Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

[Elixir]

calling Trump a racist is not the same as saying "America is racist!" For the record, Trump is a racist.

I can't believe it's actually working on some idiots... Cheato keep intentionally conflating himself with America. When the FBI raided Mikey Cohen's home, office etc Cheato called it an attack on America.
People correctly call Cheato a liar - he calls it an attack on America. People accurately compare him to other garden-variety despots - he calls it an attack on America.
You'd have to be some special kind of stupid to play along and pretend that Cheato = America. But apparently there are more than the handful I'd expect who are that easily duped.

 

[Half-Life]

calling Trump a racist is not the same as saying "America is racist!" For the record, Trump is a racist.

I can't believe it's actually working on some idiots... Cheato keep intentionally conflating himself with America. When the FBI raided Mikey Cohen's home, office etc Cheato called it an attack on America.
People correctly call Cheato a liar - he calls it an attack on America. People accurately compare him to other garden-variety despots - he calls it an attack on America.
You'd have to be some special kind of stupid to play along and pretend that Cheato = America. But apparently there are more than the handful I'd expect who are that easily duped.

For people who claim to be anti-racist, you guys sure spend a lot of time calling him orange man.

Does skin color matter or not?

 

[Keith&Co.]

calling Trump a racist is not the same as saying "America is racist!" For the record, Trump is a racist.

I can't believe it's actually working on some idiots... Cheato keep intentionally conflating himself with America. When the FBI raided Mikey Cohen's home, office etc Cheato called it an attack on America.
People correctly call Cheato a liar - he calls it an attack on America. People accurately compare him to other garden-variety despots - he calls it an attack on America.
You'd have to be some special kind of stupid to play along and pretend that Cheato = America. But apparently there are more than the handful I'd expect who are that easily duped.

For people who claim to be anti-racist, you guys sure spend a lot of time calling him orange man.

Does skin color matter or not?

Sprayed on? Yes, that matters. We mock his affectation, not his race. Is the distinction difficult for you? Or did you just think you were being witty?
Or did you think the first person to tell that joke was witty?









Or do you really think that Trump is one of the orange tribe?

 

[lpetrich]

Dystopia Journal #31: This Land Is Your Land | Adam Lee links to Aaron Semer - Ilhan Omar has been a US Citizen 6 years longer than...

AS's FB article starts out by comparing Ilhan Omar to Melania Knavs Trump. IO's family came from Somalia and got asylum status in 1995 and IO herself became a citizen in 2000. MT started working in the US in 1996, initially illegally, she became a US permanent resident in 2001, she married Donald Trump in 2005, and she became a US citizen in 2006. Of the two, which is supposed to go back to their home country?

Then AOC, whose mother came from Puerto Rico and whose father's parents also came from Puerto Rico, and Donald Trump himself, whose mother came from Scotland and whose father's parents came from Germany. Of the two, which one is supposed to go back to their home country?

Then Ayanna Pressley, a descendant of Africans brought to the US against their will some ten generations ago. That is about when the earlier honky immigrants immigrated.

Then Rashida Tlaib, born in the US of two Palestinian parents. Her father came from Jerusalem and her mother came from the West Bank. Her ancestral "country" is now occupied by the State of Israel.

 

[lpetrich]

Saikat Chakrabarti Is Building a Millennial Movement - The Atlantic - Saikat Chakrabarti, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s chief of staff, is working to build a generational movement. (His first name is apparently pronounced "Shikat")

The key political partnership of the Millennial left was born over noodles. Saikat Chakrabarti met Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez at Potjanee, a Thai restaurant near his apartment in the West Village, in March 2017. She was looking to get into politics; he was helping fund people getting into politics through the Justice Democrats, the progressive political action committee he’d co-founded that year.

The result has been a viral sensation: a House freshman with more than 4.9 million Twitter followers; a call for a “Green New Deal,” which has become a rallying point for young activists; and—from the cages on the border to the committees on the Hill—a serious powering-up of congressional oversight. This has made Ocasio-Cortez the leader of a movement, not just a congresswoman. Chakrabarti, for his part, has been much more than Ocasio-Cortez’s chief of staff—he’s become the chief strategist of a generational insurgency.

Like the rebellion against Nancy Pelosi's caving in about the aid package to the border camps, supporting what the Republicans wanted.

SC is a Harvard-educated tech millionaire who started off in calculator competitions (Almost Calculator Champs - YouTube). He worked in a hedge fund, then in several startups, like as a founding engineer in the online-payment company Stripe. Then he went off to work on Bernie Sanders's 2016 campaign, and like AOC and other Millennials, the formative events of his life were a series of failures: the Iraq War, the 2008 financial crash, and the election of Donald Trump. So he, AOC, and others naturally saw themselves at odds with what they considered a cowardly geriatric political establishment.

SC's first idea was Brand New Congress. It was to send out 400 candidates to to replace nearly all of Congress, but it got down to 12, and of these, only AOC won. This failure spurred him to form the Justice Democrats, to reform the Democratic Party from inside.

Then how Commie the JD's proposals are.

They are less red than meets the eye. In Europe and across the rest of the Anglophone world, virtually no one would see Medicare for All as radicalism. Not only do British Conservatives and German Christian Democrats support public health care, but the Green New Deal vision of state-led investment reminds me of the politics of my mid-century conservative heroes, including Harold Macmillan and Charles de Gaulle. And, further back, even Alexander Hamilton.

In fact, I find it very hard to pin the caricature of Chakrabarti the radical leftist—a “revolutionary” according to Henry Olsen in The Washington Post—to the actual Chakrabarti. Labeling the new left as “radical socialists” is lazy. But several moderate Democrats are doing just that, including Representative Henry Cuellar of Texas, who is facing a Justice Democrats primary challenge. “I think they’re not Democrats quite honestly,” he said on Fox News. “They’re socialists.”

New Consensus reading list – New Consensus -- gives an idea of what SC thinks

Books by Mervyn King, the former governor of the Bank of England; the Financial Times columnist Martin Wolf; and the historian (and my Hudson Institute colleague) Arthur Herman rub shoulders with the work of contemporary left-wing economists such as Mariana Mazzucato, Ha-Joon Chang, Ann Pettifor, and Stephanie Kelton. This is not Jeremy Corbyn’s bookshelf.

SC and his friends are trying to do on the Left what the Right did over the sixties and seventies, from the defeat of Barry Goldwater in 1964 to the victory of Ronald Reagan in 1980.

Chakrabarti’s cohort is trying to spur its generation to produce not just congressional wins, but broad cultural change backed up by a movement, outriders, and cultural icons. This, they think, is even more important than winning the next election. Because without a movement, moderate presidents will be in office, but not in power. For them it is better to plan to eventually win completely than fall silent, hoping only for a shaky president, with little vision, to scrape together a victory in 2020.

 

[lpetrich]

Women of color are watching how Trump — and Democrats — treat “the Squad” - Vox

The sorts of attacks seen in the past few weeks aren’t new for Trump, who has repeatedly criticized black women and female lawmakers of color. Before Trump turned his ire to the four congresswomen, there was his fierce criticism of Florida Rep. Frederica Wilson, who in 2017 criticized the reportedly callous way the president spoke to Myeshia Johnson, a black grieving military widow, in a phone call. The president has also attacked California Rep. Maxine Waters, often calling her “wacky,” “unhinged,” and “low IQ.”

As I’ve previously written, many of these attacks follow a similar pattern where Trump questions the intelligence and mental state of a woman of color, before dismissing her as a rude, unpatriotic figure who deserves harsh scrutiny and admonishment. (Perhaps unsurprisingly, many women subjected to these attacks report receiving death threats soon afterward.)

And recent days have shown that he is willing to escalate these attacks with arguments that Omar, a Somali refugee and naturalized citizen, should be sent back to her country, and other barbs chastising Ocasio-Cortez for her prominence, Tlaib for her language, and Pressley for her openness in discussing race and racism.

It's not just Trump.

More recently, the Democratic Party has been criticized for publicly chastising women of color like Waters and Omar, with black political leaders and activists writing in a 2018 letter that the criticism of Waters in particular “telegraphs a message that the Democratic Party can ill afford: that it does not respect Black women’s leadership and political power and discounts the impact of Black women and millennial voters.”

These tensions have also been on display in party leaders’ very public criticisms of the four congresswomen; House Speaker Nancy Pelosi recently questioned the women’s actual political power in an interview with the New York Times’s Maureen Dowd, saying that despite their viral prominence, the women “didn’t have any following,” and are just “four people.”

 

[Loren Pechtel]

For people who claim to be anti-racist, you guys sure spend a lot of time calling him orange man.

Does skin color matter or not?

"Orange man" isn't about race at all and thus it can't be racist.

 

[bilby]

For people who claim to be anti-racist, you guys sure spend a lot of time calling him orange man.

Does skin color matter or not?

It does if it's a choice. There's nothing preventing Trump from painting himself orange other than his vanity and total absence of class.

 

[lpetrich]

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter: "And y’all think *I’m* controversial https://t.co/ZdtnPI5r1f" / Twitter noting
El Diario Nueva York on Twitter: "Leonardo DiCaprio: “Yo prefiero las pupusas… son mejores que los tacos” | El Diario NY [url]https://t.co/dAbWmcHTdQ https://t.co/UCNamqz6Kf" / Twitter[/url]
I prefer pupusas ... they are better than tacos.

 Pupusa - Pupusa is a thick flatbread from El Salvador made with cornmeal or rice flour, similar to the Venezuelan and Colombian arepa. It is usually stuffed with one or more ingredients.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter: "If any little event equals “Democrats in Disarray,” what do all these GOP members dropping out at once mean? Republicans in ... riot? Row? Racket? (Do people never write that headline because the alliteration isn’t as good? ) https://t.co/77SEobSePh" / Twitter noting
3 GOP Representatives Have Bowed Out Of 2020 This Week including Martha Roby of Alabama.

Republicans retreating? Routed?

H. Eric Loewe on Twitter: "@AOC MT @AOC One my favorite parts of last night: air-fiving @rosadelauro across the aisle at the celebration of women in Congress (btw, majority Dem).
GOP has major+concerning problems electing women. *36* new women elected in 2018:
- GOP: 1 (ONE!)
- Dem: 35
https://t.co/QtTiw7Mme9" / Twitter

 

[lpetrich]

The head of the House Oversight Committee and thus AOC's boss:
The Hill on Twitter: ""None of us would have our children in that position! They are human beings!”
WATCH: Rep. Elijah Cummings tears into DHS chief for conditions at migrant border facilities [url]https://t.co/Fcu46w67SZ https://t.co/0Ds3ZJWusm" / Twitter[/url]

Which provoked this response:

Donald J. Trump on Twitter: "Rep, Elijah Cummings has been a brutal bully, shouting and screaming at the great men & women of Border Patrol about conditions at the Southern Border, when actually his Baltimore district is FAR WORSE and more dangerous. His district is considered the Worst in the USA......" / Twitter

Donald J. Trump on Twitter: "....As proven last week during a Congressional tour, the Border is clean, efficient & well run, just very crowded. Cumming District is a disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess. If he spent more time in Baltimore, maybe he could help clean up this very dangerous & filthy place" / Twitter

Donald J. Trump on Twitter: "Why is so much money sent to the Elijah Cummings district when it is considered the worst run and most dangerous anywhere in the United States. No human being would want to live there. Where is all this money going? How much is stolen? Investigate this corrupt mess immediately!" / Twitter

Back to AOC.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter: "Let me tell you a story about Chairman @RepCummings. Before new members are assigned to Congressional committees, we have to make our case to the chair.
Chairman Cummings was TOUGH.
I sat down in his office to make my case for Oversight, and I was quite nervous. https://t.co/u1mRAR5epX" / Twitter

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter: "He looked right at me & said: “I am going to ask you plainly: Are you here to do the work?”
People’s lives are at stake in urgent ways on Oversight. He demanded excellence, & was watching my every word.
I said “Yes” &made my best case incl why & how I wanted to be on the cmte." / Twitter

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter: "By the end of the mtg, I had no idea if I made the cut.
If you look at Oversight, it includes many all-stars of Congress.
From @RepRaskin to @RoKhanna, Cummings is a legendary coach who brings the best out of everyone.
He makes the country better. You want to be on his team." / Twitter

There is such a great contrast between AOC and DT

 

[lpetrich]

I Tried Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Skincare Routine. What I Learned Had Nothing to Do With My Appearance. | Washingtonian (DC) - "Maybe we should all start prioritizing self-care (looking at you, Mitch McConnell)."
Of Course Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Is Great at Explaining Skincare on Instagram - VICE - "Ocasio-Cortez unpacked the steps of her skincare routine on her Instagram story, without mentioning any specific products."
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez posts skincare routine to Instagram Story - Vox -
You don’t have to care about AOC’s skin care routine. But you should care about how she responded to critics. - It did not involve “clapping back.”

“Skincare is a straight-up hobby of mine,” she wrote. “I’m a science nerd and I truly enjoy the science of it, reading about compounds and studies, etc.” As far as the actual step-by-step process goes, it’s pretty standard for a late-20-something woman who thinks and cares about skin care (cleanse, moisturize, wear sunscreen, use toners and actives like vitamin C and retinol, try your best not to sleep in your makeup, and avoid products that contain alcohol). She says her approach was “a blend between K-beauty and scientific consensus,” while also trying to cut down on dairy, which for some has been known to cause acne.

It’s another example of AOC’s famously colloquial social media presence that resonates with so many because of how much of a shift it is from that of traditional politicians. Before the post about her skin care routine, AOC’s Instagram story was a mix of her statements on representation in film at Sundance and the importance of having a loungewear uniform in addition to a work uniform.

She once stated what shade of lipstick she uses, and she once stated “Next time someone tells Bronx girls to take off their hoops, they can just say they’re dressing like a congresswoman.” Not to be outdone, Ayanna Pressley stated “Can a congresswoman wear her hair in braids, rock a black leather jacket, and a bold red lip?”

Author Rebecca Jennings noted that female politicians have to walk a fine line between being too frumpy and seemingly being overly preoccupied with their appearance.

But AOC’s real genius, at least in regard to her skin care Insta story, is how graciously she responded to the predictable criticism that came with it. When one follower said, “I’m sorry but I don’t care about skincare routines. All I’m wondering is how do you run a successful campaign and how do you right [sic] your speeches?” she responded politely, “That’s okay, we all have different interests. You run a successful campaign by learning how to listen and put other people first,” while also explaining that she almost always improvises her speeches and writes all her social media posts herself.

She didn’t try to school the follower on how skin care isn’t anything to be ashamed of enjoying; instead, she used it as an opportunity to recommend the three works that she says helped her most with public speaking (Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, the Gettysburg Address, and Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Drum Major Instinct” sermon).

 

[arkirk]

And then there is what she is doing - trying to get millions of people of her ethnicity to flood the US. After all, she was only elected because the demographic of that district changed due to all the mass migration and the incumbent was not hispanic enough.

Wow!

It's even funnier when you remember that her ethnicity is Puerto Rican.

Everybody seems interested in finding somebody to dogpile. The problem with America is that it is addicted to (the people themselves are addicted to) violent conflicts creating piles of "losers" and a few "winners." All is not as it seems to. I used to post entirely to MF&P then started posting to politics here. What I found is that we are a disparate bunch of yahoos as ignorant as the general public and as given to false images of our leaders. I submit this picture here of what is wrong with us and it ain't AOC who I feel is doing pretty much the right thing most of the time. It is the two people in the photo. These two only care about their millions and both deserve condemnation for their avarice.

 

[Toni]

I Tried Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Skincare Routine. What I Learned Had Nothing to Do With My Appearance. | Washingtonian (DC) - "Maybe we should all start prioritizing self-care (looking at you, Mitch McConnell)."
Of Course Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Is Great at Explaining Skincare on Instagram - VICE - "Ocasio-Cortez unpacked the steps of her skincare routine on her Instagram story, without mentioning any specific products."
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez posts skincare routine to Instagram Story - Vox -
You don’t have to care about AOC’s skin care routine. But you should care about how she responded to critics. - It did not involve “clapping back.”

“Skincare is a straight-up hobby of mine,” she wrote. “I’m a science nerd and I truly enjoy the science of it, reading about compounds and studies, etc.” As far as the actual step-by-step process goes, it’s pretty standard for a late-20-something woman who thinks and cares about skin care (cleanse, moisturize, wear sunscreen, use toners and actives like vitamin C and retinol, try your best not to sleep in your makeup, and avoid products that contain alcohol). She says her approach was “a blend between K-beauty and scientific consensus,” while also trying to cut down on dairy, which for some has been known to cause acne.

It’s another example of AOC’s famously colloquial social media presence that resonates with so many because of how much of a shift it is from that of traditional politicians. Before the post about her skin care routine, AOC’s Instagram story was a mix of her statements on representation in film at Sundance and the importance of having a loungewear uniform in addition to a work uniform.

She once stated what shade of lipstick she uses, and she once stated “Next time someone tells Bronx girls to take off their hoops, they can just say they’re dressing like a congresswoman.” Not to be outdone, Ayanna Pressley stated “Can a congresswoman wear her hair in braids, rock a black leather jacket, and a bold red lip?”

Author Rebecca Jennings noted that female politicians have to walk a fine line between being too frumpy and seemingly being overly preoccupied with their appearance.

But AOC’s real genius, at least in regard to her skin care Insta story, is how graciously she responded to the predictable criticism that came with it. When one follower said, “I’m sorry but I don’t care about skincare routines. All I’m wondering is how do you run a successful campaign and how do you right [sic] your speeches?” she responded politely, “That’s okay, we all have different interests. You run a successful campaign by learning how to listen and put other people first,” while also explaining that she almost always improvises her speeches and writes all her social media posts herself.

She didn’t try to school the follower on how skin care isn’t anything to be ashamed of enjoying; instead, she used it as an opportunity to recommend the three works that she says helped her most with public speaking (Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, the Gettysburg Address, and Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Drum Major Instinct” sermon).

You know she and the other younger female Congresspeople get asked a TON about their beauty routines and their wardrobes. By putting it out there, she--and other young women, especially young women of color--are making themselves more accessible, removing the heroworship and showing that they are just people. This sends a powerful message that they are just like other women who are dealing with demanding lives and trying to look good on a dime. And if they are just like other women, then other girls with brown skin and braids can grow up to be like them: no magic involved. It's the antithesis of how much we allow certain heroes to get by with for far too long. And I think it's what our founders had in mind: a country run by people holding common values, stepping up as needed,

 

[lpetrich]

Seems like AOC could teach DT some lessons about skin care.

The Vox article also includes her diet tips. "FIRST of all do not police your eating." She states that doing so "totally messes up your relationship with food, which should be an ENJOYABLE and FULFILLING relationship, not an anxious one." The more-healthy foods she thinks of as "default" and the less-healthy ones as indulgence. She thinks of meat and cheese as treats, and she prefers non-dairy milks and creams. No word on vegetarian fake meats.

"I'm very into oat milk right now which imo is the best of all the milks after cashew milk (I know I sound v bougie right now but almost any non-dairy milk sounds bougie so here we are)." (bougie = bourgeois)
I also like non-dairy milk. Like soy milk and cashew milk.

To someone who wanted to avoid dairy products, she recommended looking for one's biggest dairy consumption and then replacing it. Other dairy stuff can follow later. Commendable planning.

"CEREAL: just stop. Lots of sugar too." I like breakfast cereal, but I don't eat it with milk. I use water instead. For her part, her idea of a nice breakfast is bananas and peanut butter. A bunch of bananas will last a week, she tells us, at least for her body size.

She confesses that she loves cheese, even though she considers it her "weakness". When she eats it, she tries to enjoy it as much as possible before moving on.

 

[lpetrich]

All her public speaking is "off the dome & improvised". She has no speechwriters and non tweetwriters. "The only time I write my remarks is when I speak on the House floor, because the clerk asks that we submit our remarks in writing."

How to get good at that? "READ. Study orators. My favorite: Martin Luther King, Bobby kennedy, Lincoln, Dolores Huerta, Angela Davis, Shakespeare. Read Shakespeare's Julius Caesar and the Gettysburg Address and the Drum Major Instinct- that's my 101 right there. It's not about the words, it's about story. But no matter what you choose to say, it will not be impactful unless you are breaking silence on important truths. So READ UP and LEARN w/ philosophy and journalism, too."
Friends, Americans, countrypeople, lend me your ears!

 

[lpetrich]

AOC on how to run a successful campaign. After saying that having different interests is OK, she wrote "You run a successful campaign by learning how to listen and put other people first. When you are talking to someone and seek to serve them, how they feel and what they think is more important than what you feel and what you think. Learn from them and learn how to listen. A lot of people just wait for their turn to talk, or want to debate or rebuke. None of that is listening. Learn to listen."

What a world of difference from pResident tRump.

 

[lpetrich]

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@ocasio2018) • Instagram photos and videos

Instagram videos are evanescent, so I shelled out some $$$ to get a screen-capture app and I ran that app on the Instagram video.

One of them showed the walls near her office, walls covered with Post-It notes from well-wishers. "Leaving DC and taking some time to appreciate all the notes of support from well-wishers. Your support truly means so much when we're fighting hard on the inside for change." (purple heart)

Then she does a video about her community-garden plot. It was her turn to water the shared plants, and she concedes that she has not been a great "plant mom" in recent weeks. She talked about how it takes a lot more watering in the hot weather and that some crops, like spinach, won't even grow in very hot weather. She went on to say that climate change will make it even worse, with very hot weather making it difficult or impossible to grow many food crops.

 

[Half-Life]

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@ocasio2018) • Instagram photos and videos

Instagram videos are evanescent, so I shelled out some $$$ to get a screen-capture app and I ran that app on the Instagram video.

One of them showed the walls near her office, walls covered with Post-It notes from well-wishers. "Leaving DC and taking some time to appreciate all the notes of support from well-wishers. Your support truly means so much when we're fighting hard on the inside for change." (purple heart)

Then she does a video about her community-garden plot. It was her turn to water the shared plants, and she concedes that she has not been a great "plant mom" in recent weeks. She talked about how it takes a lot more watering in the hot weather and that some crops, like spinach, won't even grow in very hot weather. She went on to say that climate change will make it even worse, with very hot weather making it difficult or impossible to grow many food crops.

Greta Thurnberg? She's teaming up with Greta Thurnberg? She's viewed as a psychotic in right-wing circles. She claimed she can actually see the carbon dioxide with her own eyes in the atmosphere. What a loon. It shows what indoctrination can do to kids.

 

[Patooka]

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@ocasio2018) • Instagram photos and videos

Instagram videos are evanescent, so I shelled out some $$$ to get a screen-capture app and I ran that app on the Instagram video.

One of them showed the walls near her office, walls covered with Post-It notes from well-wishers. "Leaving DC and taking some time to appreciate all the notes of support from well-wishers. Your support truly means so much when we're fighting hard on the inside for change." (purple heart)

Then she does a video about her community-garden plot. It was her turn to water the shared plants, and she concedes that she has not been a great "plant mom" in recent weeks. She talked about how it takes a lot more watering in the hot weather and that some crops, like spinach, won't even grow in very hot weather. She went on to say that climate change will make it even worse, with very hot weather making it difficult or impossible to grow many food crops.

Greta Thurnberg? She's teaming up with Greta Thurnberg? She's viewed as a psychotic in right-wing circles. She claimed she can actually see the carbon dioxide with her own eyes in the atmosphere. What a loon. It shows what indoctrination can do to kids.

I agree. Look at this propaganda rally hosted by a racist white supremacist group.

 

[lpetrich]

Greta Thurnberg? She's teaming up with Greta Thurnberg? She's viewed as a psychotic in right-wing circles. She claimed she can actually see the carbon dioxide with her own eyes in the atmosphere. What a loon. It shows what indoctrination can do to kids.

Seems like some right-wing urban legend about Greta Thunberg.

NowThis on Twitter: "90% of congressional internships are unpaid, but @AOC @RepPressley @RepRashida @RepKatieHill @RepRoKhanna and @payourinterns are fighting to change that and they have a message to share: Experience doesn’t pay the bills https://t.co/8F9Q9S3lXY" / Twitter

Exclusive Interview in Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Bronx Home - I need to be a customer of Spectrum TV Broadcasting for some of the videos. Here's one where I don't: Ocasio-Cortez on Responding to Critics on Social Media

Spectrum News NY1 on Twitter: "Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez spent Sunday afternoon in her neighborhood with @ny1’s @errollouis, including an interview inside her Bronx apartment. @aoc: “I just don’t think that you can really keep a pulse on what’s going on in your community if you’re not there every weekend.” https://t.co/zRhsVBtOL4" / Twitter