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Jonathan 'Boo and Vote' Cohn

3 years

The "far right": "Jews will not replace us." The "far left": "Everyone deserves health care." Centrists: "These, to me, are the same."

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Jonathan 'Boo and Vote' Cohn

@JonathanCohn

4 years

Minnesota has a Democratic governor. Minneapolis has a Democratic mayor. The Minneapolis City Council is 12-1 Democratic. The 1 is a Green. Voting alone does not fix this if elected officials remain deferential to the cops.

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@RonWyden

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If you woke up today angry, confused or frustrated about the direction our country is heading, I have one word for you: vote.

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Jonathan 'Boo and Vote' Cohn

@JonathanCohn

3 years

Dolly Parton donated $1 million to Vanderbilt for vaccine research. Vanderbilt researchers were involved in the Moderna trials. Ergo, Dolly Parton helped cure COVID.

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Jonathan 'Boo and Vote' Cohn

@JonathanCohn

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The F-15 flyover bullshit is peak dying empire.

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@JonathanCohn

3 years

DoorDash Spent $5.5 Million To Advertise Their $1 Million Charity Donation

DoorDash Spent $5.5 Million To Advertise Their $1 Million Charity Donation - Broke-Ass Stuart's...

If DoorDash wants to support community causes, why not just contribute the money to them instead of buying a Super Bowl ad?

brokeassstuart.com

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Jonathan 'Boo and Vote' Cohn

@JonathanCohn

4 years

COVID is working harder than Senate Dems to stop the rushed confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett.

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Jonathan 'Boo and Vote' Cohn

@JonathanCohn

4 years

What a sentence!

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Jonathan 'Boo and Vote' Cohn

@JonathanCohn

4 years

The problem with capitalism is you eventually run out of other people's lives.

VANITY FAIR

@VanityFair

4 years

Wall Street has had enough of the lockdown: “People will die. People do die,” says one investment banker. “People have to take responsibility for their own lives. And people do die. That is kind of what happens”

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Jonathan 'Boo and Vote' Cohn

@JonathanCohn

5 years

Joe Biden impressively manages to combine everything I dislike about Hillary Clinton and everything I dislike about Bill Clinton into one person.

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Jonathan 'Boo and Vote' Cohn

@JonathanCohn

4 years

Russ Feingold losing to Ron Johnson is one of the biggest tragedies from 2016.

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@JonathanCohn

4 years

I feel seen.

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Jonathan 'Boo and Vote' Cohn

@JonathanCohn

4 years

Quinnipac poll 18-34 year-olds: Sanders 71% - Biden 21% 65+ year-olds: Biden 80% Sanders 11% The generational divide really has been a defining feature of this cycle and last.

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Jonathan 'Boo and Vote' Cohn

@JonathanCohn

7 years

To my Christian friends: Merry Christmas To my Jewish friends: Happy Hanukkah To my democratic socialist friends: Bernie would have won

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Jonathan 'Boo and Vote' Cohn

@JonathanCohn

3 years

Democratic co-sponsors of Medicare for All who just won re-election in swing districts: Jared Golden (ME-02; R+2) Ann Kirkpatrick (AZ-02; R+1) Mike Levin (CA-49; R+1) Katie Porter (CA-45; R+3) Susan Wild (PA-07; D+1) and Matt Cartwright (PA-08; R+1) seem on track to win as well

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Jonathan 'Boo and Vote' Cohn

@JonathanCohn

4 years

Ed Markey's record, like the record of every politician, is not above critique. But there is just simply no problem with Ed Markey to which Joe Kennedy is the solution.

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Jonathan 'Boo and Vote' Cohn

@JonathanCohn

5 years

You were picked to soften the impact of electing a Black guy for racist white people.

The Hill

@thehill

5 years

Joe Biden: "I doubt [President Barack Obama] would've picked me if these accusations about my being wrong on civil rights were correct."

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Jonathan 'Boo and Vote' Cohn

@JonathanCohn

4 years

So where are all those "pro-lifers" on this ICE story?

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@JonathanCohn

4 years

The Lincoln Project is going to use all of your money to fight the Democratic Congress next year and to demand steep budget cuts and Pentagon increases, folks

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@JonathanCohn

3 years

There's a fixation with pretending that Trump's base is working class. If you have the money to fly to/from DC, book a hotel, and take off work multiple days, you're economically comfortable.

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Jonathan 'Boo and Vote' Cohn

@JonathanCohn

4 years

LOL @ the fact that Nancy Pelosi's endorsement of Joe Kennedy brought Ed Markey triple the amount it brought Joe Kennedy ($300,000 via 9,000 individual contributions).

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Jonathan 'Boo and Vote' Cohn

@JonathanCohn

5 years

Jeff Bezos is the richest man in the world. This is disgusting.

Whole Foods is cutting medical benefits for hundreds of part-time workers

The Amazon-owned grocer started notifying some employees this week of the changes, sources told Business Insider.

www.businessinsider.com

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Jonathan 'Boo and Vote' Cohn

@JonathanCohn

5 years

Really proud of this graphic I just made for a presentation

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@JonathanCohn

6 years

I went to an elite college. I left thinking, "The kids who get drunk all the time and skip class are going to nonetheless make ridiculous sums of money after they graduate. Meritocracy is a lie."

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Jonathan 'Boo and Vote' Cohn

@JonathanCohn

4 years

Marco Rubio mixing up John Lewis and Elijah Cummings is a good reminder of how facial surveillance technology is racist.

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Jonathan 'Boo and Vote' Cohn

@JonathanCohn

5 years

Only NO votes on the shameful anti-free speech/anti-BDS bill Blumenauer Carson (IN) Dingell García (IL) Grijalva Jayapal Lee (CA) Massie McCollum Moore Ocasio-Cortez Omar Pingree Pocan Rush Tlaib Watson Coleman

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Jonathan 'Boo and Vote' Cohn

@JonathanCohn

4 years

Just realized that Bernie endorsed Biden before Warren did, which I find funny on a variety of levels.

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Jonathan 'Boo and Vote' Cohn

@JonathanCohn

2 years

Love to start my y axis at *checks notes* 2.1K people dead.

The White House

@WhiteHouse

2 years

Omicron cases are on the rise, but it’s clear that vaccines and boosters are making a difference. Vaccines and boosters help prevent severe illness and death — if you haven’t already, go get your vaccine and booster.

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@JonathanCohn

3 years

Is he proposing that we nationalize Whole Foods so that the provision of healthy food is not something that varies greatly by zip code?

CNBC

@CNBC

3 years

Whole Foods CEO John Mackey: The 'best solution' is to not need health care and for Americans to change how they eat and live (via @CNBCMakeIt )

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Jonathan 'Boo and Vote' Cohn

@JonathanCohn

2 years

I still can't get over that we had to deal with a whole cycle of "Biden was mean to Republicans for comparing them to segregationists" and then Mitch McConnell straight up says that African Americans aren't Americans.

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Jonathan 'Boo and Vote' Cohn

@JonathanCohn

3 years

Noteworthy that AOC offered to help some of her colleagues, and the ones who turned her down lost.

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@JonathanCohn

2 years

US added to list of ‘backsliding’ democracies for first time

‘Visible deterioration’ in US civil liberties began in at least 2019, says international thinktank

www.theguardian.com

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Jonathan 'Boo and Vote' Cohn

@JonathanCohn

6 years

"I'm socially pro-union, but fiscally anti-union."

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Jonathan 'Boo and Vote' Cohn

@JonathanCohn

4 years

The Senate adopted (90 to 10) a milquetoast amendment from Inhofe to say it's okay to give state/local police military equipment as long as they're trained to protect people's constitutional rights. Lol, sure 5 NO votes from the left: Booker, Harris, Markey, Sanders, Warren

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Jonathan 'Boo and Vote' Cohn

@JonathanCohn

3 years

The vote on an amendment to keep the US embassy in Jerusalem. Just shameful.

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@JonathanCohn

4 years

Ilhan Omar filed amendment to accelerate the withdrawal of US forces from Afghanistan. These Democrats voted NO.

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@JonathanCohn

5 years

That Quinnipac poll is wild when it comes to breakdowns by age. 18-34 year-olds: Sanders 44%, Warren 22%, Biden 9% 65+ year-olds: Biden 41%, Warren 26%, Sanders 2%

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@JonathanCohn

4 years

House Democratic Leadership only opposes primary challenges when they are from the left, I see.

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@JonathanCohn

4 years

Members of the Democratic Caucus who voted to advance another Trump judicial nominee today: Cardin Carper Casey Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Hassan Jones King Leahy Manchin Murphy Peters Rosen Shaheen Tester Udall Warner

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@JonathanCohn

4 years

Republicans celebrating Columbus Day by creating a super-spreader event is pretty meta.

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@JonathanCohn

2 years

"Not for nothing, clearance rates have dropped to all-time lows at the same time that police budgets have swollen to all-time highs, suggesting that more funding has actually resulted in police being less effective."

Why Are Police So Bad at Their Jobs?

It’s not just Uvalde. Cops nationwide can’t stop crimes from happening or solve them once they’ve occurred.

prospect.org

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Jonathan 'Boo and Vote' Cohn

@JonathanCohn

5 years

Pete Buttigieg is an old person's idea of what a young person should be.

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@JonathanCohn

3 years

Imagine being so out of touch that you think angsty teens shopped at Abercrombie and not Hot Topic.

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@oren_cass

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Angsty teens who think they’re sticking it to the man by wearing Abercrombie grow up to be Lefties who think free daycare sticks it to the suits.

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@JonathanCohn

4 years

"Don't worry. We'll get it in the next bill." -- The Congressional Democrats' proverb

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@JonathanCohn

4 years

Wow, Ed Markey at 71% - 21% with 18-29-year-olds #mapoli

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@JonathanCohn

5 years

That's a weird way to describe "paid charter school advocate."

NYT Politics

@nytpolitics

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When Bernie Sanders blamed segregation in schools on charters, it was “galling,” said one longtime advocate for racial equity in education

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@JonathanCohn

4 years

I can't believe that Pete, Amy, and Joe standing on each other's shoulders in a trench coat got 53% of the vote. What tricksters!

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@JonathanCohn

3 years

If the Boston Police Department saw nothing wrong with keeping a known child molester on the force *for years*, maybe it's far past time for us to pretend that police view their job as "public safety."

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Jonathan 'Boo and Vote' Cohn

@JonathanCohn

5 years

Waiting for the "Democrats shouldn't criticize other Democrats" crowd to chime in here.

The Hill

@thehill

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Claire McCaskill on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: "I’m a little confused why she’s the thing"

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Jonathan 'Boo and Vote' Cohn

@JonathanCohn

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Democrats who voted to confirm the right-wing judge in PA who just ruled Tom Wolf's COVID rules unconstitutional: Casey Jones Kaine Manchin Sinema

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@JonathanCohn

4 years

Report finds not one police department in the 20 largest American cities are compliant with international rights laws

‘State-sanctioned violence’: US police fail to meet basic human rights standards

Report finds not one police department in the 20 largest American cities are compliant with international rights laws

www.theguardian.com

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4 years

I'm waiting for a "centrist" Democrat to start accusing libraries of "providing free books to rich people."

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Jonathan 'Boo and Vote' Cohn

@JonathanCohn

4 years

If you want to donate to a Democratic woman working to flip a Senate seat, Sara GIdeon and Theresa Greenfield are more progressive than Amy McGrath and, unlike Amy McGrath, could actually win.

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Jonathan 'Boo and Vote' Cohn

@JonathanCohn

5 years

"The Jew has a money tree." -- Politico

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@JonathanCohn

6 years

Harsh, but fair

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@JonathanCohn

3 years

If people are protesting the police, then the police are not there to keep the peace -- they are counter-protesters.

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@JonathanCohn

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The fact that "He had a handgun in his car" is their excuse is a reminder that neither Republicans nor the NRA nor the police believe that "gun rights" apply to Black people in this country.

Police say unarmed Black man in Ohio traffic stop was shot 60 times - The Boston Globe

A 25-year-old Black man who was killed last week by police officers in Akron, Ohio, suffered more than 60 gunshot wounds but was unarmed at the time, the police chief said Sunday.

www.bostonglobe.com

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Jonathan 'Boo and Vote' Cohn

@JonathanCohn

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Dems who voted to confirm at least 1 Trump judge this week: Brown: 1/2 Carper: 2/2 Coons: 2/2 Cortez Masto: 2/2 Feinstein: 2/2 Hassan: 2/2 Jones: 2/2 Kaine: 2/2 Leahy: 2/2 Manchin: 2/2 Murphy: 2/2 Peters: 1/2 Reed: 1/2 Rosen: 1/2 Shaheen: 1/2 Warner: 2/2 Whitehouse: 1/2

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@JonathanCohn

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The police officers who walk by and do nothing as a fellow police officer knocks an old man to the ground, where he lies supine bleeding, are a great example of the sociological forces behind "How the Third Reich happened."

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Jonathan 'Boo and Vote' Cohn

@JonathanCohn

7 years

How fitting

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@JonathanCohn

3 years

The 22 Democrats who joined Republicans to block an amendment that would have prevented transfers of grenade launchers and armed drones to local police.

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@jpbrammer Jesus was a messy bitch who lived for drama.

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@JonathanCohn

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So the existence of police didn't prevent car theft?

New York Post

@nypost

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Atlanta councilman Antonio Brown, who voted to defund police, has car stolen

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ISIS to Syrians: "Be ISIS or die." *Syrians flee* GOP: "You're ISIS. Go back and die."

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New Yorkers love to make fun of Boston. But New York, you just elected as mayor a cop who loves Bitcoin and corruption, and we here in Boston elected Michelle Wu.

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Americans are all "Eugenics? That was some evil Nazi shit." *five seconds later* "If you don't have health insurance through your workplace, you should be allowed to die."

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Jonathan 'Boo and Vote' Cohn

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If this message were for the residents of Gaza -- who, because of you -- don't have Internet access anyway, then why is it English?

Israel Defense Forces

@IDF

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An urgent message for the residents of Gaza:

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Jonathan 'Boo and Vote' Cohn

@JonathanCohn

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If two people were killed & one injured at the protests in Kenosha, THEN HOW IS THAT LARGE POLICE PRESENCE KEEPING ANYONE SAFE? Police say they are necessary for safety at protests & repeatedly fail at that basic stated job. Which indicates that they see the job differently.

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@JonathanCohn

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The fires at Berkeley are getting more coverage than when a Milo fan shot a student in WA, aren't they?

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Democratic judges voiding Democratic gerrymanders while Republican judges uphold Republican ones just says so much about how the two parties think about power.

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4 years

I am very anti-conspiracy theory, and the Iowa Democratic Party is really making it hard.

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@JonathanCohn

5 years

Joe Biden is the candidate you'd get if you took almost all of the bad things that Sanders people said about Hillary and almost all of the bad things that Hillary people said about Sanders, and none of the good things about either.

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Jonathan 'Boo and Vote' Cohn

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Take: If Biden gets the nomination, it's not because of some white liberals voting Warren but because white progressives have yet to figure out how to win Black voters. We see this race after race.

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Hi, I'm everyone who complains that Bernie Sanders isn't a Democrat but thinks that Michael Bloomberg, who bankrolls Republican candidates, is great.

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Only 6 members of the Democratic caucus voted against moving forward to the NDAA last night (and effectively ending the short-term push fro a vote on $2,000 checks): Markey Merkley Sanders Van Hollen Warren Wyden

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@JonathanCohn

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Only 14 Dems voted against extending Trump's surveillance powers: Baldwin Brown Cantwell Durbin Heinrich Hirono Markey Merkley Murray Schatz Tester Udall Warren Wyden

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@JonathanCohn

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What part of a Biden run are you most excited about? ✅Extolling old-school white supremacists from the Senate 30 years ago ✅Emotionally manipulative comments about his dead son ✅Inappropriate touching of women ✅Policy agenda to the right of Clinton 16

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All of Trump's Space Force logos look like icons for a Disney ride.

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@JonathanCohn

3 years

The fact that VA Dems, when they had a governing trifecta, made their redistricting commission bipartisan -- and that that commission produced a Republican gerrymander -- is just so depressingly on brand.

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A family income cap of $60K is absurd. Two people making only $15 an hour each full-time would exceed that.

Axios

@axios

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NEW: Sen. Manchin has told the White House the child tax credit must include a firm work requirement and family income cap in the $60k range, Axios has learned. These demands would dramatically weaken one of Biden's signature programs.

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@JonathanCohn

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If you need to do this, then maybe your guy just shouldn't be running.

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Kyrsten Sinema looks and acts like a villain in a 1990s children's film where the heroes are three 10 year-olds and at least one talking animal.

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I've counted only 10 US Senators who have said anything on their Twitter account about the IDF's killing of World Central Kitchen aid workers.

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@JonathanCohn

4 years

Republican attacks on Joe Biden always make him sound way cooler than he actually is.

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3 years

All of the Gritty memes are giving me life.

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Jonathan 'Boo and Vote' Cohn

@JonathanCohn

6 years

Reminder: Sanders delegates wanted to strike mention of Jerusalem in the Democratic platform, but Clinton's delegates demanded that the platform call for a united Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.

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@JonathanCohn

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The 5 Democrats who just voted to abandon DREAMers: Joe Donnelly Heidi Heitkamp Doug Jones Joe Manchin Claire McCaskill

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@JonathanCohn

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It doesn't inspire confidence that shortly after becoming head of the Democratic caucus, he is out there stumping for a judge opposed by labor, reproductive justice groups, and NAACP and engaging in intraparty warfare on behalf of a conservative governor.

Joseph Spector

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"Judge Hector Lasalle is highly qualified to be the chief judge of the state of New York. Period. Full stop," @RepJeffries says, adding LaSalle should be given the same rights as every other chief judge nominee to get a vote in the Senate.

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"Much as you shouldn’t be a surgeon if you faint at the sight of blood, you shouldn’t be a police officer if you cannot control your temper in front of the people you are paid to keep safe."

Our daughter is a student protester at Emerson. The police went too far. - The Boston Globe

There are better ways to approach the protests roiling campuses across the country from Emerson to Columbia to USC.

www.bostonglobe.com

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@JonathanCohn

4 years

PREMIUMS ARE TAXES. PREMIUMS ARE TAXES. PREMIUMS ARE TAXES. PREMIUMS ARE TAXES. PREMIUMS ARE TAXES. PREMIUMS ARE TAXES. PREMIUMS ARE TAXES. PREMIUMS ARE TAXES. PREMIUMS ARE TAXES. PREMIUMS ARE TAXES. #DemDebate

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@JonathanCohn

1 year

So many politicians want "property values" to go up but "housing prices" to go down, but they are not reconcilable goals.

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@JonathanCohn

3 years

What I love about Gritty's popularity is how it basically stemmed from a sequence of (1) Flyers release a bizarre new bascot. (2) Philly residents: "What the f is that?" (3) Non-Philly residents: "What the f is that?" (4) Philly residents: "It is beautiful. How dare you!"

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@JonathanCohn

4 years

"Why is the Senate not like my frat house from college?" asks Ben Sasse.

Seung Min Kim

@seungminkim

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To overhaul the Senate, @BenSasse calls for (among other things) abolishing cameras, dumping committees, limiting senators to one 12-year term, and this: “Senators should live, eat, and meet in dormitories when the Senate is in session.”

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@JonathanCohn

6 years

*cough* racism *cough* *cough*

‘Addicts, crooks, thieves’: the campaign to kill Baltimore's light rail

Residents of a progressive and wealthy county claim public transport has brought city crimes to their area – and are fighting to have it closed

www.theguardian.com

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Jonathan 'Boo and Vote' Cohn

@JonathanCohn

5 years

The fact that 15 billionaires donated to Michael Bennet, who has zero chance of winning, is a great example of how billionaires don't spend their money well.

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Jonathan 'Boo and Vote' Cohn

@JonathanCohn

4 years

Pelosi refusing to back progressive priorities because there are no Republican supporters...............

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@JonathanCohn

4 years

Love Ed Markey, but thinking about how much more time I could have given to so many state legislative races if Joe Kennedy hadn't decided to run a vanity campaign!!!!

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Jonathan 'Boo and Vote' Cohn

@JonathanCohn

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One of my favorite holidays is coming up. Not Christmas. Not Hanukkah. Not Festivus. But....

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@JonathanCohn

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Affluent college-educated liberal pundits love to say "The Democratic Party listens too much to affluent college-educated liberals," and when you ask them what they think the Party should do to change, the response is always "Be more racist," not "Be more pro-worker."

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Jonathan 'Boo and Vote' Cohn

@JonathanCohn

6 years

Fun fact: Democrats actually had a majority in the Senate today. Three Republicans were absent, making the body 49-48. But don't worry -- Democrats still allowed Trump's nominees to sail through!

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Jonathan 'Boo and Vote' Cohn

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Favorite part of the 2020 primary: That Sanders and Warren are both running strong, progressive, issues-driven campaigns Least favorite part: the faction of each candidate's supporters who think the other candidate is literally the Antichrist

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