Let’s kick this off with the interview of Rabi-Havt by Briahna Joy Gray:
More to come…
If Republicans can end the filibuster to install right-wing judges to overturn Roe v. Wade, Democrats can and must end the filibuster, codify Roe v. Wade, and make abortion legal and safe. — Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) June 27, 2022 More below the fold. See you there.
Continue reading →Hello Birdies, This is the Rachel Maddow show from last evening. It’s about 42 minutes, but she lays out the potential reverberations from the Dobbs ruling. https://youtu.be/jw8LDDfTY2c More news in the comments. This is also an open thread. See you there.
Continue reading →Let’s kick this off with the interview of Rabi-Havt by Briahna Joy Gray:
More to come…
#420day #CannabisCommunity #cannabisday pic.twitter.com/o3sgNQVFPS
— JRuE (@jorgeru77) April 20, 2022
Let's be blunt.
We’ve got people behind bars while others make millions in the cannabis industry. On 4/20, we need @POTUS to pardon all cannabis convictions, wipe marijuana debt, free anyone currently incarcerated for it and LEGALIZE marijuana.
— Jamaal Bowman (@JamaalBowmanNY) April 20, 2022
Legalize marijuana. Expunge past marijuana convictions. End the failed War on Drugs.
— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) April 20, 2022
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Hello birdies,
This AM we open with some survey data collected by the Center for Politics at UVA.
1. This morning, the @Center4Politics and a new group called Project Home Fire launched a new polling/data analytics project aimed at understanding the social, political, and psychological divides between Biden and Trump votershttps://t.co/42cosYKOLm
— Kyle Kondik (@kkondik) September 30, 2021
2. Some of the takeaways:
There is some potential agreement on policy matters, but there are marked differences in their levels of support for some recent proposals discussed in BIF/reconciliation saga https://t.co/42cosYKOLm pic.twitter.com/MkPCYI2bfp
— Kyle Kondik (@kkondik) September 30, 2021
3. That said, Biden/Trump voters display an alarming level of distrust toward the other side. One finding: more than 3/4s of Biden/Trump voters view elected officials from the other side as presenting a "clear and present danger to American democracy." https://t.co/42cosYKOLm pic.twitter.com/S0n2BIMgTR
— Kyle Kondik (@kkondik) September 30, 2021
4. Beyond that, you can see significant numbers of Biden/Trump voters associating their opposing voters as being akin to socialists or fascists and expressing support for censoring extreme media from the other side https://t.co/42cosYKOLm pic.twitter.com/13wAGOEnjW
— Kyle Kondik (@kkondik) September 30, 2021
5. Another finding of interest: Close to half of both Biden/Trump voters agree it would be better if a “President could take needed actions without being constrained by Congress or courts” pic.twitter.com/6AQjX6ohWC
— Kyle Kondik (@kkondik) September 30, 2021
6. This is all based on a survey we conducted in late July/early August w/ roughly 1,000 Biden voters & 1,000 Trump voters. More info and findings here: https://t.co/42cosYKOLm
— Kyle Kondik (@kkondik) September 30, 2021
More tweets, news, and your comments, of course, below the fold.
Bernie spoke to The World Transformed conference via Zoom today. Here’s a clip from it.
"We are now taking on everybody:
The billionaire class
The healthcare industry
The fossil fuel industry
The drug companiesThese people are very religious. Their religion is greed, and they're prepared to destroy the planet in order to make a few $ more." @BernieSanders #twt21 pic.twitter.com/ypebtNp0lh
— People for Bernie (@People4Bernie) September 25, 2021
This is from the Mirror UK. There is a little bit of reporting but not much.
Bernie Sanders urged Keir Starmer to follow Joe Biden’s example of embracing the left of his party.
The US Senator spoke to former Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell via video link at The World Transformed festival, on the fringe of Labour Party Conference in Brighton.
Mr McDonnell asked Senator Sanders, a prominent socialist on the left of the Democratic Party, how he’d managed to build a relationship with a “centrist leader” and convince the President to adopt a “radical programme”.
“I want to let you into a secret,” Mr McDonnell said. “We have a centrist leader as well, but we’re having problems in ensuring that we have a working relationship from the left with that relationship.”
Senator Sanders, who campaigned against President Biden for the Democratic Presidential Nomination, said Mr Biden had embraced the passionate youth movement the left had energised in the US.
“You’re quite right,” Senator Sanders said.
“[Biden’s] history is one of being a moderate centrist, but he is a very decent human being.
“I know him quite well and I say that without hesitation. He does not like to see suffering, racism or sexism around him.”
He said: “To his credit, and I think he deserves enormous credit, he looked around him and he saw the kind of movement that we helped develop … and the excitement of young people in wanting transformative change.”
He added: “We still have differences, but to his credit he was prepared to think big not small – and he understood that the only way that we bring people into the political process is by talking about the pain that they are now experiencing.”
The World Transformed is a festival organised by the Jeremy Corbyn-backing Momentum campaign group to coincide with Labour Party Conference.
Speaking at the end of the session, Mr McDonnell told the audience that when Mr Starmer was elected, he and Mr Corbyn “took the view that we wouldn’t support doing to him what they did to us – which was every day the personal attacks and abuse.”
He said the pair had been “providing a critique of the mistakes and errors that have been going on at the moment – but we’ve not done that through personal attacks…we’ve done it through political analysis.”
“It’s not the left that are undermining Starmer,” he said.
“It’s Starmer that is undermining Starmer.”
More news, tweets, etc in the comments. Weekend open thread.
Here's 8 minutes of @CBSMornings hosts trying and failing to get @BernieSanders to change his message pic.twitter.com/vJ8l3dKvRZ
— People for Bernie (@People4Bernie) September 23, 2021
More tweets, perspectives, and of course, your comments, below the fold.