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I'm going to be at the Texas Book Festival next month. Can't wait to hang with other writers and book lovers.
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Scoop: Zohran Mamdani has been meeting privately with union leaders, urgently talking up the need for a labor-aligned or leftist candidate to run for president, people familiar with the talks tell me.
He's arguing that progressives can't afford to squander their midterm momentum.
Behind closed doors, Mamdani has also said he's uncertain whether AOC will launch a White House run, the sources said.
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PLEASE GOD DONT TAKE AWAY MY PRIVATE INSURANCE, I LOVE MY $10,000 DEDUCTIBLE
“The majority of Democrats did not run on Medicare for All. You think Adam Hamilton got elected in KS by saying he wants to kick everyone off their private insurance?”
We should fight for universal healthcare. Not force a vote on a bill voters don't want.
More from @Lis_Smith:
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I’m not being dramatic when I say that any politician who is against Medicare for All is a threat to your life. They want you dead.
HAMILTON: “I don't think Medicare for all is the right approach. And even though it sounds great, I don't think it's going to pass… I think what we need to do is figure out, how do we ensure that everyone has access to affordable health care, no matter who they are? But I think icare for all alienates a whole group of people that we need to be able to pass some kind of health care reform that allows everyone to have affordable health care.”
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This is a huge, huge moment.
When, in three years of genocide, has an important politician in an important western country spoken so clearly?
When, in three years of genocide, has an important politician in an important western country spoken so clearly?
Nous agirons frontalement au secours des Palestiniens, à la fois contre le génocide à Gaza et contre l’annexion progressive de la Cisjordanie.
Les navires français, s’il le fallait, escorteront les flottilles de citoyens mobilisés pour faire valoir leurs droits.
Nous ion progressive de la Cisjordanie, ni du Sud-Liban, ni du plateau du Golan.
Nous organiserons concrètement la mobilisation contre l’extension des cruautés aux communautés chrétiennes assiégées, persécutées en Palestine et au Liban.
#Melenchon2027 #JLMBourget
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These people are in tents because of our tax dollars, our bombs, the absolute moral failure of both parties to act towards justice or to even follow the desires of their own constituents.
Gaza: 70,000 tents flooded within 12 hours of the first winter storm, leaving tens of thousands of displaced Palestinians exposed to the elements.
According to Palestinian media sources in Gaza:
Around 70,000 tents sheltering tens of thousands of displaced Palestinians were hours of the first winter storm.
Dozens of walls collapsed, causing injuries of varying severity, including serious injuries, across the Gaza Strip.
Warnings have been issued about dozens of structurally damaged buildings, weakened by Israeli bombardment during the genocidal war, that are at risk of collapsin
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I'm not crying, you're crying.
Utah made a big bet on Morgan Scalley. So did every coach and player who stayed.
Saturday, their faith was rewarded.
Free read: nytimes.com/athletic/77622…
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Devastating. Time to address the socio-economic causes of illnesses like heart disease instead of investing millions in "miracle" drugs that don't work.
“There was not a shred of evidence that the drugs helped anyone. By every measure, they were no better than placebos.”
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True Utahns understand that the Utes beating BYU in football is also part of the blue wave. #utpol
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Today on @TIRShowOakland podcast , my host Jason Myles and I, Pascal Robert discussed the meaning of the recent midterm elections with political scientist Adolph Reed, Jr. Please check it out and let us know your thoughts:
youtube.com/live/6732NlCad…
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🇫🇷 French presidential candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon pledged Saturday that, if elected, French navy ships would escort citizen flotillas trying to break Israel's blockade of Gaza “if necessary."
"We will act head-on to help the Palestinians, against both the genocide in Gaza and the gradual annexation of the West Bank," Mélenchon, the leader of the left-wing party La France Insoumise, said at a rally at Le Bourget, near Paris, where he presented his program for the 2027 election.
He said France would not accept Israel's "gradual annexation" of the West Bank, southern Lebanon or the Golan Heights.
"We will act head-on to help the Palestinians, against both the genocide in Gaza and the gradual annexation of the West Bank," Mélenchon, the leader of the left-wing party La France Insoumise, said at a rally at Le Bourget, near Paris, where he presented his program for the 2027 election.
He said France would not accept Israel's "gradual annexation" of the West Bank, southern Lebanon or the Golan Heights.
Nous agirons frontalement au secours des Palestiniens, à la fois contre le génocide à Gaza et contre l’annexion progressive de la Cisjordanie.
Les navires français, s’il le fallait, escorteront les flottilles de citoyens mobilisés pour faire valoir leurs droits.
Nous ion progressive de la Cisjordanie, ni du Sud-Liban, ni du plateau du Golan.
Nous organiserons concrètement la mobilisation contre l’extension des cruautés aux communautés chrétiennes assiégées, persécutées en Palestine et au Liban.
#Melenchon2027 #JLMBourget
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Important uprising in Paraguay against the free-market govt. Another Trump puppet crushed by their own corruption.
It's a small country, but significant as it's a centre for money laundering by Latin America's right-wing narco elites & crypto bros.
It's a small country, but significant as it's a centre for money laundering by Latin America's right-wing narco elites & crypto bros.
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In this market, a wage increase may as well be a direct transfer to our landlords. There is no “living wage” that’s truly livable in an unregulated rental market. Housing is the biggest bill in most people’s budgets. Economic populism requires a plan on housing.
NEW: Economic populism helped deliver impressive victories for Democrats across the nation. But those gains could be fickle and short-lived or long-lasting and durable.
To keep and maintain working class majorities, here’s 5 specific ideas for what they need to do next.
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JUST IN: Utah Senate Majority Leader Kirk Cullimore has conceded defeat to Democrat Shana Anderson, who told me she wants new leadership in both parties ksl.com/article/516442… #utpol @KSL5TV @KSLcom
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Very important point here from Jared Abbott: Democrats did not win by closing the education/class gap, and in fact that gap was quite a bit wider this year than in the 2018 wave.
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It’s the most bipartisan thing they do, and there’s never a moment of anguish over how to “pay for” it.
"Several Democrats on the Senate Armed Services Committee aren’t ruling out supporting more Pentagon funding [for the Iran War]. That includes...Elissa Slotkin of Michigan."
Trump's military budget is already $1.1 trillion.
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Trump would totally sign a bill lowering the Medicare age to 50, or at least he’d come very close. In exchange, Dems can say go ahead, finish your ballroom and we promise not to knock it down.
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For all its flaws and incoherence, I do think Occupy Wall Street deserves credit for popularizing the 99% versus the 1% messaging, as well as for helping normalize the use of capitalism as an object of explicit political criticism.
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Kirk Cullimore (and his father) along with rubber stamping mormon judges are almost single handedly responsible for not only every single eviction in the Wasatch Front but also the complete degradation of any form of tenants rights in the state of Utah.
🚨SUPER MAJORITY AT RISK: Republicans in Utah’s legislature are at risk of losing as many as 18 seats - which if current numbers hold, the House goes from:
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House Republicans need 50 to be at super majority status.
Also, Senator Kirk Cullimore - enate President is one of those at risk.
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