Semiretired attorney, live with Baby Kitty, former DNC committee person, troublemaker.
Greeley, CO
Joined April 2013
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Jeri Shepherd retweeted
Last night saw some of the greatest progressive victories in modern American history. All across the country, in rural and urban areas, Americans said NO to oligarchy, and YES to an agenda that fights for the working class.
Congratulations to the following candidates:
U.S. SENATE
Abdul El-Sayed (MI)
Peggy Flanagan (MN)
Troy Jackson (ME)
U.S. HOUSE
Bob Brooks (PA-7)
Rebecca Cooke (WI-3)
Sam Forstag (MT-1)
Adam Hamawy (NJ-12)
Melat Kiros (CO-1)
Brad Lander (NY-10)
Will Lawrence (MI-7)
Donavan McKinney (MI-13)
Brian Poindexter (OH-7)
Analilia Mejía (NJ-11)
Claire Valdez (NY-07)
Randy Villegas (CA-22)
Aisha Wahab (CA-14)
Jeri Shepherd retweeted
A Black woman, an Indigenous woman, and a Latina walk into a bar. The bartender says, "What can I get you, Governors?”
Jeri Shepherd retweeted
This one really got me. ❤️😭
EL-SAYED: “to all the parents who struggled to explain to their kids why the president openly mocks someone for their name or how they pray, let them know tomorrow that the bad guys lost.”
Jeri Shepherd retweeted
"I don’t care how many jobs you've created if your employees live in poverty."
- Abdul El-Sayed 2019
Jeri Shepherd retweeted
We woke up this morning to a resounding Democratic majority. Now, let's use it to protect our neighbors.
As @jamestalarico so powerfully stated in his speech last night, love is not weak: It’s putting our bodies on the line between the bullies and the bullied. That’s why people have shown up on the streets of Minneapolis, in our neighborhoods, at the polls, and at 26 Federal Plaza — where I was back this morning.
Let’s get to work.
Jeri Shepherd retweeted
Talarico and Hinojosa were laser-focused on anti-oligarch, anti-corruption populism, and they won America’s biggest red state after Corporate Dems had lost the state to Republicans for generations.
Nobody should ever again listen to Corporate Dems’ “electability” arguments.
Jeri Shepherd retweeted
I didn’t think it was possible to combine primary-loser-sour-grapes & Islamophobia into a more toxic cocktail than Andrew Cuomo. But Haley Stevens has managed to do it.
If she wants to betray civil rights, reproductive freedom, immigrant protections, and working families by endorsing Mike Rogers and trying to give control of the Senate to J.D. Vance and Donald Trump, I guess that's her business — but it’s appalling, oddly patronizing, and simply false to claim that it’s in the interest of Michigan’s Jewish communities.
Our safety comes from welcoming the stranger, fighting for universal human rights, and building pluralist democracy — not from endorsing neo-Nazi adjacent MAGA fanatics.
Fortunately, there’s a powerful response of solidarity and shared safety, that every Jewish & non-Jewish Michigander can do on Tuesday:
Vote for @AbdulElSayed
Jeri Shepherd retweeted
Notice how it's somehow the government's job to legislate a few Bible verses on human sexuality over our entire country, but it's suddenly "not the government's job" when it comes to the +2,500 Bible verses calling for a generous use of wealth that prioritizes the poor.
Jeri Shepherd retweeted
What @bradlander is doing says so much about who is, what he stands for, and the principles he will bring to Congress. He is an amazing man. Read his statement.
I'm in the West Bank this week as part of the “Protect the Harvest” coalition along with @israelispeaceny, @ucpinpalestine & Protect the Harvest, which is bringing people together from around the world to help Palestinian farmers harvest olives in the face of state-sanctioned settler terrorism.
Our goals for the trip are to help protect the olive harvest — and to shed a light on the reality of the occupation. To ensure that international solidarity goes beyond the harvest, to become a sustained commitment to protecting Palestinian communities from settler violence, forced displacement, and the ongoing threats to their right to remain on their land.
And, speedily and in our day, to secure human rights, safety, equality & freedom for both Palestinians and Israelis.
Thankfully, our corner of today's harvest was peaceful and successful. But violence unfortunately is never far away.
We’ll keep you posted on our efforts this week, especially the stories we hear from Palestinians on the ground. Protect the Harvest.
Jeri Shepherd retweeted
Abdul El Sayed did MORE than disavow the Muslim Brotherhood, he vowed to honor and defend our U.S. Constitution.
Which the Republican evangelical Christian paid operative REFUSED to do.
Abdul is more patriotic than the Republican traitor.
Jeri Shepherd retweeted
Now that @AbdulElSayed has been asked to disavow the Muslim Brotherhood because of his mother’s alleged ties to the Muslim Brotherhood before he was born, will we be asking Donald Trump to disavow the Ku Klux Klan because of his father’s alleged ties to the KKK in the 1920s?
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Students from NC A&T (the largest HBCU) marching back from going to vote. The county closed the polling place on campus. Students marched to town to vote anyway. A&T is where @RevJJackson went to school. His legacy lives on. linkedin.com/posts/todd-simm…
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This is DEFCON 1 for our democracy.
I expect every Democrat, from the most right wing flank of the party to the left, to come out guns blazing in defense of Ilhan Omar. Any Dem who stays on the sidelines of this or offers only muted, noncommittal criticism should be ostracized.
BREAKING WSJ:
The Trump admin's investigation into Rep. Ilhan Omar is aimed at building a case to strip her of her U.S. citizenship and ultimately deport her, according to U.S. officials and other people familiar with the probe. wsj.com/politics/policy/ilha…
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This is the result of 7+ years of Trump's attacks on @Ilhan, Somali-Americans, & the Muslim community.
Everyone, regardless of party, must speak out against this fascistic abuse of power.
If they can do this to a sitting Congresswoman, they can & will do it to anyone.
BREAKING WSJ:
The Trump admin's investigation into Rep. Ilhan Omar is aimed at building a case to strip her of her U.S. citizenship and ultimately deport her, according to U.S. officials and other people familiar with the probe. wsj.com/politics/policy/ilha…
Jeri Shepherd retweeted
In a twisted authoritarian spectacle, federal agents raided Ilhan Omar's home this morning.
Trump has made no secret of his disdain for the Congresswoman – frequently using racist, tyrannical drivel to express an unhinged desire to expel her from the country. His dangerous language has endangered her personal safety for years. Now, weaponizing law enforcement for blatant political intimidation – weeks before an election he knows he’s losing – is an appalling, desperate abuse of power.
This is the behavior of a dictator. All elected officials must full-throatedly condemn this lawless act of intimidation. I stand with @IlhanMN.
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Trump has attacked @Ilhan for years. He is vindictive, hateful, and abusive of power.
This baseless raid was meant to intimidate and silence her and the communities she represents.
Rep. Omar continues to stand on the right side of history, and we’re right there with her.
The Office of Congresswoman Omar released the following statement:
“This raid by Trump’s DHS is an outrageous abuse of power and an unprecedented escalation in the weaponization of federal law enforcement to target political enemies. For a decade, Donald Trump has relentlessly targeted Congresswoman Ilhan Omar with inflammatory rhetoric, repeatedly putting a target on her back. Now, those attacks have escalated to a pointless federal raid. The Congresswoman has done nothing wrong. No president should be able to use the power of the federal government to intimidate his political enemies.”
Jeri Shepherd retweeted
Michigan congressional candidate Will Lawrence's stark words on AI:
"They're saying if this goes well, it's gonna put 20 million people out of work... But if it goes poorly, we might kill everybody by accident."
