Netroots Nation: Mark Ruffalo, 'Warren For President,' Bypassed Hillary Swag

This roundup is the second in a series on the Netroots Nation conference in Detroit.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., speaks Friday morning in downtown Detroit.

Cobo Center looked like a presidential campaign rally Friday morning as fans of Elizabeth Warren, the day's keynote speaker, waved "Run Liz Run" posters and wore foam hats with the Massachusetts senator's name.

The wishful-thinking giveaways were from a volunteer group called ready4warren.com, formed last fall to push her potential 2016 candidacy.

From the stage, Warren tried to cut short a standing ovation and chants of "Run, Liz, Run," according to attendees. "Sit down, sit down. Let's get started," she urged, as tweeted by Emily Bengston of the Planned Parenthood Action Fund.

Her remarks touched on gender pay equity ("I can't believe I have to say this in 2014"), climate change ("we believe in science"), drug enforcement ("big banks launder drug money and nobody gets arrested") and student loan debt ("the game is rigged"), among other topics. (Quotes are from listeners' tweets.)

Wait, we've got Hillary swag

Ypsilanti blogger Mark Maynard posts about what he saw outside the ballroom shortly before Warren's arrival:

The tension was palpable when the Warren for President folks, handing out posters and hats, set up shop right next to the Hillary for President folks, who were busily building a pyramid of blue “Hillary 2016″ coffee mugs. . . .

Almost everyone blew right by the Hillary folks to get their hands on the Warren signs. . . . One of the Hillary folks was muttering under her breath and rolling her eyes. I’m not sure what she was expecting, given that we were all going in to meet Elizabeth Warren, but I still felt kind of bad for them.

Dueling tweets about Gary Peters

#NN14 @Peters4Michigan from #Detroit pledges to use his campaign to say #climatechange is real and an urgent threat.
— drew hudson (@wealsoherdcats) July 18, 2014

it never ceases to amaze me that people have to say "I believe #climate change is real and a threat." #NN14
— Katie Klabusich (@Katie_Speak) July 18, 2014