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Pass the . Staff writer, . Formerly . Immigrant rights, LGBTQI+ rights. Cancer survivor. Catlady. Views here are my own.

San Francisco, CA
Joined April 2008

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  1. Did ever return Steve Wynn’s donations?

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  2. 2 hours ago

    The House Democrats passed a bill, sis. You mean to ask where is with bringing that bill (which Senate GOP members already voted YES on a few weeks ago) to the floor. But, go off.

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  3. Don’t forget that more than 160 days past a judge’s reunification deadline, children kidnapped from families at the border are still in US custody. Family separation remains a crisis, and needs to be held accountable.

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  4. “The Committee's first hearing will focus on critical border security matters, to include the border wall, metering of individuals seeking asylum at ports of entry, and the treatment of children in CBP custody. As such, I request your participation."

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  5. “... to make the case for the President's boondoggle border wall, defend the government shutdown, and distract the American people from a border policy so flawed that children have died in DHS custody.”

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  6. Thompson to : “Your border security presentation submitted to Congress today is yet another example of the misinformation and outright lies the Trump admin has used...”

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  7. 👉🏽 Rep. , new chair of the House Homeland Security Committee, summons to testify. Thompson: “In your year-long tenure, you have testified before the Committee only once. Another appearance is overdue.”

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  8. 18 hours ago

    I worked at the National Counterterrorism Center, the CIA, and the Pentagon. can’t possibly be telling the truth with these numbers.

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  9. Good morning. Immigrant youth are .

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  10. The congressional freshman class of 2019 is the most racially diverse and most female group of representatives ever elected to the House

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  12. Only six tweets in as senator and Willard is already getting ratioed.

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  13. 19 hours ago

    The new House is what fusion politics looks like—diversity. Now we must see a moral fusion agenda. To all the new members—black, female, white, Asian, Native, Muslim Christian, immigrant—stay strong. Don’t let the system change you; change the system.

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  14. “Alonzo‘s death came less than a month after a 7-year-old Guatemalan girl, Jakelin Caal Maquin, died in U.S. custody in El Paso, Texas.”

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  15. This weekend, I will be joining my colleagues and of the in Alamogordo, NM to investigate the death of Felipe Gómez Alonzo, the 8-year-old Guatemalan child who died on Christmas Eve in custody.

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  16. Sen. Hirono, at Tornillo last month: “We wanted to talk w/the young ppl here and when I asked why we cldn’t talk to them, I was told that we shouldn’t interrupt their schedule. There’s probably a word for that and it’s called BS.”

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  17. Teen jailed at Tornillo last year: “The few times they let me call my mom I would tell her that one day I would be free, but really I felt like I would be there for the rest of my life.”

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  18. Another record from the Trump admin: the 15,000 migrant kids detained in a Texas prison camp and child detention facilities all across the US.

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  19. Lip+hoops were inspired by Sonia Sotomayor, who was advised to wear neutral-colored nail polish to her confirmation hearings to avoid scrutiny. She kept her red. Next time someone tells Bronx girls to take off their hoops, they can just say they’re dressing like a Congresswoman.

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  20. 22 hours ago

    Proud to be published in this month's special issue of 's Planning Magazine in a short piece chronically a few observations made during my years commuting on from San Francisco to Redwood City.

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