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Wife and girl mom. Feminist and environmentalist. Former patent lawyer and chemistry teacher.

[prach @prach]

How Medicare for all really works & costs.

Keeping private insurance option won't force lower prices

Private ins. doesn't give a real choice.

major networks sponsored by big pharma. Notice how many drug commercials on CNN & msnbc

Don't believe establishment lies #DemDebates

[prach @prach]

Medicare for All: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) https://t.co/8ZsssscjHb via @YouTube

[⁸⁵Alicia³² @Alicia_kizzy]

The menendez brothers case really bothers me bc what do you mean they were severely abused and had over 50 witnesses that corroborate that and yet they have spent 30+ yrs for the murder of their parents. Interesting

[Hassan Mafi ‏ @thatdayin1992]

The fake Hamas beheaded 40 babies story got more coverage in Western mainstream media than the Lancet study that estimated the death toll in Gaza could exceed 186,000.

[Adam Smith @electadamsmith]

I’m calling on President Biden to step down. If President Biden continues his campaign, it would be a mistake. President Biden has shown strong leadership, but it’s clear he is no longer the best candidate to meet the demands of the office. https://t.co/A82yiuDqRu

[The All-In Podcast @theallinpod]

Dean Phillips Said the Quiet Part Out Loud

If you do anything today, watch this three-minute clip of @deanbphillips on All-In from SEVEN MONTHS AGO.

Rep. Dean Phillips announced he would challenge President Biden for the Democratic nominee last October.

He joined All-In in November and explained why he was running.

***Again, this is from seven months ago***

Rep. Phillips on President Biden:

"He's a human being. He's now in his eighties. He is clearly on the decline. He's not incompetent. I believe he's surrounded himself by competent, able, principled people."

"But do I think that he will be in a position to continue leading this country in the future? I do not. I think I'm joined by about 75% of the country in saying that."

"People are saying that I'm causing his problems, that I could risk his reelection."

"I'm not the guy that has him losing to Trump nationally, down in five of six battleground states, the lowest approval ratings in presidential history, almost."

"And I'm certainly not the guy that has shown his decline. That's on video, that's on audio, you see it. He's a human being, for goodness sakes."

"All I'm doing is saying the quiet part out loud. The only one!"

"You ask the question, 'Do others talk about this?' The question is, 'Is anybody not talking about this?' Of course they are, you guys."

@DavidSacks asked: "What has been the blowback in the Democratic Party from your declaring?"

"What do you think? I'm not being thrown flowers and parties, let me tell you that."

"I think they're disappointed because this is not what you do when you're a member of a party."

"You fall in line, you shush up, you sit down, you get in line, and you do nothing to upset the applecart of others who've been waiting in line perhaps a little longer than you."

"(President Biden) implicitly, if not explicitly, said he would be a transitional president. Kind of the bridge."

"Most members of Congress thought he was going to stand down."

"That's why Newsom and Pritzker and Whitmer and so many others were kind of making their plans."

"I started seeing the polls change dramatically. The tenor and tone of constituent discussions with me and every single one of my colleagues was changing graphically."

"And I was really frustrated. I called @GovWhitmer. I called @GovPritzker. I made public calls to the candidates whose names are better known than me to jump in. The water's warm, you guys. It's a Democratic Primary. That's what we do."

"Not only did those two not take my calls, which they would have any other day. They had their political operatives take those calls, and they told me, 'Please, don't use their names.' That's the culture that we're dealing with."

"You will be blackballed, you will be disenfranchised, you will be let out the door, if you so much as even issue a word that you might challenge a sitting President of the United States."

"This is the United States of America. It's appalling."

"I think I'm the only one that's willing to torpedo a career so that the country isn't torpedoed by this nonsense and dysfunction."

[Andrew Yang🧢⬆️🇺🇸 @AndrewYang]

Joe Biden citing his support in the primaries is ridiculous - they canceled the primary in multiple states, refused to have debates and told contenders it was career suicide to challenge him. If there had been debates we would have seen his decline months ago. #PassTheTorchJoe

[Jessica Burbank @JessicaLBurbank]

The Democratic Party co-signed the death of democracy when they sabotaged Bernie’s run in 2016, and argued before a court of law that party leadership—not members—have a right to select a candidate, and WON.

You can’t run a party like that and convince us voting is the answer.

[Keith Olbermann @KeithOlbermann]

CNN's decision to abrogate its journalistic responsibilities by not fact checking Trump's firehose of lies is unforgivable.

This debate is Biden vs the tag team of Trump and CNN's utter failure as a news organization

[Jennifer Gunter @DrJenGunter]

THERE IS NOT SUCH FUCKING THING AS AN AFTER BIRTH ABORTION #Debates2024

[George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway3d]

Nothing compared to the irony of watching an entire political party that devoted itself for decades to preaching the need for personal responsibility and respect for law now commit itself to making mendacious excuses for a convicted criminal and adjudicated rapist and fraudster.

[Dustin Kittle @dustinkittle]

Kristi Noem did not put the book out to tell the truth —

— the truth is she was caught, some 20 years ago, by eyewitnesses, who looked on as she executed her hunting dog and then a goat; in an apparent fit of rage.

And that’s all any of this ever was.

[Jwey @Jweyman]

@Philly_Mike25 Cowboys not getting the phantom calls this week like last week with 4 picked up flags? Lololol HOW BOUT DEM COWBOYS!!

[𝔽𝕣𝕒𝕟𝕜 𝕃 𝕃𝔸𝕎ℝ𝔼ℕℂ𝔼 @FrankLLAWRENCE1]

Please remember hydroxychloroquine, Ivermectin, Light treatment, injections of bleach, Lysol, etc., into the body. Never forget the pictures of refrigerated truck trailers parked outside hospitals because there was no room at morgues. Remember "When it gets warm it will all go away." Remember the coward who told Robert Woodward that he kept silent because he didn't want to scare people or panic them. Picture Trump sitting in his little dining room off the Oval Office for over three hours while insurrectionists defaced and stole from the Capitol and Ashley Babbitt and Officer Sicknick were the first to die due to Trump's dereliction of duty. REMEMBER SHEER EVIL!!!

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

Here is Robert De Niro’s full statement about how Donald Trump should NEVER be president again:

“I’ve spent a lot of time studying bad men.  I’ve examined their characteristics, their mannerisms, the utter banality of their cruelty.

Yet there’s something different about Donald Trump. When I look at him, I don’t see a bad man. Truly.

I see an evil one.

Over the years, I’ve met gangsters here and there. This guy tries to be one, but he can’t quite pull it off. There’s such a thing as “honor among thieves.” Yes, even criminals usually have a sense of right and wrong. 

Whether they do the right thing or not is a different story — but — they have a moral code, however warped.

Donald Trump does not. He’s a wannabe tough guy with no morals or ethics. No sense of right or wrong. No regard for anyone but himself — not the people he was supposed to lead and protect, not the people he does business with, not the people who follow him, blindly and loyally, not even the people who consider themselves his “friends.” He has contempt for all of them.

We New Yorkers got to know him over the years that he poisoned the atmosphere and littered our city with monuments to his ego.  We knew first hand that this was someone who should never be considered for leadership.  We tried to warn the world in 2016.

The repercussions of his turbulent presidency divided America and rattled New York City beyond imagination.  Remember how we were jolted by crisis in early 2020, as a virus swept the world.

We lived with Donald Trump’s bombastic behavior every day on the national stage, and we suffered as we saw our neighbors piling up in body bags.

The man who was supposed to protect this country put it in peril, because of his recklessness and impulsiveness. It was like an abusive father ruling the family by fear and violent behavior.  That was the consequence of New York’s warning getting ignored. Next time, we know it will be worse.

Make no mistake: the twice-impeached, 4-time indicted Donald Trump is still a fool. But we can’t let our fellow Americans write him off like one. Evil thrives in the shadow of dismissive mockery, which is why we must take the danger of Donald Trump very seriously.

So today we issue another warning. From this place where Abraham Lincoln spoke — right here in the beating heart of New York — to the rest of America:
This is our last chance.

Democracy won’t survive the return of a wannabe dictator.

And it won’t overcome evil if we are divided.

So what do we do about it?  I know I’m preaching to the choir here.  What we’re doing today is valuable, but we have to take today into tomorrow – take it outside these walls.   We have to reach out to the half of our country who have ignored the hazards of Trump and, for whatever reason, support elevating him back into the White House. 

They’re not stupid, and we must not condemn them for making a stupid choice.  Our future doesn’t just depend on us. It depends on them.

Let’s reach out to Trump’s followers with respect.  Let’s not talk about “democracy.”  “Democracy” may be our holy grail, but to others it is just a word, a concept, and in their embrace of Trump, they’ve already turned their backs on it. 

Let’s talk about right and wrong.  Let’s talk about humanity. 

Let’s talk about kindness.  Security for our world. 

Safety for our families. 

Decency. 

Let’s welcome them back. 

We won’t get them all, but we can get enough to end the nightmare of Trump, and fulfill the mission of this “Stop Trump Summit.”

[Steve Martin @UnrealBluegrass]

If Trump becomes president again, after all we know ,and you supported his campaign you will have participated in the end of American democracy.
You will not be rewarded by your leader beyond a rush you might seek for upending civility.
You aren't part of his plan.
He is the entirety of his plan and the future will belong to him.
Not you.
You won't get a thank you or a knowing nod.
He will allow you to buy trinkets with his image and name emblazoned.
Trump is a despicable example of human kind.
Devoid of compassion.
Devoid of any respect for knowledge and education.
Trump is the fully realized Id.
He will have no guardians , no guard rails and no shame.
He cannot tell the difference between what he is and what he wants.
There is none when you analyze the situation.
He flunks Descarte's building block syllogism automatically.
He can't think so no therefore.
Ego driven rage and revenge.
If you're inclined to assist him please rethink your reasons.
#Trump

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

There is a horrific humanitarian disaster in Gaza. Israel must stop the bombing now and allow for massive amounts of humanitarian aid, including fuel, to reach those who need it. Congress cannot pass a supplemental spending bill that allows these actions to continue.

[Sam Jones @SamJownes]

So let me make sure I’ve got this straight - guns don’t kill people, people do? And we just hand out automatic weapons to those people?

Great. #BanAssaultWeaponsNow

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

Your right to own an assault rifle does not supersede someone else’s right to go to a goddamn bowling alley and not get shot.

#BanAssaultWeaponsNow

[Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner @rowefinkbeiner]

#BanAssaultWeaponsNow - The “freedom” to carry a military-style assault weapon into a bowling alley, school, restaurant, movie theater, or community should NOT count more than the freedom to live without fear of losing our children to high capacity weapons.

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

TWEEPS: Let's send a loud-and-clear message to the NRA, and the politicians owned by them, that we are fed up with the mass shootings.

Get these weapons of war off our streets!!!

Can we get 1,000 fast RTs and replies using the hashtag #BanAssaultWeaponsNow so we can get it trending?

Please and thank you! 🙏💪

[Zeke Hausfather @hausfath]

The first global temperature data is in for the full month of September. This month was, in my professional opinion as a climate scientist – absolutely gobsmackingly bananas. JRA-55 beat the prior monthly record by over 0.5C, and was around 1.8C warmer than preindutrial levels.