Sunday, August 25, 2019

Some Tweets from David Sirota

Journalist David Sirota is also Bernie Sanders' speechwriter for Bernie's 2020 campaign for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination.




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    NEWS: We are launching Bern Notice -- the ' campaign's digital newsletter with scoops, insights and news nuggets about the election. Subscribe at this link -- and please retweet: Bern after reading...
  • Most candidates maybe send an email criticizing GOP obstruction. is taking it way further: hes literally going to Kentucky to personally shame Mitch McConnell for doing the bidding of the GOP's campaign donors & Bernie is calling out McConnell's big donors by name
  • NEW REPORT: Donors from health insurers and pharmaceutical companies are among Mitch McConnell's top campaign contributors -- and he has paid them back with legislative favors. Read about it here -- and subscribe to our new newsletter:
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    Bernie's unafraid to name names and explicitly call out the corruption in our political system. You can do that when you are running a grassroots-funded campaign.
  • . just said: "Why does Senator McConnell do what he does?...It has everything to do with following the money. Follow the money." We have done that in this new report, tracking how McConnell has paid back his big donors. Read it, and retweet:
  • THIS HAPPENED: Mitch McConnell gave a huge tax cut to Trump's billionaire adviser Steve Schwarzman -- and very soon after, Schwarzman wrote a $5 MILLION check to McConnell's super PAC. Read about it in BERN NOTICE:
  • NEW REPORT: is in Louisville to demand Mitch McConnell stop doing favors for his billionaire campaign donors. We've released a new report showing how McConnell has been enriching his biggest donors.
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  • With at the top of the ticket in 2020, we are going to defeat Donald Trump AND Mitch McConnell.
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    In about 15 min, will take the stage in Kentucky outside the Muhammad Ali museum. Hey , -- this one's for you. You can watch here:
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    Ken Salazar co-chairs the energy practice of one of the largest corporate law firms in the country, representing scores of oil & gas clients. Just one example of what he does: Anadarko hired him just after the fatal home explosion in Firestone in 2017
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    Sen. Bernie Sanders: "If people want a candidate who can beat Donald Trump, I think you're looking at him."
  • "Sanders has the most diverse supporter mix of any 2020 candidate...His supporters (are) disproportionately working-class...Leading Dems & their supporters in the media keep hoping that if they close their eyes Sanders will go away. It’s not working."
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    Bernie Sanders literally brought the receipts 😂😂😂😂 hey 💯👏
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    Call me crazy, but I kinda feel like 20% of the world’s oxygen supply being on fire is an existential issue. This should be the main focus of the meeting.
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    With Bolsonaro, farmers are "deliberately setting fire to chunks of the forest in order to destroy it so it can be used to graze cattle. He has responded by rubbishing satellite data from Brazil’s own space agency. He's dubbed 'Captain Chainsaw' for his support for deforestation"
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    Bernie Sanders' $16 trillion dollar climate change plan is nothing short of a revolution
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    Spotted at a Biden event in the Hamptons: Fmr. Trump WH Comms Director Anthony
  • Why I work for — in one tweet 👇🏻
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    Two days after releasing his extremely ambitious climate proposal, the Sanders campaign hires one of the key organizers behind the widely-hailed climate legislation New York State passed earlier this summer.
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    If runs for US Senate, we want to be clear. Given his track record, we will not support his race and will campaign against him. There are many Senate candidates running in CO that are climate champions, he is not one of them.
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    EXCLUSIVE: joins this Sunday!
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    Rewatching the first debates, the very first thing Hickenlooper did was criticize the Green New Deal. Could have picked anything, but that was his first instinct. This alone is disqualifying. Tons of candidates can beat Gardner. Aim higher. We only have 10 years.
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    Replying to 
    Take a look at ’ plan for a Green New Deal! It’s the strongest proposal around to deal with the deadly climate crisis AND create *millions* of jobs.
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    This is a massively underrated part of Sanders platform.
  • The Amazon rainforest is on fire, scientists are warning of an impending ecological collapse -- and this is 's article attacking . You cannot make this up.
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    . waded into the ideological divides within the Democratic party during his speech at the DNC meeting in San Francisco by arguing that “incrementalism” and “playing it safe, according to the old rules, is the most dangerous course of all.”
  • Very Serious Pundits: No, of course the Washington Post really doesn't have an out-of-control grudge-based bias against that would make it publish wildly offensive commentary about Bernie's agenda. WashPost: Hold my beer
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    Hickenlooper’s presidential campaign was a genius move to make Democrats so desperate to push him off the presidential stage that many would forget that he would join the Senate as a conservative Democrat who has already pledged to block most progressive priorities.
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    Oof. On the day of a controversial DSCC endorsement in a competitive primary, a new poll shows Hickenlooper beats Cory Gardner by the same amount as "a generic Democrat." If we can beat Gardner AND send someone progressive to the U.S. Senate, why not? -->
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    Hickenlooper is a climate denier.
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    Tens of thousands of Americans die every year because they lack decent health insurance. There is no middle ground when it comes to heath care. We must guarantee affordable health care to every American through Medicare for All.
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    Perfect day do canvass for in ⤵️
  • Exactly.
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    We can’t drill our way out of this crisis—and we don’t expect the nation’s biggest polluters to surrender without a fight. What we need are leaders with the courage to fight back. Baby steps won’t do the trick. Demand a & .
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  • Oh heck yes