🏳️‍🌈Héctor M. Ramírez🏳️‍🌈

Policy wonk living in LA focusing on the intersections of the #TwoSpirits & #LGBTQI+ communities. They/Them

Main: @crowrdream

[Governor Gavin Newsom @CAgovernor]

I am declaring a state of emergency in Los Angeles County in response to the Boyle Heights warehouse fire.

California is deploying specialized resources, supporting local firefighters, and pre-positioning critical supplies to protect communities and accelerate recovery.

[Governor Newsom Press Office @GovPressOffice]

NEW: @CAGovernor Gavin Newsom just proclaimed a State of Emergency for LA County for the ongoing warehouse fire in the Boyle Heights.

The emergency proclamation authorizes @Cal_OES and state agencies to provide additional assistance and resources as needed to support response and recovery efforts and mitigate impacts to surrounding communities.

Local officials have not requested additional state resources at this time, however California has proactively pre-positioned and made available significant public health and emergency response assets should conditions warrant their deployment.

[Héctor Manuel Ramírez ✊🏽 @CROWRDREAM]

What an empowering day for democracy! 💜 It was a profound privilege to connect with California’s fierce advocate for justice, my friend, Attorney General Rob Bonta @AGRobBonta ! Standing together at the SEIU 721 @SEIU721 Get Out The Vote event, supporting the power of union strong members, reaffirmed my commitment to Communication First principles 🗳️

#UnionStrong #GOTV #SEIU721 #CaliforniaAG #VotingMatter #AgBonta #CaliforniaLeads #VOTE

[Xavier Becerra @XavierBecerra]

You can feel when a movement is real.

This campaign is powered by people coming together — guided by love, community, and California values. You can’t buy this kind of support. ✨

[PBS News @NewsHour]

Graduation season is in full swing. PBS News correspondents @IAmAmnaNawaz, @LisaDNews, @GeoffRBennett, @AliRogin, @TheStephSy, @WmBrangham, @ElizLanders, @NickSchifrin and @Deema_Zein share their pieces of advice for the class of 2026.

[Ric Torres @RicTorresII]

This was written by my FB friend #VictoriaScarbrough:

For my friend Andy:

@TomSteyer has never held public office. Not once. Not ever. Not a city council seat. Not a school board. Not even a spot on a water district board in Fresno. Zero. Zilch. Nada.

And this man wants to run the fourth-largest economy on the planet. Let's talk about what running a business actually requires. Ready? One decision. Just one:
Will I make money or not?

That's it. That's the whole job. Every hire, every deal, every offshore maneuver — it all flows from that single, gloriously uncomplicated question.

There's no messy legislature to negotiate with. No constituents sleeping on the street who won't just go away. No wildfire victims demanding answers at 2 a.m. Just: does this make me or shareholders richer?

Now let's talk about HOW he got rich — because this part matters.

Billionaires don't happen by accident. They happen on the backs of working people. While @TomSteyer's employees @FarallonCapital were earning base salaries of $93,000 to $110,000, @TomSteyer himself collected $1.2 billion between 2009 and 2017.

Not in wages. Not in salary. He paid himself zero in traditional compensation. His haul came from capital gains, carried interest, and passive investment income — the classic billionaire move that lets you accumulate obscene wealth while paying a lower tax rate than his own receptionist.

In 2024 alone, he reported $39 million in personal income from investments. While touring California talking about shared prosperity.

Let that image sink in: the man campaigning on his "Shared Prosperity Tour" structured his entire financial life to avoid sharing prosperity with the government or the workers who made him rich.

And that fortune was built at a hedge fund that invested in private prisons and fossil fuels. Becoming a billionaire in that world doesn't happen without leaving a trail — tax havens, aggressive structuring, decades of engineering ways to pay less into the very government he now desperately wants to lead.

Governing 40 million people is something else entirely. In business, you answer to shareholders. In government, you answer to the single mom in Bakersfield, the farmworker in Salinas, the teacher in Compton. Those people don't have a board seat — but they have a vote.

In business, failure has a bottom line. In government, failure has a human one. @TomSteyer has only ever been accountable to one.

And when he hits a wall on the campaign trail? Same playbook: write a check.

He's paid over $870,000 to a single digital media agency to flood your feed with daily pro-Steyer content — some influencers didn't even disclose they were paid, triggering a formal state investigation with the FPPC.

The man who wants to hold corporations accountable is currently under investigation for buying fake grassroots support on TikTok.

You genuinely cannot make this up.

He's spent $213+ million — almost entirely his own money — and he's still stuck in a tight race. Turns out Californians aren't an audience to be purchased. I LOVE my fellow Californians!

@XavierBecerra has spent decades doing the actual work — writing laws, enforcing them, defending them in court, running massive public institutions. He didn't buy his way into public life. He earned it — the hard, unglamorous way.

This is a man who has been making hard calls in public life since before @TomSteyer figured out how to write off his yacht.

California doesn't need a donor who just discovered public service is important. It needs someone who has devoted his entire life to it.

It needs someone who has never once confused public service with a profit motive.

VOTE @XavierBecerra NOW!

#politics #California #CAGov #Becerra2026 #NotForSale #WorkingClass #Democracy #Election2026 #CaliforniaGovernor #Vote

[Speaker Robert Rivas @CASpeakerRivas]

Thank you Fresno for the warm welcome this weekend as we get out the vote for @XavierBecerra!

[Lindsey P. Horvath @LindseyPHorvath]

With our partners at @pukuu_ccs, we passed our motion declaring this week to be Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons (MMIP) Awareness Week.

MMIP is an epidemic, especially for young people in this community -- let's all do our part to raise awareness.🔴

[Los Angeles County @CountyofLA]

#LACounty proclaims May 4–11, 2026 as Missing and Murdered Indigenous Peoples (MMIP) Awareness Week. Residents and County staff are invited to wear red on May 5 in solidarity with survivors and to help raise awareness.

Honoring lives. Raising awareness.

#MMIP #MMIPAwareness

[Speaker Robert Rivas @CASpeakerRivas]

California is under threat. Everyday, the Trump Administration is coming after our healthcare, our families, and our values. There’s no time to learn on the job. We need a governor who’s ready to fight back on Day One. That’s why I’m proud to endorse @XavierBecerra for Governor.

[Lindsey P. Horvath @LindseyPHorvath]

Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill is kicking Angelenos off of CalFresh — that’s why LA County is increasing our food distributions with community partners.

Join us tomorrow in Pacoima for a walk up food distribution. 👇

[LA County Aging & Disabilities Department @LACountyAD]

🫱🏼‍🫲🏼 #LACountyAD Director @drlauratrejo addressed the @CountyofLA Commission on Disabilities on Wednesday. Commissioners advise the Board of Supervisors, County departments, & others about the needs of individuals with #disabilities.

💻 https://t.co/QyJ1wQmEzK

#Inclusion

[Listos California @ListosCA]

Things have been shaky in California lately.

Prepare for earthquakes—practice DROP, COVER, and HOLD ON at home and work.

Visit https://t.co/8xWNbjcIcY for more preparedness tips!

#ListosCalifornia

[The Advocate @TheAdvocateMag]

Transgender lives and joy are the center of new ACLU campaign 'Freedom to Be' https://t.co/JYCaQchN5J

[The Advocate @TheAdvocateMag]

Olympic boxer Imane Khelif sues J.K. Rowling and Elon Musk for cyberbullying over gender https://t.co/rwiRK2MVvv

[Human Rights Campaign Rapid Response @HRC]

We see you! On our LGBTQ+ UNITY CALL, we're almost over $275,000 from at least 3,500 grassroots donors.

Let’s get excited about VP @KamalaHarris' historic presidential candidacy—support our winning movement, advance our rights, and make our own history. https://t.co/RLoubrQO1L

[The Advocate @TheAdvocateMag]

Vivian Wilson calls Elon Musk an 'uncaring and narcissistic' father, citing 'cruel' homophobia https://t.co/hC2U29ij3t

[The Advocate @TheAdvocateMag]

Kamala Harris challenges Trump’s VP pick JD Vance to televised debate https://t.co/BuiFrhRZmF

[Human Rights Campaign Rapid Response @HRC]

The Trump-Vance ticket knows they can't win a majority of voters so they're counting on spoilers like RFK, Jr. to help them win. Today's leaked video shows their alignment, and that a vote for RFK, Jr. is a vote for the anti-LGBTQ+ Trump-Vance agenda.

[President Biden Archived @POTUS46Archive]

Jill and I extend our deepest condolences to the family of the victim who was killed at Donald Trump's rally – he was a father protecting his family from the bullets being fired.

We're also praying for the full recovery of those who were injured.