There's a lot we can do to end gun violence—and I've got a plan outlining how I'll do that. But we should also ask why nothing is being done right now. If we want to end gun violence, we must root out the corruption that is holding up progress. #WarrenTownHall pic.twitter.com/vM3bM4uAGF
— Elizabeth Warren (@ewarren) February 6, 2020
This is brilliant! Don’t argue with those who insist ‘My gun is a tool, I need it’… go with the analogy “So is your car, but we’ve managed to reduce highway deaths by 80% without eliminating cars.” Of course, a good part of that improvement came from government mandates insisting on seatbelts and insurance and sobriety tests, but who’s in favor of uninsured drunks in exhaust-spewing clunkers?
THREAD: Today we're republishing almost 200 posts Elizabeth Warren wrote at TPM between 2005 and 2008. Some of these have been available online at the Wayback Machine, many – and the earliest – are back online for the first time in a decade. https://t.co/FPe2vFCqzW cc: @ewarren
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) February 6, 2020
and Traister's profile is brilliant (all of her election stuff is): https://t.co/gtCKR8fvWc
— Anne "I know how to please girls" Lister ? ? (@gjackstan) February 6, 2020
This was my introduction to Elizabeth Warren and a real understanding of how powerful the financial industry was in Congress that it could casually push through these wide ranging changes. Warren and her students explained the problems. Since these TPM posts I've seen https://t.co/AK7cetCH7u
— Kombiz Lavasany (@kombiz) February 6, 2020
The power of private equity to strip jobs, income, and value from working people and lift it up. I've watched it with Puerto Rico, before Hurricane Maria where she was an advocate for the Island being able to get out of debt, after the hurricane where she has a bill that protects
— Kombiz Lavasany (@kombiz) February 6, 2020
against the measure while Deval Patrick, and some other dems supported privatization. We won with 60%+ the vote with a strong multi-racial coalition against a well-funded charter industry.
The TPM posts were my initial introduction and I've learned tremendously from watching her
— Kombiz Lavasany (@kombiz) February 6, 2020
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