Ayanna Pressley
@AyannaPressley
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Your Congresswoman. Proudly representing the MA 7th. Here to break concrete ceilings & shake the table. Personal account. She/hers. #ChangeCantWait
Joined April 2009
Dear Massachusetts 7th, . It is an honor to be your Congresswoman. Let's run it back. Love, .Ayanna
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A 17 year old white supremacist domestic terrorist drove across state lines, armed with an AR 15. He shot and killed 2 people who had assembled to affirm the value, dignity, and worth of Black lives. Fix your damn headlines.
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Don’t call these cabinet resignations anything but a Profile in Cowardice. They’re resigning to avoid invoking the 25th amendment. Congress & the people see right through it. We must impeach & remove.
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You want to thank Black women?. Cancel student debt -- all of it. Black women carry more student debt than any other group in America. Save your words of appreciation. Policy is our love language.
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Donald J. Trump should immediately be impeached by the House of Representatives & removed from office by the United States Senate as soon as Congress reconvenes. This is dangerous & unacceptable.
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The second I realized our "safe room" from the violent white supremacist mob included treasonous, white supremacist, anti masker Members of Congress who incited the mob in the first place, I exited. Furious that more of my colleagues by the day are testing positive.
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Let me drop an alopecia selfie flex. Ya'll stay mad on my timeline. I get it. Who needs hair with these cheekbones? Folks want to know which bathroom I use. Obviously, the one where royalty enters. S/O to my Alopecia Squad, 7million strong. #alopeciaawarenessmonth
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Somehow we weathered and witnessed.A nation that isn't broken.but simply unfinished.There is always light.if only we're brave enough to see it.if only we're brave enough to be it. — Amanda Gorman.
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Remember when Donald J. Trump was impeached by the United States House of Representatives?.
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Dear Betsy,. As a Black woman & the Chair of the abortion access task force, I invite you to come by the Hill and say this to my face. Would welcome the opportunity to educate you. Regards,.Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley.
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THIS is what racism looks like. WE are what democracy looks like. And we’re not going anywhere. Except back to DC to fight for the families you marginalize and vilify everyday.
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Dear Trolls. You really think I look like "Mr. Clean" ? Please. He never looked THIS clean. Sorry not sorry my unapologetically rockin' my crown triggers you. Proud #alopecian
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Thank you for painting Black Lives Matter on a road .(37 states and counting). Now end qualified immunity .(1 state and counting).
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.@KellyannePolls oh hi Distraction Becky. Remember that time your boss tore babies from their mothers’ arms and threw them in cages? Yeah take a seat and keep my name out of your lying mouth.
Major Meow🐱 Mashup with @SpeakerPelosi brushing back anti-humanitarian border aid fresh-women @AOC @IlhanMN @AyannaPressley @RashidaTlaib .
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White supremacy didn't start with Donald Trump. It didn't fly away in that helicopter yesterday either. It's still "expel the members of Congress who voted to overturn the election & incited an insurrection." Period.
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No more brutality. No more murder. No more hashtags. Just justice. May it rain down like a mighty river.
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Don’t let the occupant of the White House distract you. He just unilaterally cut Social Security and your unemployment benefits. In the middle of a pandemic.
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There will be no reset button. No return to normal. The status quo was unjust in the first place.
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The Civil Rights movement didn’t end. We’re in the midst of it.
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It’s long past time to end the Jim Crow Filibuster.
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Mitch McConnell, Kelly Loeffler & David Perdue are standing between your family and a $2,000 survival check Georgia. Vote @ReverendWarnock @ossoff like lives depend on it because they do.
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Ahh. I missed this. This explains my full DM box this morning. "Fuck u bitch. Shut the fuck up and govern. U ain’t shit. Trump. U ugly bald fuck" Judge me by my enemies. My Mom would be proud. Happy Sunday!.
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Breonna Taylor alive today, that’s what JUSTICE would look like.
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If it’s a radical notion that people’s lives are more important than corporate bailouts, call me radical.
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Explain to me how you could live through the COVID19 crisis and not support Medicare for All. There’s no doubt that in any just and decent society COVID testing, treatment & vaccines (when we have one) should be free.
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As I was paying my respects to our forever Chairman, his staff told me that in his final hours he signed subpoenas to USCIS and ICE, pursuing justice for immigrants in my district & across the country with chronic medical conditions. A man of his word every moment of his life.
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Went to get a replacement inhaler today. Told me generic is sold out with a wait list. So my only option is one that cost $175. My co pay for the other is usually $10. I can afford the increase but millions wont be able to. Literally what folx need to breathe/ live is political.
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I am calling for @OversightDems to immediately pursue a full & transparent investigation into today's terrorist acts & those individuals & agencies who enabled them.
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A man died from COVID in a Houston jail cell last week because he couldn't afford the $100 bail. He died for the crime of being poor, awaiting trial for the alleged crime of stealing food. His name was Preston Chaney. Mass incarceration is a public health crisis.
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Seeing our babies out here peacefully protesting & demonstrating with such conviction, fills me with both immense pride & pain.
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The people deserve, demand and require $2,000 recurring monthly survival checks.
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Black men deserve to grow old.
He was 30 years old. Black men deserve to grow old—not be lynched on a Subway because they were having a mental health crisis. Jordan deserved better. Accountability now.
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48 hours have gone by since a white supremacist mob attacked the US Capitol at the direction of the Occupant of the White House. Every hour that passes without consequence sets a dangerous precedent for democracy. Impeach now.
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As a Black woman, the personal is political. My hair story is no exception. Sharing a very personal story today to create space for others:.
"My twists have become such a synonymous & a conflated part of not only my personal identity & how I show up in the world, but my political brand. And that's why I think it's important that I'm transparent about this new normal & living with alopecia." — @AyannaPressley
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It’s still . - Codify Roe v. Wade.- Abolish the filibuster.- Expand the Court.
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Do you know why African-Americans align with so many COVID-19 co-morbidities? Structural racism. Food deserts=unequal access to healthy & fresh foods= diabetes, heart disease. Enviro injustices mean dirty air, water. Greed & neglect, subpar housing=asthma.
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I am not attending tonight’s sham #SOTU.
The State of the Union is hurting because of the occupant of the White House, who consistently demonstrates contempt for the American people, contempt for Congress & contempt for our constitution. I cannot in good conscience attend tonight's sham #SOTU →
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My sister in service @IlhanMN is on my heart tonight. The occupant of the @WhiteHouse is putting her, her family, her team & Muslim Americans across the country in jeopardy. It’s unconscionable and I’m furious #IStandWithIlhan.
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Black men, I love you, and you deserve to grow old.
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Haven’t even had coffee yet & the occupant of the WH, the bigoted man who called for the execution of the exonerated 5, is tossing the word ‘lynching’ around. Lord give me the strength to not take the bait but hold this man accountable for every single thing he says and does.
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I’m calling this like I see it: bigoted, short sighted and cruel. Any leader committed to advancing democracy would welcome with open arms two democratically elected United States Congresswomen. And every single member of Congress should be calling this out.
BREAKING: Israel will bar Democratic Reps. Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib from entering the country as part of a landmark visit
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The death penalty has no place in a just society.
.@AyannaPressley's set to introduce a bill to end AG Barr's reinstatement of capital punishment at the federal level. It's about 70 words.
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🙋🏾♀️.
Who else is looking forward to this trio grilling Trump's Postmaster General in the House Oversight Committee?
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Now bring the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (HR 4) to the Senate Floor for a vote immediately.
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$740 billion a year on endless wars and you’re telling me we can’t afford to send families $2,000 a month to pull them through?. I don’t want to hear it. Rent is due, food bank lines are around the block & COVID cases are spiking. We have to take care of each other.
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Tell me more about this “labor shortage.”.
After raising employee wages to $15/hour, Klavon's Ice Cream Parlor in Pittsburgh received "well over 1,000 applications" for job openings. Co-owner Jacob Hanchar says customer service has improved and he hasn't "noticed a difference on our bottom line.".
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In my district, you have to make $60,000/yr to afford to rent a one bed. “Targeted” relief means less for fewer people. We promised real relief and must deliver.
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Happy Sunday! #baldsquad #baldbaddies #baldisbeautiful Thank you for the warm welcome #alopecia nation #hairlosscrew. New year. New decade. New truths. New swag. #theyaintreadyforthissmoke
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Voting is an act of resistance. If our votes didn't matter they wouldn't work so hard to silence us. By the way, this is unconstitutional and against the law.
JUST IN: Tennessee governor signs bill that would punish some protesters with loss of voting rights
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Well said Congresswoman. Speaking of getting sh*t done, my sister @AOC recently.✔️passed a critical housing justice amendment in the House.✔️co chaired a climate task force.✔️filed a bill to stop secret police. Meanwhile Mr Yoho.*checks notes*.voted against an anti lynching bill.
I never spoke to Rep. Yoho before he decided to accost me on the steps of the nation’s Capitol yesterday. Believe it or not, I usually get along fine w/ my GOP colleagues. We know how to check our legislative sparring at the committee door. But hey, “b*tches” get stuff done. 🤷🏽♀️.
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That’s right. Madame Vice President, Kamala Devi Harris.
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Just another day in America with a Black woman putting in labor for our democracy in the midst of her own trauma, only to face disrespect & ingratitude.
From ⛽️ 🥽gas masks to no masks 😷, i am incredibly angry at @GOPLeader @GOP colleagues for recklessly endangering the lives of my colleagues, staff and reporters. These folks fled for their lives from the House floor only to be locked in this room for hours. 🎥 @LisaBRochester
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17 million fewer people would receive checks if eligibility is narrowed. The people did not give us the House, Senate & WH to play small. If we can find $700 billion for defense spending, we can find the funds for survival checks. This is THEIR money.
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Cancel it. All of it.
Student debt cancellation would boost annual GDP by up to $108 billion per year.
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Poverty in America isn’t an inevitability. It is the result of policy violence.
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The good Lord knows Mike Pence won’t do the right thing. It’s up to Congress. Impeach & Remove.
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Say it louder for the folks in the back:.
.@AyannaPressley: Would you agree that someone could deny rental units to African Americans, lead the birther movement, refer to the diaspora as “sh*thole countries” and refer to white supremacists as “fine people,” have a black friend and still be racist? . Michael Cohen: Yes.
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Sooooo I want to live in an America where no one can *buy* a seat on the Presidential debate stage.
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You could've heard a pin drop during @AOC comments. Her rebuke in response to offensive & inaccurate claims that #climatechange is an issue of concern by, "the elites", was informed, compelling. & the damn truth! TY for being fierce & fearless in pursuit of #environmentaljustice.
‘People are dying … science should not be partisan.’ — @AOC’s spirited defense of environmental justice is a must-see
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No.
Wall Street traders could be second in line for a COVID-19 vaccine after healthcare workers and nursing home residents. A trade group told me they asked the CDC to treat financial workers as "essential," per DHS guidelines.
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"My most fervent wish is that I will not be replaced until a new president is installed." . Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg.
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“I’d also be the youngest woman ever elected President”😉. - Elizabeth Ann Warren, 9:18pm Eastern Standard Time, Thursday, December 19th, in the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Nineteen.
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Dear Corporations, . Thank you for your Pride tweets, packaging and merch. Now how are you applying pressure to oppose hateful anti trans bills in state legislatures across the country?.
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Watch your step, concrete ceiling just shattered. Congratulations to the Honorable SUPREME. COURT. JUSTICE. Ketanji Brown Jackson. Now read that again.
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United AGAINST white supremacist violence. That’s what this moment requires.
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“This is not justice.”.- Justice Sonia Sotomayor. Abolish the death penalty.
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Cora has been lobbying to dye parts of her hair blue. Conan & I said no, we think 12yo is too young + there are alternatives. Yesterday, she submitted a 6 pg powerpoint: "Why I want to dye my hair." I'm impressed by her research, proud of her tenacity. Future lawyer. Still no.
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The movement met the moment. The movement to end cash bail. The movement to abolish ICE. The movement for housing justice. The movement for repro justice. The movement for Black lives. They organized to deliver the House, Senate & White House. It's time we deliver for them.
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Hello @MikeBloomberg. Member of the 116th Congress here. Let the record reflect you did not and cannot buy my seat. 🪑.
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So. I ran out of lenses & had no choice but to wear these in public, something I never, ever do, although I've been rockin' bifocals since 2nd grade. Ran into a mom who asked me to post this pic for her 9yr old who hates her new glasses. Paging @LaurenUnderwood @RashidaTlaib @AOC
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The people did not give Democrats the House, Senate and White House to compromise with insurrectionists. Abolish the filibuster so we can do the people's work.
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He was 30 years old. Black men deserve to grow old—not be lynched on a Subway because they were having a mental health crisis. Jordan deserved better. Accountability now.
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Yes, it’s possible to legislate justice & accountability and write budgets that actually value Black lives. If it feels unfamiliar, that’s because we’re trying to do something that’s never been done in America.
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Republicans, you’re welcome to join us and vote for Hakeem Jeffries for Speaker of the House.
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I wish that I could "like" this pic more than once.
The original squad goals! Betty Shabazz, Dorothy I. Height, Shirley Chisholm, and Marian Anderson.
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Black Lives Matter also means: 1) Any vaccine must have efficacy for those w high blood pressure & diabetes 2) Priority distribution to communities hardest hit by COVID-19 3) A strategy to combat Black Americans vaccine fears & skepticism because of the Tuskegee Experiment etc.
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11 days until rent is due again. It’s past time to cancel rent & mortgage payments.
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That's Congresswoman Cueball to you. The full 6 min. clip is about much more than restaurants. Many of my AAPI/Chinese constituents have experienced racist attacks & biz boycotts. We are all at risk & in this together. Race targeted scapegoating is hurtful & irresponsible.
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8 yrs old. That’s how old @IlhanMN was when she fled for her life as her home was decimated by war. I know you think war’s a for profit video game @IngrahamAngle but you’d be wise to take a seat and take your cues from folks like Ilhan who actually know what they’re talking about
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They were carrying the Nazi flag, spewing cruel anti-Semitic slurs, and wearing shirts invoking Auschwitz. The word choice is spot on. You are disgraceful. Resign already.
Really sad. At a time of deep national division, President-elect Biden’s choice to call his political opponents literal Nazis does nothing to bring us together or promote healing. This kind of vicious partisan rhetoric only tears our country apart.
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