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🚨"Why are you doing this to me, I'm just standing on the sidewalk?!?!" At 7 a.m. outside the gates of the Columbia University student encampment protest for Gaza, NYPD arrested pro-Palestinian protesters showing solidarity with Columbia students protesting. Via @JonFarinaPhoto
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"Slash their tires so they can't drive away if you need to!" Cops in Minnesota created a warzone-like state and arrested #DaunteWright protesters, along with media covering the events in a highly disturbing night.– @JonFarinaPhoto fearlessly reports.
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"It's a human rights violation to not have healthcare" -12-year-old @BernieSanders Supporter Alan FULL INTERVIEW via @JennElizabethJ (yes, mom gave us permission!):
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LIVE From SHUT DOWN Wall Street for Palestine Protest in NYC
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"It seems like we're hated. We're good people, we're just poor. We're not bad people just because we're poor but we get treated that way. I don't understand what happened to America," -Mondella Brown tells @JordanChariton on their uninhabitable living conditions in West Virginia
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. @MMFlint to @TomPerez after #IowaCaucus Sabotage: "Tom, you and I need to talk." Moore to @JordanChariton : "It's...more important that they save their old corrupt system full of hacks...more important to [DNC types] than getting rid of Trump." FULL:
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Former co-chair for @BernieSanders 2020 @ninaturner is done playing games. She told us it's time for progressives to take page out of Tea Party book "for the good" & "hold the Democratic Party hostage" until they do something for workers. FULL INTERVIEW:
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. @ninaturner on @DNC 's convention committee member selection: "The DNC should be ashamed of itself because it really is a slap in the face...if the DNC believes that it's going to get away in 2020 with what it did in 2016, it has another thing coming. FULL:
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“I got at least 10 emails and text messages today from Democrats asking me for their support—not another dime to the Democratic Party until women have a constitutional right to equality” —Natalie White tells @JordanChariton at NYC Roe v. Wade Rally
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As @JoeBiden heads to Flint 2da, leading #FlintWaterCrisis activist @FlintGate doesn't mince words to Biden & supporter MI Gov @gretchenwhitmer . Politicians' idea of justice is "for us to shut up and go die quietly" FULL INTERVIEW via @JennElizabethJ :
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The @DNC , who is supposed to be neutral in the Democratic Primary, had a paid senior adviser go on @cnn to trash @BernieSanders as sexist. "The Bernie Bros are pretty obnoxious and they're very sexist and misogynist." FULL REPORT:
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. @BernieSanders campaign co-chair @ninaturner blasts @DNC 's #IowaCaucus mishandling. "It does look fairly intentional and I really feel bad for the people of Iowa who take great pride in the caucus process—they were robbed." FULL INTERVIEW:
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"Hell No, she don't deserve this moment," @Shut_downAmazon responds to whether he has a message for AOC who workers told @statuscoup flaked on them and wouldn't show support for their union drive
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"This...is addressed to our President, @JoeBiden . You said that if we get you into office–we elect you into office–you got our back. You said, "Black community, I got your back. You had my back, I got your back."– #DaunteWright protester on Biden not following through w/ promises
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BREAKING: At least 5 protesters arrested, Atlanta cop car set on fire at Cop City protests. Protests occurring after police shot and killed beloved protester Manuel Teran—aka “Tortuguita." Protests have gone on in the woods for over a year against proposed $90 mill police center.
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BREAKING during our livestream: actor Alec Baldwin gets in physical confrontation with pro-Palestine protester. "Why don't you shut the fu*k up!" Baldwin yells at protester during NYC pro-Palestinian march.
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NEWS: In response to @JoeBiden 's #YouAintBlack if you don't vote for him over Trump, @ninaturner tells us: "Pure unadulterated hubris, the taking for granted of the black vote, the insult to us as he tried to quote on quote answer that question in a black vernacular..." 1/1
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"Jeff Bezos had Amazon employees COVID testing other Amazon employees—I'll never see my sister again" -Tina Brown, sister of Poushawn Brown. Poushawn, 38, suddenly died in 2021 after COVID testing other employees for months. She was not given N95, face shield, or other PPE...
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EXCLUSIVE: @amazon Worker Poushawn Brown—Who Suddenly Died After Working In Virginia Warehouse's COVID Testing Area— Complained to HR Multiple Times About Unsafe Conditions, Workers Sick With COVID Still Working. THREAD...
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Before SC Primary/Super Tuesday, media barely mentioned @JoeBiden lying on being arrested in apartheid South Africa/participating in civl rights sit-ins. . @JennElizabethJ asked 2 black voters about it....they were surprised & troubled. FULL INTERVIEW:
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Last night, Portland Oregon cops fired tear gas, rubber projectiles and more at protesters trying to protest outside the incarceration center that houses 400 prisoners. The scenes caught look like a war overseas. WATCH FULL VIDEO:
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"This is the Democrat's fault. They let this happen. I mean, look at the majority Obama had. And nothing." Responding to the decision to overturn Roe v Wade at a protest in Austin, TX, people acknowledge that the Democrats are just as much at fault.
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EXCLUSIVE: Students at #EastPalestineOH middle school revealed school is allowing kids to drink from water fountain after train explosion (parents granted permission for interview). "We've all been having runny nose & headaches...when we go out of town we feel better" -Kylie
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LA County Sheriff was blasted by Palmdale residents for immediately concluding 24-year-old black man Robert Fuller hung himself from a tree on June 10th. Five days later, it's now being investigated as a homicide. FULL REPORT via @TinaDesireeBerg :
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LIVE From STRIKE For Palestine March and Ceasefire in NYC
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"Where were you, when she was in class, in the room!?" - Grieving great grandfather of a Uvalde massacre victim pleads with police. "You want to put me in jail? Go ahead."
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NEWS: A Staten Island @amazon worker revealed today that Amazon sent the majority of its workers on break when news crews from @PBS or @nytimes came so it would appear as if the company was implementing strict social distancing guidelines. FULL REPORT:
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"They didn't call an ambulance, they put me in a Lyft to an urgent care. I could have died," Sam, an Amazon worker at ALB1 near Albany, on 2 wooden tables falling on his head while driving forklift. Amazon is trying to deny his workers comp claim. ALB1 union election starts 2moro
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🧵"I lost my 17-year-old daughter to an asthma attack; my 32-year-old son is on life support," - Kalamazoo MI resident Deann. Her poor Black neighborhood is being POISONED by multi-billion dollar corporation Graphic Packaging - who's releasing 30+ toxic & foul-smelling gases…
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"I've always hated the term oh the economy is doing so well bc more times than not it means millionaires & billionaires are making record profits; it never means I can comfortably pay my bills—all of us are working harder than Howard Schultz"-Haley, NJ @Starbucks worker on strike
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EXCLUSIVE: In video leaked to SC, an @amazon executive at JFK8 Staten Island—which recently won the right to hold a union election— demands workers not scheduled to be in mandatory union-busting session to leave. Many of workers told to leave were @amazonlabor union organizers.
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Breonna Taylor's aunts CALL OUT President Biden, VP Harris "Did we not talk to @KamalaHarris ? She called us, sent her condolences, and said hang on, change is coming, justice is coming...they both made a lot of promises."
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LAPD tells journalists at #LAprotest that "there is no press corps right now." @TinaDesireeBerg reports.
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VICTORY! Amazon Union Election Results: NY Amazon Workers WIN - Jordan Chariton LIVE w/ Workers
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EXCLUSIVE: Flint's Adam Murphy was removed from a #FlintWaterCrisis town hall by state officials. Weeks later, Gov Snyder's top adviser was in his living room. You'll be my "lead poster child," Adam was told w/ the offer for MI-funded medical treatment. But there was a catch...
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Christian Smalls @Shut_downAmazon gives his first speech following the first UNIONIZATION of Amazon "2 years ago my life changed forever. And I only wanted to do the right thing and speak up for the workers..." LIVE w/ @JordanChariton
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. @BernieSanders spoke to Flint residents last night. #FlintWaterCrisis is now at 2,144 days. "People think that we're all fine...people are like 'Flint has clean water.' From where?" - @FlintGate (Melissa Mays) FULL INTERVIEW w/ @JennElizabethJ :
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"It seems like Akron is hunting its own homeless; it doesn't matter where we go, if we put up a tent they're there tearing it down...they look at us as the scourge of society," -Pandora, homeless in Akron She also had a message for President Biden
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Just 2 days ago, Portland city council banned Portland PD from collaborating with Trump's federal agents. In this video from last night shot, they are CLEARLY congregating and communicating amid #PortlandProtest . Via @wyattreed13 on the ground for SC
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Amazon Union Organizer on AOC's lack of support for the drive, "She went radio silent for 6 months...and didn't show a word of support for us until it was clear we were going to win." @JordanChariton ON-THE-GROUND following the Amazon Union VICTORY
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In a bizarre scene, Trump supporters rant about fraud in Philadelphia vote counting...but refuse to provide any evidence #ElectionResults2020 FULL INTERVIEW:
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"Why wouldn't you want your neighbor to have healthcare?" -Bob, a WI voter who showed up to protest President Trump... But STILL won't vote for @JoeBiden over #MedicareForAll . FULL INTERVIEW:
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As Nevada's culinary union expresses concerns over @BernieSanders ' #MedicareForAll taking away their union-negotiated healthcare, @DrDooleyMD told our @JennElizabethJ M4A would ADD to their coverage--not take anything away. FULL INTERVIEW from Nevada:
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Anderson Cooper told @CornelWest it was "inappropriate" to compare U.S. Iraq War (500K dead Iraqis) to Russian bombing of Grozny (5-8K dead Chechens) "Half a million Iraqis," West argued. Cooper responded Putin intended to slaughter Chechens...but U.S didn't have same intention
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NEWS: Weeks after the #EastPalestineOH "controlled burn," residents are experiencing rashes, nosebleeds, & other symptoms. "My face was burning but it didn’t freak me out until I looked in the mirror,” -EP resident Kristin Bagglia told us. SUBSTACK:
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CHILLING via @JonFarinaPhoto : a white Trump supporter tells black officer "there was no racism" in the 60s and... "What do you think it's going to do for race relations when they make me pay you for reparations...you think it's going to make white people like black people?"
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🧵BREAKING: Between 40-50 Atlanta cops swarmed a #StopCopCity protest & boycott outside Home Depot—a funder of Cop City—and arrested Lorraine Fontana, a longtime activist and senior citizen. @TinaDesireeBerg reports...
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Bernie Sanders Endorsed By Jesse Jackson--Jenn LIVE From Grand Rapids Michigan
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"And I realized how divided the country was and how these movements are divided I realized the bigger picture: that's what they want us to be, that's what the billionaires want us to be—divided"-Christian @Shut_downAmazon Smalls from NYC celebration for @sdonziger release
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. @AOC "If you have a better plan than we have been able to see please share it... Cause we're losing hope that you represent us. " - @SusanSarandon during a protest outside AOC's Office
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Powerful moment in Cleveland where @ninaturner tears up while hugging former student Christian. "You were always like a mother to me," Christian said.
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🧵67 days since the #EastPalestine train derailment. Below are ONGOING rashes residents are developing on CITY WATER—which Gov. DeWine & EPA have declared safe. This rash is on the back of resident Julie Richeal. She's had for nearly 3 weeks (we got permission to post)...
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Blood tests "show raised liver enzymes and chloride levels are on the high end of normal and the lungs are inflamed," -Taylor Holzer, a foxkeeper just outside the East Palestine train explosion evacuation zone. One of his foxes died after the explosion; others are showing…
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"You're lying!" Rudy Giuliani snapped at our @JennElizabethJ as she challenged the Trump campaign's election fraud conspiracy. "You're a truly discourteous person." FULL EXCHANGE from Giuliani's mask-less press conference:
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. @BernieSanders ' 2020 National Press Secretary @briebriejoy responds to @JoeBiden 's #YouAintBlack . "We should be thinking very seriously about whether or not we want him being the nominee" if he can't answer to these critiques. PART ONE OF OUR INTERVIEW:
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"It's wrong, it's unacceptable, and it can not stand...Democrats ran on $2,000 [checks], they can get the wire transfers going right now" - @ninaturner , congressional candidate Ohio's 11th district FULL INTERVIEW:
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"You see my arms? They're still breaking out, it takes everything I got to keep my skin on my bones from taking a shower in that shit...my hair is falling out all over again" -Flint's Virginia Murphy shows ACTIVE rashes from city water—& she's not the only one #FlintWaterCrisis
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"It's criminal the neglect this man has shown us" - @Marcel4Congress , SC primary challenger to Jim @WhipClyburn , going off on fact that Sen. @BernieSanders handed out clean water to water-poisoned Denmark SC rather than Clyburn (his district) FULL INTERVIEW at 5pm est on SC YT
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NEWS: With @petebuttigieg declaring himself #IowaCaucus winner with just 62% precincts in, @BLMSouthBend tells SC: "Another example of his white male privilege. It’s an insult to the voters of Iowa and the democratic process to not wait until the final count has been released."
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"Are one of my children gonna have to drop dread?"-Candice, #EastPalestineOH resident w/ 5 sons who have rashes & other symptoms after explosion. Sons had to take DECONTAMINATION SHOWER before DR—who couldn't diagnose them w/ chemical burns w/out guidance from health dpt.🧵THREAD
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On @ewarren 's Super PAC reversal, @BernieSanders ' campaign co-chair @ninaturner told our @JennElizabethJ others will have to ask Warren about her "change of heart." FULL INTERVIEW from Nevada:
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LIVE From UAW for a CEASEFIRE in Gaza Rally in NYC
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Julian Assange Solidarity Rally Ahead of UK Extradition Hearing | @JonFarinaPhoto LIVE From D.C.
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"I grew up in the suburbs, conservative and all that shit, and totally oblivious to white privilege...I've seen cops brutalize black people and operate on behest of protecting the state and the capitalist class" - #DaunteWright protester WE'RE LIVE NOW:
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"It's so frightening for me the silence on the part of journalists." - @SusanSarandon tells our @JordanChariton at NYC protest against extraditing Julian Assange #FreeAssangeNOW
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"If @BernieSanders had been the nominee...and there were failures down ballot, you know 100% they would blame the top of the ticket." - @krystalball on corporate Democrats' 2020 gaslighting of progressives FULL INTERVIEW:
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🚨"When I hear the phrase live to fight another day, I literally want to beat the sh*t out of somebody...another day came and went over and over and no one fought" - @UAW President @ShawnFainUAW on previous UAW leaders accepting bad deals for workers...
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. @PeteButtigieg frames his "1,000 houses in 1,000 days" demolition of abandoned/declining homes in black/brown parts of South Bend as his shining achievement. We toured the sea of vacant lots & spoke w/ black residents who feel differently. FULL REPORT:
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In Response To a Poll in Iowa, @CNN called on @BernieSanders to Drop out of the 2020 Presidential Race. Yes, Really. FULL REPORT:
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BREAKING: A temporary dam erected by Norfolk Southern in #EastPalestineOH —with contaminated water—is overflowing AGAIN where Leslie Run and Sulphur Run creeks meet. There are 5 water wells in close proximity drawing from groundwater. This is at edge of East Palestine City Park.
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. @JordanChariton interviews a Brit in London on the NHS, who says: "You will be patched up, given the best care possible, for free, without any questions asked—because you're a person!" #MedicareForAll WATCH FULL INTERVIEW:
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NEW: We uncovered @amazon workers in New York warehouse have been fainting, being carted off on stretchers due to the sweltering hot working conditions inside the warehouse “From the moment we walk in, we’re literally dripping wet"
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"He was projectile vomiting across the floor out of nowhere...he was shaking, he was begging for water, he said he couldn't breathe, he broke out with some rashes—I'm terrified to go back," Zsuzsa, on her 9-year-old asthmatic son's reaction to East Palestine Ohio train fire
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At NYC protest in support of human rights attorney @SDonziger , @SusanSarandon tells Status Coup she & others tried to get in touch with @AOC to get her to help support Donziger against Chevron's illegal prosecution against him but..."I understand that AOC is camping right now."
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BREAKING: Hundreds of Ceasefire protesters are attempting to block Pres. Biden's motorcade from driving to the State of the Union. This is "nothing short of inhumane, these people have no regard for Palestinian life, for people who are brown—who are like me"
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EXCLUSIVE: Our @louisd217 confronts Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine about his response to #EastPalestineOH train explosion. "I didn't say that," DeWine denies when asked why he said he didn't call Pres. Biden back after Biden offered "anything you need" in response to train explosion.
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NEW: NYPD arrested a NY Amazon union organizer while he was doing protected organizing. They "used extreme physical force, put me in a holding cell for several hours," Brett Daniels tells us. His arrest came as Amazon launched daily union-busting sessions
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"they're really relating to the black community. So as I said all along, the black vote must be earned; it is not owned, it is earned. For any white person to think that they are the authority on what is and what is not black is the highest insult."
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"I single-handedly defeated Hillary, & was responsible for the Supreme Court...I thank you all for still being on my side after all these horrible things I did–I don't know why they didn't run ME for president, b/c clearly, I could have performed miracles"– @SusanSarandon jokes
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Last night, while reporting live on her phone for us from D.C George Floyd protests, @JennElizabethJ was pushed to the ground by cops. When she asked for her phone back, cops pushed her again to the ground. For 26 minutes, the still live audience waited to hear if she was OK...
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Amazon Union Vote Count Has Begun-- Jordan LIVE from Staten Island Solidarity Rally
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While discussing @JoeBiden vs @BernieSanders on healthcare, a Biden supporter told @JennElizabethJ : "Everyone can get medical care now." FULL INTERVIEW:
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"What other racial or ethnic group in this country has to deal with that kind of foolishness? Not one...where all of a sudden you change your speech pattern to answer the question too? Too many white politicians have a habit of thinking if they change their speech pattern..." 2/2
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BREAKING: Trump Supporters Breach Barrier, Storm Capitol
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11 year Ford worker John Tavana gets emotional talking about what's at stake in @UAW strike: "We need good pay for our families...our workers, we produce great quality, good products and everything else. We can't even afford the products."
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Progressives March to #ForcetheVote ​ | Jon Farina LIVE From D.C.
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Trump Supporter Decries Socialism...and then Admits He's on Socialist Social Security. FULL REPORT from #DemocraticDebate :
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NEW: @JoeBiden had fundraiser w/ @AOC -hating attorney who gave $75K to FL GOP—who's pushing a poll tax 2 stop ex-felons from voting (whose rights were restored). Biden event also being organized by ex-CA official who tried 2 help disgraced domestic abuser
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🧵BREAKING: Albany NY Amazon workers reported a strong odor to managers b/w 8 & 9am est. Bw 10:30 & 11, workers reported coughing/nausea/headache. That's when they learned maintenance was on roof looking into a GAS LEAK—yet Amazon didn't evacuate until around noon...
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West Virginia's @paulajean2020 on her first fight if elected to the Senate: "The first thing I'd do is co-sponsor #MedicareForAll –not only does it make economic sense, it makes moral sense." More here:
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"Shut the fu*k up," a DHS agent said to a #Portland protester as he said "I surrender." The protester, who has asthma, was pepper sprayed, beaten with a baton, and arrested. We're protecting his identity at his request. Interview via @TinaDesireeBerg :
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"Here we are in the 9th year of the #FlintWaterCrisis and in some ways we're worse off than we were last year...nobody has gotten a dime!!" -Flint resident Claire McClinton says about residents still not getting $ from $626.5 million legal settlement...
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#LGBTQ high school students responding to #DontSayGay bill call out Democrats for emboldening GOP: "Republicans are going farther and farther right and Democrats are saying oh we should become more center to appeal to them...no you should go father left and we need to mobilize!"
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#BREAKING : Catholic Health Mercy Hospital of Buffalo will stop paying healthcare coverage for the 2,000 hospital workers on strike. We spoke w/ nurses who described horrid conditions, malfunctioning equipment, and severe understaffing. FULL REPORT:
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. @jimmy_dore calls for progressives in the House to DEMAND a #MedicareForAll vote in exchange for their vote for @SpeakerPelosi as Speaker. FULL INTERVIEW:
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"I can't stand greedy bosses, I can't stand profit-obsessed owners that treat workers as if they're less than human," - @cornelwest at @UAW strike picket line in Wayne, MI. West also calls Pres. Biden walking the picket line a symbolic gesture: "We need more than pretty words"
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