Ben Bernier

teaching at @fcpsnews, learning at @ScharSchool • james madison fellow '24 • formerly #nhpolitics and 2x alum @uofnh • he/him

[Ben Bernier @_benbernier]

Hey @wmataGM did you know there’s an AMC within walking distance from each Silver Line terminus? Today we saw movies at both and had a great ride from one to the other!

[Washington Post Opinions @PostOpinions]

D.C. Democrats tarnish themselves by resisting ranked-choice voting, the Editorial Board writes.
https://t.co/LARKs0xCka

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

Instead of stealing Greenland from Denmark, let’s steal some of their policies.

In Denmark:

- Health care and college are free.  

- The starting wage is $22/hr.

- Paid parental leave is 1 year.

- Paid vacation is 6 weeks.  

- All workers get pensions.

[Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley @RepPressley]

📢Know Your Rights!

Communities across the country are dealing with the fear and threat of immigration raids.

To our immigrant neighbors and families, I am so sorry you are facing this cruelty and targeting, and our office is here as a resource.

[Ben Bernier @_benbernier]

Welcome back to Hayfield, @RepDonBeyer! Thanks for stopping by after school to chat with students!

[Ben Bernier @_benbernier]

My students would say she’s so relatable ❤️

[Rachel Palermo @RachelEPalermo]

Thrilled to share that ~300 former staff (and counting!) of Vice President @KamalaHarris — from across her career — are proud to endorse her for President of the United States.

[Ben Bernier @_benbernier]

Thanks @KathyKLTran and @Henson4Virginia for coming to speak with students at Hayfield today!

[Congresswoman Cori Bush (Archived) @RepCori]

More than 1 million people, including 600,000 children, are sheltering in Rafah with nowhere else to go.

This isn’t war. This is genocide.

@POTUS must stop the IDF’s assault on Rafah and stop enabling war crimes.

[George Takei @GeorgeTakei]

On this day 82 years ago, on February 19, 1942, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, in the height of insanity of racism after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, signed Executive Order 9066.

It ordered all Japanese Americans on the West Coast to be summarily rounded up and imprisoned within 10 barbed wire prison camps, with no charges, no trial, no due process.

One day, a few months later, we saw two soldiers marching up our driveway, carrying rifles with shiny bayonets on them. They stopped up the porch right in front of our window and banged on the front door. My father answered, and one of the soldiers pointed the rifle at him, right in front of us, and ordered us out of our home. I had just turned five in April; it was May when they came to take us away.

My father gave my brother Henry and me two heavy suitcases. And we brought them out onto the driveway and waited for our mother to come out. When she did, she had our baby sister in one arm, a huge duffel bag in the other, and tears were streaming down her cheeks.

That is one morning that is seared into my memory. I will never be able to forget all the innocent people, my family included, who had nothing to do with Pearl Harbor, most of who were law abiding U.S. citizens, who were suddenly categorized as ‘enemy aliens.’

Today, I hear terrifying words from political leaders today that once more raise the specter of what happened before, right here in America.

Donald Trump and his allies are talking about rounding up 11 million people and putting them into mass detention camps before deporting them.

There won’t be time for due process, to sort out who is documented and who is not. Homes will be lost. Businesses, too. Families will be torn apart. Lives will be ruined, over fear and ignorance, all to serve the ambitions and agendas of politicians.

I know, because I lived through it.

I say, never again. Not while I have one ounce of fight still left in me.

Join me. Fight this madness. Help keep America from repeating the mistakes of its past.

[Ben Bernier @_benbernier]

A few days late but was so great to have @RepDonBeyer in the house to meet with students last week!

[Ben Bernier @_benbernier]

Thank you Officer Grace for chatting with AP Gov students about civil liberties, due process, and students’ rights in schools! @FCPSHayfieldSS

[Ben Bernier @_benbernier]

@MattGerdingNH Good luck! 💪🏼

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

Progress in Virginia is at stake in this election—and there's no time to waste. Every single seat in the Virginia General Assembly will be on the ballot tomorrow, November 7th, so make a plan to vote and find your polling place at https://t.co/vsawTNmQkZ.

[Ben Bernier @_benbernier]

Thank you @KathyKLTran and @KyleMcDaniel89 for joining Hayfield Dems today, 40 days out from Election Day!

[Ben Bernier @_benbernier]

Packed house for @HayfieldDems kickoff meeting! Thanks @ssurovell and @SupervisorLusk for helping hype up our students ahead of an important election year in Virginia! #vapolitics

[Ben Bernier @_benbernier]

“Weaponization of the Federal Government” who?

[Scott Wong @scottwongDC]

NEW: Conservatives bring the House to a halt as anger at McCarthy's debt deal remains

A small bloc of far-right rebels is holding the floor of the House of Representatives hostage.

w/@alivitali & assists from @KyleAlexStewart & @Kate_Santaliz https://t.co/9x8FDbZdHr

[Ben Bernier @_benbernier]

So proud of our @FCPSHayfieldSS Model UN kids for repping our school at the US State Department today!

[Ben Bernier @_benbernier]

Thanks @KyleMcDaniel89 and @DominicT3445 for stopping by to talk about youth advocacy and upcoming elections with @HayfieldDems!

[Ben Bernier @_benbernier]

Happy Patriots’ Day!

[The Boston Globe @BostonGlobe]

Photos: Minute Men reenact Battle of Lexington, first of American Revolutionary War https://t.co/f00ePaz4q8