Kate Linker

Vice-President of Greater NYC for Change, passionate fighter for social justice, OK person, too

[Brad Lander @bradlander]

They just so desperately want to control women’s bodies & life choices.

[Rep. Summer Lee @RepSummerLee]

Modern healthcare was built on the exploitation of Black bodies, from nonconsensual experiments on enslaved women to the theft of Henrietta Lacks’ cells.

Now, Republicans call efforts to level the playing field “DEI” instead of addressing the inequities they helped create.

[Steve Rattner @SteveRattner]

Trump's $4 billion Presidential windfall is unprecedented in scale & source.

Obama's wealth grew from royalties on books written before office — and Bush's mostly from a sports‑team stake from over a decade prior.

Most of Trump's new billions are from deals made in office.

[Rebecca C. Lewis @_rebeccaclewis]

Inbox: Over 100 lawmakers from around the state and at different levels of government have signed onto a letter to Schumer and Jefferies calling for ICE to be abolished.
Led by state Sen. Julia Salazar, Assembly Member Diana Moreno and NYC Council Member Shahana Hanif

[Harry Sisson @harryjsisson]

This is becoming insane. Please stop doing so many good things.

[Stacey Abrams @staceyabrams]

Donald Trump just used a primetime address to relitigate an election he lost six years ago — and to demand new laws making it harder to vote.

Americans see through the lies. He tried this in Georgia first: a call to "find 11,780 votes," a raid on Fulton County, and now a war on the ballot itself.

That's not democracy. That's cowardice. America, we've beaten it before.

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

Only US citizens can vote.
The SAVE America Act is a voter suppression bill.

The accepted forms of ID to vote under the SAVE America Act:

1. Enhanced REAL ID: Only available in 5 states. Costs up to $50 (poll tax) and requires a birth certificate which 40M Americans lack access to.

2. Valid passport: 146M Americans do not have and costs at least $130 (poll tax). Trump gutted the agencies issuing them.

3. U.S. military ID card presented with military record of service.

4. Government-issued photo ID showing place of birth: 300M Americans do not have one, and costs up to $50 (poll tax).

5. Non-Enhanced REAL ID driver’s license, state ID, or tribal ID shown in conjunction with a birth certificate (40M lack access to) that matches your last name (which 69M women do not have due to marriage) and other forms of documentation, and which require a cost to obtain (poll tax).

If this was truly a voter ID bill, it would provide every eligible voter in the U.S. a voter ID, and provide them at no cost to align with the 24th Amendment — so why doesn’t this bill do that if voter ID is so popular?

[Tom Nichols @RadioFreeTom]

The documents are so damning in refuting Trump's own case that I wonder if anyone in the White House actually read them (or understood what they were looking at)

[Olivia Julianna 🇺🇸🦅🗳️ @0liviajulianna]

Your kid can’t have a free school lunch because that’s excessive spending but Vance’s kids get flown to golf lessons in military helicopters. Gross.

[Eric Michael Garcia @EricMGarcia]

AOC on Susan Collins touting the money she got for body cameras and ICE training in the DHS bill.

“Senator Collins wrote the blank check to allow these officers to conduct themselves in the way that they have in Maine in the first place, and she's the one who's poured resources into it.”

[Democratic Wins Media @DemocraticWins]

BREAKING: In a stunning moment, the Miami Herald just endorsed Alex Vindman for Senate. This is a major endorsement.

[Ellen #VoteBlue Bender 💙 🏳️‍🌈 @ElvinBen]

If you don’t think that this is an indictment of our politics, you’re probably part of the problem.

[Michael McFaul @McFaul]

The Strait of Hormuz was opened every single day of the eight years of the Obama administration.

And we didn't have to bomb anyone to achieve that goal.

Iran also never acquired a nuclear weapon in those 8 Obama years.

And we didn't have to bomb anyone to achieve that goal.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Jayapal: I’m somebody who feels like it doesn’t matter what you want to call it, but we have to disband ICE. We have to abolish ICE. Whatever word you want to use, what we need to get to is the end result: ICE should not exist as it exists.

And DHS should not exist as it exists. There’s no reason for DHS to exist. Immigration is a civil enforcement matter. It is not criminal. And that’s what people keep not understanding. It is a civil enforcement matter.

It used to be handled out of the Department of Justice as a civil matter. Now it’s been criminalized. It’s been put into this massive agency that was created after 9/11 that should not be there. It is completely unaccountable and sprawling.

[Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @RepAOC]

Israel must release pediatrician Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, who has been held without charge for 18 months and now faces an imminent threat to his life from torture.

Israel must end the targeting of health workers and the inhumane treatment of Palestinians in arbitrary detention.

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

The real threat Zohran Mamdani poses is to the career politicians who’ve spent decades making promises, then doing nothing while telling people to vote harder next time.

He’s showing people that elected officials can actually do things that help them in their everyday lives.

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

President of Mexico Claudia Sheinbaum will seek criminal charges over the deaths of 17 Mexican nationals who have died in US ICE custody.

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani announces click-to-cancel rule for NYC.

This rule is aimed at guaranteeing New Yorkers can cancel subscriptions as easily as they sign up — and stopping corporations from trapping customers.

This will save New Yorkers up to $162.5 million per year.

[Brad Lander @bradlander]

I first met @AbdulElSayed through our dear friend Ady Barkan, who died of ALS while courageously crusading for Medicare for All, and there is no one who will work harder than Abdul to win that fight. We need Abdul in the Senate to end the reign of billionaires and special interests, so Congress can deliver for working people. 

Abdul and I will also be partners in resetting U.S. foreign policy to achieve a just peace for Palestinians and Israelis, beginning by ending U.S. military aid to Israel while it violates international law and Palestinian human rights. We share the belief that the rights and safety of Jewish and Muslim people are inextricably intertwined, from the Midwest to Midtown to the Middle East.

[Mark Warner @MarkWarner]

Reports that the White House has dismissed the remaining members of the Election Assistance Commission — all of whom were unanimously confirmed by the Senate, including a commissioner appointed by President Trump himself — should concern every American, regardless of party, because the EAC was established by Congress as an independent, bipartisan body to help states administer secure and credible elections.

If these reports are accurate, removing every remaining commissioner just months before the 2026 midterm elections is an extraordinary step that demands an immediate explanation from the administration and raises profound concerns about political interference in the institutions that support our elections.