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1. #Millennials we are reaching the final days for Voter Registration! The policy direction determined by the 2018 midterm elections WILL absolutely impact your life choices and options. The #Healthcare vote matters even if you're young and healthy.
2. Company/employee loyalty has become a nominal factor in career trajectory. Boomers lamented how often GenXers would change jobs, but #Millennials have figured out how to make lateral moves work in their favor.
3. Young workers move on from companies relatively quickly, enhancing their resume and generally increasing earning power with each lateral move. Companies are able to keep their employee costs down - for many industries it's a win-win.
1) Columbus Day 2018 is half time at the 2018 Mid-Term Bowl. The score is GOP 17 and Democrats 16. Let’s recap the first half.
#BlueWave #RedWave #2018MidTermElections
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#BlueWave #RedWave #2018MidTermElections
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2) Going into the game the Democrats were riding their #BlueWave of enthusiasm. They were so confident America was tired of all the lies and sordid behavior of Coach Trump that the Democrats could win the game easily.
3) They laughed at their good fortune every time a GOP player would pledge to work closely with their coach; such easy pickings.
#BlueWaveComing2018
#BlueWaveComing2018
1. When the actions of our government spark mass protest it is a sign that the democratic process is unwell - that the government is operating well-outside the mainstream. Historically, the reasons differ.
2. Usually, it is because the government is resisting change that is wanted by the majority of the country - as with the Suffrage and Civil Rights movements. It can also be due to a disagreement of the majority with policy - as with the Vietnam War.
3. The mass protests witnessed since 2016 are a bit different. We have seen a majority party not just resisting progress, but wishing to dial it back - fully aware it is against the wishes of the majority of the population.
I wrote a long scholarly bio of Sandra Day O'Connor and RBG, Sisters in Law. Although most of the attention has been focused on Ginsburg, actually SOC tells the more relevant story in today's #Kavanaugh times. 1/
2/ SOC was always an odd fit; a symbolic powerhouse first woman on the Supreme Court, or the FWOTSC, as she called herself. She was technically supportive of abortion rights and voting w/ RBG on most women's cases at #SCOTUS, including in 1986 a vote for harassment victim Vinson
3/ but SOC was also a lifelong #Republican and an operative at that -- committeewoman, nominated to her first office by the #GOP committee, mentored by Barry Goldwater, William Rehnquist and Warren Burger were her sponsors on the #SCOTUS.
The majority of the working class in America is women and POC.
And white men as a group haven't voted majority Democrat since 1964--they stopped after LBJ signed the the #VRA.
Flip the narrative and start listening to the ACTUAL working class--the rest of us.
And white men as a group haven't voted majority Democrat since 1964--they stopped after LBJ signed the the #VRA.
Flip the narrative and start listening to the ACTUAL working class--the rest of us.
Stop centering white men for everything.
Stop claiming only white men can save us from the damage white men did to us.
Women are the working class--my investigation here:
damemagazine.com/2018/04/12/wom…
Stop claiming only white men can save us from the damage white men did to us.
Women are the working class--my investigation here:
damemagazine.com/2018/04/12/wom…
.@matthewstoller is very worried about white men, but it's really women of all races who are facing the worst effects of economic and social stresses.
My investigation here:
damemagazine.com/2018/05/10/why…
My investigation here:
damemagazine.com/2018/05/10/why…
The relentlessness of passing over superb women with strong credentials & election histories in favor of whatever man is a headline at a moment is exhausting.
Two months ago it was Avenatti. Now it's O'Rourke.
Bypassing the majority of Americans--women--is a national disgrace.
Two months ago it was Avenatti. Now it's O'Rourke.
Bypassing the majority of Americans--women--is a national disgrace.
O'Rourke is fine. He is not, Harris, Gillibrand or Klobuchar.
▪Gillibrand is Congress' leader on women's rights & sexual assault victims.
▪Harris set NN2018 on fire with her speeches reclaiming identity politics.
▪ Klobuchar highlighted #Kavanaugh's unfitness for SCOTUS.
▪Gillibrand is Congress' leader on women's rights & sexual assault victims.
▪Harris set NN2018 on fire with her speeches reclaiming identity politics.
▪ Klobuchar highlighted #Kavanaugh's unfitness for SCOTUS.
Americans MUST stop looking past women to find some man, any man to supplant them.
It took THIRTY YEARS of incredibly hard work for @HillaryClinton to get to run for POTUS. The rules for women are so different. No one sees a woman give a single speech and says "president!"
It took THIRTY YEARS of incredibly hard work for @HillaryClinton to get to run for POTUS. The rules for women are so different. No one sees a woman give a single speech and says "president!"
I lived in NOLA right after college.
I drank most every day, as did everyone I knew.
We were all in the domestic Peace Corps, all in our early 20s, all hardworking activists with stressful work.
We drank too much at Mardi Gras, New Year's.
It's absurd to claim #Kavanaugh didn't.
I drank most every day, as did everyone I knew.
We were all in the domestic Peace Corps, all in our early 20s, all hardworking activists with stressful work.
We drank too much at Mardi Gras, New Year's.
It's absurd to claim #Kavanaugh didn't.
Those of us who've had alcoholics in our lives--like Klobuchar--tend to be careful about alcohol because we've been damaged by the drunks in our lives. I'm a control freak, so never liked being drunk, but lots of my friends did. What IS true, is most 20somethings drink to excess.
This new tack from the #GOP to dismiss #Kavanaugh's alcoholic drinking--& I am not saying he was/is an alcoholic, but he certainly drank like one--is just wrong. It undermines their own credibility and ignores reality: statistically the vast majority of teens/20s get drunk OFTEN.
Let's talk about sex, #Kavanaugh & Venn diagram overlap of male entitlement.
I've written a lot about sex in various contexts. In the late 80s/early 90s I also gave safe sex workshops back when folks my age were dying 24/7 from #AIDS. My 1st book was on juvenile prostitution.
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I've written a lot about sex in various contexts. In the late 80s/early 90s I also gave safe sex workshops back when folks my age were dying 24/7 from #AIDS. My 1st book was on juvenile prostitution.
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Most of us know consensual and non-consensual sex differ. The entirety of #Kavanaugh's defense and his defenders' outrage is predicated on the presumption that no teenaged boy knows what consent is.
THEY. KNOW.
Some, like their adult counterparts, don't care.
This is key.
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THEY. KNOW.
Some, like their adult counterparts, don't care.
This is key.
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Since #MeToo we've seen egregious serial rapists like #BillCosby and #HarveyWeinstein exposed & attempts made to prosecute them.
But there are "lesser" sexual assaults we've given a lighter hand to: Matt Lauer, Charlie Rose, Mark Halperin, Louis CK--too many to list.
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But there are "lesser" sexual assaults we've given a lighter hand to: Matt Lauer, Charlie Rose, Mark Halperin, Louis CK--too many to list.
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#Kavanaugh masterfully turned himself into the victim of unscrupulous women.
He was aided by #GOP senators. The other accusers have been erased. It all rested on a 15yr old girl who as an adult wasn't self-aggrandizing and so didn't talk about herself at all. Unlike Kavanaugh.
He was aided by #GOP senators. The other accusers have been erased. It all rested on a 15yr old girl who as an adult wasn't self-aggrandizing and so didn't talk about herself at all. Unlike Kavanaugh.
I truly believe if Ford had talked about herself and her life in-depth the way #Kavanaugh did, she would have been humanized as a mother afraid for her kids, a prof beloved by her students, an expert in her field with 4 degrees. Not as elite as BK, but his equal in achievement.
Ford wasn't advised well. There were two hours for her, four for #Kavanaugh.
Only because I’m not hearing enough people say it...#Kavanaugh behaved exactly as a guilty cornered, narcissist behaves. It was bombastic, argumentative, melodramatic and everything you’d expect to see from a sexual predator...he attacked them. #KavanaughConfirmationHearing #GOP
There is an entire body of literature on this. I’m sure people could find any number of experts to discuss how sociopaths/narcissists over react with anger and play the victim when cornered. annmccranie.net/site/S324_Slid… 
This is kind of a gold standard.
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The worst part of these white and Latina GOP women saying these things is NOT ONCE did they offer concern about any victim of sexual assault.
The woman in the turtleneck, Lourdes, said she thought Kavanaugh had likely dumped Ford and she was getting back at him.
Awful.
The woman in the turtleneck, Lourdes, said she thought Kavanaugh had likely dumped Ford and she was getting back at him.
Awful.
Also, these aren't all just ladies off the street being asked these questions by @CNN. They are GOP operatives.
So this woman, Lourdes, who is floating the idea that Ford is a vengeful sociopath is actually working for the Republican Party.
🔥Internal @GOP poll shows Democrats up by 9 points on a generic ballot (7 pts = #FlipTheHouse). “Soft" GOP voters care more about Medicare/SS, veterans mental health services + reforming student loans than Trump agenda of tax cuts, border walls, ICE.😉
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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🤣LOL. @realDonaldTrump’s GASLIGHTING worked a bit too well.
Complacency among #GOP voters is tied directly to their trust in Trump. “They don’t believe Democrats will win the House. (Why should they believe the same pollsters who told them Hillary was going to be elected?)”🤣
Complacency among #GOP voters is tied directly to their trust in Trump. “They don’t believe Democrats will win the House. (Why should they believe the same pollsters who told them Hillary was going to be elected?)”🤣
This #poll shouldn’t make *any* of us complacent, but instead, should MOTIVATE us, b/c we now *know* that We the People *can* flip seats in DEEPLY red states (@DougJones in #AL) and districts (@ConorLambPA).
VOTE, so that we do this NATIONWIDE‼️🇺🇸
VOTE, so that we do this NATIONWIDE‼️🇺🇸
The @WSJ editorial board just dropped Tuesday's editorial.
It is searing.
They describe #ChristineBlaseyFord's discussion of the #Kavanaugh assault as "an effort to save a failing marriage."
It does not get better after that.
The #MeToo Kavanaugh Ambush wsj.com/articles/the-m…
It is searing.
They describe #ChristineBlaseyFord's discussion of the #Kavanaugh assault as "an effort to save a failing marriage."
It does not get better after that.
The #MeToo Kavanaugh Ambush wsj.com/articles/the-m…
.@WSJ asserts #AnitaHill was a liar, for good measure:
"If Republicans panic now their own voters will rightly be furious. They would be letting Democrats get away with the same dirty trick they tried and failed to pull off against #ClarenceThomas."
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"If Republicans panic now their own voters will rightly be furious. They would be letting Democrats get away with the same dirty trick they tried and failed to pull off against #ClarenceThomas."
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That @WSJ is defending #KKavanaugh is no surprise;they're the nation's foremost white male bastion of late 19th c conservativism that recognizes few women or POC as worthy of discourse or inclusion. But dismissing Ford as a partisan"coaxed"to wound spotless Kavanaugh is false.
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So Mr. Trump is visiting the beautiful Dakotas and the ego fluffing rallying continues without pause. Just like yesterday, Trump will continue his rants and attacks on the media and spread lies about Democrats./1 #TrumpEgoRallies #CultureOfCorruption #Cult45
But here's what know he won't do or say: address the real issues facing hard-working North and South Dakota families. He will also fail to talk about the continued #Republican war on health care coverage for 130 million Americans with pre-existing conditions./2 #GOPCorruption
30,100: North Dakotans that would have lost health coverage by 2026 under the #GOP House-passed #Trumpcare bill./3 #ProtectOurCare #CultureOfCorruption #GOPGreed
The American people are confronted with a #GOP Congress and Administration that are relentlessly ransacking the futures of American families and seniors, all to further enrich their lobbyist and special interest friends, big corporations and the wealthiest one percent. /1
From health care, to taxes, to good-paying jobs, to critical consumer protections, President Trump and the #Republican Congress are selling out the American people at every turn: /2 #ARawDeal #CultureOfCorruption #RepublicanGreed
#Democrats must be ready to drive home our case to the American people about how a Democratic majority will fight For The People:/3 #ForAll #ForThePeople #ABetterDeal #PrincipledDemocraticLeadership
Going through the 438 reps was far more time consuming, but I have a list for you and it will--or should--stun you.
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How often do reps vote with Trump projects.fivethirtyeight.com/congress-trump…
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How often do reps vote with Trump projects.fivethirtyeight.com/congress-trump…
Among the top 10 most progressive, not a single rep is white.
1.@RepBonnie Watson Coleman
2.@RepBarbaraLee
3. @repjohnlewis
4.@RepYvetteClarke
5.@NydiaVelazquez
6.@keithellison
7.@RepGutierrez
8.@RepJayapal
9.@RepGrijalvaCS
10.@MaxineWaters
Stunning.
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1.@RepBonnie Watson Coleman
2.@RepBarbaraLee
3. @repjohnlewis
4.@RepYvetteClarke
5.@NydiaVelazquez
6.@keithellison
7.@RepGutierrez
8.@RepJayapal
9.@RepGrijalvaCS
10.@MaxineWaters
Stunning.
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The next ten after the top ten include women of all races and men of color. No white men.
White reps need to step left. As do some claiming progressive status like Tulsi Gabbard, who isn't in the top 50.
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White reps need to step left. As do some claiming progressive status like Tulsi Gabbard, who isn't in the top 50.
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As things accelerate towards #TheGreatAwakening, it is important to remember what #QAnon said: our strength is in #unity. As a result try to build bridges and tear down walls which separate us from our fellow Americans. #WWG1WGA The end will not be for everyone. Trust the Plan
Those of us who have been following #QAnon from the beginning will have an important role to play in our local and digital communities. Not to gloat or belittle but to educate and inspire. This is not about the #GOP or #DNC, it is about addressing the darkness that affects us all
Going from Dark to Light is not simple or quick but it will change our way of life forever. It will pave the way for #disclosure of technologies and innovations that will improve the quality of life for all of #humanity. Try to reject selfishness and embrace service. #MAGA #QAnon
I'll say this clearly for you people in the back who just don't get it: I'll take a government full of establishment hacks over a fascist bigot threatening the existence of American democracy any day of the week. Hell, I'll fight for that "establishment" if it saves this country.
You want to make new law, pass progressive legislation, build a fairer country? Me too! First, save the system of laws by casting out this criminal regime. It's the whole ballgame. We will advance NOTHING till he's gone.
I have zero patience for all of your "well, Hitler was just a symptom of something larger" bullshit. Ride or walk, it's your choice. Do you even care? Is it all an intellectual exercise? Does this fucking BORE you?
No one who lived through the Bush2 admin, from the stolen 2000 election to the torture, war crimes, two wars we are STILL in, millions of maimed Americans, brutal attacks on women & #LGBT "misses" Bush.Stop saying this for cheap clicks just because you escaped being hurt by Bush.
Pretending the Bush/Cheney years were benign when literally 2 MILLION Americans have been wounded/maimed by the wars in #Afghanistan & #Iraq is #GOP disinformation.
Also, Bush began the #WarOnWomen.
Bush helped stack the #SCOTUS with far right judges. Bush attacked #LGBT folks.
Also, Bush began the #WarOnWomen.
Bush helped stack the #SCOTUS with far right judges. Bush attacked #LGBT folks.
"Trump makes me miss Bush" is a statement of extreme privilege. It means you weren't hurt by Bush's domestic policies that made some of us feel we might have to flee our own country.These glib takes dismiss damage done by #GOP prior to Trump and how GWB opened the door for Trump.
If you think
·Women’s Rights
·Civil Rights
·LGBTQ Rights
·Voting Rights
·Higher Wages
·Equal Pay
·Environmental Protections
·Consumer Protections
·Affordable Healthcare
·Saving Social Security
·DACA
·SCOTUS
Are important, then in #69Days 👉 #VoteBLUE
·Women’s Rights
·Civil Rights
·LGBTQ Rights
·Voting Rights
·Higher Wages
·Equal Pay
·Environmental Protections
·Consumer Protections
·Affordable Healthcare
·Saving Social Security
·DACA
·SCOTUS
Are important, then in #69Days 👉 #VoteBLUE
There are #69Days left to help democratic candidates get elected.
What can you do to help them win?
🔹Donate
🔹Canvass
🔹 Make Calls
🔹 Give someone a ride
🔹 Help someone register to vote
Here 👉 rockthevote.org/action-center/…
What can you do to help them win?
🔹Donate
🔹Canvass
🔹 Make Calls
🔹 Give someone a ride
🔹 Help someone register to vote
Here 👉 rockthevote.org/action-center/…
Are you ready to vote in #69Days?
Do you know your state’s voter ID laws?
Do you have a ride to your polling place?
Do you know where your polling place is?
You can find out here:
usa.gov/election-day
Do you know your state’s voter ID laws?
Do you have a ride to your polling place?
Do you know where your polling place is?
You can find out here:
usa.gov/election-day
It is imperative we expose the ongoing #GOP narrative that uses Leader Nancy Pelosi as a lightening rod for misogynistic, ageist and partisan attacks and what motives and attitudes lie behind it. /1 #IStandWithNancy #GOPLies #DemocraticPrincipledLeadership
In order to get at that truth, it is vital for voters to meet Nancy Pelosi, understand her background, accomplishments and values as well as her vital importance to the Party of the People./2
Nancy Pelosi has consistently put her constituents first and foremost and as Speaker and Minority Leader she has served all Americans with the same commitment and intensity./3 #PrincipledDemocraticLeadership #IStandWithNancy
Dear Senator Graham: I am disappointed, but sadly not surprised by your response. Since the election of Donald Trump you have proven yourself to be a unreliable ally in the fight for our democracy.
Before the election you strongly condemned Mr. Trump for his poor behavior and unsuitability for the office of President. Unfortunately, you quickly changed your tune after a golf game.
I do not know and do not care what transpired during that game, but it is evident from your subsequent behavior that some discussion altered your opinion, converting you to be a Trump supporter, instead of a patriotic American, who had taken an oath to uphold the Constitution.
The murders of #ShannanWatts, Bella,4, Celeste ,3 and the unborn baby boy, Nico, are a devastating reminder that several thousand women are killed each year by #domesticviolence in America and the @WhiteHouse has never once tweeted about it.
According to the CDC and FBI, more than 2k women are killed each year in the U.S. by men. The majority of these killings are #domesticviolence, but there are also murders like that of #MollieTibbetts--women who are murdered by strangers.
Each year the number of women murdered in the US is higher.
#DomesticViolence remains largely unaddressed, under-reported and under-prosecuted, as the current suspension of #UrbanMeyer indicates.
vpc.org/studies/wmmw20…
#DomesticViolence remains largely unaddressed, under-reported and under-prosecuted, as the current suspension of #UrbanMeyer indicates.
vpc.org/studies/wmmw20…
#BREAKING
#MichaelCohen has pleaded guilty to campaign finance violations: hush money payments to #KarenMcDougal and #StormyDaniels.
This is terrible news for Trump.
The allocution will be handed over to Congress and the #MuellerInvestigation.
#MichaelCohen has pleaded guilty to campaign finance violations: hush money payments to #KarenMcDougal and #StormyDaniels.
This is terrible news for Trump.
The allocution will be handed over to Congress and the #MuellerInvestigation.
#BREAKING
To be very clear, #MichaelCohen is now an admitted felon and cited Trump as his co-conspirator.
This could be turned over to Congress as a high crime and misdemeanor.
This is huge.
To be very clear, #MichaelCohen is now an admitted felon and cited Trump as his co-conspirator.
This could be turned over to Congress as a high crime and misdemeanor.
This is huge.
And what cannot be ignored is that #MichaelCohen served as Deputy Finance Chairman for the #RNC.
And Cohen just pleaded guilty to campaign finance crimes.
This implicates the party. This is no longer just about #MichaelCohen--it's about the #GOP.
And Cohen just pleaded guilty to campaign finance crimes.
This implicates the party. This is no longer just about #MichaelCohen--it's about the #GOP.
