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The Debt Collective 🟥
@StrikeDebt
The nation’s first debtors’ union, organizing to build power with debt as leverage. You are not a loan! Press: [email protected]
Joined June 2012
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    If you have federal student debt, you may have recently received an email from the Department of Education telling student debtors who are in the SAVE forbearance to switch plans. We want to encourage you to not rush this next step. Take a deep breath. You have until September.
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    We can defund the police because they don't actually protect us no matter how much funding they get
    Nashville bomber's girlfriend warned police last year he was making explosives, reports show hill.cm/f2bcCYR
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    Good morning to everyone except these two—Alexander Taylor and Myra Brown—who sued over student debt relief and got it struck down.
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    Federal student loans have been paused for 653 days and the sky hasn't fallen. Folks, the government doesn't need our payments. They never did.
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    The Biden administration should cancel all federal student debt tomorrow. Ignore the courts. Use immunity powers. Get it done.
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    Today, two Democrats voted with Republicans to say that not only should student debt relief be repealed, not only should the pause on payments end, but that you should make *retroactive* payments from previous months. Introducing Jared Golden and Marie Gluesenkamp Pérez:
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    Rep. Maxwell Frost voted to unpause your student loan payments
    screenshot of a tweet from @reallifesenator that reads "That stare the 'cool millenial' senator gives you right before voting to unpause your student loan payments"
    Rep. Maxwell Frost is the first member of Generation Z to serve in Congress. He has released his first financial disclosure as a Congressman. It showed that he owns no assets. His largest source of income in the past year was $3,039 from working as an Uber driver.
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    Did you get an email from the Biden administration saying they "approved" your student debt relief — and would discharge it as soon as court challenges are won? Here's that judge and plaintiff holding up your relief:
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    Just heard from a student debtor who took out $33k in student loans. Over the years, she's paid $20k. Her balance TODAY is nearly 80k. This is a debt trap.
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    To be clear: @JoeBiden has the legal authority to cancel 100% of student loan debt held by the federal government through powers called "Compromise and Settlement." Congress vested this authority in the Department of Education through the Higher Education Act of 1965.
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    Good morning. Biden's law degree cost about $1,500.
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    5 years of free community college was stripped from BBB because it cost 0.05% of this.
    BREAKING: The House just passed a $768,000,000,000 defense bill. What an absolute disgrace.
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    Yes, cancel student debt for doctors. Yes, cancel student debt for lawyers. Yes, cancel student debt for teachers. Yes, cancel student debt for librarians. Yes, cancel student debt for dentists. Yes, cancel student debt for fast food workers. Yes, cancel student debt for all.
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    Sell it to us. We’ll buy it for market price and then cancel it.
    Trump Administration Considers Selling Federal Student Loan Debt To Private Market, Report Says go.forbes.com/Anq6t3