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• ‟ And increasingly, as people live online, we are used to making really snap judgments about somebody's character based on their Facebook page or the way their blog feels or look.

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• ‟ Congress is corrupt, gridlocked, broken, dysfunctional. It's not working and we need it working again. It's not going to get fixed by people who are deeply, in one way or another, inside this really broken system.

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• ‟ Facebook is a known behemoth corporate monopoly. It has exposed at least 87 million people's data, enabled foreign propaganda and perpetuated discrimination. We shouldn't be begging for Facebook's endorsement of laws, or for Mark Zuckerberg's promises of self-regulation.

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• ‟ People traverse the dangerous journey to the US because of deep fear. They are often escaping brutality, even life-or-death situations.

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• ‟ After Citizens United, unlimited money could go directly to a corporate entity that can tell people who to vote for, with names and polling places included.

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• ‟ In some states, the attorney general is appointed, but in New York state it's an independently elected position. The New York attorney general has an obligation to the people first, to her conscience and to the rule of law, not to the governor, and not to the legislature.

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• ‟ So the job of building structures, building a constitutional structure, is not just to punish those who behave badly but actually to protect people from their own temptations.

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