Candidate for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States.
Joined February 2009
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Very cynical thing to do right after the #MedicareForAll hearings. Distract distract. The message must be getting through.
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Look at all the countries in which college is free or near free. It’s ridiculous that we make it so difficult to get an education here. We need to #CancelStudentDebt and start over with a new system. theedadvocate.org/which-coun…
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This one particularly galls me; I’d have a very difficult time working without my hearing aids. What do we expect people to do? We tolerate millions of people living with that hardship just so private insurance companies can make more profit. It’s gov’t abuse of its own citizens.
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If the United States hadn’t done so much to destabilize economies and disrupt elections throughout Latin America over the last 40 years, there wouldn’t BE
so many migrants at the border.
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3/ We can have a fundamental pattern disruption but only if we're willing to claim it, articulate it & unapologetically go for it. Christian Smalls deserves the accolades he's getting this week; that victory alone gives hope that a greedy behemoth can be successfully challenged.
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2/ If the governing principle for how we behave in the world doesn't change from corporate competition to humanitarian collaboration, the reckoning that is already happening will pave a path to multiple more catastrophes not only for us but for the world.
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1/ So much bad that's happening in the world today - from environmental breakdown to immigration tragedies to Ukraine - bears the fingerprints of neoliberal economic policies that have dominated US domestic and foreign policy for the last forty years.
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Humanity is the only species actively and deliberately destroying its own habitat. The more aware we are of our collective suicidal tendencies, the greater chance we have of awakening in time. youtube.com/hyT-6qiubd0
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“Workers don’t have too much power; corporations do.” - Robert Reich breaks down the significance of the Amazon unionization win. laprogressive.com/labor-soci…
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Black people use drugs at the same rate as white people, but far more often have their homes raided for drugs and are statistically given prison sentences that are 20% longer.
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