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Buttigieg Proposes Broad Plan To Counter Racial Inequality

Struggling to resolve racial tensions in South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg exclusively shared with NPR his "Douglass Plan," named for the famed abolitionist. He compares it to the Marshall Plan.

"If you're a white candidate, it is twice as important for you to be talking about racial inequity and not just describing the problem — which is fashionable in politics — but actually talking about what we're going to do about it and describing the outcomes we're trying to solve for," Buttigieg told NPR.

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Buttigieg details ‘Douglass Plan’ for black Americans

Named after the abolitionist Frederick Douglass, Buttigieg’s plan aims to “dismantle racist structures and systems” in the United States, the presidential hopeful said.

“We have lived in the shadow of systemic racism for too long,” Buttigieg said in a statement, citing a rise in white nationalism, a growing economic gap between black and white workers, and worse health outcomes for African Americans in the United States. Those disparities, he added, “should make us all wonder how the richest country on Earth can allow this to happen under our noses.”

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Trump orders all agencies to cut scientific advisory boards by 'at least' one third

On Friday evening, Donald Trump issued an executive order directing all federal agencies to evaluate and reduce scientific advisory committees by at least a third. This order comes after some agencies, including the EPA and Interior Department, have...

“On Friday evening, Donald Trump issued an executive order directing all federal agencies to evaluate and reduce scientific advisory committees by at least a third. This order comes after some agencies, including the EPA and Interior Department, have already completely eliminated some advisory boards and replaced others with groups of industry lobbyists.”

Now why would we want all that science stuff clogging up people’s minds, right?  (And if you can’t tell, use a sarcastic voice when reading that.)  

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Border Patrol had been jailing a prematurely born infant and her mom until advocates intervened

Attorneys who visited a Border Patrol processing center in McAllen, Texas, as part of an inspection found that officials there had been illegally jailing a sick, prematurely born one-month-old infant and her 17-year-old mother for days, BuzzFeed News...

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Mayor Pete: We need to use 'crazy uncle management' against draft-dodger Trump

Pete Buttigieg is pretty much the polar opposite of Donald Trump. He’s charming. He’s knowledgeable. He’s intelligent. He’s measured. He speaks in complete sentences. And there are no McNugget sauces gradually coagulating within the long-forgotten...

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This isn’t the first time William Barr tried to fool Congress and the nation with a ‘summary’

In 1979, the United States signed a treaty that would gradually turn over control of the Panama Canal zone to the nation in whose territory it was found. But by 1989, the U.S. government was profoundly unhappy with de facto Panamanian military dictator...

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My dad's a Fox News watching Texan. What he said about Pete Buttigieg stunned me.

It was a "boys afternoon" at home; my wife and daughter were off making the world a better place, leaving my 2- and 5-year old sons and I at home to cause trouble. A whirlwind of wrestling, playing Legos, and making a mess just small enough we could...

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Pete Buttigieg 2020 Y’all

He’s a MILLENIAL. He is GAY. He is NEW IN TOWN.

And he is the only confirmed candidate I trust enough to stop this country from crashing it the brick wall of global warming/end-stage capitalism/grand economic collapse.

So who is this man??

• He’s the happily-married, gay, 37-year-old, Harvard-graduate, Afghan-veteran, Rhodes-scholar mayor of South End, Indiana.

• Y’all, when he was a senior in high school he wrote an essay on how amazing Bernie Sanders was. BERNIE. MOTHERFUCKING. SANDERS.

• (He was also class president and valedictorian nbd)

• He got elected as mayor when he was 29 (with 74% of the vote) and then again with OVER 80%!

• He was also declared Mayor of the Year by GovFresh.com in 2013.

• South Bend, a largely low-income community that “never recovered from losing auto factories,” was a dying city. UNTIL MAYOR PETE THAT IS. Thanks to his leadership, the city has “changed its trajectory” to become a shining model of urban reinvention.

• He created the Vacant and Abandoned Properties Initiative, or “1,000 Properties in 1,000 Days,” to repair or demolish targeted properties across the city. And he did that sonnnnn. He did that by the scheduled end date fooooool.

• He also had a reconstruction program called “Smart Streets” (“STREET SMARTS”) that made a bunch of downtown, one-way streets into two-way, pedestrian-friendly streets. Because he cares about the PEOPLE.

• There was a rising crime problem in South Bend in 2014. So what do? Well, Mayor Pete implement led the Group Violence Intervention initiative, which, hello, connected at-risk men with JOBS and EDUCATION.

• Guys, even OBAMA said he was the future of the Democratic Party!

Well, okay, all that’s fine and good. But where does he stand on the issues??

As of right now, he doesn’t have an official platform. However, here are some things he’s said he supports:

• Medicare for All

• Green New Deal

• Raising minimum wage

• Finally. Ending. The. Goddamn. Wars.

• Solving the issues created by the dumb as hell tax cuts

No candidate is ever perfect. And there’s no doubt that he has a skeleton or two in his closet.

But millennials have got to fucking stick together damnit and we gotta get the old corporate Dems outta positions of power before the economy collapses or global warming murders the coral reefs (and then us)

So…BUTTIGIEG 2020

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Just in case you wanted to donate to hos campaign here is a link. He needs 65,000 donors in order to make the debate stage with the other candidates.

I know most of you are all for Bernie but please give Pete Buttigieg a chance this election.

https://secure.actblue.com/donate/joinpete

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Thank you so much!

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💕💕

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cnn posted a video of pete buttigieg debating if pence would be a better 2020 candidate and they didnt even use his name in the title i’m screaming

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Shortest Way Home review: Pete Buttigieg as president in waiting

The 37-year-old mayor of South Bend, Indiana has written the best political autobiography since Barack Obama

Imagine waking up on 4 November 2020 to discover America has elected a man whose knowledge ranges from the Puritan origins of the phrase “city on the hill” to the details of how to modernize sewers with wi-fi connected sensors.

Imagine that this man is also an Afghanistan veteran who understands that “truly grasping and defeating the logic of suicide terrorism” was beyond the capacity of Congress or the Bush administration after 9/11; a student who connected the dots in high school between the values of his theology class and those of Amnesty International; a graduate of Harvard and a Rhodes scholar who got a first at Oxford; the mayor of a small midwestern city who managed to revitalize it in less than eight years; someone who has never slept with a porn star, and who married the very first person he fell in love with.

And imagine this is someone whose spouse just happens to be a man – which, as Stephen Colbert pointed out on The Late Show, is “only the third thing” you learn about this presidential candidate.

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As Catholics are taught, when God is among us, you see service, you see humbling.

Nothing could be more at odds with Catholicism than Republican Catholics’ wealth gospel and their complicity/adoration with the vile Trump. I wont even mention their complete lack of holding priests responsible for raping children.

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Sexual abusers will deny, attack, and reverse the victim with the offender. #DARVO

The abusers do this to avoid accountability for their behavior.

In their eyes, they are the victims.

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Opinion | Graham sums up how stupid the GOP has become

Talk about not caring about average Americans.

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