US Congresswoman, NY-14. In a modern, moral, and wealthy society, no American should be too poor to live. People-Funded, takes no lobbyist💰. Personal account.
Bronx + Queens, NYC
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez retweeted
AOC: Millennials are not punk kids anymore. We're grown adults with mortgages and kids, and that generation is starting to be decisive at the polls. And there is anger at being ignored, having our economic futures mortgaged by the generations that came before us and we're taking the reins
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez retweeted
AOC on Trump saying oil companies are making too much money: "Everyday Americans, we can see the very large gap between what Trump says and does ... what Donald Trump is doing is starting a reckless war in Iran, having closed-door meetings with oil companies saying 'you give me money and I'll do whatever you want' ... he's jacking up the price not just at the pump, but everything that you buy that requires the transportation of goods."
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez retweeted
Five years ahead of schedule. $195 million under budget.
Since October 2023, crews replaced 196 bridge structures and more than 12,600 feet of railroad along the 133-year-old Park Avenue Viaduct—all over 28 tightly coordinated weekends while maintaining full Metro-North service.
The work took place along a critical corridor carrying 98% of Metro-North trains—approximately 750 trains and 260,000 passengers every day.
With the major structural replacement now complete, we asked the project lead how the MTA delivered the work faster and for less without disrupting service.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez retweeted
Memphis is home to Elon Musk’s data center empire — and the polluting turbines xAI uses to power them appear to be making residents sick.
Justin Pearson has been leading the fight against them, and is now running for Congress to elevate the fight to protect his community.
Pearson is running in a district that Tennessee Republicans just gerrymandered, but in sticking to his progressive working class values, and channeling the rage at xAI's noise, pollution, and lawlessness, he could pull off a historic upset.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez retweeted
NEW: Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear is demanding in a new letter that Mitch McConnell "directly and verbally address the people of Kentucky and provide proof of your capacity to serve, or resign."
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez retweeted
Reporter: Isn’t there concern that this slippery slope to socialism inevitably ends up as full-blown communism?
AOC: I mean, no. I think that’s very silly. We can’t even raise the minimum wage. Do they really think communism is going to happen? No. They’re trying to scare people because they don’t want us talking about the fact that we all have a right to health care.
So they want to call everything they don’t like communist because if people actually wake up to the fact that their elected officials are screwing them over when they get here, they’re going to realize they deserve better and that health care as a right isn’t crazy. They want to call this stuff communist because they don’t want us to realize that the rest of the developed world has guaranteed health care. They want to call it communist because they don’t want you to know that Germany, Italy, the UK, Canada—everybody else—has it better than us, and we spend the most money for the worst care in the developed world.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez retweeted
Sen. @TinaSmithMN has been a fighter for working people in the US Senate. I hope to build on her leadership on women's health and reproductive rights and access which has paved the way for the future I want for my daughters and every American. I'm deeply grateful for her support.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez retweeted
Rep. @AOC: Ask Peter Thiel, ask Elon Musk, ask Mark Zuckerberg, if they want one of these data centers in their own backyard. I was just in Memphis. All within one block, an xAI greywater treatment plant, methane turbines, coal ash, wastewater facilities. Everyone in that area is getting poisoned. This conversation is not just about technology, it's about people's ability to live without getting cancer.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez retweeted
AOC called out Elon Musk’s Memphis data centers and the turbines he uses to power them, saying: “all these folks are getting sick” and the people profiting “don't have to pitch into the cost at all for the healthcare burdens.”
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez retweeted
AOC: "Ask Peter Thiel, ask Elon Musk, ask Mark Zuckerberg if they want one of these data centers in their own backyard.
Ask any one of us here on this committee. If anyone wants to live right next to one of these data centers here on this committee, please raise your hand...
So I think what people are asking for in their basic protections is not too much to ask ... I think it's not unreasonable for the working class people that we are elected to respond to, to ask questions and to deserve and feel entitled to a response from their elected officials."
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez retweeted
AOC: An alternative point of consideration here, in terms of New York State’s recent moratorium—the kind of thought that, well, if you don’t want to build in your backyard, then maybe you shouldn’t have access to compute. We could say to the Silicon Valley billionaires who are constructing, pushing, and imposing these data centers on communities that are overwhelmingly rural, disenfranchised, and poor.
Ask if they want one of these data centers in their own backyard. Ask any one of us here on this committee. If anyone wants to live right next to one of these centers, please raise your hand.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez retweeted
.@AOC speaking out against data centers: “Ask Peter Thiel, ask Elon Musk, ask Mark Zuckerberg if they want one of these data centers in their own backyard..”
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez retweeted
I’m endorsing @AbdulElSayed today—because he is THE fighter Michigan needs in the Senate.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez retweeted
Grateful to be in Memphis campaigning for @Justinjpearson
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez retweeted
Ossoff: "Here's what's going to happen tonight: the world's most famous sore loser will deliver a prime-time presidential sour grapes address to pursue his 6-year-old grievances about the 2020 election, while his war in the Middle East spirals out of control and the cost of living continues to rise for Americans across the country. I expect the president to reheat debunked conspiracy theories about the repeatedly litigated and audited and confirmed 2020 presidential election in Georgia, an election that Donald Trump lost. And let me be very clear about this: if the President declares Georgia's election illegitimate, or if the President declares Georgia's sitting United States Senators illegitimate, he is declaring Georgia voters illegitimate. It's Donald Trump who tried to defraud Georgia voters in that election, Donald Trump who tried to commit election fraud when he called Georgia's Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger -- and it was caught on tape, and you should play the tape to your viewers today -- and badgered and bullied Georgia's top election official to 'find him' the votes that he needed to win in a state where he had lost."
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez retweeted
The Supreme Court is facing a major corruption crisis.
I'm proud to introduce the High Court Gift Ban Act, with @RepRaskin and @SenatorLujan, to remove the influence of dark money from our nation’s highest judicial body.
We must safeguard the sanctity of our democracy.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez retweeted
"The Israelis are out of control."
Rep. @LaurenUnderwood confirms she will vote in favor of Rep. Thomas Massie's amendment to cut off military aid to Israel.