Trudy Gygi

To the wrongs that need resistance, To the right that needs assistance, To the future in the distance, Give yourselves. -Carrie Chapman Catt

@RosemarieAllen4 @KamauWaset And she had a great speech! 💪🏻👏🏻

so many amazing white women have decided to #AnswerTheCall2024 tonight. I can't wait to join ALL women - our sisters, cousins, friends, neighbors - at our next call on Sunday night Join me! events.democrats.org/event/653900/

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With fear for our Democracy, I dissent.

Here’s the episode for those who haven’t seen it. I recommend watching: m.youtube.com/watch?v=gYwqpx…

@ColoradoRapids Waiting for her favorite MLS players

National Puppy Day 🤝 Gameday Drop some pictures of your favorite furry friends 🐶📸⤵️

Hearing tomorrow. Act today to save lives! ✅ Email (3 minutes) ✅ Call (9 minutes) ✅ Sign up to testify in person or virtually ✅ Submit written testimony bit.ly/YesOnHB1028

Police killed more people in 2023 than any year in the last decade, & are on track to break that record again in 2024. Arrests are flashpoints for police violence. 59% of police killings in 2023 involved traffic stops. We shouldn't make getting pulled over MORE dangerous.

‼️BIG ANNOUNCEMENT‼️ State Legislature Introduces Racial Justice Study Bill to Explore Inequities Experienced by Black Coloradans- SB24-053. If passed, this bill would study inequities in health care, housing, education, the criminal justice system, and our economy.

Sobered by last night and trying to practice what people call radical acceptance, not of a presidential candidate because surprising things happen. Just plainly sobered by the thought that, with other individuals to choose from, masses of people still hail Trump. He’s what they actually want in a leader. A bully. A verbally abusive, artfully and purposely divisive bully who has all but left the Republican Party unrecognizable. I don’t know. I just can’t understand it. Maybe I’ve got a mental block. But, you who are staunch Republicans, why don’t you care about your own party more than that? Forgive me. I don’t want to be a repeat performance of my 2016 self. I don’t. I didn’t like her anymore than you did. I intend to deal differently with this. I do not intend to get obsessed. I do not intend to lose more relationships. I don’t intend to talk about this regularly. As the Scriptures say, I want to seek peace and pursue it. I want to be a person of kindness, love and compassion. But I’ve got to move to a place of radical acceptance. It was one thing to cast a vote for a party’s only candidate, reasoning the choice as the lesser of two evils. This is quite another thing. This is wide-open-eyed, “we WANT Trump!” Anyway, this is where we are. We can complain all we want about our leaders but, in this government by the people, at the end of the day and the beginning of November, our candidates are mirrors of ourselves.

🚮 Cash bail is cruel, destablizing and does not keep us safe. It's past time to relegate this practice to the dustbin of history.

This is why we can't get easy wins on things like "cops shouldn't lie to kids" and "12-year-olds shouldn't be in prison". We attended the 1st meeting on 12/11, & unless the community gets active on TCJJ we're in danger of having the same old players run the Governor's playbook.

The TCJJ is moving quickly to drop its recommendations by March 1. Those recs will transform into a bill during the 2024 Colorado legislative session. This is *OUR* moment to shape the environment for criminal legal reform in Colorado.

Check this out 👇🏼 #copolitics #coleg

Retaliation against vocal Black women is such a frequent occurrence that bell hooks had a quote for it: “Sometimes people try to destroy you, precisely because they recognize your power — not because they don't see it, but because they see it and they don't want it to exist."

Considering Marshall was removed too, this seems to be a clear case of retaliation from @COHouseDem leadership for the lawsuit over open meetings laws. 👎 Rep. Epps' support for Palestine is an excuse, but how on earth does that apply to Rep. Marshall??

The 'civility and decorum' police seem to be more concerned with following arbitrary rules than saving lives. Know-your-place-aggression against progressive Black women who dissent from the status quo is alive and well in Colorado politics. h/t @ProfKori for coining the phrase.

For Rep Epps, speaking truth to power is anything but performative. My campaign contribution is coming, friend.

Shout out to @RepEpps for at least fighting this battle. Shame on the @COHouseDem for not even letting them vote on the substantive amendment.

What's embarrassing is comparing a Black woman abolitionist to a petulant child What's embarrassing is mansplaining to Rep @elisabethepps that she's not working hard What's embarrassing: Democrats not calling out int'l law violations while a child is killed every 10min in Gaza.