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Ilhan Omar
@IlhanMN
Mom, Refugee and Congresswoman for #MN05. Progressive Caucus Deputy Chair. Fighting for a more just world.✨ https://t.co/u6aQiJB0hs 📚
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Oct 17, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Bombing a hospital is among the gravest of war crimes. The IDF reportedly blowing up one of the few places the injured and wounded can seek medical treatment and shelter during a war is horrific.

@POTUS needs to push for an immediate ceasefire to end this slaughter. Our office cited an AP report yesterday that the IDF had hit a Baptist hospital in Gaza. Since then, the IDF denied responsibility and the US intelligence assessment is that this was not done by Israel.
Oct 9, 2023 • 12 tweets • 2 min read
Gaza’s 2+ million population are mostly children, who live under blockade in what Israel’s own former intelligence chief has called an open air prison.

The overwhelming majority live in poverty.

Many suffer lifelong psychological and physical trauma. 🧵 Just as we honor the humanity of the hundreds of innocent Israeli civilians and 9 Americans who were killed this weekend, we must honor the humanity of the innocent Palestinian civilians who have been killed and whose lives are upended.
Jul 13, 2023 • 13 tweets • 3 min read
There is no way in hell I am attending the joint session address from a President whose country has banned me and denied @RashidaTlaib the ability to see her grandma. A thread👇🏽 @RashidaTlaib WE SHOULD NOT BE INVITING THE PRESIDENT OF ISRAEL—A GOVERNMENT WHO UNDER ITS CURRENT PRIME MINISTER BARRED THE FIRST TWO MUSLIM WOMEN ELECTED TO CONGRESS FROM VISITING THE COUNTRY—TO GIVE A JOINT ADDRESS TO CONGRESS.
Jun 20, 2023 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
Today is World Refugee Day. Twenty eight years ago, my family endured four years in a refugee camp with little food or water, and were given the opportunity to start a new life in America as refugees. Image I and millions of others would not be where we are today if it weren’t for the United States of America—a country that stands as a beacon of hope for the poor, huddled masses yearning to breathe free around the world.
Apr 3, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
It’s big day today! I welcomed President Biden to my district in Minnesota! He’s visiting as part of the “Investing in America Tour” to highlight the investments the administration is making to address the climate crisis right here in Minnesota. First I greeted @POTUS on the tarmac. We're visiting the Cummins factory in Fridley (a northern suburb of Minneapolis in my district). This is Cummins’ first electrolyzer manufacturing facility in the United States.
Mar 17, 2023 • 15 tweets • 2 min read
20 years later, the Iraq War remains the biggest foreign policy disaster of our generation, one that took thousands of American lives and hundreds of thousands of Iraqi lives.

Have we fully learned the lessons from this failed war of aggression, or are we doomed to repeat it? 🧵 We still have not had full accountability for the war crimes perpetrated, or for those responsible for cheerleading the war.

The perpetrators of this war—George W. Bush and Dick Cheney have faced no accountability for war crimes and continue to be accepted in Washington society.
Jan 30, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
McCarthy did nothing when Taylor Greene said Muslims don’t belong in our government.

He did nothing when Boebert said I was a terrorist.

He did nothing when MTG wanted @RashidaTlaib & I kicked out of Congress unless we swore in on a Christian Bible.

Spare me the GOP hypocrisy. Trump dined with Nazis, said “Jews have to get their act together, and said to a group of Jewish leaders, “You’re brutal killers. Not nice people at all. But you have to vote for me; you have no choice.” He never apologized.
Nov 28, 2022 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Kevin McCarthy has not said a word about his boss Donald Trump dining with open antisemite and fascist Nick Fuentes.

Or about Marjorie Taylor Greene joining Fuentes at a conference.

He does not care one bit about Jewish safety or any religious minority in our country. He said nothing when Taylor Greene held a gun to my head in ads.

He said nothing when Lauren Boebert called me 'jihad squad' or that she was afraid I had a suicide backpack.

This is not about issues.
Nov 9, 2022 • 19 tweets • 3 min read
In Minnesota we don’t just welcome refugees, we send them *back* to Congress. As a little girl, huddled in a refugee camp, displaced from a civil war that tore my birth country of Somalia apart, I just wanted to make it out alive.
Oct 6, 2022 • 7 tweets • 7 min read
We have a long weekend of GOTV coming up, and we want you to be a part of it! We'll be joined by @BernieSanders, @KeithEllison, @TinaSmithMN, @PramilaJayapal, and local DFL candidates! Tomorrow I'll join @keithellison, @PramilaJayapal, and @BernieSanders for a rally at the University of Minnesota. You can register here:

act.berniesanders.com/signup/rsvp-be…
Sep 15, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
This is a huge deal. Workers were asking for time off - sick leave, most of all - as they often work well over the normal 40 hour, 5 day work week.

They're doing so during one of the most profitable periods in history for railway companies. For the American people, a shutdown of the railway system would have been disastrous.
Aug 31, 2022 • 5 tweets • 4 min read
It’s been an exciting few days of celebrating investments in our communities. First, we got to celebrate People Center clinic renovation made possible by over $2mil I got for them in my time in the MN House and Delta Dental funding. Second, local elected leaders and community advocates joined me to celebrate investments from the Inflation Reduction Act in climate and healthcare.
Aug 24, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Today is a monumental victory. I’m proud of the work we’ve done to get us to this moment.

This is an important first step to provide critical relief to millions of working people struggling to make ends meet under the burden of their debt. It also can't be the end of this discussion. There are millions more who have so much debt that even $20,000 only puts a small dent in what they owe.

We won't stop fighting until we cancel every dollar of student debt for every American.
Aug 14, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
It’s lazy reporting. The Democratic establishment in MN continuously recruit black men to run against us, but time and time again the black community, working class white people + other minorities overwhelmingly vote for us. It’s the rich white community that votes for them. You will rarely hear this as a the leading story. Our 2022 opponent said his neighbors asked him to run but when the election results came in, it was clear they actually didn’t want him to represent them. The working-class in CD5 know who their champion is and they are exhausted.
Jul 14, 2022 • 14 tweets • 3 min read
I want to be perfectly clear: this is who we are dealing with. This is what the Republican Party is. There’s no negotiating with this. There’s no cooperating with this. If they take what power we have to stop them, this will be national policy.

So that means a few things. Yes, we have to turn out and vote in November. Period.

I know you are sick of hearing this from national leaders in our party. I’m sick of it too. But it’s completely true. If Republicans take over the House and Senate, this will be their agenda.
Jul 11, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Yes! This is the energy we need from the Administration. Because of the Supreme Court’s decision, Republican-controlled states are now trying to ban abortion without any exceptions for the life or health of the pregnant person. But this contradicts federal law.
Jun 26, 2022 • 7 tweets • 1 min read
5 justices confirmed by a POTUS who lost the popular vote.
4 lied under oath.
2 credibly accused of sexual assault.
1’s seat literally stolen.
1’s spouse implicated in a coup attempt.

It is not enough to tell people to vote. We need a comprehensive plan to fix this court. At a MINIMUM, the Senate should get rid of the filibuster to codify Roe v Wade into law.

Worried Manchin, Sinema, Colllins and Murkowski won’t support it?

Make them take a vote and go on the record choosing minority rule over women’s rights.
Jun 24, 2022 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
The reversal of Roe will be recorded in the history books in the same nauseous tones as decisions like Dred Scott, Korematsu, Plessy, and Buck.

This is an institution that has legitimized slavery, concentration camps, and eugenics.

This decision is the same. We claim to live in a democracy. A form of government that does not just do the will of the people, but protects the rights of the people.

There are times we have lived up to our ideals.

And there are many, many times where we haven’t. Like this.
Jun 10, 2022 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
For all the pain of the past two years, the federal govt did a lot of incredible things during the pandemic. We wrote and passed bills that reduced poverty by record amounts. We kept people in their homes. We fed our kids.

But we risk erasing all that progress if we don't act. The expanded Child Tax Credit was responsible for the largest drop in childhood poverty ever recorded. Republicans, with the help of two conservative Democrats in the Senate didn't care much about that, and they blocked its reauthorization. Image
Apr 27, 2022 • 14 tweets • 3 min read
Today, @mnhumanrights found a deliberate “pattern or practice of race discrimination in violation of the Minnesota Human Rights Act” by the Minneapolis Police Department

Below are just a few of the most egregious findings.
mn.gov/mdhr/mpd/findi… - Although Black individuals comprise about 19% of the Minneapolis population, 63% of all use of force incidents that MPD officers recorded were against Black individuals.
Apr 4, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
We cannot turn away from or sanitize the brutality we are currently seeing in Ukraine.

The massacre in Bucha must be fully investigated, and everyone responsible must be held accountable. Tomorrow we’ll take up the Ukraine War Crime Deterrence and Accountability Act—a bill I’m cosponsoring.