irene

Mother, veteran teacher, dancer, music maker. Liberation politics. New Yorker.

[irene @irenewildflower]

@NMAAHC I bought this pair of earrings in DC store in March. I lost one and I’m so sad! Can you help me track down the artist? I’d love to support and get new one!

[Leah Goodridge @leahfrombklyn]

In the middle of a pandemic…

When NYC unemployment nearly doubles the national average…

When median Manhattan rent is $4K..

The Rent Guidelines Board decided tonight to increase rent at its highest in nearly a decade. NYC tenants: I wanna let you know who fought for you…🧵

[irene @irenewildflower]

@ShawnteJamesMD 1975 here. I take my nap from 8-10. Happy to take your call and quick party from 11-1am to socialize, feel alive, dance, leave the house :)

[irene @irenewildflower]

@JackieWoodson My 8 year old neice is on her 5th Harry Potter book!

[Jill Filipovic @JillFilipovic]

How many men are sitting in elected office, running companies, caring for their much-loved kids, going on big adventures, working their way up, making their art, writing their books, appearing on your television screen because they didn't become fathers before they were ready?

[irene @irenewildflower]

@lfadulu Teachers leaving the profession and the impact on public schools. My sons public high school is unable to find substitute teachers or replacements for new vacancies.

[irene @irenewildflower]

@greerplastics I’m so sorry

[irene @irenewildflower]

@Lollardfish Woah!

[irene @irenewildflower]

@jenniferbonjean Amazing!! 🔥

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

There will be no real social progress in this country unless we have the courage to take on Wall Street, the insurance companies, the drug companies, the fossil fuel industry, and all other forces of greed.

[Steven Donziger @SDonziger]

BREAKING: Major leak from oil pipeline in Ecuador's Amazon happening in real time. Saw many of these in @Chevron's oil fields; they were rarely remediated.

The oil and gas industry treats our ecosystem like a trash bin. Thanks @AFrontlines for exposing.

[Steven Donziger @SDonziger]

One of the great human rights lawyers of our time — @philippesands — argues "ecocide" (the wanton destruction of the environment) must be a new international atrocity crime equal to genocide.

The most important legal battle of our generation.
@EcocideLaw

[Susan Glasser @sbg1]

Am thinking tonight as a high school mom of those grieving parents in Michigan who lost their children… and wondering for the millionth time how we can live in a country that has somehow normalized these shootings and does essentially NOTHING to stop them.

[irene @irenewildflower]

To my #1 podcast of 2021, @brenebrown: thank you for keeping me company on @Spotify all year long! #SpotifyWrapped https://t.co/D1n81IRRd3

[Elizabeth Warren @ewarren]

No worker in America should make less than $15 an hour, and every worker should have schedules they can plan around, somewhere safe for their kids to learn and play, and the ability to join a union.

[Bishop Talbert Swan @TalbertSwan]

The problem in Texas is not the Taliban. Stop making that reference.

The problem in Texas is white men and white women who support them.

Long before the Taliban, whiteness was a problem.

You don’t need anything Black, brown, or Muslim to compare the evil of white supremacy to.

[Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones]

What a damn headline. Can you demonstrate where else we call those who fought against the U.S. war heroes? And a man who fought to preserve racial slavery is “largely seen” as a symbol of “racial injustice?” This is how discomfort obscures the truth and relies on euphemism.

[Saadia Z. Yunus, LMFT @saadiazyunus]

The other person may not change by you speaking up. But you speaking up ignites a spark inside of you that will grow until you no longer allow them to mistreat you. The speaking up is for you.

[Jill Filipovic @JillFilipovic]

She’s right they these men have never faced these choices and have never been pregnant. But for a lot of women, choosing abortion is among the easiest, best, and most obvious decisions of our lives.