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Harold Pollack

1 year

It's giving Tuesday. Offer still stands, for the first 50 people. But today you have to give $150 to the 501c(3) of your choice. Inflation....

Harold Pollack

@haroldpollack

7 years

So I made this Dad's-classic-rock Carlos Santana Chicago wall mural 15oz coffee mug. If you contribute $100 to the reputable charity of your choice helping Puerto Rico, I'll send you the mug. Just DM address+screenshot (minus credit card#). I'll add some chocolates for $150.

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Harold Pollack

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7 years

When I worked as a janitor, teenagers like Mr. Miller would trash the restroom after I cleaned it. Learned much about class+dignity of work.

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7 years

Vid: "sick & tired of being told to pick up my trash when we have plenty of janitors who are paid to do it for us" Trump Adv Stephen Miller

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4 years

Ronald Reagan, both Presidents Bush, Bill Clinton+Barack Obama--Very different people with one thing in common. The people who respected them most were the people who knew them best+worked with them every day. Here's what President Trump's close advisors have to say about him...

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Harold Pollack

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7 years

I just checked with every liberal in America. We're totally fine with ending these subsidies.

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7 years

The NFL should no longer be subsidized by any government: local, state, or federal End all of their subsidies

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6 years

Tonight's nail-biter provides yet another reminder that the African-American community is a core defender of pluralist democratic values in the United States.

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6 years

@bdhumbert @yeselson @joshtpm North Carolina's stated reason for shutting down Sunday voting was that counties with heavy Sunday voting were disproportionately African-American, and that African-Americans tended to be Democrats.

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5 years

This would have been a great Onion headline a few years ago.

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7 years

I don't get this. Van drives up. Senior citizen or person with disability experiences warm human connection+a decent meal. That's the result

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7 years

Mulvaney just said Meals on Wheels "sounds great" but it's one of those programs "not showing any results" —via @MSNBC

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Harold Pollack

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3 years

Please **do not** wear one of these buttons that says "I'm vaccinated. I'm not Republican," or any variation on such themes. These actively harm the vaccination effort. They undermines culturally-competent efforts to reach vaccine-hesitant communities, and will cost lives.

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7 years

Many gunshot wound victims end up on SSI+Medicaid for essential services, and for the rest of their lives face a $2,000 limit on their countable wealth because some deranged individual tried to kill them.

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7 years

‘You’re a Quadriplegic’: A Las Vegas Victim Faces a Hard Reality || We must be there for them after spotlight fades

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5 years

The President doesn't do any of that. For all his money, power, and supermodel romances, he's not someone I envy for a single second. He seems spiritually empty in some profound and sad way. What does it profit a man to win the whole world if he never locates his own soul.

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5 years

Replace Barack Obama with Hillary Clinton or John Edwards. You basically get ACA. ***Replace Harry Reid with Chuck Schumer or Dick Durbin. You basically get ACA. ***Replace Nancy Pelosi with basically anyone else: You probably don’t get ACA.

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Harold Pollack

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6 years

Many of us lived through this before, when politicians tried to ban terms like "anal sex," "injection drug use," "harm reduction," "condoms," and "homosexuality" from prevention education messages. Juvenile censorship insulted the intelligence of the American public+cost lives.

Kyle Griffin

@kylegriffin1

6 years

Trump officials are forbidding the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from using 7 words in official docs being prepared for next year’s budget: “vulnerable,” “entitlement,” “diversity,” “transgender,” “fetus,” “evidence-based,” “science-based.”

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4 months

We only have 2,000 years of Jewish history to understand just how horrible this statement is, from a government official no less.

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4 months

Minister Ben-Gvir: "Encouraging the residents of Gaza to emigrate is a solution we must advance”

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5 years

The NY AG suggests that the Trump Foundation is a comprehensive fraud. I fully believe this, but I am also truly puzzled. (thread).

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3 years

3:45am—I’m laying awake stabbed by memories of my unkindness to my mom decades ago, when I was a teen and my parents split up. A voice calls from across the hallway: “Sweetheart, can you help me out of bed to the walker? So sorry to wake you.” “It’s ok, Mom. I was awake anyway.”

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6 years

So much that is great and terrible about America in one sentence. RIP.

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6 years

Leon Lederman, an experimental physicist who studied subatomic particles, has died at 96 after selling his Nobel Prize for $765,000 at an auction to help pay medical bills.

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2 years

Sitting at breakfast this morning, I had a moment when I wanted to call my dad, just to check in about some trivial thing. Best to everyone who is grieving today.

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7 years

Mr. Spicer's comment is not supported by any data I have seen. He makes reckless unsupported statements on the most sensitive subjects.

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7 years

Spicer says of Chicago and its problems with gun violence "it's an issue you created for yourself" by being a sanctuary city

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4 years

Biden visiting the graves of his children on the day he is declared the next President of the United States. The 2020 script writers got one thing right.

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5 years

Have any prominent Republican apologized or expressed sympathy in a straightforward way to Democrats for the Russian meddling on behalf of Donald Trump in 2016? Or addressed why Russia chose to support their presidential candidate?

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6 years

@EsotericCD @yeselson @bdhumbert @joshtpm I linked to the entire court document. If there is something out of context, I would like to hear it.

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3 years

Dad passed away peacefully early this morning, surrounded by people he loved+loved him. We miss you. May your memory be a blessing. Special thanks to Sharon+others at VNA Hospice of Cape Cod and to Comfort Keepers. They made it possible for Dad to spend his final time at home.

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5 years

Reading conservative critiques of @nytimes 1619 project. As I try to understand African-Americans' reactions, I wonder how I would react if someone claimed Shoah was religiously divisive because it failed to center the narrative on the sacrifices made by Christians to save Jews.

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Harold Pollack

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7 years

Who could have predicted that electing grifting demagogue who defrauded people, assaulted women, and defamed minorities would harm America?

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7 years

In August '16, Clinton devoted an entire speech to warning how Trump was emboldening hate groups and white supremacists

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7 years

I will personally contact 1,000 voters in @PeterRoskam 's district and financially support his Democratic opponent in 2018. Because of AHCA.

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5 years

I find someone who will help people get health coverage and who has protected millions of people from finance industry misconduct to be fairly likeable.

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5 years

How does Elizabeth Warren avoid a Clinton redux — written off as too unlikable before her campaign gets off the ground?

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5 years

This from America’s most aggressive proponent of Broken Windows policing, arresting squeegee men, subway fare jumpers, et al.

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5 years

“Nobody got killed, nobody got robbed… This was not a big crime,” Giuliani told The Daily Beast, re alleged violations of campaign finance law.

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7 years

Prediction: EC revolt will fail, and in 6mo the great majority of Americans will wish that it had succeeded.

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7 years

We don't have to do this.

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7 years

She's an oncology nurse w/ no criminal record. She's being deported after 23 years in U.S. Her kids are citizens

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3 years

In a decade, today’s response to COVID among social conservatives and Republicans will be remembered the way we now remember their counterparts’ response and behavior in the early days of HIV/AIDS. Just tragic+leading to so many totally preventable deaths of our precious humans.

Richard Yeselson

@yeselson

3 years

Arkansas state legislature made it “illegal for any state or local entity, including public hospitals, to require coronavirus vaccination as a condition of education or employment until two years after the Food and Drug Administration fully licenses a shot.”

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3 years

My 88-yr-old mom admitted through the hospital ER this morning. My—vaccinated—sister not allowed to be with her. I understand the need for firm safety protocols. Not convinced we are making the right tradeoffs between safety, social support, and communication.

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3 years

New York City's homicide rate is lower than the state of Ohio's. New York State's homicide rate is about half that of Ohio's.

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3 years

Serious question: I have to go to New York soon and I'm trying to figure out where to stay. I have heard it's disgusting and violent there. But is it like Walking Dead Season 1 or Season 4?

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6 years

Great line: “We are not anti-gun: we are anti-bullet holes in our patients.”

Esther Choo, MD MPH

@choo_ek

6 years

We are not self-important: we are important to the care of others We are not anti-gun: we are anti-bullet holes in our patients We consult with everyone but extremists Most upsetting, actually, is death and disability from gun violence that is unparalleled in the world

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8 years

Perhaps the phrase "shootout between regular people w assault weapons" bears greater attention.

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6 years

I suspect the biggest death tax is Medicaid spend-down among people w/illness and disability.

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6 years

For most Americans, the biggest "death tax" isn't the estate tax. Instead, it’s the income tax still owed on their retirement accounts.

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7 years

If I read correctly, AHCA would raise annual insurance cost for 64-year-old w/$26,500 income by $12,900. They went forward with this?

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4 years

Greatest sin of reddest state America--spurning Medicaid expansion. Greatest sin of bluest state America--constraining high-density housing development and thus failing to provide affordable housing for people who need it most.

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6 years

The dilemma Democrats face—the dilemma many others in US politics face alongside us—is how to punish+deter GOP for violating key norms+basic decency w/o accelerating the downward spiral of polarization+institutional dysfunction. No one has a great answer to this one.

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5 years

Every veteran journalist now writing about Senator Warren's Native American issue should be asked: "In 2016, did you write more words about the Clinton emails than you did about the Trump Russia links+Foundation stories?" Key follow-up: "What did you learn from that experience?"

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5 years

President Trump doesn't show any of that, any genuine interest in anything outside of himself.

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4 years

So far, 1,002 nursing home staff workers are reported to have died from COVID. To put this in perspective, in 2019 the most dangerous occupation was logging worker, with annual risk of 98/100,000. Nursing home staff work is running about double that, in a far larger workforce.

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4 years

According to government data covering up to October 18: 1,002 nursing home staff+61,765 residents are reported to have died from COVID 19. During the last week reported--Oct 11-18--32 staff members+1,530 residents were reported to have died from COVID.

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5 years

Both Democrats and Republicans agree on this factual matter.

Ellen #VoteBlue Bender 🌻💙

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5 years

@ezralevin @haroldpollack @Heritage I was just in an Uber and the very wise driver said “Make Election Day a national holiday like they do in other countries, and the Republicans will never win another national election.

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10 months

Man—one of the dumbest talking points in American politics is to troll current Democrats about the supposedly unacknowledged fact that southern segregationists were Democrats pre-civil-rights-era.

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2 years

As I read fairness/distributional critiques of $10k SL forgiveness, I'm reminded that my family received larger tax savings through our 529/ESAs. Unlike the well-targeted Biden SL forgiveness plan, 529/ESAs dispense almost all $$-benefit to upper-middle-class+affluent families.

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2 years

As policymakers relax formal mandates, I’d ask students+colleagues to continue to mask-up+distance. This respects our peers+colleagues who may be vulnerable/immunocompromised, or who have caregiving roles that require protective measures. It’s a basic form of respect for everyone

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3 years

This occurred while epidemiologists and data scientists were frantically combing the nursing home data seeking ways to identify outbreaks and slow pandemic spread. Totally unacceptable.

WSJ News Exclusive | Cuomo Advisers Altered Report on Covid-19 Nursing-Home Deaths

The New York governor’s aides successfully pushed state health officials to alter a July report on Covid-19 nursing-home deaths, people with knowledge of the report say.

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Harold Pollack

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5 years

@chrislhayes Hard one. GPS navigation apps. Obv these rely on the satellites in place, but still. Excellent camera phones. Podcasts. Particular pharm advances have been pretty great—the best cancer immunotherapy and the new HCV treatments.

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5 years

Here's what does surprise me: There are literally no good works performed or even the President's obsessions or pet causes pursued by this Foundation at all.

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7 years

It is astonishing that every warning @HillaryClinton offered re President Trump has turned out to be horrifyingly accurate.

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5 years

Vincent lost a race in an act of kindness. That’s just the kind of man he is. Sec. DeVos would cut support for Special Olympics--and for other equally-worthy, more vulnerable things too. That's just the kind of person she is. This administration can't end a moment too soon. (3/3)

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Harold Pollack

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3 years

If I could have one single sentence in a reconciliation bill to improve policies for Americans with disabilities, it would be to raise the countable asset limit for SSI TO $50,000, permanently indexed to inflation. Why we didn’t do this in ACA...I will never know.

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Harold Pollack

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25 days

That Donald Trump would get anything above 15-20% of support in political polling makes me deeply ashamed for my country.

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5 years

Brad DeLong captures the sentiment of many of us center-left policy wonks who spent much of our careers proposing reasonable policies that required or at-least presumed responsible center-right partner. We're kind of done with that, in light of experience

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3 years

The gf and I became engaged 30 years ago tonight.

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Harold Pollack

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7 years

Because losing an award is so much like millions of people losing their health insurance or fearing deportation at the hands of a demagogue.

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2 years

Maybe not understanding a risky financial product is a good reason not to lend your celebrity name or to make an ad for it.

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4 years

I'd like for you to do us a favor, though.....

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4 years

On Governors asking for help, Trump says, "It's a two way street they have to treat us well too."

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6 years

Can't bear to do the thought experiment imagining how the Alabama criminal justice system might have responded had Roy Moore been African-American.

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Alabama ex-cop says she was tasked with keeping Roy Moore away from cheerleaders at high school games

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6 years

Medicaid expansion is the single most important measure to address the opioid crisis. So logic dictates: If one opposes Medicaid expansion, there’s no point in bragging about having a strong policy to address the opioid crisis.

POLITICO

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Republicans cast opioid bill as their health care achievement

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7 years

Senator, you should be ashamed of yourself for this vote. And re-tweeting that text isn't funny given what's at stake for millions of ppl.

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Text from my 16-year-old daughter... "i miss you. And Vote-a-Rama sounds like the lamest party ever"

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6 years

I think @MSNBC is making a big mistake letting go of @joanwalsh . This should be reconsidered.

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4 years

I worked off my end-of-night nervous energy by finding some Nevada voters and helping them to cure their ballots. Beats hitting refresh on Twitter any day.

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7 years

Actually we're the party that elected first African-Amer Pres who insured 20m ppl+had fewer scandals in 8yrs than Trump had <inauguration.

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6 years

White House is responding to the opioid crisis by cutting budgets, sidelining D+R experts in favor of an ad hoc group of political operatives w/no organizational capacity, no expertise in opioids, no experience in public management. I don’t understand any of this.

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Kellyanne Conway’s 'opioid cabinet' sidelines drug czar’s experts via @Briannaehley @SarahKarlin

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Harold Pollack

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5 years

Here is the French UN ambassador The German The British The Canadian The Italian The Russian The gap in qualification speaks for itself

Vasily Nebenzya - Wikipedia

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. @realDonaldTrump ’s nominee for UN Ambassador, Heather Nauert, has played a pivotal role in major diplomatic events, including: -Traveling to 26 countries -Traveling with @SecPompeo on every State Department-led trip -Providing vital support during the historic Singapore summit

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7 years

Actually a decent argument that Twitter should take away Trump's account.

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Trump attacking individuals on Twitter is menacing and predatory. It ensures threats and incites violence. It is disgusting and must stop.

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6 years

I continue to be struck by the number of powerful men who helped shape public perceptions in 2016 later found to have perpetrated sexual misconduct.

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7 years

You just passed a health plan that would raise nongroup insurance premiums for low-income 64-yr-olds by $12,000/yr, and cut Medicaid by 25%.

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5 years

Woke up today sick over that SCOTUS case. A state that can’t be trusted to allow a condemned man the comfort of clergy in his final hours perhaps shouldn’t be trusted to end human lives in the first place. Even the life of this man, who committed an unspeakable atrocity.

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Not sure what people thought to accomplish w/this antisemitic vandalism. I can hardly think of a better way to alienate most Americans—not to mention the large proportion of Jews concerned about the Palestinian plight+who are concerned about antisemitism in the current moment.

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After disrupting the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade, the pro-Hamas mob vandalized the New York Public Library, targeting the dedication to Stephen Schwarzman, a Jewish donor to the library. Because that was will DEFINITELY #FreePalestine

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5 years

Trump's tone-deaf billionaire comportment weirdly reminds me of Rod Blagojevich. Old-style machine politics weren't always pretty, but there were niceties and rules. You didn't shake down the children's hospital for campaign cash. That's what the concrete contractor was for.

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Getting my second Moderna vaccine. A bit concerned about the side effects. For the first dose, I got a flat tire on the way home, then transmission problems. Allegedly unrelated. Really wondering if I’ll have other power train issues, or maybe the AC—hopefully just for a day/two.

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I am really having a hard time with billionaires using their resources, expertise, talent, platform+organizational connections to shoot themselves into space when they could be putting their shoulders to the wheel to fight COVID-19 around the world+thereby save millions of lives.

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7 years

@MattBruenig Also that every job can be done well, has skills+difficulties we easily overlook+that hrly pay does not reflect the social value of the work

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4 years

One huge, huge missing element in the COVID-19 response: A systematic strategy to engage social workers to address the enormous immediate needs of millions of Americans in everything from food security and social isolation to end of life care.

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Sure--you might use your foundation to skirt a few rules about estate taxes+corporate governance. But it's a real thing. You're proud of it. You enjoy it. You don't use it to pay your kid's $7 Boy Scout dues, or make your foundation an embarrassing joke.

Donald Took $7 out of his Charity to pay for his Son’s Boy Scout Membership Fees — I Can’t Make…

In 1989, one fee expended from the Trump Foundation was seven dollars to the Boy Scouts.

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7 years

If the Pharaoh.... Oh never mind.

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7 years

. @TuckerCarlson : "If the [ @NFL ] owners are racist, why are 70% of their employees black?"

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3 years

The phrase "SSI's $2,000 countable asset limit" induces narcolepsy in a "University of Rochester to keep name" way. That's too bad, because the limit hasn't increased since 1989. Raising it may be the single best thing we can do to help disabled Americans

When Is $2,001 "Too Much” Wealth?

When we’re talking about qualifying for SSI benefits. It’s a cruel policy that Congress can change with one sentence.

democracyjournal.org

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3 years

Here's what we liberals would like from Republicans calling for unity: Acknowledgement that everyone who voted for/defended President Trump/sat out 2020 were wrong to do so. If folks don't wish to do that, please don't ask us for good-faith gestures.

Sen. Susan Collins Sees ‘Poor Strategy’ in White House Rebuffing GOP

President Biden says he values bipartisanship, yet the centrist Maine Republican says she feels frustrated.

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7 years

@TopherSpiro For all the Clinton-Sanders bitter feelings and rivalry, the whole Democratic party has really stuck together to protect millions of people.

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5 years

Years ago, my bro-in-law Vincent ran a Special Olympic race in upstate NY. He took off at the starter’s gun, only to see a panicked and overwhelmed competitor, standing frozen at the starting line. Over the screaming protests of his mom, he ran back and took the girl's hand.(1/3)

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7 years

GOP ACA replacement estimated to raise costs for 55-64-year-olds by $6,089.

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1 year

@elonmusk Mr. Musk--That is an extremely juvenile+disrespectful tweet. As someone who commands a huge public platform+controls billions of dollars in personal+corporate resources, you might use this moment to consider how to interact with others in a more substantive+respectful way.

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7 years

Dear Democrats: time to politely but firmly grind Senate business to halt given ridiculous undemocratic way Republicans ramming through AHCA

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4 years

Everyone who condemns cancel culture (and the sometimes genuinely illiberal strains of left discourse) should be asked one simple question: Did you defend Colin Kaepernick when he was the subject of obvious economic+workplace retaliation for expressing his unpopular views?

Byron York

@ByronYork

4 years

Colin Kaepernick won. When he started, just one athlete refused to stand for national anthem. Now, just one athlete refuses to kneel during anthem. In course of weeks, a complete collapse of hallowed American ritual.

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Harold Pollack

@haroldpollack

4 years

This is all stolen material of dubious origin. I would be wary of legitimating it:

Kyle Cheney

@kyledcheney

4 years

The latest reveal by the NY Post is a series of texts that portray Joe Biden ... as a concerned, loving dad comforting his struggling son.

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Harold Pollack

@haroldpollack

7 years

. @SpeakerRyan 's bill allows states to waive ACA protections that now bar insurers from charging more to childhood cancer survivors.

Paul Ryan

@SpeakerRyan

7 years

Advocacy is not limited to adults. These Wisconsin teens shared some powerful stories with me about their fight against childhood cancer.

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Harold Pollack

@haroldpollack

6 years

When I think of the legion of dedicated men+women who produce these critical documents POTUS doesn’t bother to read—I am disgusted for my country.

Rebecca Sinderbrand

@sinderbrand

6 years

"After several months, Trump made clear he was not interested in reviewing a personal copy of the written intelligence report known as the PDB..."

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Harold Pollack

@haroldpollack

7 years

We have to defeat ACA repeal effort that will hurt millions of Americans, pushed by an unpopular, unworthy PEOTUS+extreme congressional GOP.

Dan Diamond

@ddiamond

7 years

Voted down tonight in Senate ❌ Keep preexisting conditions protection ❌ Let young adults stay on parents plan ❌ Keep contraceptive coverage

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Harold Pollack

@haroldpollack

3 years

@joshtpm This sentence says so much—just not about Dr. Biden: “As for Biden, she has spent a lot of time teaching remedial English to slow learners in community colleges.”

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Harold Pollack

@haroldpollack

7 years

@MattBruenig Among other things, that we all depend on a myriad of other people doing not-very-fun, lucrative, or prestigious jobs that have to get done.

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Harold Pollack

@haroldpollack

5 years

Every one of them has a genuine passion for something, even if that something seems pretty silly or frivolous to us. Maybe they're passionate about liver cancer because their wonderful nanny suffered from it. Maybe they want to give $50 million to the Pollack cat leukemia center.

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Harold Pollack

@haroldpollack

5 years

The Children's Hospital was why you did it all. That's what you genuinely felt good about, bragged about to the grandkids. Same deal for sharp-elbowed billionaires. Their philanthropy genuinely matters to them. It's how many wish to be remembered after they are gone.

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Harold Pollack

@haroldpollack

5 years

We researchers do various fund-raisers involving the top 0.01%. Some are saints. Some are jerks. Some are devotees of Gwyneth Paltrow's latest potion. Some are moved by world hunger. Others want their name on the dorm where they met their bae or whatever.

$150 million gift to establish first-of-its-kind campus center at Yale

A $150 million gift by Stephen A. Schwarzman ’69 will create a world-class campus center at Yale by renovating the historic Commons and Memorial Hall.

news.yale.edu

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Harold Pollack

@haroldpollack

7 years

What an awful, awful frame. Bannon is white supremacist. Ellison is a liberal congressman. Not merely different points on political spectrum

Josh Kraushaar

@JoshKraushaar

7 years

With Bannon in Trump orbit & Ellison at DNC, "we could be seeing our political system devolving to its extremes"

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Harold Pollack

@haroldpollack

4 years

Another thought: maybe we all should be a bit more forgiving of Hillary Clinton, and the stumbles that caused her narrow 2016 loss. Many millions of Americans admire Pres Trump, or don’t regard his defects+misconduct as deal breakers. Not good. Not right. The way things are.

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Harold Pollack

@haroldpollack

4 years

When an obviously corrupt, unfit+bigoted national leader runs for reelection, one should vote for+openly support his opponent without euphemism or equivocation. That’s a reasonable norm. I urge all my conservative friends+colleagues to do so in these final weeks. It’s important.

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Harold Pollack

@haroldpollack

5 years

Unless you are in the small group specifically medically contra-indicated, get your flu shot. It is an obligation of citizenship to protect the vulnerable among us.

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Harold Pollack

@haroldpollack

4 years

The index card guide to microeconomics....

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Harold Pollack

@haroldpollack

3 years

My hardest phone call, the morning Dad died, was to my mom. They split 45 years ago. Dad’s been w/my stepmom 42 years. He remained the love of Mom’s life, father of her two children. Love+grief come in so many forms: Each profound, each deserving of our honor, compassion+respect.

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