Candidate for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States.
Joined February 2009
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Watch this video. I so admire @CoriBush for refusing to forget where she came from, standing up for those experiencing the pain she once knew and doing all she can to help them.
“In less than 24 hours, the federal eviction moratorium ends and 7 million people are at risk for evictions”
After midnight Congresswoman Cori Bush elaborates on why she is sleeping outside the Capitol and shared personal experience of challenges w/being unhoused.
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It sure as hell is. "We the People of the US, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity…”
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I do understand you’re being very angry about it, but shouldn’t the anger be projected at the forces that came up with the sick college loan system to begin with? A good college education used to be anywhere from very cheap to free in this country and needs to become that again.
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Society shouldn’t move forward because that would upset the people who were at the effect of the stupid things it did before? Injustice towards someone else makes the injustices you suffered feel better? Did women who didn’t have the right to vote then criticize women who got to?
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$15/hr minimum wage, UBI, free college, canceling college loan debt & Medicare For All: they’re not government handouts; they’re economic justice. It’s government’s job to provide the average person with a fair shot at making it in what has become an economically merciless world.
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Nowhere in America can someone working full-time at a minimum wage job afford a 2 BR apartment. If we had given everyone $2k/mo during the worst of the pandemic, the eviction crisis might not be the humanitarian disaster it is now. “Go get a job” is cruel advice.
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With all due respect Mr. President you know as well as we do how many of those states aren’t going to help the people about to be evicted. You and you alone had the power to pressure Congress. Dems do not look good tonight. @POTUS whitehouse.gov/briefing-room…
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Hundreds of thousands of kids putting their arms around moms right now saying “It’s OK Mommy we’ll be OK” but Mommy is hysterical inside because she knows that it won’t be OK cuz they have nowhere else to go. This isn’t a mental health issue; it’s a govt-doesn’t-give-a-damn issue
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I honestly don’t know how they could do this. Congress leaving town without extending the eviction moratorium is such a “Let them eat cake” moment; I’m concerned it will go down in history in much the same way as the first time it was uttered.
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.@AOC absolutely glorious on IGLive now, talking about Congress (and the White House!) letting the eviction moratorium lift tomorrow.
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They weren’t just “positive” things. They were massive changes earned at great price to countless individuals that diminished and obliterated the suffering of millions of human beings. Other generations didn’t owe us anything. It’s ours to do in our time what they did in theirs.
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You talk as though the Civil War never happened, the 19th amendment never happened, civil rights legislation never happened. You minimize the struggles and sacrifice of so many people when you do that.
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