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@ChrisBEsq @SecretaryPete Now see this would be some monumental stuff

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@SecretaryPete I appreciate your energy but without anything to back it up it feels pretty empty. Why would now be any different from the last 30 years for infrastructure opportunities? We gonna crush out some high-speed rail corridors? Double down on subway projects?

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@SecretaryPete This sounds like a conversation for city planners. How is this related to a federal transportation program?

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@SecretaryPete Sorry, what about a music festival? How is #SXSW related to this?

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@DanPriceSeattle And every plan for student loan debt forgiveness demands that you keep paying those ridiculous rates if you want help- if you get a lower rate by refinancing, your loans aren’t held by the government anymore and nobody gives two shits about what happens to you

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@xkcd have you already done the math for trying to combat rising ocean levels by nuking the sea floor? It’s a terrible idea for so many reasons, but it puts into perspective just how much water is actually involved- I got 2.685 * 10^24 kilotons of yield needed to stop 1 mm rise

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@DanPriceSeattle Only problem with this sort of thing is that Forbes is basically Sports Illustrated for rich people- and they don’t list sources for their data. We’re basically saying “these guys are bragging about having lots of money” but we already know many of them are lying.

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@DanPriceSeattle Ok, sorry, the “who” is in the article - but this Forbes data is crazy opaque.

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@DanPriceSeattle I really appreciate you in this area! Can you help me clarify a few things? Where’s that number for the increase coming from, is that stock valuations going up? Who is included in “billionaires?”

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@AOC ...all of which would be totally fair if 75k was the household cutoff but it isn’t, it’s the individual. Household is 150k, it covers about 82% of Americans before the phaseout and 90% at the end, I’ll see myself out lol

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@AOC Don’t get me wrong- I know people with kids need more help than those without. But you have to think about how to help those people in a way that’s going to preserve your ability to continue to help them or it all means nothing.

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@AOC God damn. It feels like you’re the only person in government with any interest in talking to people like a human with a job. Good on you for getting out there and trying to help people understand a bill even though it was less than half of what you were fighting for.

[Dan Price @DanPriceSeattle]

When we doubled our minimum wage to $70k, the rate of staff having babies and buying houses both grew 10x. All of a sudden people could afford to have families.

To our senators who say they're pro-family: There's nothing more pro-family than a higher minimum wage.

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@SenSchumer It’s incredible to me that you can believe this. Half-hearted propping up of existing support programs and taking credit for a payment that came from Republicans is anything but bold. You guys have to do better.

[Dan Price @DanPriceSeattle]

If your boss says "we're like a family," that means they expect permission to treat you like a child.

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

If $15 an hour sounds like too much, please ruminate on the fact that Jeff Bezos makes $2,489 every second.

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@WhiteHouse It is, by definition, not unity. And you didn’t need Republican support to get it done at all. Maybe you should have gone for something that reflected the desires of the democrats that voted for you and gave you the White House, House, and Senate.

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Also: the median member of Congress is a millionaire.