Waleed Shahid

Waleed Shahid @_waleedshahid

Check out @kendraforphilly who is running for Philadelphia City Council. Philly reserves two seats for "minority parties" which typically go to the GOP. Kendra is running as a @WorkingFamilies candidate who can hold corporate Democrats accountable. https://t.co/v5UGQLEJzt — PolitiTweet.org

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BREAKING: @CBSThisMorning is the first of the three morning news shows to discuss climate change in relation to Hurricane Dorian over the past week. @GMA and @TODAYshow where you at? — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @sunrisemvmt: Focusing on weather patterns and telling people to ‘stay safe’ is akin to politicians only offering ‘thoughts and prayers’… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @zachdcarter: Can you imagine a prominent liberal going on TV and proclaiming there will be “violence” if, say, the minimum wage is not… — PolitiTweet.org

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I know Americans are sharing fun videos of UK parliament but it’s noteworthy how the physical setup and culture of their system is to enable political conflict and disagreement (shout across the aisle!) while the US Congress seeks to suppress conflict (“reach across the aisle”). — PolitiTweet.org

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🤔🤔🤔 — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @NicholasGuyatt: Boris Johnson tries to shout down John McDonnell and is reminded that the last time he raised his voice the police had… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @NaureenAkhter: Dude walked up to me at the deli to shake my hand and let me know he’s a member of the #squad He definitely thought I wa… — PolitiTweet.org

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“Together they spent nearly 74 years in prison for crimes they said they did not commit. In some cases, prosecutors or police knew the entire time that they were innocent and did nothing.” https://t.co/x0taLdlSFE — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @ewarren: We won’t solve the climate crisis with a one-size-fits-all approach. That's why I've woven policies tackling climate change th… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @HeyItsMurad: #NotMeUs. #BernieInBrooklyn https://t.co/MZMWDtX2Mr — PolitiTweet.org

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If “liberal media” existed it would be hours of TV coverage every single day about how we need Medicare for All because our for-profit private insurance system says if you don’t have insurance you literally just die. Such a “liberal media” would not be wrong and does not exist. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @hollyotterbein: This is one of the few interviews I’ve seen where Bernie Sanders — who hates talking about his personal life — opens up… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @Duck_page: https://t.co/VE4PJoBXDr — PolitiTweet.org

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“You were only 18 years old (when your mother died), which must have been incredible painful.” -@AdyBarkan “I go around the country and everyday we talk to people who have lost loved ones because they can’t afford medicine or health care.” -@BernieSanders https://t.co/lfJXzIRW1y — PolitiTweet.org

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There are no moderate Republicans. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @theodorejay: Shoutout to @EvlondoCooper for uncovering this absolutely pathetic statistic https://t.co/vfQNZn5r5t — PolitiTweet.org

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Finally, a politician speaking my language! 😉 — PolitiTweet.org

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"In the haste of these men they forget that our trouble was not ethnological, but moral. It was not difference of complexion, but difference of conviction. It was not the Ethiopian as a man, but the Ethiopian as a slave and a coveted article of merchandise, that gave us trouble." — PolitiTweet.org

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"To the mind of superficial men the future of different races has already brought disaster and ruin upon the country." — PolitiTweet.org

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"Let the Chinaman come; he will help to augment the national wealth; he will help to develop our boundless resources; he will help to pay off our national debt; he will help to lighten the burden of our national taxation." — PolitiTweet.org

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"Contact with these yellow children of the Celestial Empire would convince us that the points of human difference, great as they, upon first sight, seem, are as nothing compared with the points of human agreement. Such contact would remove mountains of prejudice." — PolitiTweet.org

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"All great qualities are never found in any one man or in any one race. The whole of humanity, like the whole of everything else, is ever greater than a part. https://t.co/VmT2MeErqh — PolitiTweet.org

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Douglass on anti-immigrant sentiment: "All great qualities are never found in any one man or in any one race. The whole of humanity, like the whole of everything else, is ever greater than a part. https://t.co/VmT2MeErqh — PolitiTweet.org

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@mikeyfranklin @GrahamDavidA but worse than the US? — PolitiTweet.org

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Douglass on anti-immigrant politicians: "I reject the arrogant and scornful theory by which they would limit migratory rights, or any other...human rights, to themselves, and which would make them the owners of this great continent to the exclusion of all other races of men." — PolitiTweet.org

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@GrahamDavidA i stan for dylan — PolitiTweet.org

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@GrahamDavidA Ha. There's *a lot* to discuss here but the basic argument is that our system, unlike most of our OECD counterparts, 1) prevented a social-democratic / labor party from emerging and 2) makes it very hard to pass laws. https://t.co/yqWGfJRqEY — PolitiTweet.org

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@GrahamDavidA suffering through brexit with free and universal health care and strong labor unions to own the libs — PolitiTweet.org

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"This is yet another example of the kind of slow-moving tropical systems that we expect to see more often as a response to climate change.” https://t.co/FsUZjHyW79 — PolitiTweet.org