Michelle Hertel

Policy Wonk | Data Visualizer | Research Analyst

Passionate about politics, books, music, and dogs. Especially interested in electoral policies. she/they

[Michelle Hertel @hertel_turtle]

This is probably one of the biggest projects I've made to date - and I did it entirely freehand! If you're a fellow lover of libraries, get your pattern and start stitching!

When in Doubt, Go to the Library Cross Stitch Pattern https://t.co/fvwa4CxTeA via @Etsy

[Michelle Hertel @hertel_turtle]

Very cool the way @Target just locks everything up now and then no one answers the sensors that are supposed to call for help. Second time recently I've just ditched target to shop elsewhere because of this - why drive 20 minutes to get totally ignored?

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Jimmy Carter has been right about Palestine and Israel for the last 50 years.

[Warren Gunnels @GunnelsWarren]

Your daily reminder that Medicare for All would save 68,000 lives and $650 billion dollars each and every year, per Yale and the Republican Director of the Congressional Budget Office.

[Mckayla @MeetMckayla]

I pray that Marcellus Williams feels no pain and that he feels no fear. My heart hurts and I can’t say that the system failed him because the system was never created to save people who look like him. A system that perpetuates this is a system that should not exist.

[Sister Helen Prejean @helenprejean]

What does it say about our legal system when the U.S. Supreme Court refuses to stop an execution even when the county prosecuting agency that handled the original trial files a brief in support of a stay and supports vacating the entire conviction? #MarcellusWilliams

[Michelle Hertel @hertel_turtle]

@seizuremeans I literally spent $200 on books before 10:30 😅

[Dave Zirin @EdgeofSports]

Rajoub was today arrested by the IDF. had his passport seized, and brought to a military interrogation center upon his return to the West Bank from Paris. His crime seems to be his insistence that Israel be barred from the Olympics. This response by Israel kinda proves his point.

[Gabrielle Union @itsgabrielleu]

Transphobia, misogyny and good old plain racism. For many athletes, not fitting into arbitrary gender norms creates this whirling dervish of bigotry, harassment and abuse.

[Rashida Tlaib @RashidaTlaib]

Bombing a school is a war crime under international humanitarian law. Period.

[Gabrielle Giffords @GabbyGiffords]

Vice President @KamalaHarris is a proud mom of two remarkable stepchildren—and so am I. @CaptMarkKelly and I were trying to have a baby through IVF before I was shot and that dream was stolen from us. To suggest we are somehow lesser is disgraceful.

[Janai @TheLocDon]

Let’s stop calling these heat waves and call it what it is: global warming.

It’s been 90+ degrees for the past month. We’ve been breaking temperature records every day.

[Michelle Hertel @hertel_turtle]

Except Israel has repeatedly rejected ceasefire deals that Hamas agreed to. It's disgusting that the State Department is peddling these lies while at the same time Biden has said there's "every reason" to believe Netanyahu is prolonging the war for political gain.

[Department of State @StateDept]

The world should know, the Palestinian people should know that the only thing standing in the way of an immediate ceasefire today is Hamas.

[Liz Charboneau @lizchar]

DC residents should get to hug the pandas hello

[Nina Parker @theninaparker]

Sending so much love to victims of domestic violence and abuse. I know that video will be incredibly triggering to watch. Please take time offline today if you need it. ♥️

[Michelle Hertel @hertel_turtle]

Some of these videos are of children carrying other children to try and get them help. There is no humanity in those who carry out these bombings or those who turn a blind eye to the atrocities.

[Chris Hayes @chrislhayes]

If these numbers were the opposite, if homicides were up 19% so far this year it would be the number one, or at least top three domestic story.

[sarah @sahouraxo]

BREAKING: Israel’s criminal invasion of Rafah, the last place of refuge for Palestinians in Gaza, has begun.

1.7 million civilians trapped in Rafah are now being attacked through air, land and sea, in the middle of the night.