Jeri Shepherd

Semiretired attorney, live with Baby Kitty, former DNC committee person, troublemaker.

[Rep. Pramila Jayapal @RepJayapal]

14 U.S. Catholic Bishops sent a letter to Congress in opposition of Republicans’ DHS funding bill.

Read their powerful words in defense of immigrants:

[Warren Gunnels @GunnelsWarren]

Funny. I thought it was morally wrong for Elon Musk, the wealthiest man alive worth more than $800 billion, to eliminate humanitarian aid that will cause 4.5 million of the poorest kids on the planet to die in the next 4 years.

[Eric Lee @EricLeeAtty]

Per @HoustonChron, ICE spends $1,125 per person per day detaining people at Dilley.

That means ICE charged taxpayers $2,187,000 to detain the El Gamal family (5 kids + mom) for 324 days!

[Warren Gunnels @GunnelsWarren]

Yes. The real welfare queen in America is Jeff Bezos, worth $279 billion, who pays wages so low his workers rely on food stamps & Medicaid while he sailed on his $500 million yacht to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring because his tax rate is less than 1%.

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

The real SNAP scandal:

75% of SNAP recipients work.

When employers pay poverty wages, their workers are forced to rely on taxpayer-funded programs like SNAP.

That’s corporations abusing SNAP to subsidize their profits at the expense of taxpayers, not SNAP recipients abusing the system.

[Warren Gunnels @GunnelsWarren]

Can't stop thinking about Elon Musk, the wealthiest man alive worth $828 billion, spending $290 million to elect Trump, becoming $563 billion richer since Trump was elected and ending humanitarian aid that will lead to the deaths of 4.5 million of the poorest kids on the planet.

[Congressman Greg Casar @RepCasar]

This is outrageous and undermines the rights of every single American.

A federal judge ordered the Trump Administration not to detain or remove the El Gamal family.

ICE waited until the family had left Texas, then defied the judge's order.

If they can ignore a court order to go after this family, anyone could be next.

ICE must release the Gamal family.

[Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley @RepPressley]

These numbers are damning.

Trump's cuts to SNAP are having devastating consequences for families, children, & vulnerable people across this country.

The people deserve better.

[Dr. Abdul El-Sayed @AbdulElSayed]

It should say something about America rn that the guy who invented Cherry Garcia now has to spend his time reminding us that they’re cutting your Medicaid to buy bombs.

[David Sirota @davidsirota]

JD Vance quietly engineered a Supreme Court case designed to expand Citizens United and destroy what still remains of anti-corruption campaign finance laws.

And the Supreme Court is expected to issue its ruling any day.

Pass it on �

[Eric Lee @EricLeeAtty]

DHS spokesperson applauds federal government for unconstitutionally kidnapping children and their sick mother in violation of federal court orders and admits its because of something they didn't do. Is this what people voted for?

[Jane Fleming Kleeb🇺🇸We The People @janekleeb]

For decades local party leaders like me have been demanding the DNC think big, fund long-term investments in state parties, listen to local community organizers, invest and organize everywhere, and stop ignoring red states.

@kenmartin73 is doing it. One million bucks a month gets invested back into state parties doing organizing, candidate recruitment, voter contact everyday.

It makes you wonder why pundits and national consultants keep trashing what he’s doing.

—

Chair Martin helping @DemStateParties build the infrastructure--on the ground where the voters and candidates are--needed to capitalize on massive Dem enthusiasm.

It might not be flashy, but it is working. You can already see it in historic candidate recruitment all around the country:

Texas: Every legislative race contested for the first time in modern history.

South Carolina: Same.

Georgia: 88% of House seats.

Arizona: Every district.

Oklahoma: 20% of their candidates are veterans.

[k @alfkkifine]

ICE detained a dialysis patient the morning of her treatment.
She died 36 hours later in a detention infirmary.
They logged it as "natural causes."
When policy kills, call it what it is.

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

This statement changes nothing.

The President has threatened a genocide against the Iranian people, and is continuing to leverage that threat.

He has launched a massive war of enormous risk and of catastrophic consequence without reason, rationale, nor Congressional authorization - which is as clear a violation of the Constitution as any. Each day this goes on, the risk and criminality of these actions escalate for our nation and the world.

Moreover, this administration’s self enrichment, insider trading, and pure corruption off this chaos - from crypto currencies to predictive trading markets to bribe “settlements” - has placed the Trump administration’s pursuit of personal wealth squarely against the wellbeing of our nation and its people.

All of these incidents, and plenty more, have clearly driven our country past the threshold for impeachment or invocation of the 25th amendment.

We cannot risk the world nor the wellbeing of our nation any longer. None of these considerations should be partisan, but shared in good faith by Americans of all backgrounds who care for the safety and stability of the United States.

Whether by his Cabinet or Congress, the President must be removed from office. We are playing with the brink.

[Rep. Ilhan Omar @Ilhan]

Trump's oil blockade on Cuba is suffocating an entire nation. This is a clear, despotic attempt at regime change, and civilians are paying the price.

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Abdul El-Sayed: “You cannot reform this. If you’re willing to use a child as bait, you do not belong in the US government. ICE cannot be reformed. ICE cannot be retrained. ICE needs to be abolished. Fuck ICE”

[Rep. Pramila Jayapal @RepJayapal]

I’m relieved Trump did not destroy an entire civilization last night, but his unhinged threat and illegal war make it clear he is unfit to serve as president.

Trump needs to be removed from office. And we must oppose his new $1.5 trillion budget proposal for more war.

[David Sirota @davidsirota]

Europe did feudalism & then was the battleground for two world wars - only then did those societies finally realize maybe there should be a social safety net for the working class...it'd be good if America didn't have to go through those nightmares to come to the same conclusion

[Pramila Jayapal @PramilaJayapal]

Big Tech wants to build AI data centers across this country – using your water, your power grid, and your tax dollars – with zero accountability for how that technology is used against you.

I introduced the AI Civil Rights Act because the people building these systems should have to answer to the people affected by them.

No algorithm, no matter how smart it may be, is above the law – period.

[Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock @SenatorWarnock]

The SAVE Act is about making sure only the “right people” are allowed to vote.

If those who wanted to limit voting to the “right people” in the 1960s had succeeded, I wouldn’t be a Senator.