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Design & tech worker | Member @NOLSW2320 / @UAW ✊🏿 | Organizing w/ @demsocialists 🌹 | He/him |

Lenape Territory (Brooklyn)
Joined May 2007
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Justin Charles
3 years
How bout we do a work stoppage at the take factory folks
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👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 THAT’S WHAT I’M TALKING ABOUT 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
@jergong
Jeremy Gong
2 years
Abortion rights protesters in NYC blocking rich guests from getting into a dinner hosted by the right wing Federalist Society, who supported SCOTUS justices’ attack on abortion. Organized by @nycforabortion @nycDSA
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4 years
Everybody keeps calling this a boycott. The Bucks are not boycotting anything, they're withholding their labor, otherwise known as a strike. Call it what it is.
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4 years
Minneapolis has seven of these reforms already. Fuck all the way off, Deray.
@nowthisimpact
NowThis Impact
4 years
From banning chokeholds to requiring de-escalation, @deray is breaking down 8 ways we could reform police today
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4 years
One dollar donated to Bernie for every 10 likes let’s gooooo #hotboysforbernie
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1 year
Onward
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Justin Charles
4 years
Obama 2 for 2 crushing opportunities with phone calls this year, quite a record.
@BleacherReport
Bleacher Report
4 years
LeBron, CP3 and a small group of NBA players spoke with former President Barack Obama on Wednesday night, per @ShamsCharania Obama advised them to play and maximize this opportunity to get their desired action items.
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Blood in the water damn everybody go talk to your coworkers right now!!!
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19 days
Universities/NYPD/Democrats/Biden doing a let’s radicalize the kids speed run.
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$1.3 million in AIPAC donations
@therecount
The Recount
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“I didn't see the NYPD use excessive force yesterday.” — Hakeem Jeffries on the NYPD clearing out a Columbia University building that pro-Palestinian protesters took over
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5 years
I’ll save you a trip to and tell you the answer is a union.
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3 years
LETSSSS GOOOOOOOOO
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2 months
“The idea that he would risk not only his own presidency but the future of American democracy for the sake of Benjamin Netanyahu, Itamar Ben Gvir, Bezalel Smotrich, and the rest of the fascists in Israel is bizarre and inexplicable to me.”
@abbydphillip
Abby D. Phillip
2 months
. @mehdirhasan of @zeteo_news : “Joe Biden has the power to pick up the phone and end this war. He can ring the Israeli PM and say ‘we're cutting you off.’ He didn't do it after 10,000 dead, 20,000 dead, today we cross 30,000 dead. You have to ask the question, why? This is a man…
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Justin Charles
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SAY. IT. ON. YOUR. SHOW.
@chrislhayes
Chris Hayes
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I feel like I'm losing my mind a little: people understand that "occupying buildings on campus" is, like, one of the most common forms of studen protest for decades and not some devious new ploy devised by professional anarchist plotters, right?
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1 year
You’re so scared of New York you think it’s cool to choke somebody to death on the subway fucking leave or don’t move here.
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@justincharles
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2 years
Oh wow look they rewrite their dogshit constitutions in other countries and make them more than just some raggedly crumbly piece of vellum or whatever that a bunch of slaveowners came up with
@rosaluxglobal
Rosa Luxemburg Foundation
2 years
After nine months, #Chile ’s Constitutional Convention is steadily working towards the drafting of a new constitution. Article 1, considered the backbone of the document, lays the foundation for a participatory, plurinational, and feminist democracy.
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4 years
Nathan J. Robinson can say stuff about Marx and we can all just not care. I believe in us. We can do this.
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@justincharles
Justin Charles
4 years
Go to the Popeyes on Flushing & Knickerbocker, tell an "off-color joke," and see what happens.
@SeanMcCarthyCom
Sean Padraig McCarthy
4 years
Yeah ironic racism is the obstacle to connecting the DSA to the working class nobody working a $10/hr job has ever laughed at an off color joke with their coworkers
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7 months
It’s still doing my head in that the State Department arms dealer guy, someone who’s been involved in the grimiest shit imaginable, saw the past week and was like nah this is too much I’m done.
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3 years
Fuck yeah that’s right
@people4kam
United for The People
3 years
Andrew Yang was booed and kicked out of a Daunte Wright protest in Brooklyn this morning.
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3 years
MF Doom is dead and Kissinger is still among us
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Extremely hyped to have voted for no one! #LeaveItBlankNY #CeasefireNOW
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Justin Charles
3 years
Big facts. If the Dems don't take their trifecta and do big transformative things that materially change our lives they're setting the table for much much worse in 2024.
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1 year
This is the corniest shit cmon man
@Phil_Lewis_
philip lewis
1 year
hakeem jeffries just went from A thru Z in his speech
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2 months
Biden getting fucked up by a campaign that came together in a few weeks. He deserves it.
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Justin Charles
3 years
Got engaged to @larthamarson !!!
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3 years
Put it in my veins goddamn
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7 months
lol he’s getting fucking cooked
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Justin Charles
2 years
If Bernie runs again good. We need someone on the biggest US political stage with real class politics and an analysis of the world of shit we're in. But we very badly need to develop successors to the old man. It bums me out that there's literally no one else that could do it.
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Justin Charles
4 years
Look at all these people out here today to canvass with @nycDSA for @BernieSanders .
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2 months
Building a whole ass emergency port instead of just cutting off funding for what necessitates the emergency port what a dumb fucking country jesus
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Prayers up for Dylan and every other brave person with the floatilla. Real solidarity.
@shaabiranks
dylan saba
1 month
I will be joining the Freedom Flotilla Coalition, which in mid April will bring 5500 tons of humanitarian aid and hundreds of international human rights observers to challenge the illegal Israeli blockade of Gaza
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People cooking up uncommitted campaigns in the remaining states
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Justin Charles
2 years
Screaming “Fuck Jeff Bezos” with 4,000 fellow workers is pretty fucking great let me tell you. #LaborNotes
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These numbers are serious. Well done, Uncommitted.
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3 years
If we fought the boss with a fraction of the intensity with which we fight one another lord have mercy…
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11 months
The anti-work Finals MVP is correct
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2 years
Getting married is fun as hell!
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3 years
Yo it is so wild to me that there are people who say they wanna end capitalism, the least mean of feats and not exactly popular, but when you talk about defunding the police (much less abolishing them) or what have you they’re just like “nah, too hard, doesn’t poll well.”
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5 months
When you keyboard warriors decide to go spend 30 days in jail for the cause I’ll hear you talking shit about the kid doing the right thing over there.
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3 years
Defund the police, disarm the police, abolish the police.
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1 year
Ohhh y'all can overcome a filibuster to screw over rail workers??? Got it.
@mkraju
Manu Raju
1 year
Expectation in the Senate is there will be enough votes to overcome a filibuster and pass legislation to avert a potential railway strike, per several Senate sources. Timing is unclear but House expected to act first later this week. Any one senator can slow down a vote.
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3 years
Why is Glenn Greenwald like this?
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Justin Charles
2 years
Talking shop with @Shut_downAmazon . Told him @DSA_Labor has @amazonlabor ’s back. #LaborNotes2022
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4 years
I’ll let it go to $250 then I’m gonna pretend I can’t see the rest of the likes but damn I’m flattered y’all. We’re gonna win. #NotMeUs
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3 years
They killed Fred because he was tying together all the seemingly disparate threads of oppression and exploitation amongst black, brown, and poor white people. They killed him because he understood everyone’s liberation was bound together and he was saying so persuasively.
@irockgnomes
jenbo ✨🚩
3 years
people who get upset when we talk about class when we talk about Fred Hampton haven't really listened to Fred Hampton
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Justin Charles
5 years
This is embarrassingly short-sighted. Nobody’s gonna have a job on a planet that’s alternately on fire or underwater.
@SenJohnBarrasso
Sen. John Barrasso
5 years
The @AFLCIO , which represents 12.5 million workers & includes 55 labor unions, slams the #GreenNewDeal in a letter to @SenMarkey & @AOC : “We will not accept proposals that could cause immediate harm to millions of our members and their families.” I agree with the AFL-CIO.
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Justin Charles
2 years
18 years sober today. My sobriety has come of age. My sobriety is buying lottery tickets.
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4 years
If the Ethiopian Pork Plant dudes put Bernie over the top I’m gonna lose my shit
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6 years
Which is more violent: Fucking up Mitch McConnell’s dinner or Mitch McConnell advocating for getting rid of the social programs that allow millions of people to live a shoddy semblance of an okay life?
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@justincharles
Justin Charles
4 years
The NYPD is beating, pepper-spraying, and arresting protesters at Barclays Center. If you can afford it, donate to @BKBailFund to help get them out.
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4 years
Lord have mercy
@nypost
New York Post
4 years
Tomorrow's cover:
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The “only democracy in the Middle East,” folks.
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@justincharles
Justin Charles
3 years
Nah, we're against the wealthy actually.
@Indiawaltonbflo
The Hood 211
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We’re not “against” the wealthy. We just don’t believe they have a right to dominate our society.
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This week @larthamarson and I welcomed our daughter Naomi to the world! Absolutely unreal intense beautiful experience. Everyone’s doing great. Had no idea I could ever feel the way I do right now.
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Justin Charles
2 years
Shouts to/critical support for Microsoft Outlook 😂😂😂
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4 years
I was prepare to be mad about this endorsement. But now I’m just laughing at how dumb and spineless this editorial board is. Holy fucking shit you guys.
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@justincharles
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@ImUrHuckleJordy This mfer carrying around his own shirts…
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Justin Charles
3 years
A floor vote on M4A is nothing but theater without a mass social and militant labor movements to force electeds to make good on it. Let’s not put the cart before the horse here.
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I get that the Uncommitted campaigns on the ballot today didn’t have the organization that Michigan did but the fact that an incumbent president is seeing percentages in the teens voting for not even a person is no small thing.
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Justin Charles
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Cannot emphasize strongly enough the necessity of being a member of a political organization in the face of the anti-democratic forces in this country going fully mask-off.
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Justin Charles
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No money for the library, the parks, potholes the size of a whole car, teachers have to buy all their own shit for their classroom, etc and yet the NYPD has money to hire an influencer
@joeanuta
Joe Anuta
2 months
The NYPD is hiring an influencer to reach the youth, per @NYPDCommAffairs
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Justin Charles
2 years
Sorry to beat a dead horse, and I shouldn't be surprised, but Democratic leadership having basically no tangible response to offer post-Roe is fucking wild.
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@justincharles
Justin Charles
4 years
Damn y’all gotta chill. At this rate I’m gonna hit the individual max.
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Justin Charles
3 years
I don't know that today is the day to quibble about how Defund polls but that's just me.
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4 years
Everybody has a one-day post cringe pass. Tomorrow we go back to being miserable. Go!
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“She just died? Wow. I didn’t know that. You are telling me now for the first time. She led an amazing life. What else can you say. Whether you agreed or not, she was an amazing woman who led an amazing life. I am actually sad to hear that. I am sad to hear that.”
@Class_Unity
Class Unity
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Class Unity is proud to announce that it is now independent from the Democratic Socialists of America.
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@justincharles
Justin Charles
4 years
Yoooo the gun couple is wildin out they said Marxist like 86 times
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@justincharles
Justin Charles
3 years
This mfer about to announce that he’s opening restaurants 200% and you get to cough on your server. He ain’t resigning.
@jessemckinley
Jesse McKinley
3 years
BREAKING: @NYGovCuomo announces a 1 PM presser after a dozen Congressional Dems call for his resignation.
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3 years
I heard Cuomo ran out the back door of some event because he was scared 30 socialists would yell at him.
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Lol this is like the only good national electoral event since Nevada 2020
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Justin Charles
4 years
Alex, I'll take white "leftists" that really wanna say nigger with a hard R for $1000, please.
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Justin Charles
3 years
17 years on the wagon today. Think I’m gonna stay on. Thanks to the many people who helped me do it.
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Justin Charles
2 years
I don’t know, Joe. Sounds like a hell of a way to demobilize a significant chunk of your base going into midterms and then re-election but go off I guess.
@Forbes
Forbes
2 years
#BREAKING : Biden won’t extend student loan relief
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It’s really funny (read: stupid) that liberals are mad about a “DSA rally” in NYC that DSA had no role in planning. Like y’all are willfully forgetting how to read a damn flyer.
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Justin Charles
2 years
Take his name out of your mouth entirely you clown.
@SenatorSinema
Kyrsten Sinema
2 years
Today we remember the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. #MLKDay
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Kissinger what's good
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Sending love and solidarity to all the people voting uncommitted in Michigan today.
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@justincharles
Justin Charles
3 years
“Uh, well, uh, if you like your, uh, historically repressive police state, well, uh, you can keep it!”
@thehill
The Hill
3 years
Obama: You lose people with "snappy" slogans like "defund the police"
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Justin Charles
2 years
Honestly this is a solid ad for @JabariBrisport he looks great and it’s wild that the guy the real estate lobby just invested 40k in has the stones to talk about housing prices.
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Justin Charles
2 years
Education does not equal class.
@FreeAhmedMansra
#FreeAhmadManasra
2 years
Apropos something, did you know, 11% of DSA members have a doctorate, 24% have a masters, 41% have bachelors? 75% have graduated college. very representative of the working class
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Justin Charles
3 years
Are you fucking kidding me???
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Justin Charles
2 years
Earlier this evening a NPC member tweeted something wildly disgusting and offensive. No member of DSA should engage in such behavior, much less a leader. I’m furious and deeply sorry for the harm this caused. The steering committee is discussing what to do about it.
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But we need it all now. We need people turning each other out, pressuring electeds. We need to be seen in the streets in thousands. We need the dramatic actions like Grand Central and the Statue of Liberty and Elbit and port shutdowns. All of it is necessary.
@AntiNateSilver
Anti Nate Silver
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one of the first things i learned when moving from the disorganized left into DSA is that most of the flashier, individualistic ways of confronting power (eg, direct action) were always way less effective than mundane modes of action done in concert with others (eg, phonebanks)
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4 years
Absolutely bonkers that 230,000 people have died and this is the best the Dems could do.
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@justincharles
Justin Charles
3 years
Hey, doomscroller! The world is fucked but people no smarter than you (dumber probably) fucked it up. Which means we can and must unfuck it together! So find other people working on all these problems and join them. For me, that's @DemSocialists .
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4 years
tfw you're a slumlord but you named your child Zapata.
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Justin Charles
2 years
If New York State were just to straight up not observe this SC decision and go about its business with its laws against concealed carry what’s the worst that could happen?
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Justin Charles
3 years
The chair ruled that he didn’t have to wait.
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@GovKathyHochul Interesting that you would say these words and still nominate an anti-abortion judge and seem to want to tank your administration for him.
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19 years sober today!
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Justin Charles
2 years
Wedding fit check!
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Justin Charles
2 years
Big year: Got engaged, helped unionize my workplace, moved, got promoted, put on a DSA convention, got re-elected to NPC, got elected to my bargaining committee, and a bunch more. Lots of challenges and opportunities coming up but I’m grateful for the year I’ve had.
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@justincharles
Justin Charles
2 months
For increasingly more of the engaged electorate, enough to lose this election for Biden, the question might be: If that democracy is one that bankrolls, arms, and offers diplomatic cover for genocide, how much is it really worth? This is not any kind of answer to that question.
@allinwithchris
All In with Chris Hayes
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"There's one thing that is a very clear choice in this election, and it is between having a democracy and not," says @maddow . "If you can get people to accept that basic idea, which is a popular front idea—I do think that you can get there over the next eight months."
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Justin Charles
2 years
The bloodlust is so real right now people could possibly call a Pod Save America guy a Putin apologist.
@kenklippenstein
Ken Klippenstein
2 years
Obama’s NSC spokesman responds to NBC reporter suggesting the US/NATO go to war with Russia 👇
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Justin Charles
2 years
The great thing about doing Recommitment Drive phonebanks is that you get to talk to sweeties like the 94-year-old lady who asked me to mail her a dues form cuz she doesn't "do the internet." She's been a member since the beginning of DSA. 🥲
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Justin Charles
4 years
And let's hope they demand a lot more than voting.
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Justin Charles
4 years
Poor timing but maybe it doesn’t make sense that so much of our lives hinge on geriatrics with lifetime appointments who probably should have retired when the last president was inaugurated.
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Justin Charles
4 years
Mass incarceration but with black excellence characteristics 2020
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@justincharles
Justin Charles
2 years
I stand by the statement we put out but it's not enough to put out statements and be satisfied that we made the right people mad. We need to lean into popular education and clearly explain our politics and why they are common sense to the uninitiated to bring them into the fold.
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