Friday, February 21, 2020

Some Tweets from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez


  •  Pinned Tweet
     18 Jul 2019
    Reminder of what people are calling the “radical, extreme-left agenda”: ✅ Medicare for All ✅ A Living Wage & Labor Rights ✅ K-16 schooling, aka Public Colleges ✅ 100% Renewable Energy ✅ Fixing the pipes in Flint ✅ Not Hurting Immigrants ✅ Holding Wall Street Accountable
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  •  4 hours ago
    Big announcement coming tomorrow 😌
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  •   Retweeted
     9 hours ago
    Russia is aiding President Trump in the 2020 election, intelligence officials told lawmakers. Trump complained Democrats might exploit the news.
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  •  6 hours ago
    One major reason I support Bernie is his consistency when things are hard. Not only does Bernie reject corporate money in 2020, he’s also never taken corporate lobbyist money in his *entire political career.* He is a real one. And in politics, that is nearly impossible to find.
    You can't change a corrupt system by taking its money. I am proud to be the only non-billionaire in this race without a super PAC spending millions of dollars to support me.
    3,078 replies9,005 retweets52,707 likes
     
     
  •   Retweeted
     Feb 19
    Let's level. Medicare for All will save tens of thousands of lives and $450 billion every year.
    Social: Let's level Pete
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  •  12 hours ago
    (And I’m not necessarily asking as a critique, I’m genuinely curious. Doesn’t taking this position automatically invalidate whoever comes out on top if they don’t clear 50%?)
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  •   Retweeted
     13 hours ago
    Roger Stone was just sentenced to 3 years and 4 months in prison. A man I represented is currently serving a sentence of 3-6 years in prison for stealing a jacket.
    3,560 replies31,250 retweets125,859 likes
     
     
  •  13 hours ago
    Yeah, I’ve been sitting with this. Genuinely asking, if your candidate - Biden, Buttigieg, Warren, Klobuchar etc - clearly had the most votes and the most delegates, why shouldn’t they be the nominee? And what do folks envision as a fair and just alternative in doing otherwise?
    So...a brokered convention sounds terrible.
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  •  14 hours ago
    It’s truly time to retire the misogynist trope that angry men are powerful, yet angry women are unhinged. It’s such gaslighting nonsense. You SHOULD be mad at abuse of power. The real question is how one channels that energy into positive change that creates justice.
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  •  14 hours ago
    Warren was not mean, nor angry. She was effective. And by the way, we are allowed to be angry about racial profiling. You’re allowed to be angry about sexual harassment. Or at big banks committing fraud against single parents. Anger at injustice is quite appropriate.
    Mean and angry Warren is not a good look
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  •   Retweeted
     18 hours ago
    We're tortured with bootstraps! The up-by-bootstraps narrative actually impairs upward mobility by substituting sanctimony for assistance. Fox News and others savaged for saying that bootstrapping is a fallacy, but she was right. My new column:
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  •   Retweeted
     19 hours ago
    This is what was missed in last night's , as fiery as it was: we are in an increasingly authoritarian national emergency, which is playing out while the Democratic candidates debate over the meaning of socialism and their healthcare plans.
    This essay is clear-eyed and perfectly accurate. The truly worrying thing about it, from my perspective, is the hesitancy of the media and the Democratic Party to directly confront the fact that we're now well down the authoritarian slope.
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  •  Feb 19
    Yes, let’s talk about pensions - like how private equity groups load a ton of risk from unethical practices on the pensions of teachers, nurses, & public servants - so that when a bubble pops, it’s working people that are left holding the bag.
    Can someone tell her about pensions.
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  •  Feb 19
    Ironically, the reason many tech platforms have created billionaires is bc they track you without your knowledge, amass your personal data& sell it without your express consent. You don’t own your data, & you should. And btw, the internet was created w/ publicly funded research.
    Replying to @AOC
    Ironic that the platform you’re using to say all this is created by now-billionaires who effectively helped in humanity’s greatest instantaneous global connection via internet, an accomplishment worth billions🤷‍♂️ & by tweeting you’re supporting them and part of the problem, no?
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  •   Retweeted
     Feb 19
    Thank you . This is one of the few vital lessons for everyone to understand--and the hardest for most politicians to take on board.
    Fracking is NOT a transitional fuel, and it is dangerous to say so. Fracking emits methane, which is about **84 TIMES** more powerful than CO2 in contributing to climate change for a generation.…
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  •  Feb 19
    (& if not this way, acquiring a billion dollars can also happen via monopoly power, low wages, rent-seeking behavior, not paying fair share of taxes, etc)
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  •  Feb 19
    We can work out the logistics, but we could absolutely use far more opportunities for candidates to shine based on substance.
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  •  Feb 19
    Honestly, there should be themed debates. Doing so educates the public far more on issues & actually serves the purpose of distinguishing who knows what they’re talking about +who doesn’t. Climate debate. Foreign policy debate. Healthcare. Racial justice. Labor&Econ. Can’t hide.
    DO A DEBATE JUST ABOUT IMMIGRATION AND PUT IMMIGRATION REPORTERS ON THE DIAS YOU COWARDS
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  •  Feb 19
    We need worker-centered policies that reign in Wall Street and value work - including a TON of unvalued and undervalued work, like caregiving. The cost of system that concentrates a billion dollars in the hands of few powerful people is massive, devastating income inequality.
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  •  Feb 19
    Also, billionaires don’t have a billion dollars because they “work” thousands of times harder than the teacher or the single mom. They are billionaires because the stock market makes that money for them, which relies on profiteering off insulin, low wages, scrapped jobs, etc.
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  •  Feb 19
    In a time when ~60% of American workers make less than $40,000 a year, billionaires should not exist.
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  •  Feb 19
    Fracking is NOT a transitional fuel, and it is dangerous to say so. Fracking emits methane, which is about **84 TIMES** more powerful than CO2 in contributing to climate change for a generation. This is not a joke. We either commit to the science or not.
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  •  Feb 19
    Just got back from our community cafecíto in Throgs Neck and turned on the debate. What’d I miss? 👀
    7,058 replies976 retweets29,009 likes
     
     
  •   Retweeted
     Feb 19
    . was deeply shaped by her trip to Standing Rock, which she livestreamed in 2016. These previously unreported videos provide a glimpse into how she came to her ideas about environmental justice, and how she learned to use social media. From my book:
    146 replies465 retweets2,801 likes
     
     
  •   Retweeted
     Feb 19
    Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez () to the co-hosts: “Our entire political system revolves, frankly, around rich men, and rich men are not the center of my universe. Working families are.”
    714 replies2,205 retweets12,223 likes
     
     
  •   Retweeted
     Feb 19
    Rep. on Mike Bloomberg: “The power of his money is not disconnected from his stances on stop and frisk because when you have that much money and you purchase elections, you no longer have that sense of accountability to the people who voted for you.”
    602 replies1,412 retweets8,538 likes
     
     
  •   Retweeted
     Feb 19
    AOC on moments ago: "Our entire political system revolves frankly around rich men. And rich men are not the center of my universe. Working families are."
    577 replies6,797 retweets48,672 likes
     
     
  •   Retweeted
     Feb 19
    Rep. says Sen. Sanders inspired her to run for office and explains why she’s endorsing him: “We want to talk about health care... a living wage... women’s rights... he did this when it was least convenient.” “He was fighting for these things since before I was even born.”
    1,208 replies3,095 retweets17,175 likes
     
     
  •   Retweeted
     Feb 16
    2 of the most prominent Puerto Ricans in the U.S. Congress, & are in PR tonight as part of a congressional delegation visit which includes & . No republicans joined except for Puerto Rico's
     
     
     
    Today we are meeting with , officials and others in to discuss reconstruction and recovery efforts.
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  •   Retweeted
     Feb 15
    In 2015, Center for American Progress researchers wrote a report on U.S. Islamophobia, w/a 4300-word chapter on the Bloomberg-era NYPD. When the report was published, the chapter was gone. By then, Bloomberg had given CAP ~$1.5mm. That number has grown.
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  •   Retweeted
     Feb 14
    🚨 WARNING 🚨 Pres Trump is deploying tactical SWAT-like units to “sanctuary cities”. This will only terrorize communities & undermine public safety. We must stay true to our American values & . Please, be prepared & .
    1,474 replies3,043 retweets4,947 likes
     
     
  •   Retweeted
     Feb 14
    I wrote about the unseen and unheard men and women of New York who run car washes out of vans on 9th and 10th Avenues in Inwood. One speedy, thorough wash will cost you $20. Uptown, NYC, forever my Valentine. ❤️
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