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Dec. 20th, 2021 12:00 pm
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  • Sun, 12:38: RT @AlexanderMcCoy4: Something missing from the conversation about student debt is the political history of why it exists. College used to…
  • Sun, 12:38: RT @AlexanderMcCoy4: Nixon encouraged the GOP in states to defund public colleges, in order to make future cohorts of college students beco…
  • Sun, 12:38: RT @AlexanderMcCoy4: The whole point, quite deliberately and explicitly, was to neuter young people as a political force.
  • Sun, 12:38: RT @AlexanderMcCoy4: For more on this, along with citations, check out this episode of @justicedems podcast “Bloc Party.” https://t.co/4pT…
  • Sun, 12:38: RT @AlexanderMcCoy4: @justicedems Ack, correction: it was Ronald Reagan, not Nixon. Got my reactionary right-wing Presidents mixed up.
  • Sun, 12:39: RT @GrondaMorin: @AlexanderMcCoy4 When I started college at a 4-year public university in NJ in 1967, it cost $366 per semester in today's…
  • Sun, 12:57: RT @JuliusGoat: Maybe the way to stop the pandemic is to stop acting like we’re out of the pandemic and the problem to solve is people acti…
  • Sun, 13:00: RT @Sifill_LDF: Manchin is Manchin. But what kind of healthy democracy is structured in a way that can allow one man elected by 290,000 vot…
  • Sun, 13:00: RT @Sifill_LDF: It’s like getting exorcised over McConnell’s shameful treatment of Garland, but spending no time thinking abt how to change…
  • Sun, 13:02: RT @BrotherDaryl2: @Sifill_LDF It’s not one person. It’s 51 senators opposed.
  • Sun, 13:02: RT @Sean_M_W321: @BrotherDaryl2 @Sifill_LDF This is a fair point but the principal of the tweet is the same - when a smaller minority (the…
  • Sun, 13:02: RT @Saintsfan5348: @Sifill_LDF The solution, to balance the scales, is to make DC and all the territories states. I read in one of the Jan…
  • Sun, 13:13: RT @BreeNewsome: What is happening right now was 100% predictable. We had ample warning. We’re here b/c of bad policy, not least of which i…
  • Sun, 13:15: RT @TimFullerton: If BBB is really dead - then it’s time to pull out the popular pieces of the bill and make the senate vote on each. Let…
  • Sun, 13:15: RT @TimFullerton: On top of these bills - Biden should cancel ALL student debt.
  • Sun, 13:15: RT @waltshaub: @TimFullerton Or, and hear me out, finally get serious about something that matters far more: voting rights
  • Sun, 14:07: RT @Mr_Electrico: "You can't expect busy people who don't follow politics every day to understand that saving democracy is worth siding wit…
  • Sun, 14:09: RT @emilygayle99: You want proof about capitalism killing disabled people?? Two weeks ago, KN95 masks on Amazon were $12.99 for a 30pk. Tod…
  • Sun, 14:09: RT @emilygayle99: I’ve had some people DM me asking if they can send mutual aid. I’m a mature student and this is my first Xmas living al…
  • Sun, 14:09: RT @emilygayle99: There are also some great places to donate if you’re feeling generous this holiday season: what comes to mind rn are @pro…
  • Sun, 14:11: RT @SundaeDivine: This may seem like a minor issue, but our military should stop airing Fox on TVs in mess halls and common areas. Our mili…
  • Sun, 14:14: RT @PaulieTweetz: @JRubinBlogger https://t.co/MxzUN4vmTY
  • Sun, 14:16: RT @Gregyack1: @Jojo12602380 @JRubinBlogger Take a moment and read this statement, then ask yourself where can the Democrats pick up 3 addi…
  • Sun, 14:19: RT @DavidJollyFL: 20 Republican Senate seats are up in '22. National Dems need to talk about them this week, not Manchin.
  • Sun, 14:23: RT @kylegriffin1: Sen. Sanders tells CNN there must still be a vote on BBB: "We've been dealing with Mr. Manchin for month after month ...…
  • Sun, 14:25: RT @BreeNewsome: The fact that you simply can’t, as a reality of nature, fight a pandemic as an individual based on your own individual cho…
  • Sun, 14:28: RT @Mikel_Jollett: What’s cool is Biden and the Democrats cut child poverty IN HALF, vaccinated over 200 MILLION Americans and passed a TRI…
  • Sun, 14:28: RT @Mikel_Jollett: Despite all of the accomplishments of the Democrats so far, I’d argue the biggest failure of the media in inadequately r…
  • Sun, 14:37: RT @popeguilty: He said to me, he said, "I'll tear your soul apart, what do you think about that?" And I said yah that don't sound like too…
  • Sun, 14:37: RT @FrogJessie: @popeguilty So he says to me, he says, how about I show you the furthest reaches of pain AND pleasure, norm, and I said who…
  • Sun, 14:37: RT @EyeEdinburgh: Happy #LGBTCommunityDay to a real Wonder Woman.
  • Sun, 14:38: RT @ThoughtSlime: always astounds me that in a civilization supposedly founded on principles of freedom, plurality, and freedom of expressi…
  • Sun, 14:39: RT @ThoughtSlime: the people who claim so vociferously to defend freedom piss and shit their pants if anyone deviates from their cultural s…
  • Sun, 14:39: RT @ThoughtSlime: Just in general, I've never understood the impulse to restrict what other people do if what they're doing doesn't hurt an…
  • Sun, 14:39: RT @ThoughtSlime: and to the people pointing out that our civilization was not founded on those things, but simply pretended to be yes, th…
  • Sun, 14:40: RT @oni_blackstock: This is just incorrect. Epidemiologists, etc. and many who care about global vaccine equity have been shouting from t…
  • Sun, 14:46: RT @DoktorZoom: Ted Cruz must enjoy no longer being the senator who's most despised by colleagues in his own party
  • Sun, 14:47: RT @helmsinki: @socialistdogmom Anyone interested in promoting abortion access in Virginia should donate to @BRAF_VA @RRFPva and @nraafva!…
  • Sun, 14:48: RT @socialistdogmom: being forced to carry an unwanted pregnancy to term also really ruins a lot of vacation plans, though
  • Sun, 14:51: RT @dreamingnoctis: Absolutely this. And while guys like Matty always had some bad takes, etc. I think people don’t realize how much worse…
  • Sun, 15:03: RT @SER1897: Everyone has their own reasons for why Democrats lost House/Senate races in 2020. While folks have no problem blaming “sociali…
  • Sun, 15:04: RT @nobue_weh: @SER1897 I think I just don't get it. Like, I get the financial stress, but I just do not understand the social/psychologica…
  • Sun, 15:04: RT @hugolowell: New: House Dem progressive Ayanna Pressley says on CNN she never trusted Manchin: “My lack and deficit of trust was about M…
  • Sun, 15:07: RT @dogemperor: @mehdirhasan We #exvangelicals have tried to warn people for the better part of *40 years* that this was happening. That t…
  • Sun, 15:13: RT @bravetinsoldier: So, Manchin is covering his constituents with this bullshit?
  • Sun, 15:15: RT @AriBerman: This is what the filibuster is blocking: -voting rights -abortion rights -gun control -equality act -immigration refo…
  • Sun, 15:22: RT @elizabethcatte: We are in real Triangle Shirtwaist fire hours and deserve better.
  • Sun, 15:22: RT @auntiebernice: This is the most comprehensive list of Kentucky Tornado Relief resources I’ve seen, both for giving & getting support. G…
  • Sun, 15:23: RT @fearnley_k: A word of warning. I’ve had Long Covid for 12mths and counting. In this time, I’ve been diagnosed with neurological sleep a…
  • Sun, 15:29: RT @LisaGralinski: This is a huge pet peeve of mine. The US did not do lockdown. We did a a lot of half-assed measures that were not enough…
  • Sun, 23:27: RT @EdwardLawsonJr: @edburmila Joe Manchin remembers when Joe Lieberman lost the Dem primary, ran as the unofficial GOP candidate, endorsed…
  • Sun, 23:51: RT @annaham360: @sadydoyle lol I came out as nonbinary this past year because I finally sat down and thought “yeah, I don’t identify as a w…
  • Sun, 23:51: RT @AllieGateau: @sadydoyle Discovering non-binary as a thing really put a name and explanation for my lifelong experience of feeling weird…
  • Sun, 23:52: RT @LauraJMG: I feel a rant coming on. Brace yourselves.
  • Sun, 23:53: RT @AutSciPerson: It's amazing to me how many autistic people exist in so many industries without knowing they're autistic. The idea that…
  • Sun, 23:55: RT @IHateNYT: I hate when I'm a conservative who opposes free-at-point-of-service medical care and thinks healthcare should be run as a bus…
  • Sun, 23:55: RT @vvictorman_uel: disabled people 🤝 epidemiologists telling everyone exactly what’s going to happen and what we need to do and no one l…
  • Sun, 23:58: RT @Cato_of_Utica: henry kissinger lived just long enough to see a socialist take power in chile again.
  • Mon, 00:00: RT @RepTerriSewell: John Lewis didn’t get bludgeoned on a bridge in my hometown 56 years ago so that our Senators could sit idly by as stat…
  • Mon, 00:11: RT @Karoli: I called that one back when it was happening. It’s absolutely what it was about.
  • Mon, 00:11: RT @justicar: People need to understand that the corporations who own the paper on these loans have purchased them at a huge discount, and…
  • Mon, 00:12: RT @justicar: If you cancelled all those loans, these corporations, who have no purpose other than to make people rich off usury, would go…
  • Mon, 00:12: RT @justicar: This is literally a shell game. These companies buy student debt at pennies on the dollar. These loans are better than gold,…
  • Mon, 00:12: RT @justicar: These holding companies then borrow enormous sums of cash against those student loans they've purchased as collateral, since…
  • Mon, 00:12: RT @justicar: That's what this is. This isn't about students, education, or even their debt. It's about these student loan collectors maki…
  • Mon, 00:13: RT @justicar: So when people talk about how they can't just cancel student loans, they're really defending these huge corporations who are…
  • Mon, 00:22: RT @thegrugq: Police so corrupt you need hackers to leak their dirty secrets and journalists to spend months digging for the story.
  • Mon, 00:25: RT @eliowa: 🧀 Even after almost two years, people still reply “masks aren’t perfect” “rapid tests are only 93% vs culture” “vaccines are on…
  • Mon, 00:31: RT @clearing_fog: It’s been clear for months that the only viable strategy is to make Manchin and Sinema irrelevant in 2022. That’s the on…
  • Mon, 00:31: RT @clearing_fog: We know what needs to be done; Manchin told us himself. So let’s give it to him. Make him irrelevant. Elect more libera…
  • Mon, 00:31: RT @clearing_fog: Even Goldman Sachs admits that passing BBB will improve our economy and increase our competitiveness and standing in the…
  • Mon, 00:32: RT @AmitAryaMD: Retweet if you agree that our governments should send a package of rapid tests & N95 masks to every household, every week,…
  • Mon, 00:34: RT @josephebacon: @JimPethokoukis Thanks to Joe Manchin and his fellow Republicans I have to pay $215 for my insulin when I pick it up tomo…
  • Mon, 00:36: RT @adjCouchChair: @JimPethokoukis Wait.. we went from potentially the cause of inflation or to be causing inflation to actually a forecast…
  • Mon, 00:40: Thread https://t.co/4jXN9mOR3i
  • Mon, 00:43: RT @Booker4KY: Joe Manchin might not care about people in Appalachia, but I do. In 2022, let’s make his obstruction irrelevant. https://t…
  • Mon, 00:47: RT @GretchenAMcC: This post is framed around journalism, but as the Double Empathy problem is about communication, it's also highly relevan…
  • Mon, 00:51: RT @ariefrpulungan: Even Walmart is doing deep learning research. Somewhere in the next decade: "Apply now for the Burger King AI residenc…
  • Mon, 00:55: RT @mattbc: Illness is not a moral failing. And SARS-CoV-2 is not a moral actor, it can't be reasoned with – it exists to infect.
  • Mon, 01:00: RT @setarelven: @dreamingnoctis @della_morte_ (And seriously, all this talk of "inflation" in the media, when what it really is is *retalia…
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