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(Cars are) "far more dangerous than riding the subway. ... Last year there were ten murders in the NYC subway system, with well over a billion total rides taken. During the same time period, there were 253 traffic fatalities in New York City."
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I'm sick of seeing people criticize Schumer for not being an AOC or Booker style firebrand.
As Leader, his job is to keep the caucus together and pass legislation. That means Sanders *and* Coons, worse, Manchin. Only consensus-builders get that job, and let others do the grandstanding.
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While GOP has the majority in Congress and a corrupt MAGAfied SCOTUS rolls over for Trump, every word criticizing Dems carries water for GOP and Trump.
Be strategic. Right now we should be focused on motivating protest, activism. #GOTV
Make demands when Dems *can* deliver.
Be strategic.
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Americans only vote when they're terrified: 2008, 2016.
GOP is much better at keeping their voters terrified than Dems. If I'm a Dem rep, I look at 2024 and I think, ok, be terrified if that gets you to the polls in 2026.
This is a grassroots problem that needs a grassroots solution.
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Always, interspersed with "lies.
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Don't know if this is what you mean, but I think after LA, arresting Dem reps, Iran is more pressure on MAGA to stop screaming at GOP not to take away their retirement and healthcare. Trump knows if he can't pass that tax cut, he's got nothing, and his Coalition of Dunces will turn on him.
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I strongly disagree with this take.
Obama is a private citizen, deeply committed to public service, through his foundation. *He owes us nothing.*
VOTERS STAYED HOME IN THE MILLIONS IN 2024.
Voters broke it, voters need to fix it. #GOTV
No one is coming to save us from ourselves.
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Please say "Republican-controlled Congress."
Yes, people are that unaware of how government works.
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Today's TRO means that the Adams administration must halt any changes to the bike lane until a court hearing in August!
But the fight isn't over: join us TONIGHT for a Bedford Safety March to the sites where people have been killed by drivers.
RSVP now: www.mobilize.us/transalt/eve...
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Please make it clear that as the weirdo MAGA-billionaire-GOP coalition cracks at the seams, Trump is desperate to pass the tax-cut for billionaires budget. He thinks everyone will get behind him if he's a "war-time president."
Worked for GW Bush. Twice.
Without that tax cut, Trump is toast.
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In the 1930s, civil rights leaders sat down with FDR to demand he end Jim Crow.
"You've convinced me" he said. "Now go out and make me do it."
This is what democracy looks like.
Whose side are you on?
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Attacking Democrats --when GOP is entirely, completely in charge of every branch of government--carries water for GOP, that is all.
There is one party committed to democracy in the US: Democrats.
Team Democracy might not be the best, but it's the only one we have.
Don't boo your own team.
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You don't like the candidates?
Run for office.
Vote for the least bad one, and then get in their face every day demanding they do better.
Do the work.
But nothing you think or want matters if you don't vote.
No more #abracadabrapolitics.
#votingisnotshopping
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Not voting is a betrayal of the responsibility of citizenship in a democracy.
So, yes, the voters who don't vote *are* deeply, fundamentally wrong. They are free riders, relying on the rest of us to do the work of democracy, both benefitting unfairly from our efforts, and dragging us all down.
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Obama is a private citizen now. He owes nothing to anybody.
As a private citizen, he continues to be deeply committed to public service.
Obviously more than you'll ever do.
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You seem to believe voting is like shopping.
That's not how democracy works.
Voting is a privilege and a duty.
There are two choices, that's it.
When you don't vote, you delegate your vote to assholes and fanatics.
First you vote, then you demand change.
See? Opposite of shopping.
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Netanyahu anticipated Trump's "deal" would not include the total dismantling of Iranian nuclear program, the dealbreaker for both Iran and Israel.
Now he's calculating Trump is so stupid, insecure and weak he can be taunted into bombing Iran, by Israel going in there first.
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Are you saying the only way Obama can have an impact is if he is on TV and social media every day?
Maybe when the millions who stayed home in November 2024, rather than turning out to stop Trump 2.0, start voting, maybe then we'll see more of him.
www.obama.org
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California has already sued Trump, twice, I think. To get military out of the state.
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worse, recent immigrants desperately trying to assimilate in the worst possible way.
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Only Congress can authorize going to war.
Aim at the target.
Blaming Trump for everything only amplifies the myth that he has unlimited powee. Focusing on Trump, instead of the abuse of power, and GOP complicity, is a way of complying in advance.
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That’s not what polls are indicating. What’s your evidence?
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GOP controls Congress, in case you forgot.
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No, these pogroms are tanking Trump’s support. MAGA sees these people aren’t criminals; they are their neighbors. There have been several instances of people in Trumpland rallying to get their neighbors back.
That’s why the military costumes are necessary—to scare MAGA into compliance.
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For RW media, to terrorize MAGA viewers into begging their reps to pass the tax cut for billionaires. Now that they’ve started this narrative, they need fresh and more exciting content every day. This is made for TV “government.”
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We the people did this. The massive turnout on Saturday is leading this. In a democracy, the people lead. Responsible reps think about what voters want. Electeds acting without public support, that’s what dictators do—what Trump is doing right now.
Setting the agenda is the job of #wethepeople.
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Call script:
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He was a City Council member before that. Before that, a tenants rights organizer.
When Trump was elected the first time, within *one week* he convened thousands of people to figure out how to resist. The Brooklyn chapter of Indivisible was one outcome of those meetings.