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Maya Contreras
@mayatcontreras
(She/Hers) Writer. Find me on Threads. Same handle. 💗💜💙 Managed by Artist International Group
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Sep 2 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
Since Jill Stein only shows up every 4 years I wanted to quickly remind everyone, not just of this photo, but how notoriously difficult to it is to have access to war criminal Vladimir Putin, let alone *a seat at a table with him*. Backing Jill Stein is willful ignorance. Image Even Jill Stein’s Twitter account goes pretty silent every four years and then picks back up when she’s running for office again. Such an unbelievable scammer. I get if you’re frustrated by two-party system, our policies, but holy sh-t, she’s a grifter. Image
May 13, 2023 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
1. @RonDeSantisFL’s bigotry will destroy Florida’s economy. FL’s 47,500 farms bring an annual income of approx 7 billion; construction contributes over $58 billion annually. Most of this work is done by the skilled labor of undocumented workers. #SB1718 2. Governor Ron DeSantis recently signed SB1718 which goes into effective on July 1st. It’ll requires businesses with 25 workers or more to register employees under E-verify, and have hospitals ask for citizenship status. Many have stopped working worried about deportation.
Oct 25, 2022 • 20 tweets • 9 min read
1. This isn't how I wanted to start my thread on fascism, but here we go. Below is an example of how legacy media aids, abets, and normalizes fascism. The Proud Boys were there to promulgate antisemitism and other bigotry. Not a comedy show (I'll come back to this).🧵 2. As I say in my newest article, one reason why Republicans have been so successful in utilizing fascist tactics is that much of the public and press do not recognize these tactics even when witnessing them. open.substack.com/pub/mayatcontr…
Oct 25, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
🚨New From Me. Republicans have been successful in utilizing fascist tactics because much of the public & press don't recognize these tactics even when witnessing them. If they do, they may not fully comprehend the catastrophic danger of totalitarianism.
mayatcontreras.substack.com/p/farewell-to-… The actions of Trump & MAGA Republicans have laid the groundwork for a totalitarian regime. As Hitler’s propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels said, “This will always remain one of the best jokes of democracy, that it gave its deadly enemies the means by which it was destroyed.” the orgins of totalitarianism
Sep 23, 2022 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
1. As a reference, Sen. Chuck Grassley was born 2 yrs before Cudjo Kazoola Lewis died. Then there is William Casby, one of the last living Americans born into slavery (Photo by Avadon, 1963). Yet we have Representatives who ignore or deny intergenerational inequality and poverty. 2. We have representatives who’ve long ignored or denied the emotional and socioeconomic impact of the intergenerational transmission of inequality and poverty — and a media that has largely ignored the racist intent behind that denialism (mostly from Republican reps).
Aug 29, 2022 • 8 tweets • 4 min read
1. It's the 17th Anniversary of #HurricaneKatrina. Aug. 29, 2005. Below is a report from 2002. It warned that the Levees had only been built "to withstand a Category 3." Katrina was a Category 5. 1,833 died, and millions were displaced. Bush, cut the levee budget to pay for Iraq. 2. June 8, 2004: Walter Maestri, emergency management for Jefferson Parish, warned the Times-Picayune a year before Katrina: "It appears that the money has been moved in the president’s budget to handle homeland security and the war in Iraq. I suppose that’s the price we pay..."
Aug 28, 2022 • 9 tweets • 8 min read
1. Presidential Diaries, or Daily Schedules, on remarkable days of their presidency. Interesting, to say the least. Last days of President John F. Kennedy's Diary. "11:05 A.M. Departed Andrew Air Force Base for San Antonio, Texas." 2. From President Lyndon Baines Johnson's daily dairy:

11:49 AM President SIGNS Voting Rights Bill S.1564
3:29 PM LUNCH - alone.
(sitting at the table with him, though, were Bill Moyers, Horace Busby, Max Harry McPherson, Marvin Watson, Liz Carpenter, and Douglas Cater.)
Aug 1, 2022 • 16 tweets • 7 min read
@davidhogg111 1. I’m starting to see David Hogg’s Twitter posts as an opportunity to educate. From the 1950s onward the Right Wing would solidify their political narratives and goals through the weaponization of white grievance and white supremacy. Democrats should obviously not emulate this. @davidhogg111 2. While the modern Democratic party did not exist until after the signing of The Civil Rights Act (1964) and The Voting Rights Act (1965). The Republican Party, in its current Nationalistic iteration, has always existed in one form or another since the founding of this country.
Aug 1, 2022 • 15 tweets • 4 min read
1. I’m starting to see David Hogg’s Twitter posts as an opportunity to educate. From the 1950s onward the Right Wing would solidify their political narratives and goals through the weaponization of white grievance and white supremacy. Democrats should obviously not emulate this. 2. While the modern Democratic party did not exist until after the signing of The Civil Rights Act (1964) and The Voting Rights Act (1965). The Republican Party, in its current Nationalistic iteration, has always existed in one form or another since the founding of this country. Know-Nothing party and Brother Jonathon A Know-Nothing party
Jul 31, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
1. Good to know the Forward Party doesn't have any policies or good analogies.

Clearly a cash grab. We have a plurality voting system at the Federal level, period. The Forward Party, like the Green Party, won't have enough infrastructure to win, but they can spoil elections. 2. It's also clear that @AndrewYang owes money for his presidential run. Can he raise money through Forward to eradicate that debt? I don't know, but maybe. Either way, shady AF. news.yahoo.com/federal-offici…
Jul 3, 2022 • 22 tweets • 6 min read
1. I mean no disrespect to Rep. Bush, but every issue she listed in her "Repro Justice Action Plan" thread below, as she knows, is legislation a Democratic member of Congress already introduced. I say this to illustrate that the Justice Dems' plan, is already the Democrats' plan. 2.
Green check is Rep. Bush's point.
Blue Check is the Democrats' plan/legislation.
✅ End the filibuster & codify Roe
☑️We need at least two additional Democratic Senators.
Women's Health Protection Act (“Codify Roe”) already passed the House.
Jul 3, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Putin is conducting 2022 US midterm influence campaigns:

✔️Spread misinformation on social media to sow division to foment outrage, fear, and hostil­ity.

✔️Voter suppres­sion strategy designed to break the coali­tion among Democrats.

Don't fall for it. newsweek.com/vladimir-putin… "Russia will likely attempt to insert itself in close, high-stakes races. One of the best ways to do that is by hacking a candidate and leaking compromising information, and it's entirely possible they'll attempt to do that this year." - Joseph Bodnar, a cybersecurity expert.
Jun 30, 2022 • 9 tweets • 5 min read
@SarahKSilverman 1. The filibuster is not a law, it’s a rule. Biden cannot end it through executive order because it is not *his rule* its the Senate’s rule to keep or end. Separation of powers. We need two more Senators willing to end it. No legislation becomes law without the Senate. @SarahKSilverman 2. Since the 89th Congress in 1965 after the Voting Rights Act was codified (and Southern Dems became Republicans forming the modern GOP) Democrats have only had a unified government (both Chambers and POTUS) 7x. Supermajority 2x. Carter’s than Obama’s for 72 working days.
Jun 27, 2022 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
1. This didn't get a lot of attention when it came out last week, "the Kremlin is seeking to interfere in the midterm elections this year" thru interference/influence campaigns, sowing division among the American public. Putin wants The GOP back in power.
thedailybeast.com/how-vladimir-p… 2."Putin's efforts capitalizing on American divisions. Russia could significantly exploit US divisions over the November midterms."

Democratic infighting? Some GOP members saying the last election was stolen? Folks saying they won't vote?

Putin's kink.
cnn.com/2022/06/19/pol…
Jun 25, 2022 • 11 tweets • 4 min read
1. Reality is when people chose to vote 3rd party or stayed home* instead of voting for Hilary Clinton, which is their right, there were consequences. (*disinformation & bad press coverage influenced this)

Trump won and appointed 3 Supreme Court Justices who just overturned Roe. 2. Voting in 2022 & 2024 will be consequential again. Wanna expand SCOTUS (#TheJudiciaryAct), get money out of politics/protect our right to vote (#ForThePeopleAct), codify Roe (#WomensHealthProtectionAct) and end the filibuster? Then we must keep the House & expand the Senate.
May 28, 2022 • 20 tweets • 9 min read
They should still be here. #Buffalo 🕊 Each of the victims of buffalo They should still be here. #Uvalde 🕊
May 25, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
1) I put my answer to John Cleese below his tweet but I’m going to write out what my husband @BobbyCrace said, “Carlin was intentional in his bleakness. It wasn’t just a byproduct of despondency. His work didn’t deteriorate into despondent bleakness.” 2) “George Carlin modified his performance to reflect and express the insanity of a country whose despondency regularly leads to blatant harm. And Stephen Colbert was saying that the bleakness was too much for him which is what surprised you, Maya.”
May 7, 2022 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
1. Legislation does not become law without the Senate. Obama had a supermajority in the Senate for an entire 74 days. He use that supermajority to get us ACA meaning health insurance companies could no longer refuse to cover you just because you had a pre-existing condition. Image 2) Obama also signed the massive economic stimulus bill.

“Approved by Congress on a largely party-line vote last week, the bill is designed to inject nearly $800 billion into the economy.”

Republicans didn’t want help us get out of *The Recession*. 😒

npr.org/templates/stor…
Dec 18, 2021 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
1) One of the reasons I decided to run for office was because of @VP Kamala Harris. I witnessed daily attacks on her by the media and people who preferred to stand on the sidelines casting aspersions, while contributing nothing but comments & click bait. 2) Not everyone has to run for office to be in service of their community; I know this because I’ve been in-service to my community since I was 16. Deciding to run for office and putting myself out there for all to judge and eviscerate is not an easy choice. Hope offered to the homeless Maya Contreras as a 16-year-old
Dec 17, 2021 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
1) Please follow and support @UJCSexWorkers @RedCanarySong @DecrimNY
As I run for Congress please know my stance on sex work, it should be decriminalized as it will help protect sex workers against violence. Sex workers are constituents and should be treated as such. #IDEVASW21 2)As a Congressional rep, Sex Workers would have my ear and my support. I’m running against a woman who is for the Nordic model which is harmful to SW and clients. I am against human/labor trafficking. Sex workers are also against human/labor trafficking. opendemocracy.net/en/beyond-traf…
Dec 16, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Solitary confinement is not just inhumane— it is torture. @ericadamsfornyc I beg you and your administration to reverse this appalling decision. Think of Kalief, and think of all those who have been irreparably harmed by solitary confinement. The memory of Kalief Browder haunts me. What he went through in solitary confinement and what he couldn’t live with after it will always haunt me. @ericadamsfornyc please don’t be callous, reverse your decision.