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Aug 23, 2022 8 tweets 4 min read Read on X
Today I voted for myself for the United States House of Representatives in #NY11. It was an incredibly surreal feeling but what I was really voting for was our movement for justice and dignity for all. THREAD /1 Image
I’m the daughter of a loving mother who worked full-time with a baby and ROTC requirements to pay her way through college and ensure I was taken care of. She taught me compassion, determination, and joy in the face of adversity and abuse. /2 Image
I’m the biological daughter of a man raised and abused in orphanages in Puerto Rico because his family was too poor to care for him after his grandmother died. He lived a traumatic life on the streets and passed on so much of that pain to our family. But he taught me to fight. /3 Image
I’m the daughter of a man who chose me like we chose him. He claimed as his own from day one. He pushed me and he showed what it means to love in action, always doing whatever it took to take care of us, picking up extra jobs and sacrificing when things were tight. /4 Image
I’m the granddaughter of a woman who drank from “colored only” water fountains as a child and a man who was 19 serving in the Air Force when Ruby Bridges had to be escorted to a forcibly desegregated school by armed federal marshals. They paved the way. /5 Image
I’m the wife of a man who has loved me so well for 12 years. He held me as I woke up screaming from nightmares after war. Stood by me as I risked prison to speak out against them. And has been there as I’ve laughed, cried, and worked on this campaign 551 days. /6 Image
As I think about the recent Supreme Court rulings affirming Puerto Rico’s colony status, the stripping of my equal protections under the law and so much more - I know that I am completely ordinary and yet I am also my ancestors’ wildest dreams. Image
This movement will always be personal for me. We’re fighting for liberation from the 1% whose greed is so consuming they buy our politicians and don’t care if the rest of us live or die. This campaign is a love letter to us. We are the majority and we are so powerful together 🔥 Image

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Nov 22, 2023
At 22, about to deploy to our “global war on terror,” I was your guest to the SOTU. I believed I was being sent to save lives, end terrorism. I trusted and admired you.

I came home knowing I only added to the violence and people like you sent me to kill and die and for lies /1

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I’m 34 now. 12 years later and I risked military prison to tell the truth about those wars but you’re still peddling the same lies, tweeting to essentially celebrate scale of death and destruction you can’t possibly fathom from your cushy office.

I wonder why? /2

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You’re operating as if OUR OWN NUMBERS don’t show that terrorism increased in every single place we did military “counter-terrorism operations” for the past 20+ years which makes you either evil or grossly incompetent /3
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Jul 31, 2022
Good morning NYC! We are two weeks from the Congressional primary elections and I know there are several important races, but only #NY11 could be the difference between keeping and losing the house!

🚨We need all hands on deck 🚨

Here’s a thread how you can help TODAY 👇🏼
Option 1 🔥 Join the text bank happening now from anywhere! mobilize.us/brittanyforcon…
Option 2 🔥 Join our day of action in Brooklyn today at 1pm and knock doors with #TeamBrittany @NYICAction, @JvpAction, @TheJewishVote, @YallaBrooklyn, @MMitaynes, and @alexaforcouncil!
mobilize.us/brittanyforcon…
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Jul 29, 2022
I’m filled with righteous rage tonight over the PACT Act so here’s a super thread of Senate Republicans voted to let Veterans just die using us for photo ops. It’s the ultimate #stolenvalor really.
@SenJohnBarrasso of WY likes to take pictures with Veterans but voted to let us die today. ImageImageImage
@MarshaBlackburn of TN likes to take pictures with Veterans but voted to let us die today. ImageImage
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Jul 28, 2022
As a Veteran, I’m in shock and struggling to find words. 3.5 million of us were exposed to toxic fumes from burn pits. Advocates for this bill have literally died waiting for it to finally come to a vote and they voted to just let us die…
I took this photo in 2013 and spent months breathing the toxic fumes and I don’t even have health insurance right now because I can’t afford it like over 2 million other Veterans (conservatively)... Image
But these so-called “pro-life” Republicans who love to wave flags and put us in their photo ops and use us as political props when it’s convenient clearly don’t care about the lives of us Veterans who have sacrificed more for their greed than any of them could possibly repay…
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May 15, 2021
A thread by BRD for your consideration:

Today is #ArmedForcesDay- too often a day where politicians offer platitudes about sacrifice and gratitude while they continue to send our troops to kill and die in endless wars for profit and power- not justice or freedom. #NoMoreWar /1
They praise us at their events while they gut our healthcare and sidestep accountability for the rampant sexual assault, pollution and abuses on and around our bases. #ArmedForcesDay2021 #MilitaryMeToo #EnvironmentalJustice #AuditThePentagon 2/
They pat us on the back while they line their pockets with corporate "Defense" industry campaign donations and ignore the the hunger, houselessness, and avoidable traumas our families are grappling with. #ArmedForcesDay #22aDay #MoralInjury #HousingFirst #HousingIsAHumanRight 3/
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