Peter Wagenius

Seasoned community organizer, public servant & dad fighting for a healthy, more equitable future.

[Keith Ellison @keithellison]

Coming soon to a theater near you: higher prices, fewer choices, and a handful of corporations controlling even more of what you watch.

No thanks. My fellow AGs and I are suing to stop the $110B Warner Bros./Paramount merger.

[Peter Wagenius @PeterWagenius]

@Dreams44 @jacob_mauren Even worse than that. The alignment was picked using the Cost Effectiveness Index (CEI) from the Bush Administration, which said only new riders counted. Existing riders did not count.

[Peter Wagenius @PeterWagenius]

Good News: People are ready to fight for our environment and the Boundary Waters! @SierraClubMN @FBW_Action #BWCAattheCapitol #BWCA

[Team Ossoff @TeamOssoff]

Ossoff: I don’t know who placed those trades, but I’ll tell you this: the SEC better find out. And if they won’t, when you elect this new majority in Congress and you give us gavels and subpoenas, we will.

[Jon Lovett @jonlovett]

In a surprise twist, the Epstein files released the attorney general.

[Peter Wagenius @PeterWagenius]

North Carolina Dems who backed GOP overrides get WIPED OUT in primaries https://t.co/uvtF7y1XHi via @YouTube

[Acyn @Acyn]

AOC: This is about Congress’ willingness to take on some of the biggest industries that have preyed upon the American people. Everyday working families don’t have big money lobbyists, but big social media companies do, big tech does, big pharma does, big oil does, big tobacco does.

And big tobacco was one of the predatory industries that wrote the playbook on how to dupe Congress and how to perpetuate PR campaigns to actually trick the American people. We can all remember how big tobacco originally convinced the American people that smoking was healthy. They suppressed science, suppressed evidence, and then they lobbied Congress to prevent any sort of regulation, and millions of Americans got sick. We found out decades after the fact how dangerous this was.

Big oil did the same thing when we found out burning fossil fuels contributed to carbon emissions. Back in the 1970s, Exxon’s internal scientists determined this, and then they sought to bury that evidence.

We saw this with opioid manufacturers understanding how addictive their substances were.

And now we’re seeing it with social media and big tech.

[Elizabeth Warren @SenWarren]

Republicans' Big Ugly Bill gave Trump $190 billion for DHS, including $75 billion for ICE and $65 billion for CBP.

That's money Republicans stripped from rural hospitals and helping people afford health care.

Congress should claw it back and put serious restraints on DHS.

[Tina Smith @SenTinaSmith]

Nothing has changed. Minneapolis is still suffering — new leadership won’t change that. Congress can.

Not a dollar to DHS or ICE until then.

[Tina Smith @SenTinaSmith]

I support cleaning house at DHS.

Greg Bovino should be fired.
Kristi Noem should be fired.
Stephen Miller should be fired.

But none of those things alone will fix ICE – a new figure will take their place, and nothing will change unless Congress exerts some muscle here.

[Jay Inslee @JayInslee]

In the midst of ICE horror, the Senate needs to prohibit Trump from using ICE as a voter suppression tool. Senate Dems need to put into the approps bill a prohibition on ICE agents being near polling places. This is a must have. Last chance to do this.

[Peter Wagenius @PeterWagenius]

@Tyler_A_Harper @AJentleson “Over?” JFC. We in Minneapolis don’t know that at all. Neither do you.

[Peter Wagenius @PeterWagenius]

@SenSanders If Trump orders ICE to seize voting machines, they will do it, Trump just reiterated that he regrets not seizing them in 2020. So we need to prohibit any ICE activity near polling locations. And include tough penalties.

[Peter Wagenius @PeterWagenius]

@AJentleson If Trump orders ICE to seize voting machines, they will do it, Trump just reiterated that he regrets not seizing them in 2020. So we need to prohibit any ICE activity near polling locations. And include tough penalties.

[Vince Mpls @vincempls]

Let me paraphrase so you don't have to read the whole thing: "Yes, fellow Minnesotans are being tragically murdered on the streets by a government agency we can't mention, but what's most important during these difficult times is to protect shareholder value."

[Peter Wagenius @PeterWagenius]

@mattlavietes @taylr “Disrupt?” Are you a reporter?! Are you auditioning for Fox? You should be fired.

[Brent Toderian @BrentToderian]

IMPORTANT: As #Davos is back in the news, you should DEFINITELY watch and share this.

“It feels like I’m at a firefighters conference & no one is allowed to speak about water.”

“You’re counting the wrong things!”

With @rcbregman @Winnie_byanyima.

[Mary L Trump @MaryLTrump]

When I saw this letter, I literally thought, “This is too stupid even for him.” I should have known better.

[David Shor @davidshor]

We recently tested ~ a dozen public statements from a diverse set of Democratic elected officials on the murder of Renee Good and this was the top testing one

[Acyn @Acyn]

Murphy: The United States Congress should not fund a Department of Homeland Security that is not obeying the laws of the United States of America