Candidate for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States.
Joined February 2009
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One of the most powerful things we can do to end the scourge of a mental health crisis is to end poverty.
It's impossible to overestimate the role that chronic economic despair plays in pushing people into a state of crisis.
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A homeless man was murdered on a NYC subway for doing nothing more than screaming that he's hungry.
Then the Mayor calls it a "tragedy" related to "mental health issues" rather than a murder for which the murderer must be held accountable.
A tragedy here is that so many Americans are so desperate that they're crying out for food in the middle of a subway; the mental health issue applies collectively to a society that can't break through this vicious cycle; and the question remains why no one in the subway car yelled out "STOP IT!!!" as they watched him die.
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.@AOC is deeply correct about this.
This honestly feels like a new low: not being able to clearly condemn a public murder because the victim was of a social status some would deem “too low” to care about.
The last sentence is especially rich from an admin trying to cut the very services that could have helped him.
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I looked at the comments beneath this link on my Instagram page, and I was horrified by how many people say that they have had to sell their blood plasma in order to make it through school.
We need an economic U-turn in this country and we need it now.
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My full interview with University of Michigan graduate students on strike: youtube.com/m-tK0LayzDY
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Solidarity with the striking graduate students at University of Michigan. No student should have to sell plasma to make ends meet.
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They’re even coming for the children.
Free market fundamentalism combined with authoritarian ideology will stop at nothing.
Two 10-year-old children were found working at a Louisville McDonald's restaurant -- sometimes until 2 a.m. -- the US Department of Labor said. cnn.it/3oZjv0N
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Today is World Press Freedom Day.
It’s not just something to celebrate; it’s something to live up to.
Julian Assange should not be in Belmarsh prison.
I would drop the charges against Assange on Day One.
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Government should stay far away from this.
The only appropriate role government would have here would be protecting workers against union-busting.
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The WGA writers strike will go down as a pivotal moment in the counteroffensive against vulture capitalism, not unlike what Christian Smalls did at the Amazon warehouse Staten Island.
Why? Because writers - fiction, non-fiction, whatever - tell the larger story.
Not only theirs, but everyone’s.
Either a soulless drive for endless corporate profit despite any ethical consideration wins….or people win.
It can’t be both ways.
This is not just about money, it’s about freedom. In the words of FDR, “a necessitous man is not a free man.”
An economic system - in Hollywood or anywhere else - that thrives by keeping the majority of people in a necessitous situation is an attack on freedom.
From ancient Greeks to modern writers on strike, the storytellers free us because they help us understand.
Go writers! You tell that story.
Help everyone understand.
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We spend $858 billion a year on “national security,” while millions are not secure in their homes, secure in their jobs, secure they’ll get healthcare if they get sick, or secure that they will have enough food to eat, clean water to drink, or clean air to breathe.
We need a radical reassessment of what the phrase “national security” should mean.
It’s not enough to know another country won’t do you in, if all manner of things right here at home just might.
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“The United States is a nation where eviction is commonplace among low-income renters…
More than 3.6 million eviction filings are taped to doors or handed to occupants in an average year in America, which is roughly equivalent to the numbers of foreclosures initiated at the height of the financial crisis in 2010.”
- Matthew Desmond,
POVERTY, BY AMERICA
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