meant to disrupt/replace them: plant-based and cellular protein companies. civileats.com/2021/09/22/op-…
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"As weapon manufacturers pay off politicians like my opponent, we see violent US intervention in other countries and those victims of imperialism see no justice. When the pandemic hit, politicians failed to meet the moment for working people.." Let's support @Salem4Congress!
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Our national security does not rise is direct proportion to how much money we spend on the DOD. Far from it.
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Why do we have war games but not peace games? Imagine if we had a Pentagon of Peace. Waging peace takes specific skills, no differently than waging war. Imagine if we funded things that lead to peace the way we fund the things that lead to war. mariannewilliamson.substack.…
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