Today—on International Holocaust Remembrance Day—we remember the six million Jews, and the Roma and Sinti, Slavs, disabled persons, LGBTQ+ individuals, and many others, murdered by the Nazi regime and its collaborators.
In honoring those whose lives were taken as well as those who survived the Shoah, we reaffirm our commitment to combatting anti-Semitism, bigotry, and evil everywhere it exists.
And we pledge to stay vigilant and teach our children, and their children, the truth about the horrors of the Holocaust, so that we never forgot—and we always ensure, “never again.”
When Douglas and I visited Yad Vashem in Israel a few years ago, it was a powerful reminder of what happens when we fail to confront evil, but also of the resilience and triumph of the Jewish people.
President Biden and I will continue to stand up to hatred in all forms and do everything we can to prevent future genocide. This is a moral obligation, and one that will help us build a safer, more secure world.
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On Transgender Day of Remembrance, we remember those we lost to hate, to suicide, and to anti-trans violence.
Transgender people—and in particular, Black trans women—are facing an epidemic of violence. In 2019, at least 22 people have been killed right here in the US. #TDoR2019
We must recommit ourselves not just to fighting anti-trans violence, but to creating a world that celebrates trans lives. Join me in remembering and honoring those we lost to violence. Say their names. #TDoR2019
Thread on our bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee Russia report👇
"At the direction of the Kremlin," Russians threatened our democracy in 2016—and that threat remains for 2020. And one issue they exploited is racial tensions in America.
America’s Achilles heel is rooted in racism, and this report confirms that Russia exploited deep racial divisions in a “strategic assault on the United States” to “sow discord” in America in the 2016 presidential election. Here's how they did it:
Russian voter suppression efforts came in three forms. 1) convincing left-leaning audiences to boycott the election 2) promoting third-party candidates 3) Attacking Hillary among left-leaning audiences
I wanted to share my thoughts with you all in a quick thread on the FIRST STEP Act, a criminal justice reform bill that the Senate will begin voting on tonight.
Americans deserve a criminal justice system that is both fair and smart. By passing the FIRST STEP Act, we can start to make our criminal justice system smarter.
For too long sentencing has been overly severe & disproportionately targeted communities of color – especially Black men.
A quick thread on federal judiciary nominee Thomas Farr, whose nomination is headed for a vote on the Senate floor. Farr is anti-voting rights, anti-worker and does not deserve a lifetime appointment. I remain ardently opposed to his nomination.
Farr defended a voter suppression law in NC that a court said targeted Black voters with “almost surgical precision.” He advised Jesse Helms’ Senate campaign in 1990, which sent postcards to voters in heavily Black precincts falsely informing them they were ineligible to vote.
Farr has represented corporations that discriminated against customers and workers, including a car company that allegedly imposed additional requirements on Black customers and a pharma company that allegedly created a hostile work environment for its female workers.
PAY ATTENTION: Republicans are trying to ram Kavanaugh’s nomination through without full transparency or accountability.
Historically, Democrats and Republicans have worked together to ensure that a Supreme Court nominee’s full record is produced prior to the nominee’s hearing and vote, but now Senate Republicans are refusing to produce Kavanaugh’s full record.
Republicans want to keep documents from 3 of the 5 years Kavanaugh worked in the White House hidden. Kavanaugh himself has said that those three years were “in many ways among the most instructive” to him as a judge. So how can they justify concealing these documents?
Our country’s success depends on the right of all workers to collectively negotiate fair wages, benefits and protections.
Today's ruling in Janus vs. AFSCME undermines the basic premise, held up by courts for over 4 decades, that if a union represents all employees in negotiating & administering a collective bargaining agreement, then all employees ought to share the costs of that representation.
We cannot ignore that this decision is part of an ongoing trend of the Roberts Court that has repeatedly sided with employers over employees, corporations over consumers, and special interests over vulnerable Americans.