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May 1 4 tweets 3 min read
1/4 Tonight was my last appearance on @MSNBC as a Legal Analyst. It has been a great honor to join the smart, gracious hosts, the other contributors & guests, & to work w/ the producers, camera & sound crew, make up artists & security who made it family. And YOU the audience!
2/2 You supported me, defended me, loved my cats with me, and have become like family too! I always worried about letting you down because you never let me fall.
3/4 Even when I lacked all ability to control my face when I heard foolishness!.. and our #SamNunberg moment!
4/4 And now, I am not saying good-bye to @MSNBC or to you. I’m excited to get to interact with you as the president and CEO of @civilrightsorg where together we will save democracy and perfect this union! We will keep talking, learning and fighting together!

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More from @mayawiley

Mar 3
[1] Reading the #Jan6thCommittee court filing: “[Despite being told that his allegations of campaign fraud were false, [Trump] continued to feature those same false allegation ads seen by millions of Americans.” Translation: Trump knew he was lying.
[2] On 1/2/21 Trump w/ John Eastman who #Jan6Committee deems a co-conspirator, had a tele co defense w/ hundreds of state legislators in SEIU states trying to get them to decertify the election results. Translation: Trump personally acted to advance the conspiracy.
[3] Trump wanted to make minion Jeffrey Clark head of DOJ. Clarke willing to send letters lying abt possibility election stolen to state legislatures to pressure them to decertify. His own WH Counsel threatened to quit. Translation: More evidence Trump knew it was wrong.
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Jul 7, 2021
THREAD: This morning I stood once again in front of the Lucerne Hotel where men who were homeless were housed until last week. There I announced the end to my campaign for Mayor. 1/10
I went back to Lucerne because it was a moving and miraculous model of a community coming together in an historic crisis of the pandemic to solve another crisis.
Homelessness. 2/10
Yesterday's updated results mean Eric Adams will be poised to become the 2nd Black Mayor in the history of NYC. It was a hard-fought race and this outcome has real meaning for many who feared rank-choice voting would mean less representation for Black voters. It didn't. 3/10
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Jun 22, 2021
“My 16-year-old son: He needs a future. Please. Please.” Those are the words that have been ringing in my ears since I heard them last week. They are the reason I am running for mayor, though I don’t know the name of the woman who spoke them to me and may never meet her son.
This has been a hard-fought campaign played out at a time of great turmoil in our city and our lives. But it is also a moment when New Yorkers are coming together and the city is alive with possibility.
And when New Yorkers come together, hold and care for each other, even when we are strangers, there’s nothing we can’t do.

My campaign has proposed bold, progressive ideas that will transform our city and ensure New York City doesn’t just recover, but rises.
Read 9 tweets
Jun 21, 2021
Nothing makes me optimistic for the future of New York city more than talking to voters. Threading some of my favorite moments throughout the day today below! 🧵
“You keep me going!”
"You got 6 votes out of my family!"
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Jun 20, 2021
If my father were alive he would be 90 years old. He only lived to be 42. But what he managed to do more fighting, more living, more loving in those 42 years than most of us get to do in a lifetime! He loved me and he was my world. 1/5 ImageImage
My father also worked ceaselessly with and for Black women! And he taught me that you never stop fighting for an end to poverty because for those who are given much, much is expected. 2/5 ImageImage
My father had been given much by grandparents, Olive & William Wiley. A US Postal Clerk, my grandfather wanted to be a journalist but he couldn’t afford college. But he edited a Black newspaper anyway and put 6 kids through college. 3/5 Image
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Jun 19, 2021
Surrounded by so much joy today! A thread in celebration of Black liberation in NYC. 🧵
"It's good to see someone on the ballot who looks like me." 💜 ImageImageImage
Folks are fired up and ready to vote in Rochdale Village. ImageImage
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