Jennifer C, ethnic with benefits

In case anyone is looking for me: @jenni-squirrel.bsky.social

I used to write the @washingtonpost @PostOpinions editorials on US-Africa policy, as well on as human rights and politics on the continent. To describe hundreds of thousands of deaths on the continent as “messy” is an absolute abomination.

I don’t think you understand how catastrophic the oil refinery bombing in Tehran is. Burning petroleum releases sulfur and nitrogen oxides that mix with rain to form sulfuric and nitric acid, essentially turning rainfall toxic. When Saddam burned Kuwaiti oil wells in 1991, the fallout contributed to what became known as Gulf War Syndrome, with veterans developing chronic illness and cancer decades later. The difference now: this isn’t a desert battlefield, it’s a city of 10 million people, most of which women and children.

This is the ad Mike Lawler doesn't want you to see! Meet Tracey, a single mom and cancer survivor from Pearl River, who relied on Medicare, Medicaid, and the Affordable Care Act to get her family through the most difficult period of their lives.

@TimmyFacciola_ Thank you! 🙏🏽

source: Jennifer Cabrera of Ossining, Co-chair, Westchester-Putnam Chapter of the NYWFP and board member of Community Voices Heard Power

A man who identified himself as a veteran got booted from Mike Lawler’s town hall tonight in Rockland County:

@K_Hurley202 @davidmckay415 @lawler4ny And as usual, it didn’t happen!

@davidmckay415 @lawler4ny This young man wasn’t a heckler. He is a veteran asking for his Congressman to answer the question that was asked

Rockland deputy sheriff removes heckler from @lawler4ny Town Hall...

US Navy veteran Roberto Garachana, who calls himself a concerned citizen, was ejected from rep. Mike Lawler's Town Hall after demanding that Lawler answer questions asked by his constituents.

@SKastenbaum @NPR 🤨 There are only 6 Dems left in the primary.

NY Rep. Mike Lawler holding a town hall at Rockland Community College. The moderate Republican started the event talking about affordability, the SALT tax deduction. His re-election race is considered a toss up in NY’s 17th district. No fewer than 8 Dems running in primary. @NPR

@MetroNorth Would it kill you to put an extra gate agent at Harlem-125 during rush hour if the machine is inexplicably not working for monthly tickets on the first weekday of the month? I had to buy an extra peak ticket bc your poor agent was solo and had to pee. Do better! 😡

Tomorrow is Election Day 📣! Remember to vote on the WFP ballot line!

“If you want to get to Tish James, you have to get through every single one of us” @ZohranKMamdani

I need the @MetroNorth to be honest about when these trains actually get to Harlem-125th. Since I started commuting here three months ago, neither has ever arrived at its appointed time. 😤

This photo is like capturing everything about this moment.

My tweet about how working @Friendlys as a teen waitress was more respectful than working for the governor of New York started a series of events that would ultimately lead to the resignation of said governor.

@saramikaila 😬

Picking up an Rx today: Pharmacist: Are you aware this med can increase your chance of breast cancer? Me: Well my oncologist is the one who prescribed it, so... Pharmacist: 😵

America is beautiful, contradictory, unfinished. I am proud of our country even as we constantly strive to make it better, to protect and deepen our democracy, to fulfill its promise for each and every person who calls it home. Happy Independence Day. No Kings in America.

Republicans don't actually care about the debt. They just pretend to so they can cut health care for everyone else while giving their billionaire buddies bigger tax cuts.

Remember when Cuomo tried to destroy @WorkingFamilies? And now WFP + @ZohranKMamdani just toppled him and an entire political dynasty. politico.com/news/2019/10/2…

This isn't just a winning margin. It's a mandate.

I am humbled by the support of more than 545,000 New Yorkers in last week's primary. This is just the beginning of our expanding coalition to make New York City affordable. And we will do it together.

I just got a nasty push poll, presumably from Cuomo’s team trying to convince him to run. I was “randomly selected” to hear some negative things about Zohran. They also refer to him as Zohran Kwame Mamdani throughout— the old Barack Hussein Obama treatment.