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Manchin was famously so worried about inflation complacency that he stole $300/month out of parents’ pockets.
Manchin was wrong about some big things in 2021 and made some terrible calls in the 2026 cycle, but he was right that supply-side climate policy was a dead end (ask senators-elect Peltola & Talarico) and his warning that Dems were too complacent about inflation aged well.
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Hi Matt. I’m more than a little confused by this critique. Even folks who just had a passing knowledge of @AbdulElSayed’s campaign know that his slogan was about 3 things: Money out of politics, money in your pocket & Medicare for all.
Whether you (or other Democrat Senators or anyone, really) disagree with that is irrelevant to the facts that those were the things he explicitly campaigned on.
Do you truly believe that given the above facts, he should simply pretend that is not what he campaigned on? Or, alternatively, that he should acknowledge that despite campaigning on those ideals, he’s abandoning them days after the election because he won by 7 and other Democratic candidates won by 9?
Lastly, I understand you always seem to be focused on maximizing electability and far less focused on maximizing enacting actual reforms, but given your (and others) focus on electability concerns, isn’t right now—literally the furthest out from the next election we possibly could be—the best possible time to raise these issues?
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It would be a complete insult to every Steelers fan, as well as the 42-year-old QB who chose to return and retire here, if Omar Khan stands pat on 6-2 (with a difficult upcoming schedule) and doesn't make a single major move by the deadline while other AFC powers do. Let's see.
Feinberg is a hero.
It was a bit jarring to see John Kirby on MS just now talking about how the second strikes Pete Hegseth has ordered on small boats could may well be war crimes… Here’s how he answered when I asked him about Israel doing a second strike on a @WCKitchen convoy two years ago
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With the Eagles clearly selling, I'd be asking about Dontayvion Wicks and Riq Woolen if I was #Steelers GM Omar Khan.
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As an immediate first step to Medicare for All, the new Democratic Congress must lower the Medicare eligibility age to 55, cover all kids & expand Medicare for dental, vision & hearing.
All of this can be passed with 51 votes in the Senate through reconciliation. Let’s do it.
The difference between Talarico and El Sayed is a random anecdote centering Matty as a victim of actors acting totally outside El Sayed’s agency!
To me one salient difference is that when I published a New York Times op-ed calling on Democrats to embrace the domestic oil and gas industry, @SeanCasten and a bunch of others screamed at me and then Dems nominated candidates who did that and swept Texas.
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For years, my dad battled Parkinson’s disease. On Election Night, I got to tell him, “Pop, we won.”
This morning, he passed away.
A part of me believes he held on just long enough to see his son make it to Congress.
He won’t be there when I’m sworn in. But I know he’ll be standing right beside me.
Rest easy, Daddy. I’ll take it from here. These next two years are for you ❤️
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