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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · Sep 20

Donald Trump is way less popular than he wants you to believe.

And you are significantly more powerful than he wants you to think.

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · Sep 26

When the President uses federal law enforcement for his personal revenge, it puts all of us in danger.

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · Sep 26

No veteran should have their social security number leaked, let alone passed to a political opponent by the government.

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Pete Receipts @petereceipts.bsky.social · Sep 27

Pete Buttigieg in the UK talking about summoning people into a shared national project to face challenges like climate or AI, that can only be faced through collaboration: “What we’re up against as a country is not each other.”

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · Sep 14

What happens next is up to all of us - leaders and ordinary citizens alike.

In responding to this horrific violence, the most important categories aren't left and right, they are about helping versus hurting.

We should heed and amplify the voices who are helping.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Sep 14

Buttigieg: "We are not getting the leadership we need to bring this country together from the White House ... in order to deprive political violence of its power, we have to reject anyone who would try to exploit political violence. The response to this cannot be for the government to crack down."

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · Sep 14

If we are to deprive political violence of its power, we must reject anyone who commits or promotes it - and also reject any move to exploit it.

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Pete Receipts @petereceipts.bsky.social · Sep 9

Read the full article about Pete Buttigieg’s Theory of Everything from DemWinsMedia here demwinsmedia.substack.com/p/pete-buttigi…

https://demwinsmedia.substack.com/p/pete-buttigi…

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Pete Receipts @petereceipts.bsky.social · Sep 9

GREAT article: “Pete Buttigieg doesn’t pander. He listens. He talks. He uses the word “bullshitting” approvingly.
And he offers something that feels rare on the left: a comfort with discomfort. A willingness to meet people where they are, not just where Democrats wish they’d be.”

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · Sep 7

The Trump administration is canceling the DOT’s rule to get passengers compensation for extreme airline delays - just the latest example of them siding with corporations and against customers.

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Pete Receipts @petereceipts.bsky.social · Aug 11

Pete Buttigieg responds to JD Vance’s racist comments, and talks about how he considers both his Maltese immigrant dad and his mom to be equally American.
“Everyone who is here is part of the same national project.”

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Pete Receipts @petereceipts.bsky.social · Aug 1

Ironically, that’s what many cis people are doing on here. Great performative allyship.

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Pete Receipts @petereceipts.bsky.social · Jul 31

He didn’t. I posted myself on X after watching it that it wasn’t a good enough answer, and hoped he would get educated about it. But takes like yours or worse on this app are way out of proportion with what his actual answer was, even more so knowing how he has defended trans people since forever.

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Pete Receipts @petereceipts.bsky.social · Jul 31

The Sec of transportation that made historic progress standing up for equity, consumers and passenger with disabilities. Who put federal dollars for the first time ever to fix infrastructure divisions created by federal dollars in the past. It’s almost like he’s a person and not a cartoon villain.

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Pete Receipts @petereceipts.bsky.social · Jul 31

Some of the takes however -especially from cis people- are clearly using Pete giving an answer that didn’t diffuse an uninformed premise forcefully enough, to shit on him, and using trans people to get back at him over previous political grudges. My replies are not for conspiracies, insults or lies.

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Pete Receipts @petereceipts.bsky.social · Jul 31

Trans people in the US are facing loss of identity, security, healthcare, dignity, & community. Sport is an abysmal issue blown up to push a narrative. We know that Pete cares about trans people but he clearly doesn’t have enough data about it. I trust he’ll educate himself. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Stats about trans people in sport: “Trans people are estimated to make up 1-2% of the population of the United States; however, trans people make up less than less than 0.002% (10/500,000) of US college athletes, and even fewer of recent Olympians (0.001%) identify as trans.”

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Pete Receipts @petereceipts.bsky.social · Jul 31

🧵Pete is a grown-ass man who can handle criticism if he misses the mark -which luckily is very rare because he’s a thoughtful, erudite guy.
Instead of shutting down real concerns from certain minorities to defend him, we can listen & provide evidence of his work, values & ideas.

Excerpt from Pete Buttigieg’s 2020 policy plan for LGBTQ+ people. “The Buttigieg plan begins with top legislative priorities like passing the Equality Act, reversing anti-LGBTQ+ executive orders by the Trump administration, ending the ban on gay and bisexual men donating blood, and stopping Republican "turn away the gays" directives that would allow businesses to refuse service to LGBTQ+ people.

Uniquely, Buttigieg's plan calls for a nonbinary option on all U.S. passports and preventing the genital mutilation of intersex infants.

When it comes to health, the Buttigieg plan calls for improvements to Medicare, eliminating obstacles to coverage for transgender patients, broadening cultural competency training for health care providers, and increasing resources for suicide prevention programs.”

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Pete Receipts @petereceipts.bsky.social · Jul 29

Pete Buttigieg wants Democrats to aim for a landslide win.

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Pete Receipts @petereceipts.bsky.social · Jul 29

Pete Buttigieg: “The Trump administration is surrendering to China right and left. [….] If you give those markets up to them, the result is they will win.”

Pete has been talking about the danger of letting the “Chinese model” win as a political system over democracy, for years.

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Pete Receipts @petereceipts.bsky.social · Jul 29

For Pete Buttigieg, in order to help Trump’s supporters fully break trust with him, the discussion has to be in terms of how everyday life gets directly affected by an autocrat and his incompetent team.

Academic discussions of freedom & democracy can be had after establishing those facts.

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Pete Receipts @petereceipts.bsky.social · Jul 29

Pete Buttigieg: “The only antidote to a politics of fear is a politics of courage.”

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Pete Receipts @petereceipts.bsky.social · Jul 25

Pete Buttigieg has been on The Breakfast Club almost ten times, each of them to have a long conversation. Running for President, as Sec of Transportation, not running… he just shows up to communicate with people. And it’s appreciated. More Dem politicians should be interested in doing this.

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Pete Receipts @petereceipts.bsky.social · Jul 24

When it comes to the airline industry, Sean Duffy and Pete Buttigieg are very much not the same kind of transportation secretary.

“I was a tough regulator. […] My replacement is an airline lobbyist.”

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Pete Receipts @petereceipts.bsky.social · Jul 20

You might think this is some kind of measured, intellectual response but it’s just homophobia and transphobia. You’re publicly arguing for bigotry. Same when saying this about any other category of people.

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Pete Receipts @petereceipts.bsky.social · Jul 19

The US secretary of transportation who in just 4 years despite ridiculous Republican pushback delivered historic wins for consumers vs airlines, equity in infrastructure, passengers with disabilities, support for public transit, environmental policy, and more.

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