Mastodawn

One of the last emails I had sent from CREDO Mobile - as its Political Director - it was organizing with Sen. Elizabeth Warren (and Sanders) to go after corporate Dems like Warner, Heitkamp, Kaine et al who were looking to loosen restrictions on banks (see screenshot).

Note it was Warren who was fighting the hardest incurring wrath of his peers in the Senate: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/senate-democrats-banking-fight_n_5b188c89e4b09578259ed910"

Worth recalling this today as elite media fights to bailout banks again. #SVB #uspol

Behind The Scenes Of The Bruising Bank Fight That Divided Senate Democrats

It may be a preview of the run-up to the 2020 presidential election.

HuffPost

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Murshed Zaheed Mar 13, 2023

“These bank failures were entirely avoidable if Congress and the Fed had done their jobs and kept strong banking regulations in place since 2018. S.V.B. and Signature are gone, and now Washington must act quickly to prevent the next crisis” - Senator Elizabeth Warren [should have been #PresidentWarren] https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/13/opinion/elizabeth-warren-silicon-valley-bank.html

Opinion | Elizabeth Warren: We Can Prevent More Bank Failures

The recent bank failures were entirely avoidable.

The New York Times

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JJ Peterson Mar 13, 2023

@murshedz wasn’t she in Congress these years? IIRC she spent her time mostly demanding Biden eliminate ALL college debt with the stroke of a pen. Maybe this should have been her priority?