Jennifer Roberts

14K posts

Jennifer Roberts banner
Jennifer Roberts

Jennifer Roberts

@JenRobertsNC

Former Mayor of Charlotte, USA. Proud wife and mother, Charlotte native, long-time community activist.

Charlotte, North Carolina Katılım Haziran 2009
1.6K Takip Edilen8.4K Takipçiler
Jennifer Roberts retweetledi
Mike Levin
Mike Levin@MikeLevin·
Let me get this straight. The federal government held a legal auction for the right to build offshore wind farms. A company won those auctions fair and square, paying nearly a billion dollars into the U.S. Treasury. The projects went through years of review. Courts repeatedly upheld their legality. Everything was above board. Then the Trump administration tried five separate times to kill other wind projects in federal court and lost every single time. Judges reviewed the administration’s supposed “national security” justification and weren’t persuaded.  So now they’ve landed on a new plan: pay the company nearly ONE BILLION DOLLARS of your tax money to just walk away. Because, and I am not making this up, the president thinks offshore wind turbines are ugly and claims without evidence that they “drive whales crazy.”  He’s been nursing this petty grudge since 2012, when he tried to block a wind farm visible from his golf course in Scotland. Fourteen years later, American taxpayers are footing the bill for it. This is stupid policy. It’s fiscally reckless, strategically blind, and driven entirely by a personal vendetta rather than any coherent vision for American energy or competitiveness. Meanwhile, China is racing ahead, building offshore wind at a staggering pace and positioning itself to dominate the global clean energy economy for decades to come. None of this is America First. nytimes.com/2026/03/17/cli…
English
369
5.1K
11.4K
575.4K
Jennifer Roberts retweetledi
Robert Reich
Robert Reich@RBReich·
When 3.5% of a population actively participates in sustained, peaceful protest, it can topple authoritarian regimes — like the one currently in the Oval Office. We need 12 million people to show up on March 28 to get to 3.5%. Will you be one of them? Find out how at nokings.org
English
592
3K
5.2K
74.2K
Jennifer Roberts retweetledi
StockMarket.News
StockMarket.News@_Investinq·
US just hit $39 Trillion in debt for the first time ever. Warren Buffett on how to end it: “I could end the deficit in five minutes. You just pass a law that says that any time there’s a deficit of more than three percent of GDP, all sitting members of Congress are ineligible for re-election.” Do you agree with him?
Barchart@Barchart

JUST IN 🚨: U.S. National Debt surpasses $39 Trillion for the first time in history 🚨 Congrats everyone, we did it 🥳🫂

English
23
211
648
42.7K
Jennifer Roberts retweetledi
Melanie D'Arrigo
Melanie D'Arrigo@DarrigoMelanie·
ICE is denying due process ICE is incentivized for illegal arrests ICE is attacking, detaining and killing citizens ICE is building mass detention centers that go beyond the need of deporting immigrants ICE is building a mass surveillance system to track citizens Abolish ICE
Melanie D'Arrigo tweet media
English
230
1.4K
2.1K
18.6K
Jennifer Roberts retweetledi
Bill Madden
Bill Madden@maddenifico·
Imagine if Biden or Obama sent mass emails to donors promising to let them in national security briefings in exchange for cash. How the fuck is this traitorous psychopath still president? 😳👇
English
544
9.8K
33.8K
386.9K
Jennifer Roberts
Jennifer Roberts@JenRobertsNC·
Yep. When you look up “corruption “ in the dictionary there’s a photo of DJT.
Moe Davis (U.S. Air Force, Retired)@ColMoeDavis

From today’s New York Times: Across both of his terms, Mr. Trump has granted clemency to more than 70 allies, donors and others convicted in fraud cases. In his second term, Mr. Trump’s pace of pardoning those convicted of fraud has increased. In the first year of his second term, he handed out nearly three dozen pardons and commutations for people accused of fraud. Mr. Trump is unabashed about using the government to reward friends and supporters and punish foes. Still, his handling of fraud cases stands out. Not only are there striking similarities between some of the crimes that were prosecuted and those that were pardoned, but the president also has excused some of those who have stolen the most. . . . . . Last March, Mr. Trump pardoned Trevor Milton, the founder of electric vehicle start-up Nikola, who had been sentenced to four years in prison on allegations he had defrauded his investors. Before Mr. Trump granted the pardon, his campaign received donations from Mr. Milton and his wife totaling more than $1.8 million. . . . . . Mr. Herrera and the others pleaded guilty to a lesser charge, but Mr. Trump pardoned them before sentencing. The clemency grants came after Mr. Herrera’s daughter, Isabela Herrera, donated $2.5 million in 2024 — and then another $1 million in 2025 — to MAGA Inc., a super PAC devoted to Mr. Trump and run by his allies. . . . . . Mr. Weinstein has not been as fortunate as Adriana Camberos. In 2021, Mr. Trump commuted the sentence she was serving for a fraud scheme involving fake energy drinks. A lawyer who had worked in the Trump White House assisted her with her case. Three years later, Ms. Camberos was convicted with her brother of defrauding food wholesalers. In January, Mr. Trump pardoned them both, with no explanation. _________________ Imagine that — a rich felon convicted of fraud excusing rich felons convicted of fraud … if the price is right. They say actions speak louder than words, and Trump’s actions on behalf of large-scale fraudsters speak as clearly as his actions on large-scale drug traffickers (see Trump pardoned drug traffickers including former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández and Silk Road online drug market founder Ross Ulbricht). Particularly galling is pardoning a fraudster who then goes out and frauds again and then scores a second fraud pardon. How do you square fraud x2/pardon x2 with the claim that you’re serious about cracking down on fraud? The old saying was “justice is blind.” The current saying is “you get as much justice as you can afford to buy.” If we’re serious about rooting out fraud, I know exactly where we should start.

English
0
0
0
29
Jennifer Roberts retweetledi
LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻
ICE detain 7 year old girl from Canada—who suffers from severe autism. She's traumatized in loud & overcrowded cell—no reason she can't be at home with her legal stepfather. "They are being unlawfully detained," he said. "My wife and daughter's papers are good and up to date." He provided his wife's social security documentation—that prove she is a lawful alien with a right to work in the U.S. Mother and child are currently locked up at the Ursula ICE detention center in McAllen, Texas—notorious for having child "cages."
English
448
5.2K
8.9K
263.1K
Jennifer Roberts retweetledi
Senator Mazie Hirono
Senator Mazie Hirono@maziehirono·
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Seven times. That's how many times Democrats have tried to fund TSA, FEMA, and the Coast Guard. And every single time, Republicans have refused. They would rather protect ICE's lawlessness than protect our communities. How despicable.
English
9.1K
8K
19.3K
433.4K
Jennifer Roberts retweetledi
Power to the People ☭🕊
Power to the People ☭🕊@ProudSocialist·
Pete Hegseth just used his 13-year-old son to justify sending troops overseas to kill other people’s children. “They died for you, son, so your generation doesn’t have to deal with a nuclear Iran.” Iran doesn’t have nukes. This war is based on a lie. We’re ruled by psychopaths.
English
42
270
825
9.4K
Jennifer Roberts retweetledi
PBS News
PBS News@NewsHour·
Factories continue to shed workers, with 98,000 manufacturing jobs lost during the president's first full 12 months back in the White House. to.pbs.org/3NwD8dl
English
110
1.4K
2.1K
293.2K
Jennifer Roberts retweetledi
Jesus Freakin Congress
Jesus Freakin Congress@TheJFreakinC·
🚨BREAKING: Armed suspected ICE agents are now grabbing young women outside college fraternities… Yesterday, a young woman was surrounded by armed men and taken, outside a fraternity house, at the University of Washington… And we need to stop pretending this is normal. Armed men grabbing a woman in public, and refusing to identify themselves, is exactly what we teach women to fear… and now the government is normalizing that, and calling it “law enforcement.” And this doesn’t just affect one person… it lowers the safety of every woman, on every campus. Because now, there’s no clear line between law enforcement and a predator. If unidentified men can take a woman from a dorm, a campus, a fraternity… then any man can pretend to be ICE and do the same thing, and that confusion is exactly what predators rely on. But, it gets worse… ICE has a pattern of detaining people they shouldn’t, then releasing them without belongings, without support, sometimes far from where they were taken… Now, apply that to a college student… away from family, in an unfamiliar place, suddenly without a phone, ID, or any way to get home. ICE agents are illegally taking whoever they can… and every time people excuse it, the line moves further. Because the second a country normalizes masked armed men grabbing any women in public, especially college students, and refusing to identify themselves… That’s not only NOT public safety… it’s actively putting every woman at risk.
English
924
6.7K
9.9K
347.7K
Jennifer Roberts retweetledi
Republicans against Trump
Republicans against Trump@RpsAgainstTrump·
BREAKING: Fed Chair Powell says U.S. private sector job growth is essentially ZERO “Golden age”
English
227
4.8K
25K
553.9K
Jennifer Roberts retweetledi
CSPAN
CSPAN@cspan·
.@SenOssoff: "Was it the assessment of the Intelligence Community that there was an 'imminent nuclear threat' posed by the Iranian regime?" @DNIGabbard: "The only person who can determine what is and is not a threat is the President—" Ossoff: "False."
English
603
2.2K
7.9K
666.5K