Politically Able

As a true blue Democrat, I created Rolling Forward Politically Able to empower and educate voters with disabilities. Follow my other account @The_Ronntourage

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@NYCMayor The corner of Havemeyer Ave and Havilland Ave could use snow removal. I'm in a wheelchair and have been trapped in my assisted living facility since Monday. Thank you!

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I stopped by the Sedgwick Houses Family Day event in the West Bronx.

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Statement from 32BJ SEIU President @MannyPastreich on today’s ruling by the District Court for the District of Columbia on the termination of TPS for Haiti:

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I was honored to join the Bronx community in celebrating the public service of the NYPD at National Night Out.

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I stopped by the Saint Mary’s Park Family Day event in the South Bronx.

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I recently conducted an oversight inspection of the Delaney Detention Center, a billion-dollar boondoggle that has more to do with cruelty than with public safety.

Most of the immigrants detained at Delaney have no history of serious or violent crime. None.

Immigrants like Edwin Jovanny Lopez Cornejo are dying senselessly in a detention facility that has no reason to exist.

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Congressman George Latimer and I conducted an oversight inspection of the Delaney Detention Center. The overwhelming majority of the detainees held there have no criminal history. None.

The Trump administration is squandering a staggering $1 billion on a detention facility that should not exist in the first place.

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I stopped by the Teller Avenue Family Day event in the South Bronx.

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None of us on the mainland should presume to know what is best for Puerto Rico.

The people of Puerto Rico must determine their own political future.

Rather than imposing a preferred status from on high, Congress should commit to codifying whatever path the island democratically chooses.

Let the people of Puerto Rico decide.

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A violent extremist stabbed a Jewish New Yorker and an Asian New Yorker while shouting “Allahu Akbar.”

The attacks serve as a bloody reminder that we are living in an age of heightened hatred and antisemitism, with hate crimes against the Jewish community reaching levels rarely seen before.

Instead of combating antisemitism, American politics has become increasingly consumed by an unrelenting campaign of demonization directed at the Jewish people and the Jewish state.

Enough is enough.

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Nancy Mace wants to shut down the House Republican Conference?

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Having Russell Vought as CFPB Director is like having a pope who doesn’t believe in Catholicism.

If you don’t believe in consumer protection, why lead the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau?

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Russell Vought is wrong.

187 years before Project 2025, the Supreme Court emphatically rejected Russell Vought’s theory that a president has the constitutional authority to suspend spending laws enacted by Congress.

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Russell Vought has repeatedly asserted that Donald Trump has the constitutional authority to suspend spending laws enacted by Congress.

I asked Mr. Vought whether, under his theory, the President could unilaterally defund the Department of Defense, the Supreme Court, or entitlement programs such as Social Security and Medicare. He conspicuously refused to answer.

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Russell Vought has repeatedly asserted that Donald Trump has the constitutional authority to ignore spending laws enacted by Congress.

So I confronted him with a simple question: Is it seriously your position that the Founding Fathers intended to grant to a president like Donald Trump impoundment powers that the British monarch himself did not possess when the American people overthrow him 250 years ago?

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I had the honor of celebrating the installation of community solar panels across a portfolio of more than 70 properties in the Bronx.

These installations will reduce the electricity supply charges on ConEd bills by 20% for low-income families while cutting greenhouse gas emissions.

Lower energy costs. Cleaner air. A greener Bronx.

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Whenever commentators decry the “unprecedented” partisanship of contemporary American politics, remind them that a sitting Vice President, Aaron Burr, fatally shot his political adversary, Alexander Hamilton, in a duel.

Almost nothing is as unprecedented as it seems in the present.

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BREAKING: CNN hurls MAGA pundit Scott Jennings under the bus by announcing that they do NOT endorse his claim that Mitch McConnell is alive and making phone calls.

Things are getting VERY fishy, very fast...

“As a CNN Political Commentator, Scott Jennings is not a full-time employee or journalist for the network,” a network spokesperson told The Daily Beast. “His account of a personal conversation with Senator McConnell reflects his experience and is not CNN reporting."

Jennings claimed during an appearance on CNN that he had spoken to his "old friend" McConnell for 20 minutes on the phone. He was trying in vain to tamp down on the spreading speculation that the senator is braindead or perhaps even totally dead.

McConnell was hospitalized three weeks ago after suffering a cardiac arrest and receiving CPR on site. Right after he was admitted, his wife Elaine Chao flew to China to meet with top-ranking CCP officials. Then, earlier today, it was discovered that McConnell's D.C. residence is undergoing dramatic floor renovations.

Something is definitely going on and his office refuses to provide a real explanation.

It would be a simple matter for McConnell to release proof of life. Even a photo of him weak in a hospital bed giving a thumbs up would suffice. Right now, his constituents have no idea if their senator will ever be returning to work.

Scott Jennings is a professional liar who spends most of his time defending Trump's endless crimes, abuses, and dementia-tinged mistakes. Dishonesty is second nature for him. He could be helping McConnell's camp cover up the truth to avoid allowing Kentucky's Democratic governor to appoint a replacement, followed by a special election. Or he spoke to an AI voice mimicking McConnell.

One thing is certain: We are not getting the full story.

Please ❤️ and share if you don't believe Scott Jennings!

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The greatest Little Italy is on Arthur Avenue in the Bronx.

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The notion of an authoritarian President accepting a $400 million gift from a foreign monarch would have been utterly horrifying to the founding fathers, who sought to protect the presidency from corrupting foreign influence.

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I stood with SEIU 1199 and Bronx leaders to oppose Donald Trump’s racially motivated termination of TPS.

Donald Trump accused Haitian immigrants of “poisoning the blood of our country.” Yet the Supreme Court insists there is no evidence of racial animus. In effect, the Court would have us ignore the evidence of our own eyes and ears.

The real-world effect of its decision is to legitimize racial discrimination against Black and Brown immigrants, denying them equal protection under the law.