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castro expands healthcare services beyond abortion and contraception, to covering important services for trans people

booker agrees that pharma should be held criminally liable for the opioid crisis and says he’s committed to not taking pharma money this round. no one calls him out on past funds he’s accepted because no one has enough time to respond

castro says he would sign an executive order to repeal metering + honor asylum claims + path to citizenship for non citizens + marshall plan for honduras/guatemala/el salvador + get rid of section 1325 of the INS act which criminalizes border crossings

booker opens in spanish (?) end separation of families, would reinstate DACA, change/keep (?) our values in dealing with the border

deblasio can’t remember the victim names but makes passionate speech about the division fomented against immigrants, blames corps and 1% for “working people” (white people?) struggles instead

castro just challenged beto for not repealing s.1325, beto says he sponsored a comprehensive re-write. castro says beto used trafficking as an excuse to not repeal s. 1325 and that he didn’t do his hw (damn!) this is great but specific statute discussions might be too boring

klobuchar is talking about a pro-work immigration bill bringing the debt down, which, who cares

tim ryan bringing up guantanamo bay prisoners to say they are getting better care than the kids in the border cages is terrible. guantanamo bay prisoners are being held indefinitely and in inhumane conditions. this deserves a real discussion and not for fucking points

warren hadn’t talked in like 9 mins because we (this female social media editor included) have been socialized into feeling bad about interrupting

gabbard: we need to prevent iran from developing a nuclear wespon and avoid war red line would be response against attack against american troops but wants to de escalate

warren wants to double down on the research. doesn’t want to treat collector same as terrorist. booker says he’s the only who lives in neighborhood where people get shot, including someone he knew last week. wants a buyback program. “this is not policy, this is personal”

sidebar: why does castro always looks like he’s about to tear up?

tim ryan wants trauma-based care and mental health counselors in every school

certainly we can all agree that klobuchar’s weapons should be consficated

sidebar: delaney’s voice is like if a duck with a cold could speak english. no this is not sexist

warren plan to deal with mcconnell the devil: without a dem maj, “we have to push from the outside ... amd make this congress reflect the will of the people”

delaney plan to deal with mcconnell: “become the party of getting things done” aka real centrist capitulating hours

sidebar: inslee has so. many. teeth.

inslee gonna snatch that filibuster to fight climate change; says it has to be top priority, organizing principle moving forward; we’re the last generation to fix this. depressing but real

we have NEVER seen this much urgency on climate change across the DNC debate stage in our lifetimes and it’s definitely still not enough

tim ryan asked how to pay for green policy not regressively: “we’ve lost all connection to [working class people],” says democratic party is too elitist, explicitly includes black and brown people in the working class, which is an upgrade from the 2016 discourse

so much [A]sexual community exclusion right now?

audience Q: do we an obligation to intervene to prevent genocides unrelated to american interests? beto: yes but with allies deblasio: yes but not without congressional approval

ryan: “the reality is if the US isn’t engaged, the taliban will grow” tulsi: “we have to bring our troops home from afghanistan . . . . the taliban didn’t attack us on 9/11, al qaeda did.”

biggest threats to US national security per candidates: iran, climate change, nuclear wespons, china, RUSSIA

the topic is impeachment and the mueller report and rachel maddow’s aura is at peak glow-up

sidebar: warren was supposed to crush this stage and these single-pollers are swallowing her presence. klobuchar has received clutched more air time. this would not fare well on a stage against trump.

CLOSING STATEMENTS AT LAST (THERE IS A GOD)