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Shailene Woodley Eyes Future Run For Congress Inspired By Bernie Sanders

The 25-year-old actress, who earned an Emmy nomination for her role in the critically acclaimed HBO series, has also made it her mission to champion a bevy of progressive causes off screen, and has even considered running for political office.
“There was a point last year when I was working for Bernie Sanders where I thought, ‘Huh, maybe I’ll run for Congress in a couple years,’” Woodley told The New York Times. “And you know what? I’m not going to rule it out. Who knows? Life is big, and I’m young.”
Woodley has been most actively engaged in speaking out against the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline and stood in solidarity with Native American communities at the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation. In October, the actress and 26 others were arrested for criminal trespassing while protesting the pipeline in Sioux County, North Dakota. Woodley documented her arrest in a Facebook Live video and uploaded a slew of testimonials from the ground.
The actress found a kindred spirit in Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who she actively campaigned for during the primaries of the 2016 election.

LoneStarMike (miss ya!)… remember how much they used to make fun of you at TOP for keeping up with these kinds of numbers?!

You’d Be Rich If You Could Leverage Facebook Like Bernie Sanders

He has earned seven million likes and millions of video views, all without a single kitten or puppy onscreen.

50,000 Working People Are Petitioning Bernie Sanders To A Town Hall Meeting

Last week, we sent the following invitation to Bernie and his staff and offered to accommodate his schedule. We are waiting for his reply.

Hi Senator,

On behalf of the many thousands of working people who have been inspired by our movement to Draft Bernie for a People’s Party, Dr. Cornel West and I would like to invite you to join us for a town hall on Sept. 9th at American University.

Over the past six months, I’ve had the privilege of working with thousands of your most dedicated and talented supporters and volunteers. Working people of all ages, colors, and genders who led their communities in the campaign to elect you president. These are the grassroots leaders who hosted canvasses, phone banked into every state, made social media an organizing hub, and greeted you at clutches. They gave you countless hours and funds that they often could not spare.

Your campaign gave them a common vision and purpose. Now they are united once more in their conviction that our nation needs a new genuinely-progressive party, and that you can create it for us and generations to come. Together, they are extending thousands of hands in invitation to the town hall, a conversation about our shared future as a country.

At the town hall we will discuss one of the greatest questions facing our movement: should we continue our efforts to reform the Democratic Party, or should we launch the new party that the large majority of Americans are calling for?

Please join us for…

The Draft Bernie Town Hall

Saturday, September 9 • 8:00-9:30 pm

American University • Washington College of Law

Washington D.C.

Loser! In 2020 Trump vs. Sanders Match-Up, Bernie Beats Donald Bigly

Donald Trump is already laying the groundwork for a second bid for the White House, but a new survey shows the deeply unpopular president losing big time in hypothetical match-ups against a number of other potential 2020 presidential hopefuls.

Against former Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Trump loses by a 13-point margin—51 percent to 38 percent—Public Policy Polling (PPP) found. Trump would also suffer a double digit loss against former Vice President Joe Biden, trailing the Democrat 39 to 51 percent.

He’d also lose against Sen. Elizabeth Warren (45 percent to 40 percent) and Dallas Mavericks owner and billionaire Mark Cuban (42 percent to 38 percent). Against Sens. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), he’d come out losing again 42 percent to 39 percent).

Another finding from the new poll: a plurality of voters support impeaching Trump—48 percent say he should be impeached compared to 41 percent who oppose it. PPP notes that it’s the fourth month in a row a plurality of survey respondents voiced support for his impeachment.

Worcester voters get first look at District 1 council candidates

Voters in District 1 Wednesday had their first chance to evaluate differences among the four candidates who will face off in a preliminary election in September in a quest to replace outgoing Councilor Tony Economou.

The District 1 race – one of only two in this year’s municipal election to generate enough candidates for a preliminary – will feature William S. Coleman III, Community Development Advisory Committee Chairman Edward L. Moynihan, social justice advocate Sean Rose and lawyer Gerardo Schiano.

In the Sept. 12 preliminary election, voters will whittle the field to two candidates who will square off in the Nov. 7 general election. Wednesday night, the candidates sought to distinguish themselves at a forum hosted by Greater Worcester Our Revolution, a local chapter of a national group that aims to continue pushing progressive policies espoused by U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont during the 2016 presidential election.

During a wide-ranging and friendly discussion in front of about 50 people, candidates agreed largely on priorities – schools and public safety being most often cited – and staked out positions on a variety of issues facing the city.

Harvard Study Confirms: #ExxonKnew and Misled Public About Climate Threat for Decades

A peer-reviewed study published on Wednesday confirmed “a discrepancy between what ExxonMobil’s scientists and executives discussed about climate change privately and in academic circles, and what it presented to the general public.”

“ExxonMobil contributed quietly to the science and loudly to raising doubts about it,” wrote Harvard researchers Geoffrey Supran and Naomi Oreskes in their study, published in the scientific journal Environmental Research Letters.

“Even while ExxonMobil scientists were contributing to climate science and writing reports that explained it to their bosses, the company was paying for advertisements that told a very different tale,” they concluded in a New York Times op-ed on Tuesday.

“Exxon has officially run out of excuses,” said Greenpeace USA climate liability campaigner Naomi Ages. “This peer-reviewed study from Harvard is just the latest piece of evidence indicating that the largest oil company in the world knew about the risks of climate change, but concealed them from the public and shareholders.”

Birmingham Mayoral Race: Woodfin and Bell gear up for runoff

The Birmingham Business Alliance says young professionals are Birmingham’s fastest growing demographic, that’s defined as millennials with a bachelor’s degree or higher.

Research from the BBA shows that particular population grew by more than 56 percent in the city since 2010.

Candidates were aware of that change as they campaigned.

Woodfin says he sought to reach voters of all ages and races. He says he’s still looking at numbers to see what role the change in demographics played.

“I hope the numbers I do see reveal we were able to bring out younger voters who are excited to come,” said Woodfin.

Wednesday, marks the first day of his runoff campaign.

“What’s your game plan now?” asked ABC 33/40,

“Oh, that’s simple,” replied Woodfin. “To take what we’ve done over the last year and do it in six weeks,”