Candidate for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States.
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Why is Flint, Michigan being treated like America’s bastard child? Asking for a friend.
🚨EXCLUSIVE: Prosecutors were on the verge of filing major #FlintWaterCrisis racketeering charges against govt officials—for financial fraud that led to the crisis— b4 MI AG Dana Nessel took office, fired prosecutors, & "let it go."
By me + @Charlieleduff theguardian.com/us-news/2022…
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The labor movement is rising up and union busting is rising up with it. We need to pass The Pro Act. theguardian.com/us-news/2022…
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No point in appointing a commission on cancer if you’re not willing to take on Big Chem and Big Ag and the carcinogens in herbicides. theguardian.com/environment/…
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Pipeline protestors aren’t criminals, they’re heroes. Criminalizing them is the way real criminals avoid detection. theguardian.com/us-news/2022…
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3/ On the other hand, taking in that horror is perhaps what’s needed in order to motivate us to rise up against the insanity of the military industrial complex. As it is, we’re just waiting for the next mad adventure.
The madness needs to stop.
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2/ If the American people allowed ourselves to truly take in the horror of what people from Vietnam to Iraq to Afghanistan have suffered because of our own craven, misdirected foreign policies, no amount of sleeping pills could give any of us a good night’s sleep.
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1/ People are starving in Afghanistan because of American sanctions. Women activists there are been kidnapped by the Taliban when we did not even try to help them escape.
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No, we did not seek to create a stable government. We were just told that. And Afghans are historically among the best fighters in the world, yet we were training them in the use of American military equipment the meant $2T in profit for our MIC but aligned with them very little.
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In addition, the US govt didn’t even try to prioritize helping women activists escape when we made our exit. The fact that we’ve now just moved on, failing to truly grapple with what happened there and why, reflects one of the ugliest aspects of the way we have come to operate.
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We had 20 years to help build a govt there that could’ve kept the Taliban at bay; instead we enabled a corrupt undemocratic govt and used Afghanistan as a little more than a cash cow for the military industrial complex. All this tragedy was inevitable given our own malfeasance.
I am increasingly concerned about the well-being of missing women activists in Afghanistan. Several have ‘disappeared’, some not heard from in weeks.
I strongly urge the Taliban to ensure their safety so that they can return home.
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Do it Mr. President. prospect.org/health/bidens-b…
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“The U.S. military is one of the most polluting entities in the world—its operations burn through more resources than over 140 countries, according to a 2019 study. The military’s activities use enormous amounts of energy and water…”gizmodo.com/the-u-s-army-has…
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