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Journalist
@NaomiAKlein calls the crisis in Puerto Rico "state-sponsored mass killing," a result of "total infrastructure failure" and "planned misery." Klein: "Maybe there was not the intent to kill, but there is the knowledge that the infrastructure was being destroyed"#DNlive pic.twitter.com/Q9N7VY63TK
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Gazan writer
@muhammadshehad2 on the Israeli military's efforts to reframe the killing of Palestinian medic Razan al-Najjar in Gaza: "It shows how the IDF feels able to lie so blatantly… They know the Western media will take the bait as unquestionable facts"#DNlive pic.twitter.com/1Jl4lQWgvP
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More than 3,200 people are, like Alice Marie Johnson, serving life without parole for nonviolent offenses. "Only sentencing reform is going to fix the problem," says
@JennTurner. "There needs to be industrial-scale clemency."#DNlive pic.twitter.com/7aWRhCa0rU
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The constitution doesn't give absolute power to use the presidential pardon, notes reporter
@Will_Bunch, responding to Trump's claim he can pardon himself. "He is playing the game of 'The Celebrity Apprentice' with the pardon process."#DNlive pic.twitter.com/C5x2wvhapw
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Puerto Ricans are being forced off the island in search of housing and open schools, reports
@NaomiAKlein, as Puerto Rico's luxury housing market is booming after Hurricane Maria. "This is what we mean by disaster capitalism."#DNlive pic.twitter.com/yAPjDQQ8pQ
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The immigrants in the courtroom, some of whom have been separated from their children, are often instructed to answer the judge with their pleas en masse, says Debbie Nathan. Nearly all say, "Culpable" (guilty). "It doesn't feel like due process," Nathan says.
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@democracynow: Irish activist Grainne Griffin says Friday's vote to lift Ireland's abortion ban now puts pressure on Northern Ireland to change its restrictive abortion laws. "We can't wait much longer for this," urges activist@hoeyannie.#DNlive http://bit.ly/2L1WqBk -
Watching
@democracynow#DNLive with my scholar lil homies. Can’t wait to visit tomorrow!!!#Woke#News#CriticalThinking#iTeach#HipHopEdpic.twitter.com/snNh36p50T
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What does Naomi Klein mean when she says Iraq is a libertarian fantasy?
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Puerto Rico
#DNLive,@NaomiAKlein how about ‘malign neglect’ to frame the state policy for structural disaster as prior to Maria -
@democracynow: Dave Zirin (@EdgeofSports) on the NFL's announcement it will punish players for kneeling against racism and police brutality during the anthem: "What the NFL did is put out a fire with kerosene"#DNlive http://bit.ly/2IKwF83 -
【NO NATO, NO WAR!! WE DONT KILL FOR YOU NO MORE!! http://bit.ly/YJ783r 】
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"Our Enemies aren't several 100,000 away. They're right here in front of us"【http://bit.ly/VCIti9 】
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【TPP】"This is a 1% power tool that could rip up our basic needs and rights."【http://bit.ly/15r71M2 】
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@staceyabrams, who has worked to register over 200,000 people to vote, describes Georgia's Republican Secretary of State Brian Kemp: "Secretary Kemp has unfortunately built a very strong record of voter suppression. I'm very proud of our record of beating him."#DNlive pic.twitter.com/qZPGH3Cxo0
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Stacey Abrams is volunteering information that she was endorsed by Hillary Clinton. She may want to keep that in her pocket.
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Stacey Abrams thinks a strong stance on gun control will somehow get her MORE votes in Georgia?
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@AlnajjarDalia remembers her cousin, Palestinian medic Razan al-Najjar, who was shot and killed by Israeli forces in Gaza on Friday: "She always had dreams, she loved life, she was a source of positivity all the time"#DNlive pic.twitter.com/A4j3a235Bi
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@democracynow: Malkia Cyril (@culturejedi): "White supremacists have committed the largest share of domestic extremist related killing last year. We know that white supremacists represent the biggest domestic threat to the U.S."#DNlive http://bit.ly/2Ln4KMU
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