just came across a tiktok of a woman who said she left NYC because "it's not very safe anymore" and then in the comments revealed she now lives in Columbus, OH which is more dangerous by almost every metric I can find
If you want to support the members of our community who are often viewed as "dangerous" because they are experiencing homelessness or dealing with substance abuse, check out
@VOCALNewYork
. Fund community organizing & direct services!
Vocal does a lot of great work that I could not fit in one tweet. Learn more here:
They also have a political/c4 arm at
@VOCALNYAction
which makes endorsements and does advocacy.
@NoodlesBonesDay
don't worry y'all! I think they're okay: "The brain behind the fan page is Alexandra Carbayo, a third-year medical student at Michigan State University’s school of Human Medicine"
Team Markey hosts inspiring, energizing, nightly GOTV checkout calls and tonight
@EdMarkey
himself joined our dance party! He is a joy and a treasure and I can't wait to send him back to the Senate. Goodnight Team Markey!
Drinking my coffee and updating my Twitter bio in preparation for my first day as part of an amazing race...
I'm so excited to be starting as a Field Organizer for
@elizaorlins
, the public defender for Manhattan DA! 💗
Goldman is deeply out of touch with his constituents, with Democrats, and with his humanity.
I watched as two mothers—one crying and the other with her child—begged our "representative" to listen to us. He ran away, fleeing the subway to his waiting private car.
Confronted by voters, Rep. Dan Goldman says he doesn't "trust" number of kids killed in Gaza.
Asked about US aid helping Israeli forces kill Palestinian men, women, and kids, Goldman begins response with "Israel is a democracy in an area surrounded by terrorists."
@NY10Neighbors
this weekend
- canvassed for
@LydiaGreenBK
- canvassed for
@JamaalBowmanNY
+
@Soto4NY
- went to a birthday party
- co-facilitated a
@NY10Neighbors
meeting
- handed out
@NYWFP
lit at the protest against Eric Adams
- checked out an art market for Palestine
may just go to bed now
if NYT can pay 7 figures for Wordle then they can stop union busting, recognize
@NYTGuildTech
, and compensate the people who build their games fairly and transparently
#TechGuildYes
Almost a year ago, I saw Elizabeth Warren speak in Washington Square Park. It is absolutely not an exaggeration to say that night changed my life. Her candidacy, that campaign, and the people in it inspired me to start organizing and to dream big and fight hard.
@EmmaYourFriend
YES there is no such thing as too much sunscreen but there is such thing as too much money spent trying to push Native Hawaiians off their land
hi lil update I'm back at
@WorkingFamilies
for a bit as ✨text team co-manager and senior organizer✨ yay for fall weather letting me wear this sweatshirt on my first day!
Tonight we reached 1.2mil voters in GA, had 800 volunteers on our zoom, and heard from
@MauriceWFP
about the future of
@WorkingFamilies
and the important work we're doing along with the
@WfpGeorgia
team on the ground! Join us for a future text bank!!
Among many unfeeling statements on this townhall, Rep. Dan Goldman just said "I disagree that there is collective punishment."
What else do you call more than 18,600 killed? Mass displacement? Lack of access to food, water, electricity, healthcare?
This is astonishing, yet not surprising. If it feels like you're far less safe in NYC than ever before, it's not bc shootings are up. It's because the media (fueled by lies & fearmongering by NYC Mayor Eric Adams) is up. Look at this chart. Red line is shootings. Grey is media.
I love working on local races where the candidates are literally in the Slack ready to answer your policy questions 😍 Had a great afternoon calling and texting voters to tell them about
@elizaorlins
!
In the words of the great
@LauraBenanti
, "In the words of the great Laura Benanti, don’t wait for people to tell you who you are. Show them."
#JimmyAwards
This evening I heard
@prisonculture
speak and then watched the un-elected RGB raise rent for tenants. Thankful to everyone who showed up--and will keep showing up--to organize for a better, more just city. Hope is a discipline.
#EricAdamsRaisedMyRent
I am all boarded and ready to go for the first leg of my trip, on the Lakeshore Limited to Chicago!!
Updates and photos will be threaded here if/when I have service.
choo choo 🚂
Thankful I got to attend a bit of the
#ChooseTheFutureGala
in honor of our next mayor:
@Dianne4NYC
☀️💜 Dianne radiates positivity and care, and I can't wait to rank her
#1
on my ballot!
@OrganizerMemes
Interesting choice considering Josh Riley got 17k votes on the WFP line in 2022 and lost by 4.5k...it was the NY Dem party that failed. The line also provided the margin of victory for Pat Ryan in both the NY19 special and NY18 general!
@jzux
Seems like you've gotten plenty of good advice so now that you're on the path to marriage, please reveal which coffee shop so I can find my own 🥺
if NYT can pay 7 figures for Wordle then they can stop union busting, recognize
@NYTGuildTech
, and compensate the people who build their games fairly and transparently
#TechGuildYes
So so proud of the work that went into this, and thankful to see how many New Yorkers joined us to stand against genocide ❤️🍉🇵🇸
Special shout-out to
@michaelrzink
for figuring out how we could calculate blanks despite the BOE making it unnecessarily difficult!
If there's an NYC candidate you want to see continue in their race, make a donation now!
Tomorrow (Jan 11) is an important filing deadline for campaigns to qualify for public matching funds. If you live in NYC, contributions between $10-$175 are matched 8 to 1 🤑💸
I am thrilled to have the endorsement of the Working Families Party, which is and has always been my home. I know from experience how big of a coalition we have built and what we have done to drive progressive change. Together, we will build a more just and fair democracy.
TW: Miscarriage
I have never shared this publicly before but I had a miscarriage.
I’d like to share the story.
It was a handful of years ago. I found out I was pregnant! I wasn’t showing. I felt like I was going to vomit all the time—wouldn’t call it “morning” sickness.🧵1/x
Today the Markey text team sent over 200,000 texts to voters. Huge shout out to
@EmmaYourFriend
,
@k_hayden
, and Sam for training texters, monitoring the chat, and constantly building us new campaigns when our texters exceeded our expectations. All renewable energy, no brakes!!
NYC friends: petitioning starts today for the June primary! You're going to be seeing volunteers with clipboards all over the city. You can only sign ONE petition per race, so make sure it's the candidate you want on the ballot! Let me know if you have questions about a race 😊
today's high: got a job offer 😊
today's low: watching my expensive bougie cinnamon tumble to the ground, the glass container shattering and spilling everywhere
Candidates spending millions on their own campaign will always be wild to me. Imagine thinking you are so uniquely right for and deserving of a seat that you buy it!!
The
@WorkingFamilies
Party saw in Warren what I saw, and endorsed her. With only 50 DAYS until the election, I'm honored to say I have started working with WFP as a Software Engineer to help elect progressives up and down the ballot!
She had no idea what was about to hit her 😭
Despite the honestly awful side effects I would do it again to protect myself and my loved ones! Ready for shot girl summer 👀
#IGotTheShot
🎶 Tomorrow there'll be more of us, telling the story of tonight 🎶
Cheers to being a small part of building the multiracial, grassroots, feminist political party of our dreams 🥂
#PartyWithWFP
Two years ago today, I was knocking doors for
@ewarren
in New Hampshire (and made Juliet do it with me). I never would have predicted it would set me on a path to working full time in politics & organizing. What can I say, I love a righteous fight!
shout out to our incredible
@elizaorlins
campaign team; every single person, including comms and finance, was doing voter contact on primary day instead of...this
I keep hearing various folks on tv say how exciting Election Day is. For the campaign comms team, it is BORING. There's nothing you can do. So you wait and wait and wait and try to ignore the "whaddaya hearing calls," because they're useless. So you wait some more.
Many staff members who were fired relied on this paycheck to survive. We will not leave them behind. To support mutual aid efforts for our fired workers, Venmo
@moralesunion
-mutualaid. Funds will be distributed to staffers with the most need.
💥 Thank you
@SenGounardes
for signing onto
#GoodCause
and your support for renters in your district and across New York State.
Next step: make this critical bill law
not me spending every waking hour volunteering/organizing and still wishing I could have done more for candidates I literally didn't have any spare hours to vol for 😔
@DrSamiSchalk
I was thinking today about how "throwing stones" is the IDF's version of the many "reasons" we hear for Black boys being murdered -- wearing a hoodie, having a toy that looks like a gun, running in the wrong neighborhood...
🧵 Today, we’re launching the framework for our entire policy platform, built in three layers: Dignity, Care and Solidarity. All of these issues are interconnected, and while not exhaustive, this outlines my intersectional agenda:
You can order 4 more free rapid COVID tests as of today! Or 8 if you didn't order in September!
Masking and testing before gathering for the holidays will keep you and your family safe ❤
Fellow peer to peer texting 💜ers:
WFP is holding our first ever Text Leadership Academy next month! To support our thousands of volunteers as we fight to win a Working Families Majority, we need to build up our volunteer leadership team.
What does that mean?
1/
ORGANIZERS: This is a health & nutrition checkpoint. Have you fueled your body today? Have you taken a break (however short) to breathe and look away from your computer?
You got this! Happy Election Eve!
NYC: Early Voting begins today, 6/12! I’m proud to be supporting
@elizaorlins
, the Public Defender for
#ManhattanDA
!! Find your polling location here:
Sign up to volunteer for Eliza:
Like and retweet to spread the word!
Thanks to
@aprilglick
and
@drisanahughes
for organizing today's picnic!! And yes, we stuck it out through the rain just like we stuck it out on Tuesday
have you ever been curious about my work with
@WorkingFamilies
? are you looking for your political home? I'd love to chat with any oomfs about the party and what it means to be a member 🥰 dm me!