Melissa Mapes

Founder of @RealBigWords. Alaska-born writer, entrepreneur, and beer nerd. Tweets are mine alone.

[Melissa Mapes @melissaventures]

Planning my trip to Yosemite - staying at Evergreen Lodge at Yosemite. For friends who travel: https://t.co/d9CAYhnfeJ @evergreen_ynp

[Melissa Mapes @melissaventures]

I was today years old when I found out that vanilla comes from orchids.

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

D.C. is 46% Black and has 0 senators
Wyoming is 1% Black and has 2 senators

D.C. has 120,000 more people than Wyoming.

Opposition to D.C. statehood is racist. Period.

[Geraldine Just Follow TheEverywhereist on Threads @everywhereist]

Look, I'm flexible, either we get rid of guns or we get rid of men but it's pretty obvious that we can't have both.

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

This week in Congress:

Dems: Passed $1.9T COVID package to deliver stimulus checks (w/ dependents!), cut child poverty in half, extend $300 UI, prevent cuts in state + local services, largest-ever investment in Native communities, etc

GOP: Took a week to read The Cat in the Hat

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

Billionaires have added $1,100,000,000,000 to their wealth during the course of the pandemic while the $7.25 minimum wage hasn't budged in over a decade.

Tax the rich. Raise the wage. Now.

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

The richest 0.1% own 17% of stocks

The richest 1% own 50% of stocks

The bottom 50% own 0.7% of stocks

Repeat after me:

The stock market is not the economy.

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

Very wealthy people already have a student loan forgiveness program. It’s called their parents.

The idea that millionaires and billionaires are willingly letting their kids drown in federal student loans & that’s why we can’t go big on forgiveness is about as silly as it sounds.

[W. Kamau Bell @wkamaubell]

Vaccinate teachers.

Pass it on.

[W. Kamau Bell @wkamaubell]

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but this whole Impeachment is really just a referendum on whether white supremacy should continue to be the organizing principle of The United States of America.

[Ari Berman @AriBerman]

Republicans who made Hillary Clinton testify for 11 hours on Benghazi 2 years after she was secretary of state now say you can’t impeach Trump 3 weeks after he left office

[Melissa Mapes @melissaventures]

@aarsilv Wow!! Congrats! 🎉 ❤️

[President Biden Archived @POTUS46Archive]

We’ve never fully lived up to the founding principles of this nation, but our Administration is committed to finishing the work left undone. It’s long past time to confront deep racial inequities and systemic racism and fulfill the promise of America for all. #BlackHistoryMonth

[Kaitlan Collins @kaitlancollins]

“I had to duck. I had to go out the back door of ballparks. I had to have a police escort...I was getting threatening letters...All of these things put a bad taste in my mouth, & it won’t go away. They carved a piece of my heart away,” Aaron once said. https://t.co/vgRCfVsMOW

[Geraldine Just Follow TheEverywhereist on Threads @everywhereist]

Oh what a difference not being gaslit will do.

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

Trump’s note to President Biden just leaked.

[Ayanna Pressley @AyannaPressley]

Somehow we weathered and witnessed
A nation that isn't broken
but simply unfinished
There is always light
if only we're brave enough to see it
if only we're brave enough to be it.

— Amanda Gorman

[Ayanna Pressley @AyannaPressley]

You want to thank Black women?

Cancel student debt -- all of it.

Black women carry more student debt than any other group in America.

Save your words of appreciation. Policy is our love language.