Candidate for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States.
Joined February 2009
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We can either continue to allow a market-based orientation to organize our civilization, or we can stand a reasonable chance of the species surviving on the planet for another hundred years.
We cannot have both.
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We have the geniuses we need to turn everything around in time, providing alternative possibilities in everything from poverty to climate change. Our problem is an economic and political system that distrusts and rejects real problem-solving unless it produces corporate profits.
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Catastrophic climate crises are no longer on the horizon; they’re here. And they will increase in both size and frequency. Nothing a more meaningful reflection of the state of the world than that multi billionaires are spending their money on ways to escape the planet altogether.
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No one should live in poverty in America. It’s an unnecessary derivative of soulless economic policy. washingtonpost.com/education…
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#Ecocide is a thing, and humanity the perpetrator.
BREAKING: Ecocide is now a major step closer to being an international atrocity crime alongside genocide. Credit to leadership of @Jojo_Mehta and @EcocideLaw.
What @Chevron did in Ecuador is the very definition of ecocide. The entire fossil fuel industry must be terrified.
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A 20-year old dairy worker was strangled to death with his own clothing by a mechanized gutter scraper, and now migrant farmworkers are demanding multi-billion dollar grocery giant Hannaford improve dire working conditions on their farms mainebeacon.com/dairy-worker…
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I learned about PFAS while I was in New Hampshire; people there were so hopeless at how the situation was being ignored. nytimes.com/2021/07/12/clima…
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Marianne Williamson
Tuesday night! 5pt/8et. The only way we’ll change our policies is if we change some of the people who make them. Candidatesummit.com
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This is so infuriating.
Big shout out to @dccc for blacklisting people working with progressives even a year after the campaigns are over. I keep saying that we have to change more than policies—we have to change politics.
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Rooting for the voters of Texas and the legislators who are standing for their rights.
Let’s support Texas House Democrats as they take the fight to our nation’s capitol to inspire the U.S. Senate to do their part.
Please donate to ensure they have the resources to fight for as long as it takes!
secure.actblue.com/donate/pb…
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Even witthout the loopholes it's an unfair rate. Years ago corporate taxes made up 33 per cent of public treasury; today only 11 per cent. Why such low rates? Because they're able to basically buy Congress, pure and simple.
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The '17 tax bill cut corporate tax rate from 35% to 21% (in the 1950s it was over 50%). The amount corporations *actually* pay is far less (i.e. Amazon found enough loopholes to pay *zero* in federal taxes). The corporate tax rate should return to at least 35%. #EconomicJustice
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