Yesterday I went to a #BorderWall construction site deep in critical jaguar habitat atop the stunning Pajarito Mts.
@DHSgov cancelled this contract last month, but nothing here has changed. Dozens of bulldozers, concrete mixers & mountains of exploded rock litter our wildlands.
She’s not a “young woman.” She’s a child. And she didn’t “lose her life.” The police killed her. The police killed a 15 year old child. Say it. Own it.
That a family had to lose a son, brother and father; that a teenage girl had to film and post a murder, that millions across the country had to organize and march just for George Floyd to be seen and valued is not justice.
And this verdict is not a substitute for policy change.
Teaching today was brutal. My first class of the day is a normally radiant & full-of-life 6th grade class. Today was heavy. We talked about Adam and being 13. Here's their collective poem
Just today HB6 passed in the TX House Elections Committee. It would empower individuals to harass voters as they cast their votes and would impose penalties on poll workers who try to stand in their way. Harassers are already planning their intimidation efforts in Harris County.
You reap what you sow. These attacks on voting rights in Texas and across the south must be stopped. Regardless, the attempts to suppress our voice will only serve to embolden us. We've seen it in Georgia. Texans don't like being pushed around either. We'll remember in 2022.
Thank you to the U.S. Senate for your confirmation vote today. As Secretary of @Interior, I look forward to collaborating with all of you. I am ready to serve.
#BeFierce
AOC recounting her horrifying experience hiding in her office during the insurrection.
“I thought I was going to die...I have never been quieter in my entire life.”
We lost another doctor today
To COVID
But this doctor was mistreated. Her symptoms were ignored, downplayed and dismissed. She posted a heartbreaking video begging her fellow doctors to help save her...
She called the patient advocate...
She called the chief medical officer...
It’s not good enough to hear about what’s in the bill. Members of Congress need to see & read the bills we are expected to vote on.
I know it’s “controversial” & I get in trouble for sharing things like this, but the people of this country deserve to know. They deserve better.
Congress is expected to vote on the second largest bill in US history *today* - $2.5 trillion - and as of about 1pm, members don’t even have the legislative text of it yet.