Joanna Oltman Smith @jooltman Twitter profile

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2 years

@mikebeckhamsm The years I spent in cubicles were the worst years of my life. Any attempt to humanize this crappy, corporate human containment facility should be celebrated.

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@mikeyfranklin @9EndlessShrimp6 @SpoxDHS @AmericanAir @united @FlyFrontier People who put children in cages should not be able to eat out. Ever. Again.

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@JoshuaPHilll They clearly just grabbed the most convenient/slowest person and brutalized him. Outrageous, excessive force by a commanding officer.

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4 years

Extremely inappropriate show of force tonight @NYPDShea in #parkslope to bust up a family outdoor concert. Riot gear, clubs out, agitated confused cops & superiors, some maskless, terrorizing our neighborhood. From several precincts. @bradlander @BrooklynCB6 @NYCMayor thread...

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@nytimes The fact that this seems to be a widespread phenomena leads me to ask, once again, what the living f*^+ is actually wrong with men?

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7 years

"He's orange. He's gross. He lost the popular vote!" The kind of Westside Highway congestion we can get behind. #NoTrumpNYC

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As ever, this is not your parking lot @hertz . It’s @GrowNYC farmer’s market morning, people walking to @prospect_park , and you are endangering everyone. For years, @NYPD78Pct has utterly failed to enforce this spot on Union above 8th Avenue. Who is getting paid off?

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6 years

@SenatorDurbin Staged a one-woman protest on this today:

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5 years

@jack When you can do this and not count mosquito bites, not track your vital signs, not post about it in (agonizing) detail, not try to justify it by making it about productivity, maybe not even mention it to anyone else, then My Buddha Jack, you will have achieved enlightenment.

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7 years

The World is Not Your Locker Room #NoTrumpNYC

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@lpolgreen All Americans should contact the UN Human Rights Council asking them to intervene.

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7 years

"Ryan come out! We've got some things to talk about!" New York is out in force and She is pissed! Hands off! #NoRyanNYC #ExcuseMeMrSpeaker

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@hausofcait @TomNamako She seems nice.

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5 years

@AOC It's quaint that there was a time we trusted our political system to elect only people with highest standards to the highest office in the land. No laws governing the President were necessary. Sadly, that's no longer true.

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4 years

@shannonrwatts All I can say is:

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5 years

@NewYorkStateAG This is the kind of change that only happens when women are in charge. Thanks to you and your staff.

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4 years

@viaSimonRomero Correction: Domestic Terrorists, not “militia.”

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2 years

This is no way to run a city. We must be able to walk. Property owners like Berman Realty #parkslope simply refuse to keep their corner properties passable year after year, storm after storm. Either step up enforcement and penalty structure or @NYCMayor , budget for NYC to do it.

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5 years

@ACLU "They picked the right person!" Love it. If there's any hope in this wretched story, it's that there are Americans like Ana and Mimi willing to fight for all our rights.

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5 years

America, what the hell is wrong with us that we let things like this drive on our public streets? (My sister, pictured, is 5ft.)

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1 year

@katie_robertson @nytimes @foxnews executives should be tried for inciting the overthrow of the American government.

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2 years

@guateguanaco Ideas are the biggest threat to fascism.

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6 years

#DearProfessorFord We Believe! Our peaceful #StopKanavaugh protest is starting at Hart Senate Building. We are loud and beautiful, just like our Democracy. @CPDAction @womensmarch @housingworks

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4 years

@davenewworld_2 Oof, what a rotten apple. And it gets weirder...his CEO is Asian.

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2 years

Hey everyone in Congress who takes @nra blood money, we are coming for you and your death cult at the ballot box. #VoteThemOut #MarchForOurLives NYC @AMarch4OurLives @MomsDemand

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3 years

Redecorating.

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4 years

Oh, hi @NYTimes , I certainly hope you are working the ICE hysterectomy scandal. I expect it to be Front Page Above the Fold tomorrow. In a world of daily appalling horror where we are all exhausted and numb, this manages to stand out. You must cover it.

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1 year

@NYT_first_said This is a momentous day for journalism.

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@NewYorkStateAG Loving this AG gang you’ve assembled.

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4 years

@DeanMeminger What in the actual hell is this @NYPDShea @NYCMayor ?

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1 year

@DonLew87 Reupping one of the proudest moments of my political creature existence: Getting arrested for NVDA in the halls of Congress trying to stop Kavanaugh's nomination. It's never too late to dethrone him.

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5 years

@Mikel_Jollett All Americans (and others!) must ask @UN to get involved.

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5 years

@lpolgreen Here is mine if you want to crib:

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@lpolgreen Here is mine if you want to crib:

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4 years

Think of how terrifyingly combustible it is having people this heavily armed, amped up, and confused descending on innocent families unexpectedly. I cannot believe the ineptitude and danger. @NYCMayor @hrw @NYCMayorsOffice @NYCCouncil

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They literally dropped into a beloved community gathering like it was a war zone, battle-ready.

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4 years

@washingtonpost She can decide that for herself, thank you very much.

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@JoshuaPotash This video went viral, and now their families are buddies, drowning in donated baby supplies. Super sweet.

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@KateFetrow Enough! Where will it end?!? With a green, equitable city where everyone can get around and enjoy each other's company?

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4 years

@Yamiche Get sewing, folks. I made this one:

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5/5 So, if you want to drive your big rig right through what is supposed to be a safe space for kids, please be the guest of NYPD on Every Level. @NYPDChiefPatrol @NYPDTransport @NYPDShea @NYC_DOT @NYCMayorsOffice

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6 months

@JoshuaPHilll Too many guns. Too much hate. What a toxic brew. Thank goodness young people are standing up to demand ethical investments.

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2 years

NYC transit system is so epically inaccessible, even @NYCTSubway mosaics know it.

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2 years

Let me get this straight, @yorkprep : You’ve commandeered #UWS public property (the sidewalk) to install bike racks that only your $58k/year students and staff can use? @NYC_DOT @nyc311 #MaximumEntitlement

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@jooltman

5 years

@BBCJamesCook @Reuters @topixkim Anyone who tries to say she is crying about something else, here she is being gassed:

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5 years

Disappointment at being front of the line with no room left in #AssaultWeaponsBan hearing on the hill fully assuaged by @AyannaPressley giving me a warm hug and thanking @MomsDemand for our advocacy. @shannonrwatts

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4 years

@IsaacDovere Bottom scraping is their soup du jour, every day.

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4 years

First this @illegal53NYC gets jammed. Then backs up (!) and decides to open barricades and drive down PPW #OpenStreets full of kids playing. By miracle, @NYPD78Pct appears...but refuses to summons! When I ask why...1/5

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3 years

@brooklyn_darren Ah yes, that's my style, but I'm not as agile!

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3 years

New Yorkers are having trouble crossing the street, thanks to your incredibly inconsiderate drivers @UPS .

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3 years

"Babies are on the frontline, not you!" Buy this woman a beer.

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3 years

Getting heated here as drivers speed through the same intersection in front of idle cops sitting in their cars. Activists yelling at @ericadamsfornyc

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7 years

@igorvolsky @JohnCornyn Love when she corrects him, says "I said it was UNLAWFUL" with such certainty. Then Durbin backs her up with other courts' same finding.

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1 year

Hey @NYPDTransport , use this as a training video so Everyone knows sidewalk parking and driving is illegal in NYC. NYPD officers seem to think they should allow @placardabuse courtesy if @FDNY @nycgov etc. Why do you refuse to enforce the laws you are paid to enforce? @NYPDPC

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@ClimateDefiance Mount Vernon Company, your CEO just told a young, scared climate activist that he doesn't care if she dies. (We'll be sure not to stay in any of your hotels and inns when we visit Boston or Nantucket!) @EMKInstitute , this is poor behavior on behalf of your chair. Civil discourse?

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6 years

@cnnbrk “...the hunting of our kids...” is a chilling, honest phrase that should be used over and over again until we have #gunsense in our country.

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2 years

@katie_honan @NYCMayor @NYCImmigrants @THECITYNY “When you can talk like a human being…” I hear and see a VERY human being who is rightfully upset about his appointment of people who seek to erase the humanity of others.

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6 years

Some members of the Senate Judiciary Committee didn’t get Grassley’s memo to stay home today. Got to meet my hero @maziehirono . Mahalo Senator for your just anger and your ability to channel it constructively. #StopKavanaugh #CancelKavanaugh

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@NYCMayor You lack all credibility and authority. Resign.

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@AOC As long as you keep pushing for progressive values, we’ll have your back! Great idea. Go!

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@mayawiley Let’s call it three minutes. Three minutes to realize that the person under you is dead and/or to insist your colleague get off a dead man is proof of how dead inside those officers are, how broken our law enforcement community is at such a fundamental level.

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2 years

Met an urban legend IRL today. At a climate protest, I noticed a dapper gent taking photos and submitting @nyc311 complaints against all the illegally parked NYPD vehicles on the scene. It's Patrick! He has made over $100k reporting idling vehicles. Go Patrick!

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4 years

Brooklyn is happy, to put it mildly. #Election2020

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@C_Sommerfeldt Correction: They aren’t “his” police. They are OURS. They serve the People of NYC, of which @NYCMayor is but one.

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@jooltman

4 years

This NYPD public space land grabbing is happening all over NYC. @NYC_DOT @NYCMayorsOffice , any limits on this?

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4 years

Sidewalk still closed off by @NYPD20Pct on #upperwestside

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4 years

@Yamiche Little reminder for y’all:

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@jooltman

2 years

Wait, is this a joke @NYC_DOT ? The only Halloween #openstreet in all of #parkslope , trick or treating central, is…Polhemus Place?!? One measly block? Surely we can do better to protect this kid-friendly neighborhood on the biggest kid celebration of the year?! @CMShahanaHanif

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@jooltman

3 years

America, you know we have a problem when @Google has a standardized mass shooting icon. They are ready to slap one on the map near you. @MomsDemand

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Nope, nope, never. Action —famous for hitting New Yorkers with their carting trucks — is now claiming entire #bikenyc lanes. No construction site can do this without providing alternatives. 129 East 11th St. @nyc311 @NYC_DOT @NYC_Buildings .

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2 years

@lulumeservey This is a corporate taking of a communal space.

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@JoshuaPHilll Even toddler shoes! Because Vans wouldn't want their brand diluted by some needy kids wearing them.

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@mistergeezy I read this as "car-free," which it also is...

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Irony Alert: Awaiting info today on our legal case for peacefully raising the climate alarm (charged with 2 felony counts including Conspiracy against the United States?!?)...as my neighborhood is being inundated with #fossilfuel -powered extreme rain. #flashflood #Brooklyn 1/2🧵

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@jooltman

9 years

Just because you graffiti/tag Schermerhorn #bikenyc lane does not make it your parking lot @CommissBratton @NYC_DOT http://t.co/NiXnJ9vZVX

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@jooltman

10 months

New York City, we are being led by a very unwell man. The delusion and grandiosity he exhibits in this clip from this weekend is truly terrifying.

Just one person

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10 months

The Mayor on how people used to bring their bibles and read scripture on their lunch break.

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Fantastic new program @NYC_DOT in #parkslope reserves curb space for weekday deliveries to make our streets safer for all who use them. Of course, there is a selfish we-demand-free-parking backlash already, so be sure to @bradlander and email nlz @dot .nyc.gov to voice support.

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7 years

This gentleman served our country on the USS FDR in 1945. He dragged himself out to the Westside Highway with a walker to say #NoTrumpNYC !

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@jooltman

6 years

Officer McPherson ( @NYPD84Pct ? @correctionNYC ?) in his unmarked car thinks it’s okay to take his lunch break in the middle of a busy downtown Brooklyn sidewalk with the ignition on. I beg to differ. @StephenLevin33 @NYPDTransport @NYCMayor

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7 years

Beautiful, powerful, true resolution denouncing @realDonaldTrump travel ban just passed @BrooklynCB6 unanimously. #NoBanNoWall

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@lesleyabravanel @keachhagey @WSJ exactly, like this @marshalls discounted into infinity & still no buyers

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@jooltman

6 years

Moms (and Dads and single folks) with @MomsDemand from all over New York State spending day in Albany advocating for all-important family & law enforcement ability to flag people at risk so they can’t purchase guns and funding NY State gun violence research center. #NYPOL

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Okay, after I pitched an epic #VisionZero educational session with them (aka “getting a tone with me” according to PO) AND stood there for several pointedly photographing them and tweeting, they moved vehicle. #notmyjob #trainyourstaff

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People are being killed on Flatbush near @barclayscenter so @NYC_DOT sends “top people” to study the area. These employees lack the common sense not to park in a crosswalk at the site?!? I just can’t. @ydanis , how are you managing and training your staff that endanger all of us?

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@jooltman

4 years

@SanaSaeed @slpng_giants Everyone needs to read Night by Elie Wiesel and then see if they still want to carry on in this manner.

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1 year

Sorry to say, the well-intentioned @NYC_DOT Schermerhorn #bikenyc lane centerline bollards are already destroyed. Also, as the second photo shows, we need bollards at the “end” of each block as drivers are backing up into the lanes as well.

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7 years

@igorvolsky @JohnCornyn Why do Republicans ( @tedcruz especially) seem SO MUCH MORE concerned over leaks than compromised actors at highest levels of American gov't?

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@pilgrimdear @bikemamadelphia Along these same lines, I woke up in the middle of the night after swearing-in day and didn’t feel all panicked for the first time in two years.

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@funder @TaePhoenix Every day is a good day to protest! (Me today in NYC.) Empowerment wear by @GREEDKILLS .

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3 years

@clairenelsonaz That feeling, when you're just trying to take a pee while teaching social work after months of blocking the most important safety net legislation our country has seen in almost a hundred years...yeah, that feeling! Keep up the pressure.

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9 months

Hello all my transpo friends. Know how we were hoping we might just have a chance to make inroads at improving train service in this country with Byford working on high speed? Well, turns out this unhinged gem below is on the board of @Amtrak , so now I'm worried. @USDOT

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It is time to name names again. This is Robin Wiessmann. She SCREAMED at us. She lost her shit because we showed up at the fundraiser she hosted for Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey, demanding answers about fossil fuels. She is the CEO of the PA Housing Finance Agency.

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This is how to achieve #wintercycling : Wet/white stuff still coming down, but @NYC_DOT @NYCSanitation already cleared #PPW #bikenyc path!

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@jooltman

5 years

@AyannaPressley Yes, Sister! (Me, today, outside #ImpeachmentHearing )

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2 years

Eleven New Yorkers have died on our streets this past week, and this is who our school kids in #parkslope have to compete with on their commute down 7th Ave. this morning. @illegal53NYC @NYC_DOT @NYPDTransport @CMShahanaHanif

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9 months

@WMSBG @WspuShomrim Illegal kill bars. Zero license plates. And get off the sidewalk. Sheesh.

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2 years

Are you looking for an active way to make sure Democrats retain control of the US Senate? @MomsDemand has sooooo many phonebanking shifts for @SenatorWarnock over the next month:

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7 years

Mother Nature achieves with a mere dusting what municipal agencies unable to produce with millions of dollars: Safer corners, shorter xings.

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6 years

@AGSchneiderman @PPNYCAction @FCC Because there’s no way Russia would want to limit Americans access to honest information...

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4 years

@fred_guttenberg Highest, highest compliment.

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7 years

@Imperative @CampbellSoupCo If you want to be truly purposeful, resign from President's council. #Charlottesville

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5 years

@Ocasio2018 A true tale: Freelancing in my 20’s and after years of being uninsured, decided on a whim to purchase an individual plan. (Pre-ACA it was hideously expensive!) About a week later I spiked a fever and was hospitalized in isolation ward for a week! I survived, my bank account too.

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People on bikes, slow down! Drivers, do whatever the hell you want.

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4 years

@Yamiche This writes itself. #DefundThePolice

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Imagine how little @NYPDTransport enforces traffic laws that drivers feel entirely comfortable driving and parking in NYC with literally NO plates? @CMBrooksPowers @NYC_DOT @NYSDOT @nysdmv

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