tessa simonds 🗽

managing campaign work @bluestate. past: senior advisor for digital organizing @thedemocrats & @ewarren email me again, I forgot

[tessa simonds 🗽 @TessSimonds]

“We're not here today because of famous arches or famous men. In fact, we're not here because of men at all.” - @ewarren 🗽🗽

[Sam Karas @sammiecarrots]

DHS just dropped its largest border wall contract ever (by a long shot) for $2.6 billion to Fisher Sand & Gravel, a company with an extensive history of fraud, in one of the most remote and least-trafficked parts of the US-Mexico border in the Big Bend. https://t.co/quKM9uNQLx

[shelby cole @shelbylcole]

ratioing stephen miller and mogging katie miller aside: @paulinaVEVO and our team at @TheDemocrats are running one of the most innovative content programs in politics. if you want to support that work, you can donate here: https://t.co/NlgAlKeb2w

[Democrats @TheDemocrats]

@StephenM shut up you ugly fuck

[John Bisognano @johnbisognano]

SCOTUS decided, to inject itself into an ongoing election & at this point no one can say otherwise.

It has historically used the Purcell doctrine to ensure that courts aren't meddling in elections, and yet this court felt comfort in doing so.

Everyone needs to understand this.

[Timmy Facciola @TimmyFacciola_]

Almost 15 years after the collapse of Occupy Wall Street, New York City has a socialist mayor celebrating May Day.

[Democrats @TheDemocrats]

Maine, let’s send an oyster farmer to the U.S. Senate—and kick out Susan Collins.

[Nick Offerman @Nick_Offerman]

•The U.S. Senate may hold a floor vote TODAY which would overturn a 20-year moratorium on sulfide-ore copper mining on 225,000 acres of Superior National Forest land in the watershed of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area (BWCA) Wilderness in northern Minnesota. The Boundary Waters is the most visited Wilderness in the United States. 

🛶 Enjoying the Minnesotan/Canadian wilderness by canoe or other lesser watercraft is one of our nations greatest available pastimes, and one I have personally enjoyed my entire life. We must protect these public lands from the rapacious capitalists threatening to turn them into a poisoned wasteland.

•This vote in Congress would open the door to copper mining at the headwaters of this entire ecosystem. This kind of mining produces toxic pollution, including acid runoff and heavy metals, that can contaminate nearby waters.

•The Boundary Waters supports a major outdoor economy that sustains thousands of jobs and generates over a billion dollars a year - built on clean water and intact public lands. But this vote would clear the way for toxic mining that puts all of that at risk. It would also set a dangerous precedent, making it easier to roll back protections for public lands across the country, including wilderness areas, national monuments, and national parks. 

•This is a defining moment. If you care about clean water, public lands, and protecting places we can’t replace, now is the time to speak up.
•Protect the Boundary Waters, and vote NO on House Joint Resolution 140. Let’s save this treasured place for all of us—forever. https://t.co/JhNAR6Za2O

[Emma Mont (She/Her) @theemmamont]

i am constantly in awe of women who do the hard and brave thing of speaking out like this

[tessa simonds 🗽 @TessSimonds]

A staffer on the campaign called to ask her to “vouch for Swalwell.”

[Michael Scherer @michaelscherer]

A lesson for campaign staff everywhere on how not to handle allegations of sexual assault by your candidate.

[Monica Venzke @monicavenzke]

Your (married) boss, who is almost two decades your senior, isn’t supposed to solicit sex from you. And all of you trying to unpack that in any other way on this app look really fucking dumb

[Olivia Messer @OliviaMesser]

I just think all women should get to work in politics and report from their state or federal Capitol without being assaulted at work.

[Olivia Messer @OliviaMesser]

I have spent my entire career reporting on sexual misconduct by politicians. The barrier to publication anywhere with good lawyers is very, very high. Getting women to speak and share personal records and acquire corroboration from friends and colleagues is extremely difficult.

[tessa simonds 🗽 @TessSimonds]

How the fuck did this happen. We owed these victims so much more. Men like this need to be run out of politics — and no one should ever work in a Democratic campaign or office where they can’t come forward with an allegation of sexual harassment or rape. https://t.co/WwtUhLfzLp

[Helen Brosnan @HelenBrosnan]

We can’t take care of you, you idiots

[Emily Pontecorvo @emilypont]

We are launching a big project today with MIT —

The Electricity Price Hub!

You can view monthly electricity prices per kwh and avg. bills for every major utility in the country going back to Jan 2020.

https://t.co/xcyd51Z8cy

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

SO proud of @AyannaPressley for pulling this off.

This is a huge achievement that took a tremendous amount of leadership, foresight, and organizing.

Support her!

[Sam Karas @sammiecarrots]

The latest on the "people who donated to Kristi Noem get insanely lucrative contracts for vanity projects" beat https://t.co/QyIlZ21gkM

[Texas Monthly @TexasMonthly]

"To destroy all this with a steel wall? It seemed insane. It would be like building a power plant in front of Half Dome, in Yosemite, or constructing an Amazon distribution center at the rim of the Grand Canyon. A pointless desecration," writes Forrest Wilder. https://t.co/Etu6SC7xui

[Alison 🌾 @alison_renner]

I was under the impression that everyone was against taking public land (your land!) away from national parks.

The US government is planing to build a steel wall right through Big Bend National Park, fencing off YOUR canyons, hot springs, and river access.

[Laiken Jordahl @LaikenJordahl]

The Big Bend Sector is consistently the quietest sector on the entire border. Nationally, border crossings are an all time low. Yet they're moving to destroy one of the wildest places in the West--a truly iconic landscape that represents our freedom & natural heritage. For what?