Julia Salazar (@juliasalazar on bluesky)
@JuliaCarmel__
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New York State Senator in Brooklyn & Queens. Democratic socialist. Forever optimist (#LGM). For my office: @SalazarSenate.
Joined July 2011
Imagine having a Harvard Law degree and thinking that the Paris Climate Agreement is actually about Paris.
By rejoining the Paris Climate Agreement, President Biden indicates he’s more interested in the views of the citizens of Paris than in the jobs of the citizens of Pittsburgh. This agreement will do little to affect the climate and will harm the livelihoods of Americans.
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The “cost taxpayers” framing generally misses the mark on how public spending works, but while we’re here:. NYC taxpayers spent $230 MILLION to settle police misconduct lawsuits against the NYPD in 2018.
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Hello, this is fascism.
Israeli minister seeks to imprison citizens who 'harm national morale'
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All five officers who murdered Tyre Nichols are currently out on bond, while (in New York) a cash-poor, legally innocent person who commits a far less severe, bail-eligible offense is locked up on Rikers Island until their trial, which could take years. This isn't public safety.
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This decision is a crime against poor people, full stop.
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The symptoms keep getting stranger
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Alternatively, the MTA could do the normal thing and put accessible public restrooms in stations.
MTA exploring pee detection technology to spot urine-soaked elevators
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It’s hard to believe right now that it was mere months ago that people were *criticizing* Bernie as a presidential candidate for having a shouty tone.
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I’m thrilled to endorse @BernieSanders for President. Throughout his entire political career, Senator Sanders has been a relentless advocate for Americans across barriers of race and class and for those who’ve been excluded from the political agenda of the elite.
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The Daily Caller is trash. 1. I would never primary @AOC, even if I lived in her district (which I do not). 2. I have no intentions of ever running for Congress. 3. Who on earth calls Jimmy Van Bramer “James?”.
Veteran NY Dem strategist identifies THREE Democrats who could take on @AOC in a primary: City Councilman James Van Bramer, State Senator Julia Salazar & State Assemblywoman Catalina Cruz.
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This is actually the photo you see if you look up “capitalism” in the dictionary in 2021
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A man named Jordan Neely was choked to death in public on the subway this week while people watched and even cheered. This is horrific. The constant demonization of poor people and people in mental health crisis in our city allows for this barbarism. It is making our city sick.
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I wouldn’t be a state legislator today if it weren’t for @BernieSanders. By running for president in 2016, Bernie showed that you CAN run a powerful campaign with NO corporate money. He demystified democratic socialism. He gave me, a former domestic worker, the courage to run.
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I have never in my life met anyone who, in response to the question, “Who are you voting for?” replied: “Well, I’m undecided. it depends who the New York Times endorses!”.
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There is no excuse, none whatsoever, for an elected official to bring a firearm to a college campus in New York. To go even further by allegedly brandishing the gun to intimidate Palestinian students is beyond anything I've seen before. And I've seen some shit.
At today’s rally on Brooklyn College campus led by the students in their SJP chapter, Inna Vernikov showed up showcasing a gun to Palestinian students and their allies. These are the tactics of force and intimidation used by zionist groups to silence any support for Palestine.
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Ask your representatives (and your presidential candidates) whether or not they believe these individuals deserve to be able to vote right now.
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PSA: Rent freezes are good. But what you want during a crisis when people are laid off en masse indefinitely is a *rent suspension.* ✌🏽.
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It’s bizarre that, in situations like this, reactionary people call for increased police presence, instead of recognizing that NYC has the highest funded police department in the nation and yet the police fail to protect people from violence. Giving them more $ isn’t the answer.
.@AndrewYang in Times Square responding to yesterday’s triple shooting. “The truth is that New York City cannot afford to defund the police,” he says.
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“I don’t have to follow state law or stop torturing people because I used to be a police officer” is what this sounds like.
Incoming Mayor @ericadamsfornyc assailed members of @NYCCouncil for sending letter asking him to reverse position on solitary confinement:. "I wore a bullet proof vest for 22 years and protected the people of this city. When you do that, then you have the right to question me. "
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Here’s a video of Bernie Sanders naming women who were serving as mayors and governors at the time, and explaining to children that more women should be elected to office. This was in 1987, before I was even born.
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If you’re a legislator who’s denouncing the NYPD’s use of excessive force against protesters last night, then I hope you also supported decreasing their inflated budget earlier this year, when you had the opportunity and responsibility to do so.
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(•_•).<) )╯Leftists. / \ . (•_•). \( (> and liberals. / \. (•_•).<) )╯are not the same thing!.
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I’m not Palestinian, nor am I Arab American, nor a Muslim. So I will never know what it’s like to be denied entry to Israel or Palestine on that basis, as @RashidaTlaib & @IlhanMN have been. However, this is my passport, stamped in 2014 when Israel denied my entry at the border.
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This isn’t cute. Unless every hungry person on this line was completely comfortable with Yang’s team (or a reporter?) filming them while they wait in line to get food for their families, I don’t think this is OK.
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The man finally resigns while I am underground on the G train smh.
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This is demonstrably false, and misinforms the public about crime, safety, and the crisis in our city’s jails. More than 80 percent of people in jail on Rikers Island have not even been convicted. They are legally innocent. Some are also jailed for technical parole violations.
"If you are on Rikers right now, you didn't steal an apple. If you are on Rikers, you did something really bad," @NYCMayor says during crime presser, referring to dramatic reduction in number of detainees.
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The first person held in Rikers to die of COVID-19, Michael Tyson passed away on Sunday. He was 53 years old. Tyson had been held in Rikers for a month, despite that he posed no danger to public safety: He was being held solely on a parole violation, not a crime.
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Andrew Yang in NY1 debate was the only candidate to say he did not support a city-wide composting program. He said, “We should roll it out in certain neighborhoods first.”. 1. Somebody tell Yang that we’ve already done that. 2. “Certain neighborhoods” is never OUR neighborhoods.
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DOC just recommended the release of vulnerable people from jails, including:.• People over age 50.• People who have underlying health conditions.• People detained for administrative reasons (failure to appear & parole violations).• People serving sentences of one year or less.
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Any New Yorker who wants a free meal can now get meals every Monday thru Friday at any of 400+ Meal Hubs across NYC. Anyone can pick up three free, to-go meals at one time. All sites offer vegetarian & halal options. No ID required. Find a Meal Hub here:
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The @NYCMayor announced this morning that the curfew has been lifted. There is thankfully no curfew in place tonight or for the foreseeable future.
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I’ve seen enough. We need real accountability for this.
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What is “buh”.
@pplsummit Buh? When/where have you ever heard me oppose Medicare for All?.
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Our governor has the chance in today’s press conference (happening right now) to be straightforward with New Yorkers about why NY isn’t receiving federal funding that other states are receiving. It isn’t because of a technicality. It’s because he’s insisting on cutting Medicaid.
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Spent six or seven hours at the jails on Rikers Island today. What we are witnessing on Rikers Island is a public health emergency and a humanitarian crisis that is costing people their lives. It cannot be redeemed. Fully closing Rikers cannot come soon enough.
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Thank you for supporting me since before I even believed in running for office.
CONGRATULATIONS to DSA member @JuliaCarmel__ for officially being re-elected to the New York State Senate!
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I’m not just endorsed by DSA; I’ve been an active DSA member for about 2 years. I hold an elected position in NYC-DSA’s socialist feminist working group. And I’m proud to be part of a grassroots, internationalist movement that values people over profit. Thanks for the boost.
So @SalazarSenate18, who is running in Brooklyn & endorsed by @Ocasio2018 and @lsarsour, has written about being “deeply honored” by @DemSocialists’ national endorsement. As a Brooklynite, I’d love to know if Salazar agrees with the tweet below. #DemocratParty .Cc @JuliaCarmel__
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Honor the late, great Harry Reid by abolishing the filibuster just as he urged us to do.
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After striking for 9 days, the L.A. teachers WON their demands for pay increases + smaller class sizes. Teachers in Denver just voted to authorize a strike effective next week. Virginia teachers are rallying for education funding. There is power in a union and in solidarity. 💯.
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As you may know, I was sexually assaulted by a serial sexual predator (and later coerced into speaking publicly about it last year). And yet I signed the letter opposing the MTA hiring of 500 additional cops, because fare evasion has nothing to do with violent crime. Thanks.
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Every year (for several years) I worked in a restaurant or cafe on Christmas Eve, more than once inside a shopping mall. The holidays are incredibly stressful for retail and service workers. If you must be a customer today, tip generously and be kind to the people serving you.
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Imagine: a Democratic governor in a blue state wins a too-close election--a victory doubtlessly credited in large part to progressive New Yorkers and organizations--and then immediately not only appoints a conservative judge to the CoA, but seeks to form a coalition with the GOP.
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The labor of baristas (and agricultural workers) has generated all of this man’s wealth.
EXCLUSIVE: In a leaked video call, Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz begged managers to increase their union busting. The billionaire CEO blasted unionizing, hourly employees as “so-called workers” and “some outside force that’s going to dictate or disrupt who we are and what we do.”
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In a landslide vote, more than 75 percent of respondents voted for @sunrisemvmt to endorse @BernieSanders, which has more than 10,000 members nationwide. 🎉.
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This would have been useful BEFORE our government deposed a democratically elected indigenous leader.
Researchers find no support for claims of fraud in Bolivian election.
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I haven’t attempted to return to Israel/Palestine in the five years since then. I have no desire to. But I share this story only to say to Congresswomen @RashidaTlaib & @IlhanMN: I stand in solidarity with you. Thank you for speaking out and fighting to change this.
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This is insulting. There are many Latinos who are qualified, exceptional candidates not only for the Chief Judge role, but for other appointed roles who have been passed over. The Caucus has previously sent the Governor names of strong candidates of color. LaSalle isn't one.
“I’m asking all the senators…to allow this state to have the very first Latino head of its highest court,” Hochul says.
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Good morning. Creditors should be completely forbidden from garnishing people’s federal stimulus checks. Any pre-existing garnishment orders on debtors’ accounts should be terminated in order to avoid this, too.
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RIGHT NOW: Here with 1,000+ Jewish New Yorkers, clergy & neighbors gathered at the Manhattan Bridge to demand a permanent ceasefire.
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**alarm bells ringing at deafening volume**.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg praises Brett Kavanaugh for hiring all-female law clerk crew
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Tag yourself. I’m with the only candidate who realizes that we need to make a substantial investment in housing for the many, not the few: @BernieSanders.
@CSSNYorg Here's the total New York City impact of the housing proposals from five Democratic presidential candidates.
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One year ago today, New York reported our city’s first confirmed COVID-19 death. She died in our district, at Wyckoff Hospital. Just a couple weeks later, in the peak of the pandemic, Governor Cuomo continued to push Medicaid cuts to all of our hospitals, including Wyckoff.
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I am a New York State Senator, and yet: I’ve been told by our behavioral health plan (through NYSHIP) that, if I want to see a therapist in my city and I want any costs to be covered, I’m required to undergo a psychiatric evaluation by phone *with the insurance company* first.
Tell me a story about a time your health insurance company did something terrible or inexplicable to you. Tell me a story about a time your health insurance company made your life more difficult.
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Reviewing the campaign filing. To the several people who give a "$4.20" recurring donation to the campaign every month. I see you.
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Several people were arrested and beaten by police today in Brooklyn (video below) for trying to protect tenants from an eviction.
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It's not "character assassination" to sound the alarm about conservative opinions supported by Justice LaSalle. Give me a break. Becoming the Chief Judge of New York's highest court is not a right; it's a privilege that will enormously impact people's lives for at least a decade.
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Should go without saying: Nobody who uses hate speech like this is fit to be a public servant or run for office.
Last night, neighborhood agitator Heshy Tischler called @Chirlane a “retard woman, coon, whatever you are.” This is a guy running for city council.
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Our team is heading over to Transit District 33 and I’m reaching out to the Chief of NYPD’s Transit Bureau to try to intervene on this woman’s behalf. Thank you for standing up!.
Tonight as I was leaving Broadway Junction, I saw three or four police officers (one of them was either a plainclothes cop or someone who worked at the station) gathered around a crying woman and her churro cart. Apparently, it's illegal to sell food inside train stations. 1/?
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I’ve never received this many emails from constituents *with the exact same request within such a short period of time* until today: all emails requesting that I support a rent suspension, and most mentioning bill S.8125. This is by no means a complaint! It demonstrates urgency.
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This video rules.
When a house is burning down, firefighters don’t ask about coverage. They put out the fire. Why don’t we approach our health care system in the same way?. Let’s #PassNYHealthAct & finally give all NYers* universal healthcare. *even those with mustaches.
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What a nightmare. Please do not rank this person, who apparently thinks that police officers are trained mental health professionals.
.@AndrewYang: "I believe in mental health, but if you have someone who’s mentally ill on the subway, you’re going to need a police officer at least present and in a proximity to help improve the situation." Interesting interview this morning on Good Day:.
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Antisemitism in any form is hideous. Attacking, targeting and punishing Jewish college students for demanding a ceasefire is thinly veiled antisemitism. Brutalizing Jewish protesters simply for refusing to be complicit in violence against Palestinians is also antisemitism.
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If you're a Democrat positioning yourself to the right-wing of George W. Bush when it comes to war crimes, you cannot seriously expect anyone to be motivated to go out to vote for Democrats next election. Might not be too late to change course & stop being a war crimes apologist.
In 2002, Israeli bombed the home of Salah Shehadeh, then THE head of the Hamas military wing. The strike killed 14 other civilians including women and children. The Bush administration condemned the strike and dismissed the "human shields" argument .
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Four years ago, I had to terminate a pregnancy through a medication abortion here in NY. It was not a tough decision for me: I knew then, and know now, it was the right thing to do. I found out I was pregnant at *7 weeks*. Many people don't even know they're pregnant at 6 weeks.
BREAKING -- Florida Legislature has passed a 6-week abortion ban by @Mdixon55.
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Some good news: We are now looking at a New York City Council in which the *majority* of members will be women.😍🎉.
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Don’t let the mayor, or any mayoral candidate, ever tell you that they can’t do anything about cops who kill civilians. The NYPD commissioner serves at the pleasure of the mayor, their boss. If a mayor really wants cops who kill unarmed Black NYers to be fired, they’d be fired.
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This is indefensible. 1 in 5 people who are incarcerated in New York state are serving life sentences right now. ~20% of them are seniors. We know our elders’ lives have value. They deserve a chance at redemption. They deserve parole. I want a President who knows that, too.
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I had COVID back in June. When there is finally a publicly available COVID vaccine, I’m not going to say, “Woah, wait. There wasn’t a COVID vaccine when I had the virus. My immune system had to defeat COVID on its own! This is unjust!”.
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I can’t imagine how anyone—after we’ve all witnessed rampant, violent behavior from the NYPD in response to anti-racist protests, plus amidst the underfunding of social services—could vote Yes on a city budget that fails to meaningfully decrease the NYPD budget by >$1Billion.
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Quick update: I no longer have any COVID-19 symptoms (my case was quite mild) and I haven’t had a fever since last week. I’m still self-isolating for now as a precaution, but I’m totally fine and am working remotely. Thank you to everyone who kindly reached out to check on me.
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Last night a person died on Rikers Island, in the NIC facility, in custody of NYC Dept of Corrections. This marks the 11th time that an incarcerated person has died in NYC DOC custody this year. Saying it again: Mayor & DOC must act immediately to decrease the jail population.
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Bernie Sanders has inspired democratic socialists across the country to run for office and fight for our communities. Bernie and his entire campaign team have already changed the political landscape for generations to come. Let’s keep that #NotMeUs spirit alive. #ThankYouBernie
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Let’s do New York next.
Kentucky’s new governor, Andy Beshear, restored voting rights to more than 140,000 nonviolent offenders who have completed their sentences in an executive order signed days after he took office. @hereandnow
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Remember that NYC-DSA, the largest DSA chapter in the country, democratically voted to endorse both myself and @AOC before either of us had much organizational support. DSA members spent time and labor to win this. This year we won big victories for working people because of it.
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This landlord should be publicly shamed.
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Reading many beautiful tributes to Ryan Carson today as I reflect on this shocking, horrific news of his death. Ryan's compassion was evident in everything he did. My fondest memory is of a night out we spent together with friends in Albany last year. We all stayed up late in
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Today I witnessed one of the most egregious illegal evictions I’ve personally seen. Right there on Bushwick Ave, a landlady hired a junk removal company—and later, goons—to enter the apartments of paying tenants while they were at work and throw all of their belongings away.
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I’ll be making some calls this weekend to remind people to vote for @EdMarkey 😊 Who’s with me?.
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It’s wild that my public high school was always able to police the attire of young women—measuring the lengths of our skirts, which we could be punished for with detention—and yet these schools claim they can’t require that students or staff wear face masks during a pandemic 🧐.
“Wearing a mask is a personal choice, and there is no practical way to enforce a mandate to wear them,” the superintendent of a Georgia school district wrote in a letter after a widely circulated photo showed a packed hallway on the first day of classes
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This is outrageously cruel. And deeply disturbing to see this exactly 2 years after the similar, violent action in Charlottesville of a white supremacist against peaceful protesters.
@amornetwork @CosechaMovement @FangCollective @Fuerza_Laboral BREAKING: Here is HD video of an ICE guard driving his truck into us as we sat peacefully blocking the Wyatt Detention Center. We’re putting our bodies on the line because we see the camps and the roundups. We’ve learned from our ancestors: NEVER AGAIN FOR ANYONE.
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We just sent this letter signed by 24+ NY State Senators urging the courts to issue a moratorium on evictions immediately. This is a crucial step to protect vulnerable New Yorkers from choosing between protecting their health & defending their homes during this state of emergency
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$1,200 isn’t enough.
$1,200 isn’t enough.
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Pleased to hear this from Comrade Cuomo. Looking forward to advocating together for leftist priorities like universal healthcare and fully funding public education without privatization 🙃
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Imagine if our city had a 3,775% increase in the education budget. Or the housing agency's budget. Or funding for mental health care. Had to fight to keep libraries open, our schools have been defunded, we can't get HPD to enforce the law, but 3,775% increase for NYPD overtime.
What happens when you make a cop mayor of NYC? . Police overtime goes from $4 million in 2022 to $155 million now.
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I adopted this little creature and I’m absolutely smitten with him. World, meet Salchi the puppy.🐶🌭
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Thanks team for gathering together for the roast of Mayor Bloomberg tonight.
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Solidarity with @Dianne4NYC. Politics can just be so dirty, toxic and cruel. Keep running a positive, inspiring, grassroots campaign that welcomes every person in and leaves nobody out.
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It violates the social media policy linked in the NYPD Chief of Patrol's own Twitter bio. But possibly also NYC Conflicts of Interest law?.
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Transit workers and straphangers acted heroically yesterday morning in rapid response to the attack in the subway to save lives. And today, Zack Dahnan, a 21 year-old security camera technician, found the alleged shooter. We keep each other safe.
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This is a personal appeal and piece of advice for everyone: Get your next COVID-19 booster shot as soon as you are eligible. I received the booster in October, so I’ve been overdue to get another. I put it off, thinking I would be fine. Then I got COVID, and became *very* sick.
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I’m gonna vote for Joe in November and I get it, but I’m not going to pretend to love this montage of sexual assault survivors giving canned, seemingly tokenized endorsements of him. Not a fan of that.
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I had traveled to Israel & Palestine multiple times previously, and returned in July of 2014 to visit friends in the West Bank and assist in a community development project there. I was detained for ~10 hours at Allenby. I was ultimately denied entry for my anti-occupation views.
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People in our district died in their homes, uninsured and alone, from this same exact virus just months ago.
Marine One just landed on the South Lawn of the White House to transport President Trump to Walter Reed.
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My position demands that I do more than condemn the Mayor. The Senate can and should do more. We need to reconvene the legislature ASAP and take swift, meaningful action to protect people from the NYPD. The minimum we should do is pass the #SaferNYAct.
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Hard to imagine, in the same week of the deadliest, most devastating fire NYC has seen in decades—that was clearly the result of a negligent landlord and lack of landlord accountability—state leadership might still collectively fail to extend and expand urgent tenant protections.
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Means testing: the way that government makes sure that whatever good thing it’s trying to do will only be partially successful.
Sources tell me that White House and Democrats considering attaching means test to a number of key agenda items - from EV rebates and free community college - as a way to shrink reconciliation bill and pacify spending hawks.
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I endorsed @BernieSanders and I’ll be thrilled to see him become our president. While I differ from the WFP’s decision, I’m looking forward to continuing to work together with the WFP on the many issues they lead on, especially in fighting for #FairElections in NY.
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Who besides a cartoon villain would ever think this is a good idea?.
NEW: Sen. Manchin has told the White House the child tax credit must include a firm work requirement and family income cap in the $60k range, Axios has learned. These demands would dramatically weaken one of Biden's signature programs.
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