Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC

RT @NiallStanage: I'm late to this but, if you haven't seen it, this @AOC interview by @chrislhayes is very good. https://t.co/75nckIJzHr — PolitiTweet.org

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC

RT @nytimes: By day, New York’s 114,085 homeless students live in plain sight: They study on the subway and sprint through playgrounds. At… — PolitiTweet.org

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC

RT @PramilaJayapal: The Green New Deal is an economic and environmental imperative. Doing nothing is the radical position. https://t.co/5Sh… — PolitiTweet.org

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC

A combined household income of $100k isn’t even “children of millionaires” territory. That’s two parents making $50k/each. Does that sound rich to you? It’s not. It’s a working family. And just as tuition-free K-12 public school was an option, tuition-free K-16 should be too. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @SenSanders: "Tax me!" Let's listen to these Patriotic Millionaires who want their taxes raised, not cut. https://t.co/ZzMylBuppu — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @RoKhanna: .@aoc facts. Only 1.4% of the benefits of free college go to the 1%. 98.6% to everyone else including middle class kids. How… — PolitiTweet.org

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5. Lastly, and I can’t believe we have to remind people of this, but it’s GOOD to have classrooms (from pre-k through college!) to be socioeconomically integrated. Having students from different incomes & backgrounds in the same classroom is good for society & economic mobility. — PolitiTweet.org

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3. When you start carving people out & adding asterisks to who can benefit from goods that should be available to all, cracks in the system develop. 4. Many children of the elite want to go to private, Ivyesque schools anyway, which aren’t covered by tuition-free public college! — PolitiTweet.org

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1. Universal public systems are designed to benefit EVERYBODY! Everyone contributes & everyone enjoys. We don’t ban the rich from public schools, firefighters, or libraries bc they are public goods. 2. Universal systems that benefit everyone are stronger bc everyone’s invested! — PolitiTweet.org

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This is a GOP talking point used to dismantle public systems, & it’s sad to see a Dem candidate adopt it. Let’s talk about why Republicans are wrong on this. Just like rich kids can attend public school, they should be able to attend tuition-free public college. Here’s why. — PolitiTweet.org

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Hoping everyone is enjoying a warm & happy Thanksgiving. I am thankful for so much this year: my friends, family, and loved ones; the blessing of good health, & the opportunity to serve our community and country. Gratitude is a practice! What are you grateful for this year? ⬇️ — PolitiTweet.org

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Look out for those in politics who like to label themselves “fiscally responsible,” yet only seem to care about the price of justice - not the cost of oppression. Everything has a price. And an unjust society is far costlier than one that invests in & values all people. — PolitiTweet.org

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None of the politicians who brand themselves “fiscally responsible” ever raise concern about rushing to shower ICE & CBP w/ $billions with 0 guardrails or oversight. None of them ask about how we pay for corrupt contracts or mass incarceration. Ask yourself why that is. — PolitiTweet.org

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This is honestly one of the big reasons why the argument about “pay-fors” in healthcare, housing, etc so often are made in bad faith. I see decisions made every day that cost the American public billions of dollars a year for bogus reasons and nobody asks how we pay for it. /2 — PolitiTweet.org

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Earlier this year, Congress rushed to approve BILLIONS more $ for ICE + CBP. I saw members voting YES w/o even a summary of the bill. Nobody cared then how we’d pay for it. Now ICE is setting up fake universities to trap students. Yet we were called radical for opposing it. — PolitiTweet.org

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Abolish ICE. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @nowthisnews: ‘We have to reclaim our public systems.’ — Rep. @AOC explained how her Green New Deal for Public Housing Act will fix publ… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @FlyingWithSara: "People's lives are not commodities." This is what we must drive home. In our current system, our families are traded a… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @TheAtlantic: Speedy robots. Constant surveillance. Ruthless quotas. A new @reveal investigation into why the injury rate for Amazon’s w… — PolitiTweet.org

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None of this is a critique on lawmakers who dial for dollars - they don’t want to be doing it in the first place. But to change this system, we must push hard to change the corrupting role of money in politics. And yes, those forces exist among all parties. — PolitiTweet.org

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Our political system’s reliance on huge sums of money has many negative impacts, but one of the largest is that it takes lawmakers’ time away from lawmaking. That’s a feature, not a flaw - the less time lawmakers have, the more special interests can slip in harmful provisions. — PolitiTweet.org

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Instead, your support allows me to spend hours each day studying issues & exposing abuse of power. So while Fox continues to laugh that I’m “just a bartender,” I’ve spend the whole year studying big pharma, private equity, military contractors, and Mark Zuckerberg’s shady deals. — PolitiTweet.org

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC

There is, of course, much more time for me to be fully present at my job. In Congress, this is a luxury. Since I don’t spend hours each day asking for money, I spend a lot more time legislating, studying, & preparing/sitting in hearings. This has cumulative effects over time. — PolitiTweet.org

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I intentionally built my campaign to rely on small-dollar grassroots support w/o any corporate $, because I felt that’s the best way to be accountable to everyday people. It has impacted how I work in Congress in powerful ways - ways I couldn’t fully appreciate until I got here. — PolitiTweet.org

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC

While many try to belittle a progressive agenda that centers working people & the public good, in truth it’s more powerful than ever. I haven’t picked up a phone once this year to dial for dollars, & I don’t meet w/ corp lobbyists. That is the power of your grassroots support. — PolitiTweet.org

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC

RT @peterdaou: In case anyone needs a reminder, @AOC is redefining what the Democratic Party can be -- and should be. https://t.co/S5uxyop0… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @UNEP: 🔴 We're on perilous ground 🔴 We are on track for a temperature rise of over 3°C. This would bring mass extinctions & large parts… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @trekonomics: Public goods are the cornerstone of civilized society. The expansion of public goods, whether roads or knowledge, has brou… — PolitiTweet.org

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Public education, libraries, & infrastructure policies (which we‘ve had before in America and elsewhere in the world!) are not “free stuff.” They are PUBLIC GOODS. And they are worth investing in, protecting, & advancing for all society and future generations. Sincerely, NY-14 — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @jason_kint: In short, AOC says not to trust Facebook and consider sitting them out for 2020 as they’re clearly sitting out their own re… — PolitiTweet.org