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A real thanks to @TomSteyer for speaking out with passion against the unacceptable concentration of wealth + power in America. Tom, you have helped push our party away from the corporations and toward the grassroots, where we belong.

No, @JoeBiden, most Americans really DON’T like the status quo. Shouting out that you oppose change + you disdain the “revolutionary” idea that working people deserve a better America - well, THAT’S not the way to beat Trump. @BernieSanders will see you on the playing field Tues

.@GloriaBorger @CNNPolitics makes a key point: Bernie did better than Biden with White working class voters in SC. We saw the same in NH. We need those voters back in the Democratic coalition. That is Trump’s worst nightmare. Only one person brings them back: @BernieSanders

.@JamesCarville @msnbc this is really getting obnoxious, brother. A lot of us admire your contributions over the years, but bristle when you use words like “scary” about the guy who actually can motivate people to vote: @BernieSanders. Change is not scary. You used to know that

Congrats @JoeBiden for a well-earned victory. But @Robt_Gibbs @MSNBC makes crucial point: from now on this is a national election. The person who consistently leads in national polls + key March 3 states is @BernieSanders. The person who beats Trump in most polls: @BernieSanders

A profile in profiling: @MikeBloomberg PROFILED Black + Latino youth with Stop + Frisk PROFILED Muslim Americans with police surveillance VETOED bill to stop racial PROFILING by NYPD No sympathy for those PROFILED But don’t PROFILE his minority: billionaires. That hurts

As the person who ended @MikeBloomberg’s racist + counterproductive Muslim surveillance program, I will tell you what he won’t: it actually made us LESS SAFE. It bred resentment and distrust, just when we most needed to bring our police and our Muslim community together. Failure

On PBS, @MikeBloomberg generously tells us not all Muslims are terrorists. What a relief! I don’t know what I would have done if he hadn’t clarified it. What an awkward conversation that would have led to with the 1000 loyal patriotic Muslim Americans who are members of the NYPD!

There’s an easy, calm, “reasonable” way @MikeBloomberg rationalizes the discrimination that ran through many of his policies. It’s a gentleman’s racism. If they are young + Black “throw them against the wall and frisk them.” But said only as a social engineer from his high perch.

There is a special narcissism to billionaires. They can’t see like the rest of us. Here’s what actually happened, @MikeBloomberg : I called for an end to your broken policies, got elected + changed them. None of us needed to “learn” what we already knew. The people had told us

“And hopefully my successor has learned from my mistake.” That’s what @MikeBloomberg said on CNN last night. Everyone, this is the level of wealth-backed, self-centered delusion we got used to. His successor + thousands of others told him he was wrong FOR YEARS WHILE HE WAS MAYOR

Trillions of $ went to endless wars with hardly any debate in Washington Over a trillion $ in tax breaks for the wealthy + big corporations rushed through the Congress Both colossal mistakes that need to end Right there are two ways to pay for #MedicareForAll It’s time!

.@bwilliams @msnbc you want a fact check on @MikeBloomberg record on education? Here goes: Non-stop efforts to corporatize public schools Endless attacks on teachers + their union Closing neighborhood schools 3 chancellors, 0 were educators High-stakes testing No thanks!

You gotta love @amyklobuchar for getting a Hot Dish reference into an answer about North Korea. That, my friends, is about as on-brand as it gets. Respect!

.@JoeBiden, wake up! The American people LIKE @BernieSanders because he actually wants their families to have health care. They don’t want you guys talking about whether another country has it, they want to know when WE ARE GOING TO GET IT.

Yes, PLEASE ask NYC teachers how @MikeBloomberg treated them. You will get an earful. He attacked + denigrated our educators + their union. He blamed teachers + treated THEM as the problem, instead of the solution they really are. I have spent 6 yrs healing + fixing what he broke

.@TomSteyer is right: you can’t beat a Republican with another Republican. @MikeBloomberg , if you wanted to run for President as a Democrat one day, you shouldn’t have abandoned our party when it was convenient for your political career. U bought the Republican label, u own it

As the guy who actually ended the Stop + Frisk policy + settled the lawsuit + sent Bloomberg’s police commissioner packing, let me answer that question: YES, stop and frisk was racist! And @MikeBloomberg stood by it til last year. If he weren’t running for Pres, no apology

There u go again, @PeteButtigieg. You just don’t understand: fighting Donald Trump WILL take passion + fight + yes, getting up in Trump’s face. It won’t be mild + calm + easy. It will be a struggle for the soul of our nation. We need a street fighter 4 the people: @BernieSanders

Purveyors of Conventional Wisdom are telling us tonight that @BernieSanders can’t be elected President because he’s different. Just like they said about Donald Trump. Just like they said about Barack Obama. The truth: you CAN’T be elected in America today UNLESS you’re different.