On Friday night, I came to the Capitol with my chair. I refused to accept that Congress could leave for vacation while 11 million people faced eviction.
For 5 days, we’ve been out here, demanding that our government acts to save lives.
Today, our movement moved mountains.
5 AM. This morning felt cold, like the wind was blowing straight through my sleeping bag.
Since Friday—when some colleagues chose early vacation over voting to prevent evictions—we’ve been at the Capitol.
It’s an eviction emergency. Our people need an eviction moratorium. Now.
🚨BREAKING: I’m a formerly unhoused Congresswoman, and I know that people will die if we let the eviction moratorium expire.
I just sent a letter to every one of my Democratic colleagues telling them we can’t leave until we pass this extension.
Judge approves request from Jan 6 defendant Willard Peart to take trip w/ wife to Cancun in September
Peart is accused of wrapping himself in red Trump flag & joining mob in chants near US Senate chamber on Jan 6
The fact that there are domestic abuse hotlines flooding my tl, racist abuse thrown at the English players, and that I'm scared for the Italian fans in London rn, is absolutely ridiculous when it's just a game of freaking football
Not even a week into college rumours started swirling that some of the lads in the course were ranking the girls on how good looking they considered us. Because, ye know, I got over 530 points in the LC to get into UCD to find out whether Fiachra from Blackrock fancies me or not