Marissa D. Barrera

Wrote the damn bill. Fmr: Deputy Health Policy Director, @HELPCmteDems, @SenSanders; @SenateBudget; @USGAO; @ColumbiaMSPH; @ProvidenceCol.✨🏳️‍🌈

[Marissa D. Barrera @mdb2]

Gotta hand it to the bad guys - hitting children and farmers at the same time is almost impressive!

[POLITICO @politico]

USDA cancels $1B in local food purchasing for schools, food banks https://t.co/Jbw6BM5spk

[Ramsey Touchberry @ramsberry1]

I asked Sen. Bernie Sanders if there's concern sexual assault allegations could come out on Graham Platner after the #MESen candidate privately assuranced Dems there's no "credible" forthcoming claims

Sanders: "Who are you with?"

Me: "The Examiner."

Sanders: "Why don't we examine income and wealth inequality?"

Platner previously denied anything else would come to light before the extramarital sexting news.

[Babydog Justice @BabydogJustice]

Vote-a-rama or Nap-a-rama?

[Marissa D. Barrera @mdb2]

being a natural writer is hard. I could be crying and the voice in my head is like,

“increasingly, I feel like a wound.”

girl shut up

[Oriana González @ReporterOriana]

I reported how Republicans want nothing to do with an effort to ban gay marriage, calling it a political loser

Under Trump’s direction, the GOP stopped saying marriage is between a man and a woman

Now, here’s Ogles essentially breaking with his party
https://t.co/xGC5hXN7Zg

[Peter Hamby @PeterHamby]

i saw this clip on mute and thought this was Marty Funkhouser

[Elyse @ElyseBee]

finding out dc pride weekend and the white house ufc event are overlapping best city in the world baby

[amanda @jailedamanda]

Happy Pride

[Grayson Flood @grayson_flood]

Don't know if I've ever seen all three Matts converge in one post before. Feels like a solar eclipse or something. Special moment.

[chairman biden @chairmanbiden74]

happy pride

[Marissa D. Barrera @mdb2]

Yesssssssss

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

It would take far more than a month to honor the contributions of queer and transgender New Yorkers.

From the Cercle Hermaphroditos in 1895, the first trans advocacy group in the United States, to the drag balls of the Harlem Renaissance, to the Stonewall uprising, to the Lesbian Herstory Archives, to ACT UP!, founded in 1987 as queer people fought for their lives while the Reagan administration looked away, New York City's history has long been shaped by queer and trans New Yorkers.

To all our queer and trans neighbors: you deserve a City where you can afford to live safely, openly, and joyfully.

Happy Pride, New York City.

[Dan Diamond @ddiamond]

Amazing kicker in the NYT’s list of the 100 Best Restaurants in NYC @ligayamishan

[Matt Fuller @MEPFuller]

It was a relatively major scandal a decade ago when a congressman had used taxpayer dollars to redecorate his office to look like Downton Abbey.

[Sturgeon's Law @Sturgeons_Law]

Their new girlfriend is women.

[Max Tani @maxwelltani]

Capital Weather Gang, the weather blog that has been a part of the Washington Post for almost 20 years, is becoming an independent site and rebranding as Capital Weather.

Per a note to WaPo staff today, the site will still contribute to WaPo during major weather events.

[Keith @nagy_minaj]

How John Cornyn’s posting rn

[Dave Levinthal @davelevinthal]

Nothing's truly unique in Washington, D.C.

Marco Rubio's litany of jobs since last year — as listed in his new personal financial disclosure report — may be an exception.

[Hillary Clinton @HillaryClinton]

This is what Trump's done to the people's house:

A third of it is rubble.

Another third is a cage match.

What a metaphor.

[Aaron Fritschner @Fritschner]

You should have voted to convict the scorpion in its impeachment trial, Senator Frog

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

CONAN AT HARVARD: “No university in our nation has produced more Nobel laureates or white collar criminals… so whether you choose good or evil, know that you are among the very best.”

[Senator John Cornyn @JohnCornyn]

An old, but apt fable:

A scorpion wants to cross a river but cannot swim, so it asks a frog to carry it across. The frog hesitates, afraid that the scorpion might sting it, but the scorpion promises not to, pointing out that it would drown if it killed the frog in the middle of the river. The frog considers this argument sensible and agrees to transport the scorpion. Midway across the river, the scorpion stings the frog anyway, dooming them both. The dying frog asks the scorpion why it stung despite knowing the consequence, to which the scorpion replies: "I am sorry, but I couldn't help myself. It's my character." @Wikipedia