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Tuesday, July 31, 2018
Today's Random Wilde
Barbara Lee Speaks For Me Daily
It’s important we stay focused on what people really need in their daily lives — a roof over their head, clean drinking water, food, and clothing — because a lot of people across the country are really suffering.
— Barbara Lee (@BLeeForCongress) July 30, 2018
Sunday, July 29, 2018
Today's Random Wilde
Barbara Lee Speaks For Me Daily
President Trump has made it clear time and time again: he doesn’t care about our air, water, or wildlife. But California will continue to lead the way, protecting our planet for today’s families and future generations to come.
— Barbara Lee (@BLeeForCongress) July 29, 2018
Sunday Walk and Upcoming Teaching
Saturday, July 28, 2018
100 Days
The midterm elections are 100 days away. Every day is a chance to fight to take back the House. pic.twitter.com/v5lM0NoLv9
— Swing Left (@swingleft) July 28, 2018
Still Grading...
Barbara Lee Speaks For Me Daily
ICYMI: Earlier this week I introduced an amendment in the House Appropriations Committee that would end the practice of ICE shackling pregnant women and denying them medical access.
— Barbara Lee (@BLeeForCongress) July 27, 2018
Republicans voted it down.
Friday, July 27, 2018
Grading, Grading, Grading
Today's Random Wilde
Barbara Lee Speaks For Me Daily
New poll shows that nearly two-thirds of Americans oppose @HouseGOP’s cuts to food assistance. Memo to @SpeakerRyan: Congress should be working #ForThePeople – not lining the pockets of billionaires on the backs of struggling families! https://t.co/2g1ZyFgEPX
— Rep. Barbara Lee (@RepBarbaraLee) July 26, 2018
Wednesday, July 25, 2018
Today's Random Wilde
Barbara Lee Speaks For Me Daily
Our minimum wage of $7.25/hour is a poverty wage. @HouseGOP had no problem handing over a trillion dollars to billionaires & corporate special interests with their #TaxScam -all the while refusing to take even the most basic steps to help working families.https://t.co/F7XO2v3gMy
— Rep. Barbara Lee (@RepBarbaraLee) July 24, 2018
Purrs
Captain Kathryn Janeway of the USS Voyager reporting to @Ocasio2018 - I'm very interested in assisting your campaign and taking it to warp speed at RED ALERT! https://t.co/diRXFLtn5r
— Kate Mulgrew (@TheKateMulgrew) July 24, 2018
Tuesday, July 24, 2018
Wayfaring...
Barbara Lee Speaks For Me Daily
Health care is a fundamental human right.https://t.co/ROT7e5q7aL
— Barbara Lee (@BLeeForCongress) July 22, 2018
Monday, July 23, 2018
Barbara Lee Speaks For Me Daily
The stunning immorality on display from Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen and Attorney General Jeff Sessions should preclude them from ever serving in public office again. That’s why I’m calling for both their resignations.
— Barbara Lee (@BLeeForCongress) July 22, 2018
Sunday, July 22, 2018
Sunday Walk And Upcoming Teaching
Today's Random Wilde
Barbara Lee Speaks For Me Daily
This isn’t the 1st time the US has separated young children of color from their parents.
— Barbara Lee (@BLeeForCongress) July 21, 2018
Happened during the Middle Passage.
Black slaves sold by owners at will.
Native Americans forced to send their children to gov boarding schools.
We can’t repeat the mistakes of the past.
Saturday, July 21, 2018
Trumpproval
It's been just less than a week since Donald Trump's controversial performance in Helsinki, which is enough time for some polling. CBS News has taken the lead; they asked respondents whether or not they approved of the President's performance. He did dismally among Democrats, of course (8% approve, 83% disapprove). He did poorly with independents (29% approve, 53% disapprove). And he did well with Republicans (68% approve, 21% disapprove). Since the President's performance seemed so clearly to be a disaster (even to right-leaning politicians and media outlets), that 68% approval among Republicans is getting all the headlines, and is generally being presented as good news for Trump... but these headlines might be missing the point. First of all, those numbers among independents are pretty ghastly, especially for a president who has very little margin of error to work with if he wants to be reelected. More precisely, he got between 48% and 52% of the independent vote in the three states that he won by a combined 77,000 votes. The evidence is mounting that he won't do nearly as well the second time around. Second, and more importantly, the big news in the two weeks (or so) before Trump's European trip was that he was at 90% approval among Republicans... Just about a quarter of those 90% are now unhappy enough with what they saw that they were willing to tell a pollster about it. Perhaps every one of them will fall back in line behind the Donald, but the smart money says some do not. And again, this is a president with very little margin for error -- he can't afford to bleed 2 or 3 percent of his support. Put another way, we wondered on Monday whether or not Donald Trump had reached his tipping point. That is a question that cannot be answered right now, but what we can say is that this is exactly what it looks like when such a moment arrives.Notwithstanding the fact that bigot TrumpBase deplorables are still gonna deplorable, that gerrymandering and disenfranchisement and the anti-urban bias in our election-system are all gonna do their damage, that Russia and other assorted foreign powers have every reason and capability to be up to shenanigans, and that one can never underestimate the ability of the US left to divide and squabble and indulge in purity cabaret rather than actually vote on the left wing of the possible, still events and energy seems on track for November to deal a blow to the present TrumpGOP control of every level of government and hence put a check on the worst of the abuses in this moment of Trumpmerican danger and demoralization till the next Presidential election offers the opportunity of a more absolute repudiation (one hopes and prays and works like hell for) and a turning of the tide against the unsustainable white racist cishet corporate-militarist patriarchy at long last...
Also, Janelle Monae and Michelle Obama are asking us nicely.
Today's Random Wilde
Barbara Lee Speaks For Me Daily
The people of Flint have been wronged at every turn. They deserve justice. https://t.co/9sjwql5TXI
— Barbara Lee (@BLeeForCongress) July 21, 2018
Friday, July 20, 2018
Barbara Lee Speaks For Me Daily
Remember all those Republicans who condemned President Trump’s disgraceful performance in Helsinki?
— Rep. Barbara Lee (@RepBarbaraLee) July 19, 2018
Today, they had a chance to restore election security grants and protect our democracy. But when it mattered, not a single one of them was willing to put country over party. pic.twitter.com/PtsK70iK0x
Wednesday, July 18, 2018
Today's Teaching
Barbara Lee Speaks For Me Daily
I remember the days of back-alley abortions. The day when being a woman was a preexisting condition. If Donald Trump and Mike Pence get their way, we will be going back in time. We’ve seen this playbook before — they will stop at nothing to erode Roe v. Wade.
— Barbara Lee (@BLeeForCongress) July 18, 2018
Tuesday, July 17, 2018
Always Coming Home
Barbara Lee Speaks For Me Daily
Let me be clear: The war on poverty is far from over.https://t.co/y0z5zmoowr
— Barbara Lee (@BLeeForCongress) July 15, 2018
Monday, July 16, 2018
Barbara Lee Speaks For Me Daily
As a coalition builder and leader fighting inequality and justice for all, I’m considering running for Democratic Caucus chair. https://t.co/sJWUTPdaRd
— Barbara Lee (@BLeeForCongress) July 16, 2018
Sunday, July 15, 2018
Sunday Walk and Upcoming Teaching
Today's Random Wilde
Barbara Lee Speaks For Me Daily
Understaffed, unprepared, and mismanaged. What a disgrace.
— Rep. Barbara Lee (@RepBarbaraLee) July 15, 2018
The people of Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands are US citizens – they deserve a government that will make them whole after a disaster strikes.https://t.co/Kx8W4OJHyZ
Saturday, July 14, 2018
Tradeoff
Still Grading
Barbara Lee Speaks For Me Daily (Happy Birthday Edition)
Come celebrate my third 24th birthday and my 20 years in Congress tomorrow at the Cypress Mandela Training Center in Oakland! RSVP here: https://t.co/LhkpSwRSkt pic.twitter.com/KDxieoRyRa
— Barbara Lee (@BLeeForCongress) July 13, 2018
Friday, July 13, 2018
Grading Greating Grating
Barbara Lee Speaks For Me Daily
Black women are the most educated demographic in America, but between student loans and the gender pay gap they also suffer most from the student loan crisis. Student debt relief is a racial justice issue!https://t.co/a7nigDBqmz
— Rep. Barbara Lee (@RepBarbaraLee) July 13, 2018
Thursday, July 12, 2018
Barbara Lee Speaks For Me Daily
I grew up by the El Paso copper smelter. My neighbors & family were exposed to chemicals from the plant. African Americans & Latinos were disproportionately affected.
— Rep. Barbara Lee (@RepBarbaraLee) July 12, 2018
I’ve seen what happens when polluters are allowed to spew toxins into the air-we must put #PeopleOverPolluters
Wednesday, July 11, 2018
Barbara Lee Speaks For Me Daily
This is so unacceptable on so many levels. I don’t even know where to start. https://t.co/sDI2OTWxee pic.twitter.com/dv0TZR1H7f
— Rep. Barbara Lee (@RepBarbaraLee) July 10, 2018
Tuesday, July 10, 2018
Today's Random Wilde
Barbara Lee Speaks For Me Daily
ICYMI: Betsy DeVos and this Administration’s policies are hurting students of color. https://t.co/NeDWYCTE1e
— Barbara Lee (@BLeeForCongress) July 8, 2018
Monday, July 09, 2018
Barbara Lee Speaks For Me Daily
Each and every day we need to fight for affordable universal health care, debt-free college, a living wage, and expanding access to opportunities for all.
— Barbara Lee (@BLeeForCongress) July 9, 2018
Sunday, July 08, 2018
Sunday Walk and Teaching This Week
Today's Random Wilde
Barbara Lee Speaks For Me Daily
Former coal lobbyist and climate change denier, the new acting head of the EPA, isn’t an improvement.https://t.co/CqrIgrjlYI
— Barbara Lee (@BLeeForCongress) July 7, 2018
Saturday, July 07, 2018
Today's Random Wilde
Barbara Lee Speaks For Me Daily
I voted against creating ICE in 2002. It was wrong then and has had far too little accountability or transparency since then.
— Barbara Lee (@BLeeForCongress) July 7, 2018
Friday, July 06, 2018
Barbara Lee Speaks For Me Daily
Scott Pruitt refused to take the existence of climate change seriously, rolled back years of environmental progress, and abused taxpayers’ money. His resignation was long overdue.
— Barbara Lee (@BLeeForCongress) July 6, 2018
Thursday, July 05, 2018
Today's Random Wilde
Man oh man was Wilde wrong about that one...
Barbara Lee Speaks For Me Daily
No matter their age, immigrant kids have no legal right to court-appointed counsel. Even kids who are just three-years-old. This lack of representation has led to even more deportations.https://t.co/xky9ghNsuU
— Barbara Lee (@BLeeForCongress) July 5, 2018
Wednesday, July 04, 2018
Land of the Free
The U.S. has less than 5% of the world's population, but we have nearly 25% of the world's incarcerated population. This #July4th ask yourself, can we really call ourselves "the land of the free"? https://t.co/q0zMpesKwA #NoMoreDrugWar pic.twitter.com/glw0wSnC60
— Drug Policy Alliance (@DrugPolicyOrg) July 4, 2018
Barbara Lee Speaks For Me Daily
#IndependenceDay reminds us that our work towards freedom and equality is never done. Our nation was founded on the spirit of resistance and it’s up to us to carry on that legacy today. Happy 4th of July. pic.twitter.com/sAkN2HLMzU
— Rep. Barbara Lee (@RepBarbaraLee) July 4, 2018
Tuesday, July 03, 2018
Barbara Lee Speaks For Me Daily
If you come for our friends because of who they are or who they love, we will vote you out.
— Barbara Lee (@BLeeForCongress) July 3, 2018
If you try to further disenfranchise and marginalize people of color, we will vote you out.
If you try to strip women of their rights and healthcare, we will vote you out.
Monday, July 02, 2018
If We Have A Future... It Looks Like This
Pretty much! pic.twitter.com/73nxk22W55
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@Ocasio2018) July 2, 2018
Barbara Lee Speaks For Me Daily
This is the most serious threat to women’s reproductive health in generations. We will fight this in the halls of Congress. #MyBodyMyChoice https://t.co/87jVXhFM8P
— Rep. Barbara Lee (@RepBarbaraLee) July 2, 2018
Sunday, July 01, 2018
Sunday's Walk
Barbara Lee Speaks For Me Daily
Trump wants to get rid of asylum, this is inhumane. Parents are already being told that if they want to be reunited with their children again they have to forfeit asylum and be deported. He has to change the law for this to happen and we won't let him.https://t.co/uxeUiO6Wz2
— Barbara Lee (@BLeeForCongress) June 30, 2018
Today's Random Wilde
Oscar Wilde was just forty-six when he died, seven years younger than I am now, and years before that he already felt that he was old.