It’s hard to find myself here again. This site has gotten worse, but many of you still feel like friends. Despite the trolls, I want to share this about my mother, who passed away. Her life as a working-class immigrant mother tells an American story that feels unimaginable now.
Despite my better judgment (the risk of being harassed by trolls) many people on this app feel like friends, so I wanted to share this post about my late father who passed away last week. His life epitomized the American Dream—a dream that often seems elusive today. 🧵
AOC winning the presidency and launching a New Deal 2.0 would be the most American thing ever, because it'd be the ultimate 4th quarter comeback.
And what's more American than blowing the whole game, then storming all the way back to win it in the final seconds?
@AOC came to Florida and reminded folks of something we’ve been saying all along: watch the work. I’ve spent years organizing, building power, and helping people win up and down the ballot. I’m grateful to have her in our corner. 🩷
If Angie Nixon wins Florida, let's just skip the 2028 primary and give it straight to AOC or Abdul El-Sayed.
Extinction level event for centrist Democrat policies and messaging. And it could happen!
So today I remember all of it. The lives taken that morning, the responders we lost, and the neighbors made to pay for a crime they had nothing to do with. We honor them best not just in memory, but by refusing to let that fear and hate win again. Never again means everyone.
25 years since 9/11, the day America's future changed.
2,977 lives lost & thousands more to the health impacts after. True bravery was shown by the first responders who ran toward the horror. We remember them all.
But as a brown kid in America, I remember what came after too.
Then with bipartisan support, we started endless wars. Two decades, trillions of dollars, hundreds of thousands of lives and in places that had nothing to do with the men who attacked us. We lost then (still are now) and we spent a generation and a fortune to do it.
Black and brown moms have stood exactly where Clancy is standing, with a fraction of the resources, a fraction of the sympathy, and none of the benefit of the doubt. That's the double standard. That's the real story here imo.
The lone holdout on the Lindsay Clancy jury was the only person of color in the room. Tells you everything about why representation on juries actually matters. When everyone in the room shares the same blind spots, it takes one person who sees differently to slow things down.
Postpartum psychosis is real and serious, and every woman who suffers it deserves care and compassion. But that compassion has to be for ALL mothers, not just the ones who look like the crowd gathered outside this courthouse.