jake

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    4 Jul 2018

    Rare moment: Bernie caught doing the Vince McMahon walk in public

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  2. Jun 20

    this is from an email I got from the pro-Warren PCCC just before Warren tweeted her endorsement of Hickenlooper

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    Jun 20

    This is embarrassing. Do what you want but don’t try to pretend is strong on climate. The man has a long record of being pro-fracking and anti-Green New Deal

    Elizabeth Warren is proud to endorse John Hickenlooper — Senate, Colorado
    John has taken on the NRA, invested in wind and solar renewable energy to confront the climate crisis, and fought tooth and nail to protect the right to choose in Colorado. I’m proud to join him in the fight to defeat Cory Gardner and take back the Senate.
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    Jun 11

    It’s not clear people have absorbed what an absolute crime this killing was from start to finish. And it’s not true that nobody was arrested. Cops arrested her boyfriend for trying to save her life from armed dead-of-night intruders.

    The detective who applied for the warrant that ended in the March shooting death of Breonna Taylor has been placed on administrative reassignment, the Louisville, Kentucky, interim police chief said.
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    Jun 5

    get a load of these absolute fucking ghouls

    57 Buffalo police resign. The union is upset with treatment of the two officers who were suspended. “Our position is these officers... were simply doing their job. I don't know how much contact was made. He did slip in my estimation. He fell backwards."
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    May 28

    Protestors Criticized For Looting Businesses Without Forming Private Equity Firm First

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    May 24

    There is evil in the world.

    While drug overdose deaths surged in Appalachia, top execs at drug distribution giant AmerisourceBergen twice circulated an email of a parody song ("To the tune of The "Beverly Hillbillies" TV theme) that makes fun of "pillbillies" addicted to OxyContin.
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    May 23

    Reading about the South can make science fiction where the US "becomes a dictatorship" seem naive and redundant—here is Leander Perez, boss of Plaquemines Parish, LA, inspecting the prison camp he built for Freedom Riders. He ruled the parish without opposition for 50 years.

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  9. May 20

    or, idk, you could just send people $4,000 checks

    Bipartisan group of 4 senators propose $4,000 refundable tax credit for skills training, apprenticeships, 2- and 4-year programs. We like it! thank u!
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  10. May 16

    Pelosi says the Heroes Act was "tailored strictly" to meet people's needs and it would have been "irresponsible" to do less, then concedes the bill could have done more but it would have cost too much, then says not spending aggressively will cost more in the long run

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  11. May 14

    Democrats are means-testing to death student loan relief in a messaging bill

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    May 14

    the emptiest, wettest suit of all time

    "With due respect to Senator Markey, who is a good man, there’s more to this job than the way you vote and the bills that you file."
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    May 12

    Very good point in 's newsletter

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    May 12

    The House Dem bill establishes a Fed credit facility for debt collectors, tied to forbearance on debt collection payments. How about that.

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  15. May 10

    lmao COME ON

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    May 9

    ICYMI and a reminder in these dark and uncertain times that one day, years ago, Trump’s Treasury Secretary Wilbur Ross picked an eye booger and then ate it...

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  17. May 4

    translation: 'We don't want to be held accountable for getting our workers sick'

    To protect America’s manufacturers that have stepped up to do the right thing during the pandemic, we are calling on Congress to enact targeted liability protections to ensure misguided litigation does not derail our country's recovery.
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    May 2

    We are at depression levels of unemployment and we have spent two months sheltering in place with little increase in testing or hospital capacity, but my main concern is American global hegemony.

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    May 2

    for those who have written there are no libertarians in a pandemic, i can assure you there are. the recommendations are the same: cut taxes, slash regulations, build private power against public power.

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    May 2

    "Obama spent most of his considerable political capital defending a cabal of corrupt financiers who very nearly ruined the world economy." A decade later, Obama's crisis management looks less like an epic historical bungle than an epic historical crime

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    Apr 30

    This is the one belief Joe Biden sincerely holds, & it’s disastrous.

    On an Instragram live chat with Megan Rapinoe, Joe Biden reminisces about his relationships with Mike Mansfield, Bob Dole and Ted Kennedy in the Senate. He argues that Republicans will change once Trump is out of office and that "compromise is not a dirty word."
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