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Not actually Tom Green.

Washington, DC
Joined October 2009
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Aaron Datesman retweeted
#News - Dozens of names potentially up for appointment to that open DC Council at-large seat Kenyan McDuffie vacated. But don’t overlook Amy Mauro! Who, you say? Amy Mauro. washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/…
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The foundation of Elon Musk's wealth is the hard work over decades by thousands of government employees — ones at NASA, government scientists who invented GPS (of which my father was one), and more. He is a spoiled child living in a fantasy world. nitter.gq/elonmusk/status/186481…
To improve the TRUE economy, which is output of useful products & services, we need to shift people from low to negative productivity jobs in government to high productivity jobs in the private sector! This is what really matters at a fundamental level.
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Aaron Datesman retweeted
The Senate candidate who overperformed Harris *more than anyone* was Nebraska's Dan Osborn, an independent union organizer who ran on an aggressively working class populist campaign. I wonder why there've been virtually no think pieces or cable news panels about this.
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Aaron Datesman retweeted
A crazy white guy who was obsessed with raw milk figured this out over 100 years ago and came up with all kinds of neck exercises to stimulate the thyroid and lymph nodes. His name was Bernarr MacFadden and he was the first fitness influencer.
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1. Identity politics is bad because it's fundamentally a con, a way of ensuring plutocrats control our society. It's the inversion of 'rights' to support authoritarian corporate power. Here are some examples. *Stopping offshoring is racist.*
Another astonishing clip from the Cato Institute event today, this one from the influential Adam Posen, head of the Peterson Institute. He says a focus on domestic manufacturing is simply a “fetish for keeping white males with low education in the powerful positions they are in.”
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It's remarkable that none of the most powerful people in the Democratic Party bear any responsibility for the Democrats losing, but apparently that's what the evidence shows
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One thing I hadn’t realized is how much Democrats have come to think of George W Bush as a reasonable President who followed the rule of law instead of a guy who did war, torture, and cronyism.
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The true swing voters don’t swing between Republicans and Democrats. They swing between the voting booth and back to the sidelines if they’re being ignored or taken for granted.
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The reason I find the 'blame The Groups' framework so problematic isn't because I like The Groups. I'm not liked at all within that ecosystem. It's because that framework is besides the point. We need a way to actually do *thinking.* What does that look like?
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Teamsters President Sean O’Brien’s request to Kamala Harris was to keep Yale law grad Lina Khan at the FTC because of Khan’s work on Amazon. Harris wouldn’t, so the Teamsters didn’t endorse. Abundance!
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Aaron Datesman retweeted
It took a humiliating military defeat, crushing sanctions, and a historic economic collapse to turn Germany fascist. All it took in the United States was the election of one Black president.
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Aaron Datesman retweeted
So far, Trump’s cabinet picks are no more “weird” or “extreme” or “clown car-ish” than George W. Bush’s. Bush’s just had Ivy League/Beltway credentials and DC lanyards, which is why liberals now remember them as sensible normies. But they were sociopaths.
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Aaron Datesman retweeted
If Trump's government is going full wing-nut, can he at least declassify the remaining JFK assassination stuff & the UFO stuff. I mean we deserve something.
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Wow I hadn't realized this was possible. This seems like a no brainer!!!
Biden could also reappoint Lina Khan and Schumer could confirm her in the lame duck, which would preserve a dem majority on the FTC for a couple of years.
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Aaron Datesman retweeted
Analysis | Trump’s top priority in an attorney general is shielding himself from criminal prosecution. He should choose Merrick Garland.
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One headline that could be published this week and pretty much every day is Democrats Furious That Voters Believed the Wrong Lies
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Aaron Datesman retweeted
Susie Wiles, Trump's top campaign adviser and new chief of staff, was the Duval County, Florida co-chair for John McCain's 2008 campaign, and co-chair of Mitt Romney's 2012 Florida campaign. So her elevation clearly signals a dramatic ideological shift in the Republican Party 😂
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[Very Nordhaus voice] “Because most economic activity occurs indoors, warming of several degrees Celsius will have a minimal impact on our economy.”
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Kamala Harris to Liz Cheney: 'I also want to thank your father, Vice President Dick Cheney, for his support and what he has done to serve our country.'
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