Alexandria Ocasio-CortezVerified account

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Congresswoman for NY-14 (Bronx + Queens). In a modern, moral, + wealthy society, no American should be too poor to live. 💯% People-Funded, no corporate PAC $.

Bronx + Queens, NYC
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    Apr 17

    Climate change is here + we’ve got a deadline: 12 years left to cut emissions in half. A is our plan for a world and a future worth fighting for. How did we get here? What is at stake? And where are we going? Please watch & share widely ⬇️

    Art of the Green New Deal: A Message From the Future With AOC
    Watch this seven-minute postcard from the future about how, in the nick of time, a critical mass of humanity came to believe that we were actually worth saving.
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  2. 3 hours ago

    Usury - aka high interest - happens to be explicitly denounced in the Bible (& in many other religions). Looking forward to having the religious right uphold their principles + sign onto my bill. 😇 Unless of course they’re only invoking religion to punish women + queer people.

    . and have a deceptively simple proposal that would transform the credit card industry and virtually eliminate payday loans: cap interest rates on consumer loans at 15% per year.
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  3. Retweeted
    8 hours ago

    . asked this pharma exec why a life-saving HIV drug costs nearly $2,000 in the U.S. and $8 in Australia

    Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Questions Pharma Exec
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  4. 6 hours ago

    . went IN on Big Pharma payouts + bonuses today 🔥 Usually CSPAN zooms in pretty tight on members - I didn’t realize my reactions cheering her on were on camera until she showed it to me 🤣

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    . paid its former CEO $180 mil, while making billions in profit from lifesaving HIV drugs that are unaffordable for people who need them. The kicker: those drugs were developed using tens of millions of TAXPAYER dollars. And someone needed to call 'em out. 🗣️
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  5. 8 hours ago

    If male politicians could get pregnant, there would be as many Planned Parenthood clinics as there are Post Offices. 💌📬

    If these male GOP elected officials could get pregnant, there would be free abortion nationwide
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    13 hours ago

    . made a great point about white supremacist violence and the label of terrorism

    AOC Asks ADL Official Why White Supremacy is Not Called Terrorism
    .@AOC made a great point about white supremacist violence and the label of terrorism
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    11 hours ago

    . : "I blame us. I blame this body because every single developed country in the world guarantees health care as a right except us, except the United States, because we can't get it together."

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  8. 13 hours ago

    Spoiler: Because Australia has universal healthcare.

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    . to Gilead CEO: The list price [for Truvada for PrEP] is almost $2,000 in the US. Why is it $8 in Australia?
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    15 hours ago

    "What's being labelled as terrorism is almost exclusively coming down to the identity. And it seems as though white men invoking white supremacy and engaging in mass shootings are almost immune from being labeled domestic terrorists in their violence." -

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  10. Retweeted
    May 15

    [2/2] "Let's say I'm the CEO and I'm ruthlessly incentivized to get stock prices as high as possible. (And usually this just means increasing profits for shareholders). So I need to find a way to build this margin. Let's say I take away healthcare from my workers..."

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  11. 16 hours ago

    We all have our hard days, but turning it around is all about perspective. People often ask me how I deal w/ negativity. In person, the ➕ far outweighs the ➖. These notes sometimes get taken down, only for new ones to pop up the next day. Thank you everyone for the support 💕

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  12. 24 hours ago

    Ultimately, this is about women’s power. When women are in control of their sexuality, it threatens a core element underpinning right-wing ideology: patriarchy. It’s a brutal form of oppression to seize control of the 1 essential thing a person should command: their own body.

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  13. May 15

    Abortion bans aren’t just about controlling women’s bodies. They’re about controlling women’s sexuality. Owning women. From limiting birth control to banning comprehensive sex ed, US religious fundamentalists are working hard to outlaw sex that falls outside their theology.

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    May 15

    Powerful moment between & Heather Heyer's mom at today's hearing on white supremacy. "I have been given a huge platform…because I’m white. Many Black parents, Muslim parents, Jewish parents lose their children and nobody pays attention." True solidarity.

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    May 15

    . to military contractor exec: I could have covered the insulin costs of a community of 21,400 people for the cost of your price-gouging. I could have sent 21 kids to college. I could have sent 18 toddlers to free preschool for a year. Why should we give you another dime?

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  16. May 15

    Thanks for your advocacy! It‘s wrong that many children eligible for adoption go without adoptive families due to discrimination against the LGBT+🏳️‍🌈 community. A loving family is a core element of wellbeing + happiness. That chance shouldn’t be taken from any child or parent.

    After a day of lobbying for the Every Child Deserves A Family Act to end discrimination in foster care and adoption we got to meet !!
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  17. May 15

    Today’s hearing on White Supremacy was powerful. Heather Heyer’s mother, , offered testimony on how ‘being non-racist isn’t good enough; we must be anti-racist.’ We also learned how white supremacist mass shootings escape FBI “domestic terror“ classification & more.

    Is the first time presiding over a hearing? This is Oversight’s hearing on Confronting White Supremacy
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  18. May 15

    1st Q today: to military contractor TransDigm, w/ a history of price gouging the public. Their 3in clutch disc costs $32 to make. They charged DoD $1,443 149x. How many kids could we have sent to college tuition-free at the cost of their unfair gouging?

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  19. May 15

    This law would force children - 12 year olds - to carry a pregnancy by their rapist. This law would force people w/ mental disabilities to carry pregnancy by rape to term. This law forces people to be pregnant against their own consent. It’s horrifying.

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  20. May 15

    Alabama lawmakers are making all abortions a felony punishable w jailtime,incl women victimized by rape+incest. Of course, no added punishments for rapists. It’s going to ‘s desk. She will decide the future of women’s rights in Alabama.

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  21. May 15

    😊 Oh, what’s that? All these spooky “socialist” proposals are winning over vast majorities of GOP voters because they are common-sense, humane policies? Ya don’t say.

    Nearly 70% of Republican primary voters support and 's proposal to cap interest rates at 15%
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