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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on the 2020 Presidential Race and Trump’s Crisis at the Border | The New Yorker - I'd posted a review of it in #2178. That article has a transcript of it.


Joseph on Twitter: "Who was the toddler being carried by @AOC on to a DCA to Denver flight today? https://t.co/tPvNEd2TWT" / Twitter
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter: "The tot is my staffer’s 1 y/o! I was on holding duty for this stretch of the trip ✈️👶🏽
We are testing new childcare policies on the campaign by covering childcare expenses for traveling parents, or covering travel for children + a partner to join on certain trips.
Wish us luck! https://t.co/caxQ52cQd6" / Twitter

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter: "I am currently in Colorado to visit families impacted by fracking sites and to cohost a #GreenNewDeal town hall with Rep. [MENTION=2]Jo[/MENTION]eNeguse.
This is our first trip testing innovative approaches to childcare policies. We’re hoping to learn from it & refine for future trips/ideas 🍼 https://t.co/OPFNTeQBIp" / Twitter

Great move by AOC for having a family-friendly workplace.
 
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter: "Boulder brought the house down this morning!
Big thanks to all the Coloradoans who joined @ JoeNeguse and I for a powerful #GreenNewDeal conversation ✨ https://t.co/YeoRVcskMu" / Twitter
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Eric Budd on Twitter: "I'm in line for the Climate Emergency discussion with @RepJoeNeguse and @AOC #boulder https://t.co/BdOOlRu54T" / Twitter

Jack Jenkins on Twitter: "It’s not insignificant that major politicians like @AOC are visiting undocumented people at risk of deportation who are living in houses of worship — i.e., as part of the New Sanctuary Movement.
This movement is long-standing and persistent, but gets uneven attention. https://t.co/FAD5j9iDvO" / Twitter
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Conor McCormick-Cavanagh on Twitter: "I’m at a church in Boulder where Ingrid Latorre, who just had a baby, is living in sanctuary. Reps AOC and Joe Neguse are visiting Ingrid and her children. “Are you proud of mom?” AOC asked Ingrid’s son, who responded yes. “We’re proud of her too.” @AOC @RepJoeNeguse https://t.co/tkZkUSKZrC" / Twitter

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter: "I’m in Colorado w/ @ JoeNeguse visiting communities whose air is being poisoned by fracking.
What we’re seeing is appalling. Companies are building fracking sites on public lands, across the street from schools + homes. Their toxic emissions are invisible.
This camera sees them. https://t.co/Kem0MT1lMj" / Twitter
FLIR Optical Gas Imaging?

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter: "We are being invited into people’s homes. One woman just showed me her recent blood test, which is sky-high in benzene levels. I’m told many others are the same.
Oil and gas co’s are going in hard to lobby+dominate local govs. But the community is organizing to fight back. https://t.co/XFZrqfFiVc" / Twitter
Yet another reason to want renewable energy.

John Spina on Twitter: @ JoeNeguse and @AOC meeting with residents in Broomfield today to discuss the affects of living next to fracking operations #ClimateCrisis https://t.co/kqQDZr5RVg" / Twitter
 
Joe Neguse's parents are immigrants from Eritrea, in northeast Africa at the southern end of the Red Sea.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter: "Our freshman class has so many incredible members.
Joe Neguse is exceedingly kind and extraordinarily thoughtful. His life story, like so many in their own ways, embodies all that is possible in America.
Watch this and you’ll see why he’s so great ⬇️ https://t.co/MJsXHkk9VX" / Twitter
noting
Joe Neguse on Twitter: "In my first address on the House Floor, I discussed my perspective on immigration as the son of refugees, and the terrible damage caused by the #TrumpShutdown to so many working families. #copolitcs #EndtheShutdown https://t.co/P7tf33wCR8" / Twitter

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter: "Rep. @ JoeNeguse is incredible. If you live in Colorado and have him as your rep, you are in one of the luckiest constituencies in the country! For real.
He’s great, daring, smart, and kind. Just watch him here.
(Plus he laughs at my bad jokes, which means he is generous too!) https://t.co/514lozOFxH" / Twitter
noting
Joe Neguse on Twitter: "As the son of immigrants, I was beyond honored to deliver the rebuttal on the House floor as we debated HR6, and even prouder to cast my vote as we passed the #DreamAndPromiseAct tonight! https://t.co/UGEETN5OEb" / Twitter

What a sense of humor AOC must have.
 
Something I wrote on this subject elsewhere yesterday.:

While I am in favor of impeachment. It's a crapshoot that it will be successful. And I don't mean removed from office, the senate will never do that. I mean getting or losing votes in the 2020 election. Right now, it's impeach or the status quo. And the status quo is looking pretty good right now.

Not to mention there are many Dems in the House that are still against impeachment. There's a chance it could lose in the House. That would be a HUGE disaster.
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ZiprHead said:
Something I wrote on this subject elsewhere yesterday.:

While I am in favor of impeachment. It's a crapshoot that it will be successful. And I don't mean removed from office, the senate will never do that. I mean getting or losing votes in the 2020 election. Right now, it's impeach or the status quo. And the status quo is looking pretty good right now.

Not to mention there are many Dems in the House that are still against impeachment. There's a chance it could lose in the House. That would be a HUGE disaster.
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I hadn't thought of that before! Yes, I agree with you that losing an impeachment in the house would be very bad. Again, I just feel that the dems need to stop hoping for tricks. We need to get out there, organize, and vote.
 
Harry Bosch said:
ZiprHead said:
Something I wrote on this subject elsewhere yesterday.:

While I am in favor of impeachment. It's a crapshoot that it will be successful. And I don't mean removed from office, the senate will never do that. I mean getting or losing votes in the 2020 election. Right now, it's impeach or the status quo. And the status quo is looking pretty good right now.

Not to mention there are many Dems in the House that are still against impeachment. There's a chance it could lose in the House. That would be a HUGE disaster.
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I hadn't thought of that before! Yes, I agree with you that losing an impeachment in the house would be very bad. Again, I just feel that the dems need to stop hoping for tricks. We need to get out there, organize, and vote.
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Randi Rhodes explained this quite well on her Friday show. Her Friday shows are free for all to view so if you'd like to take a look...

[YOUTUBE]https://youtu.be/_AuIwCCAAEc[/YOUTUBE]
 
Derec said:
blastula said:
Agreed.
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Ironically, had she not primaried Crowley, he might have become Speaker and possibly would have had a different opinion on impeachment than Do-Nothing Pelosi.
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I think it unlikely. He would have been even worse, I think. He was content to be a big fundraiser and a big power broker, and pushing for impeachment would have been too daring for him. Consider his debate with AOC during the primary campaign. He claimed that he strongly deplored the conditions in Trump's border detention camps. AOC challenged him: what did you do about that? He did not have much of an answer.

BTW, AOC's tweet with a link to the original:
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter: "At this point, the bigger national scandal isn’t the president’s lawbreaking behavior - it is the Democratic Party’s refusal to impeach him for it." / Twitter

She had earlier called for pushing ahead, even if the Republicans don't go along with it, because voting to defend Trump and his corruption will be a "stain" on their records.
 
Joe Neguse on Twitter: "Many thanks to my good friend and colleague @AOC, who inspired countless people across #Colorado yesterday with her bold call to action! 🙌🏽 #GreenNewDeal #ClimateActionNow https://t.co/vqi1zXsEBG" / Twitter
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter: "“In many ways, the climate crisis is a product, it’s an externality, of our unsustainable way of life, & you don’t fix that with a solar panel,
You fix it by changing the way we think & operate as a society.
We‘ve done it before, & can do it again.”
Thanks for having me, Joe! https://t.co/xyIukFtu8p" / Twitter

In a recent Instagram post, she described a travel tip: compression socks. They are great for getting through long flights, and they are also good for working on one's feet, as she had to do in her waitress years.


James Fallows on Twitter: "@AOC IMO, this is “false equivalence” of its own sort.
What Trump is doing remains objectively the biggest threat, scandal, and problem.
Second-ranking: the silent acquiescence of the GOP Senate.
Then: it’s time for House to act." / Twitter
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter: "@JamesFallows It is one thing for a sitting president to break the law. It’s another to let him.
The integrity of our democracy isn’t threatened when a president breaks the law. It‘s threatened when we do nothing about it.
The GOP’s silence & refusal to act shouldn’t be a surprise. Ours is." / Twitter
 
Iran isn't the threatening bully. The USA is. Iran is acting defensively. When Iran attacks Mexico and stations troops there and flies drones into US airspace, then we can talk.
 
Israel and USA are a bigger problem for Iran. Perhaps if they negotiate in good faith with Iran all of this can be ended. Iran was complying with Obama's deal with them.
 
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