Gaby Alemán Vassallo

she/ella | @UNC alumna | raíces en 🇵🇷🇦🇷🇨🇺🇺🇸

[Andrés Pertierra @ASPertierra]

Per NYT, Cuba is confirmed to be on draft list of countries from whom a immigration and travel would be totally banned

[garçon @boymolish]

W✨

[Andy Kim @AndyKimNJ]

In 2020 I was one of 7 dems that won a district that Trump won, so I held a series of listening sessions with people who voted for Trump and voted for me to understand their actions. I reread the transcripts yesterday and much of it felt like it could have been said today. THREAD

[briana. @brianasj_]

This sounds frivolous in the grand scheme of things but we need to support archivists, protect public libraries, protect journalists, writers, artists, photographers, and filmmakers. We need to continue to keep culture alive and educate our youth.

[Wendell Pierce @WendellPierce]

Elections have consequences. The Supreme Court will be changed for a generation. I’ll never see a moderate court again in my lifetime. Alito and Thomas will step down and Trump will appoint 40 year old partisans to the bench. The damage he is about to inflict on our institutions the next 2 years will be irreparable.

[Jon Bois @jon_bois]

here's someone who's taken as much grief from as many sides as anybody and just won again because she's ideologically consistent and her voters know exactly who she is

[kendra @kendramorous]

lock tf in. get your ass in mutual aid groups. lend your time to meal services. care for people in the way a vote simply never could. advocate for community gardens and libraries. stop betraying community. you don’t get a sticker or gold star. lock in.

[Justin Parmenter @JustinParmenter]

Waking up to awful presidential news but some very good news for North Carolina to not lose sight of as well:

We broke the GOP supermajority in the N.C. General Assembly thanks in part to Dante Pittman’s hard fought win in the N.C. House. #ncpol #nced

[Michael J Bustamante, Ph.D. @MJ_Busta]

As a literal hurricane barrels down on Western Cuba, a first take on what the other hurricane last night might mean for an already crisis-ridden Cuba and U.S.-Cuban relations.

[kaela | franchaela nation 🏰 @kaekaecurtis]

please keep the “we survived him once, we will do it again” tweets in the drafts or better yet delete them. millions of people did not in fact survive him, and millions more will not survive him again.

[Jason Garcia @Jason_Garcia]

The impact of gerrymandering:

A state where 57 percent of voters want to eliminate government interference with abortion has a Legislature that imposed a near-total ban on abortion.

[Andrés Pertierra @ASPertierra]

The reason that I’m so vocal about domestic failings in Cuba and don’t focus solely on the embargo is not just because it’s true that sometimes the root problem is homemade rather than imposed, but also bc the embargo isn’t going anywhere anytime soon so domestic reform is urgent

[Mario J. Pentón @MarioJPenton]

Lo que ha pasado en Baracoa es terrible. Personas que no estaban preparadas para un huracán han visto volar lo poco que tenían. Muchos me escriben desde allá para contarme lo difícil que lo están pasando ¿Cómo podemos ayudar? Las Hermanas de la Caridad de San Vicente de Paúl están en esa área y confío plenamente en ellas al igual que en las iglesias.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Not sure who is making the argument that ‘four more years of this will fix things’; the argument being made by AOC, Ilhan, Bernie, and others on the left is that we have a (tiny) chance of ending this under one candidate and zero chance under the other. That’s the argument. 🤷🏽‍♂️

[Andrés Pertierra @ASPertierra]

I’ve been very outspoken on Cuba’s domestic failings (which get underplayed as part of a false binary of embargo or internal dysfunction) but the embargo absolutely does add to it and we should be sending aid and easing sanctions for (if nothing else) humanitarian reasons

[Gaby Alemán Vassallo @gasoalva]

@ASPertierra Por favor 😭🙏🏼 I’ll help, but this is sorely needed bc people really think they are the experts on the embargo

[Patrick Oppmann CNN @CNN_Oppmann]

Breaking: Cuba suffered another nationwide power outage Saturday morning just hours after officials said power was slowly being restored.

[Andrés Pertierra @ASPertierra]

One of the things that’s exhausting about Cuba discourse is that so much time and energy has to be spent getting people to recognize just basic facts and problems that their particular side doesn’t want to talk about that there’s far less time spent figuring out real solutions