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"The whole facility's culture is rotted from the core": What Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez saw inside the El Paso camps

In an interview with Mother Jones, AOC describes the cruelty and impunity she glimpsed at the border.

www.motherjones.com

I thought I’d posted this interview, but I hadn’t, so I’m doing it now.

Feeling really down about Joe Biden’s campaign. It’s frustrating because I want Democratic candidates to do well this election cycle. Jamil Smith gets it right in this tweet:

We know that @JoeBiden’s politics don’t line up with @AOC’s. But he is so obtuse not to recognize that what she’s doing is good for Democrats. One wonders whether he cares. There are ways to signal moderate bonafides without being condescending and wrong.

The 16 member congressional delegation visiting the camps is important news. Every representative made me glad. Ocasio-Cortez has great political instincts. How she responded to the guard taking a selfie is a story worth reading and repeating. Every member of the delegation was empowered by it-- to their credit.

There’s little hope that Joe Biden will come around. That makes it all the more important that we all try to amplify politics that matter.

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