Every one of them knew that as time went by
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) December 31, 2018
They'd get a little bit older and a litter slower, but
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Monday, December 31, 2018
Year's Last Tweet
ABBA New Year To You All!
2018 turned out to be a better year than 2017 was for me personally, even if the first few months were something of rough patch, to say the least, but at least this New Year's doesn't feel like these last two did...
Barbara Lee Speaks For Me Daily
As 2018 ends, I want to express my heartfelt gratitude for your support of our campaign, our historic wave of Democratic victories & our progressive movement.
— Barbara Lee (@BLeeForCongress) December 31, 2018
As I look ahead to the new year, I am excited that we will continue to work together for progress, peace & justice.
Sunday, December 30, 2018
Sunday Walk
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The Trump administration is holding our government hostage over demands for his immoral border wall. This week, when we assume the majority in the House, Democrats will move swiftly to reopen the government and get to work on a bold, progressive agenda for the American people. pic.twitter.com/crsJXndX5n
— Rep. Barbara Lee (@RepBarbaraLee) December 30, 2018
Saturday, December 29, 2018
Barbara Lee Speaks For Me Daily
Please spread the word: there’s still time for Californians to sign up for health insurance at https://t.co/YmgtLnuXye! California’s open enrollment period goes through January 15. #GetCovered
— Barbara Lee (@BLeeForCongress) December 27, 2018
Blame Disclaim
I will be the one to shut it down. I'm not going to blame you for it. pic.twitter.com/IHI7JvePnI
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) December 29, 2018
Friday, December 28, 2018
Today's Random Wilde
Barbara Lee Speaks For Me Daily
Visitor centers closed, trash piling up for days - our national parks are suffering because of the #TrumpShutdown. Check to see which federal programs in California are impacted here ⬇️https://t.co/Yx5KNLhXel
— Rep. Barbara Lee (@RepBarbaraLee) December 28, 2018
Thinking About Resolutions...
CLARA: No. Stop it. You’re saying goodbye. Don’t say goodbye!
DOCTOR: Never be cruel and never be cowardly. And if you ever are, always make amends. CLARA: Stop it! Stop this. Stop it!
DOCTOR: Never eat pears. They’re too squishy and they always make your chin wet. That one’s quite important. Write it down.
Thursday, December 27, 2018
Barbara Lee Speaks For Me Daily
In a span of 3 weeks, both Felipe Alonzo-Gomez and Jakelin Caal Maquin died while in CBP custody. Let’s be clear: this is a crisis created by President Trump’s zero tolerance policy. These are children — we have a responsibility to keep them safe. pic.twitter.com/hvPtv6RLaw
— Rep. Barbara Lee (@RepBarbaraLee) December 27, 2018
Wednesday, December 26, 2018
Barbara Lee Speaks For Me Daily
We can’t let this get drowned out with the news of the shutdown. As a young mom, I relied on food stamps to help feed my two boys. This is a shameful move. https://t.co/vL3ZVICg9o
— Barbara Lee (@BLeeForCongress) December 24, 2018
Tuesday, December 25, 2018
And What Have We Done
Monday, December 24, 2018
Hark, the Herald Fugelsang
Merry Christmas Eve, Feliz Navidad and Happy Birthday to my favorite brown-skinned Jewish radical. pic.twitter.com/TRVC7s0wH6
— John Fugelsang (@JohnFugelsang) December 25, 2013
Barbara Lee Speaks For Me Daily
This video will warm your heart this Christmas Eve Eve. pic.twitter.com/h84vE4tG54
— Barbara Lee (@BLeeForCongress) December 24, 2018
Christmas Effects by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
What’s “queer?” Here’s one train of thought about it. The depressing thing about the Christmas season -- isn’t it? -- is that it’s the time when all the institutions are speaking with one voice. The Church says what the Church says. But the State says the same thing: maybe not (in some ways it hardly matters) in the language of theology, but in the language the State talks: legal holidays, long school hiatus, special postage stamps, and all. And the language of commerce more than chimes in, as consumer purchasing is organized ever more narrowly around the final weeks of the calendar year, the Dow Jones aquiver over Americans’ “holiday mood.” The media, in turn, fall in triumphally behind the Christmas phalanx: ad-swollen magazines have oozing turkeys on the cover, while for the news industry every question turns into the Christmas question -- Will hostages be free for Christmas? What did that flash flood or mass murder (umpty-ump people killed and maimed) do to those families’ Christmas? And meanwhile, the pairing “families/Christmas” becomes increasingly tautological, as families more and more constitute themselves according to the schedule, and in the endlessly iterated image, of the holiday itself constituted in the image of "the" family.
The thing hasn’t, finally, so much to do with propaganda for Christianity as with propaganda for Christmas itself. They all -- religion, state, capital, ideology, domesticity, the discourses of power and legitimacy -- line up with each other so neatly once a year, and the monolith so created is a thing one can come to view with unhappy eyes. What if instead there were a practice of valuing the ways in which meanings and institutions can be at loose ends with each other? What if the richest junctures weren’t the ones where everything means the same thing? -- Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Tendencies, Duke University Press, 1993, pp. 5-6
Sunday, December 23, 2018
Sunday Walk
Barbara Lee Speaks For Me Daily
Because of the #TrumpShutdown, millions of survivors who rely on programs funded by the Violence Against Women Act will not have the resources they need to stay safe right before the holidays. Shame on this President. https://t.co/Oi1xvt5JYF
— Rep. Barbara Lee (@RepBarbaraLee) December 23, 2018
Saturday, December 22, 2018
Barbara Lee Speaks For Me Daily
This shutdown is completely on Trump. The Senate passed a bipartisan bill to keep the government open — and he rejected it. Now federal employees are paying the price of his temper tantrum during the holidays.
— Barbara Lee (@BLeeForCongress) December 22, 2018
Better uses of $5.7 billion than a wall:
— Barbara Lee (@BLeeForCongress) December 21, 2018
✅Revitalizing our nation’s infrastructure
✅Investing in quality education for our children
✅Medicare for All
✅Address affordable housing
Republicans control the House, the Senate, and the White House. You would think they’d at least be able to keep the government open.
— Barbara Lee (@BLeeForCongress) December 21, 2018
Friday, December 21, 2018
Barbara Lee Speaks For Me Daily
Justice Ginsburg has shown so much strength on and off the bench. Wishing her a speedy and complete recovery soon. #RBG
— Rep. Barbara Lee (@RepBarbaraLee) December 21, 2018
Thursday, December 20, 2018
Barbara Lee Speaks For Me Daily
While I agree we must bring home our troops in Syria as soon as possible and end unauthorized forever wars, the manner in which we do it MATTERS. We can't continue to have a commander-in-tweets instead of a commander-in-chief.
— Barbara Lee (@BLeeForCongress) December 20, 2018
Vacation, Reading
Wednesday, December 19, 2018
Barbara Lee Speaks For Me Daily (MundiMuster!)
If we want to protect affordable health coverage for tens of millions of Americans, protections for patients with preexisting conditions, and no-cost birth control for women, we need to stay diligent and fight back. Add your name now:https://t.co/WNbKyVJP0Z
— Barbara Lee (@BLeeForCongress) December 19, 2018
Not Wrong
Grades are a key ideological tool for laundering class domination as individual merit. https://t.co/SYJbLIBS5M
— Natalia Cecire (@ncecire) December 19, 2018
Tuesday, December 18, 2018
Barbara Lee Speaks For Me Daily
Progress from our global partners – but the US still sits on the sidelines in the fight against #climatechange.@HouseDemocrats are ready to #ActOnClimate on the first day of the new Congress. We can’t afford to waste any more time.https://t.co/pQwtuvgcbI
— Rep. Barbara Lee (@RepBarbaraLee) December 17, 2018
Sunday, December 16, 2018
Sunday Balk
Saturday, December 15, 2018
Barbara Lee Speaks For Me Daily
Yesterday, a federal judge in TX did the unthinkable & sided with a group of Republicans trying to take down the Affordable Care Act through the courts, threatening health care for tens of millions of Americans. But this isn’t the end: we’re fighting back. https://t.co/4mlqnGce7I
— Barbara Lee (@BLeeForCongress) December 15, 2018
Friday, December 14, 2018
Grades Turned In So... Xanadu!
Barbara Lee Speaks For Me Daily
It’s unbelievable that six years after 26 innocent children and educators were murdered at Sandy Hook, Congress has yet to do anything to end the gun violence epidemic. It is a public health crisis. Enough is enough. Time to pass commonsense gun safety reform.
— Barbara Lee (@BLeeForCongress) December 14, 2018
Thursday, December 13, 2018
The Zinger
Barbara Lee Speaks For Me Daily (MundiMuster!)
We cannot let this President get away with his temper tantrum and threats to shutdown the government if he doesn’t get what he wants: a $5 billion border wall. Add your name to show Trump we will not give in to his anti-immigrant agenda:https://t.co/iARHmIKJ3I
— Barbara Lee (@BLeeForCongress) December 13, 2018
Wednesday, December 12, 2018
Barbara Lee Speaks For Me Daily
Clean water shouldn’t be a partisan issue. Everyone, regardless of party, should oppose the Trump Admin’s #DirtyWaterRule, which would put the drinking water for tens of millions of Americans at risk of pollution. #PeopleOverPolluters #ProtectCleanWaterhttps://t.co/mtkC065kiJ
— Rep. Barbara Lee (@RepBarbaraLee) December 12, 2018
Tuesday, December 11, 2018
Grading, Grating
Barbara Lee Speaks For Me Daily (Well Deserved Congratulations Are In Order Edition)
It’s official – my colleagues have elected me as co-chair of Steering and Policy alongside @RepSwalwell and @RosaDeLauro! It’s an honor to join @HouseDemocrats leadership, and I will keep fighting to make sure every voice is heard at the leadership table.https://t.co/dHBjZEOBjC
— Rep. Barbara Lee (@RepBarbaraLee) December 11, 2018
Monday, December 10, 2018
Barbara Lee Speaks For Me Daily
It is past time to act on climate. I am proud to support the #GreenNewDeal so we can put our country back on a path towards a clean energy future while creating new jobs and averting climate disaster. Our present and future generations depend on it.
— Barbara Lee (@BLeeForCongress) December 10, 2018
Sunday, December 09, 2018
Sunday Walk
Saturday, December 08, 2018
Barbara Lee Speaks For Me Daily (All The Best People Edition)
The role of UN Ambassador should be filled by an experienced diplomat, not a Fox News personality. This appointment once again shows President Trump’s disregard for the role of the UN and our leadership in the world.https://t.co/MVTWB12xRr
— Rep. Barbara Lee (@RepBarbaraLee) December 8, 2018
Kathy Kraninger has no experience in consumer protection. But she has been involved in some of the most egregious policies of the Trump Admin, including the family separations at the border & the botched response to Hurricane Maria. This is a disastrous choice to lead the @CFPB. https://t.co/haZOYbifdd
— Rep. Barbara Lee (@RepBarbaraLee) December 8, 2018
Friday, December 07, 2018
Grading Grading
Barbara Lee Speaks For Me Daily
In 2019, a record 35 diverse, talented & brilliant women will come to Congress, bringing us one step closer to a government that looks like the people it represents.
— Rep. Barbara Lee (@RepBarbaraLee) December 7, 2018
I am excited & honored to serve with them all – it’s time to get to work #ForThePeople.pic.twitter.com/s4G6lg401W
Thursday, December 06, 2018
This Is Us
A young Honduran boy was separated from his father at the border.
— 𝐑𝐀𝐈𝐂𝐄𝐒 (@RAICESTEXAS) December 5, 2018
He is our client and he told us what it feels to be locked up in a cage.
This must stop. pic.twitter.com/x7snHfwrGL
Barbara Lee Speaks For Me Daily
This is an outrageous abuse of power by Republicans in Wisconsin. It’s clear they have no interest in actually representing their constituents, just their own self-interests. https://t.co/s5Tt0QYb45
— Barbara Lee (@BLeeForCongress) December 6, 2018
Wednesday, December 05, 2018
...Le Deluge
Barbara Lee Speaks For Me Daily
In 2019, SCOTUS could take up multiple cases dealing with LGTBQ rights – and with Trump’s conservative picks, it could be dire for LGBTQ equality. Whatever happens, we’ll fight back.https://t.co/6weS7HLo07
— Barbara Lee (@BLeeForCongress) December 4, 2018
Tuesday, December 04, 2018
Barbara Lee Speaks For Me Daily
Studies confirm what we know to be true: while no one is immune from the ravages of climate change, hard-working families and minority communities are burdened with more environmental hazards than wealthy neighborhoods. We must take action to combat climate change. Not later—now.
— Barbara Lee (@BLeeForCongress) December 4, 2018
Monday, December 03, 2018
Last Day First
Barbara Lee Speaks For Me Daily
Trump slashed funding for open enrollment assistance, and it shows: health care enrollments have dropped by more than 20% in multiple states this year. Spread the word: you have until Jan. 15 to enroll in CA.
— Barbara Lee (@BLeeForCongress) December 2, 2018
Find a plan that works for you at https://t.co/I0jd78xlNs!
Sunday, December 02, 2018
Barbara Lee Speaks For (Us All) Daily -- Congratulations Edition
I am honored to serve with the House Democratic leadership team and look forward to working with all my colleagues on the Steering and Policy Committee.https://t.co/khp1O1Kvfi
— Barbara Lee (@BLeeForCongress) December 2, 2018
Saturday, December 01, 2018
Calm Before The Storm
Barbara Lee Speaks For Me Daily
On #WorldAIDSDay, we remember those we have lost to HIV/AIDS and honor their memory by recommitting to this fight. To help #EndAIDS, please get tested and #KnowYourStatus. pic.twitter.com/VYs0R4Ck6R
— Rep. Barbara Lee (@RepBarbaraLee) December 1, 2018
And, a reminder:
George H.W. Bush has died & it is World AIDS Day. Here's a pic of ACT UP protesting outside his vacation home in Kennebunkport, which many thought was appallingly "uncivil" then. I'm sure some still do. #dontgetoffthelawn pic.twitter.com/BNpy0HSKhI
— Richard Kim (@RichardKimNYC) December 1, 2018