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Joined July 2010
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43 years ago, France proved trains could reach 235 mph. Today, the Acela, the fastest train, in the world’s largest economy, averages just 67 mph. Don’t let anyone tell you we’ve truly tried high-speed rail in this country and it didn’t work.
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Today, U.S. Department of Education will resume collecting on defaulted student loans. It sounds hard to believe, but college used to be free. This is the real story behind skyrocketing student debt. (Spoiler: It has a lot to do with Ronald Reagan)
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Please help Sydney reach her fundraising goals for the 2025 NYRR Team for Kids TCS New York City Marathon Fundraising! haku.ly/4678860eed via @nyrr
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A new report found that Elon Musk faced at least $2.37 billion in potential legal liability from 11 federal agencies on inauguration day. Many are now on DOGE's chopping block or have dropped their investigations into Musk's corporations. "Conflict of interest" is an understatement.
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Every Democrat since Carter has decreased the deficit. Every Republican since Eisenhower has increased the deficit.
Roughly 50% of the reason I became a Republican was I genuinely believe our national debt is an emergency and a national security risk. But after living some life it is clear to me that Republicans only talk about lowering the debt, they don’t actually do it.
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The GOP budget has $0 for FEMA’s emergency management funding, yet provides $300M to pay for Trump’s golf trips. Extreme weather doesn’t discriminate between red and blue districts. The GOP is choosing Trump’s golf over the safety and security of their constituents.
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Two former Wells Fargo executives were fined $8.5M by the Biden administration for covering up the bank's infamous fake account scandal. Trump just slashed those fines to a paltry $150,000 after Wells Fargo gave $1M to his inauguration. See how this works?
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We need the best educated workforce in the world. We need the best teachers in the world. We need to pay our teachers fairly for the important work they do. No teacher in America should begin at less than $60,000 a year.
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Trump will reportedly end the IRS Direct File program that allowed taxpayers to file taxes for free. This comes after Intuit, the maker of TurboTax, lobbied the government for years to block IRS free file. Intuit donated $1 million to Trump’s inauguration. See how this works?
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Cannot emphasize enough how much of an own-goal it is to tell a university with a $53 billion endowment and a a giant PR team that you want to destroy them. Trump's goons blew it. Today's news is full of sympathetic profiles of crucial Harvard health research. Lawyers next. 1/
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Nicole Micheron, an immigration attorney in MA, received a notice from the Department of Homeland Security telling her she has to leave the U.S. in 7 days. But she’s a U.S. citizen. They’re coming after anyone who disagrees w/ them. DO NOT OBEY IN ADVANCE. #DemsUnited
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Good morning. Today is the 80th day that the U.S. President is running a backdoor bribery scheme in which any CEO or foreign oligarch can send him money secretly through his crypto coin scam in exchange for favors. It's the biggest scandal in the history of the Presidency.
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Rick Scott should be asked how he got away with pleading the fifth 75 times in a Medicaid fraud case paying a 1.7 billion dollar fine and walked away with 300 million dollars and no prison time.
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bright days ahead
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🇷🇴 An American tourist arrived in Romania and was shocked by what he saw Spoiler: empty streets, a McDrive window where you can place an order without a car, and the fact that restaurants don't bring tables and chairs inside after closing and leave them on the street. And he's easy to surprise!
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Lithuanian combat divers worked day and night, risking their life's in brutal conditions to retrieve the 4 USA fallen brothers in arms. I'm proud of them so much! That's what friends and allies do! We are stronger together!
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I won’t delete this tweet because I am a man of honor but, yes… I was wrong on the tariffs in November. He has indeed put blanket tariffs on every country. Trump 2.0 is very different.
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