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…In a lengthy post on his Truth Social network, Trump criticized Ocasio-Cortez in demeaning terms, insulting her intelligence and appearance, while also taking swipes at Democratic Reps. Ilhan Omar (Minnesota) and Jasmine Crockett (Texas)…

#Ocasio-Cortez
#Trump
#Impeachment

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Please listen to US Congressperson Alexandria #Ocasio-Cortez about the #equality and #worth of all #humans: https://substack.com/@bluepowerdemgirl/note/c-113683092?r=ptkac&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action #AOC

Après son échange avec Claudia #SHEINBAUM (Présidente du Mexique) et avant la rencontre de cet après-midi à New-York avec la députée étasunienne démocrate (tendance Bernie Sanders) Alexandria #OCASIO-CORTEZ, vous pouvez regarder le meeting passionnant de Jean-Luc Mélenchon et Ruba #GHAZAL (Québec Solidaire) à Montréal.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDAnXC33Wtk&ab_channel=JEAN-LUCM%C3%89LENCHON

Haïe par la gauche bourgeoise en France, #Mélenchon est une figure de proue de la lutte des gauches de rupture dans le monde !

« Senator Bernie #Sanders drew a record-breaking crowd at his rally in LA which included musical acts from Joan #Baez and Neil #Young, who encouraged the crowd to “take America back”.
Sanders’s Fighting Oligarchy: Where We Go from Here tour has been drawing massive crowds. Aided by New York rep Alexandria #Ocasio-#Cortez, the team set the record in #Arizona for biggest-ever political rally in that state three weeks ago. In #Colorado, more than 34,000 people showed up – a career-high crowd for the 83-year-old Sanders. Saturday in #Los #Angeles saw another record: at least 36,000 people. »
'We can’t just let this happen’ https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/12/bernie-sanders-rally-los-angeles

Americans aren’t waiting for the Democratic Party to take on Trump

In February, anti-Trump demonstrations took place in all 50 states, part of the of 50501 movement (which stands for 50 protests, 50 states, one day).

On March 15, thousands of people marched in New York City under the banner of public employee unions against the Trump/Musk cuts to public services.

The arrest of pro-Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil, a green-card-holding Columbia University graduate who played a prominent role in anti-Israel protests last year, has sparked an uproar over whether the Trump administration is violating the 1st Amendment by targeting immigrants for their political beliefs.

And God bless New York Rep. #Alexandria #Ocasio-#Cortez, 35,
and Vermont Sen. #Bernie #Sanders, 83, who are on the road in Western states with their
“Fighting Oligarchy” tour, which has drawn thousands of people to arenas this week in Arizona, Nevada and Colorado.

There’s more.
“Missing member” events, for example, where voters are holding their own town halls because their Republican members of Congress are too afraid to face them.

In some cases, constituents step up to a microphone and pose questions to an empty chair.

In Wisconsin, Republican Rep. Derrick Van Orden did not show up at a town hall,
so a Democrat from a nearby district,
Rep. #Mark #Pocan,
came instead and spoke to 300 people next to an empty chair with Van Orden’s name on it.

Hundreds of healthcare workers demonstrated outside the Anaheim Hills office of Republican Rep. #Young #Kim the other day to protest expected cuts to Medicaid, the health safety net for more than 72 million low-income and disabled Americans.

And millions of Americans all over the country may answer the call on Saturday, April 5, for a
“Hands Off” protest organized by Indivisible,
the progressive grassroots group that got its start in 2017 when a handful of congressional staffers put together a handbook about peaceful, effective resistance to right-wing power grabs.

The “Hands Off” motto:
“They’re dismantling our country. They’re looting our government. And they think we’ll just watch.”
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2025-03-23/donald-trump-elon-musk-democratic-party-resistance-oppositionr

The Vermont senator Bernie #Sanders speaking at a rally where he appeared alongside the New York representative Alexandria #Ocasio-Cortez, Tempe, #US

Photograph: Calvin Stewart/Zuma Press Wire/Rex/Shutterstock

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Bernie Sanders speaking at a rally where he appeared alongside the New York representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. The sign says FIGHT OLIGARCHY.

Progressive lawmakers
(AKA The Democratic Wing of the Democratic Party)
condemned Donald Trump and Elon Musk on Monday,
➡️pointing to the attempted shuttering of the foreign aid agency USAid and the accessing of the treasury department’s federal payment system as the markings of a ⚠️“constitutional crisis”.

After Musk declared that he was working to shut down USAid,
Democratic members of Congress tried to enter the agency’s Washington headquarters
but said they were turned away on the orders of Musk’s “department of government efficiency” (Doge).

USAid staffers were also locked out of the building on Monday,
as the White House confirmed plans to merge the agency with the state department.

Addressing reporters outside the USAid headquarters, Representative Ilhan #Omar,
a Democrat of Minnesota,
accused Trump and Musk of attempting to
“take away the constitutional power of Congress”,
which has the authority to allocate federal funds.

“We are witnessing a constitutional crisis,”
Omar said.
“We talked about Trump wanting to be a dictator on day one,
and here we are.

This is what the beginning of dictatorship looks like.

When you gut the constitution and you install yourself as the sole power,
that is how dictators are made.”

The clash at USAid came one day after news broke that Musk’s associates had received access to the treasury department’s federal payment system,
potentially exposing the sensitive personal data of millions of Americans.

Democratic lawmakers reported receiving a deluge of calls from constituents expressing alarm over the possibility that their personal information might have been jeopardized.

“Donald Trump has given unprecedented power over the federal government to an unelected, unaccountable billionaire,”
Representative Greg #Casar, a Democrat of Texas and chair of the congressional progressive caucus, said in a statement.

“Progressives will fight this in the courts, on the House floor, and with every tool at our disposal
until Elon Musk is out of our government and no longer putting taxpayers, the sick, and the elderly at risk.”

Senator Elizabeth #Warren, a Democrat of Massachusetts,
sent a letter to Trump’s new treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, on Sunday
to demand answers for his role in allowing Musk’s team access to the payment system.

She warned that such access “puts the country at greater risk of defaulting on our debt,
which could trigger a global financial crisis”.

“It is extraordinarily dangerous to meddle with the critical systems that process trillions of dollars of transactions each year, are essential to preventing a default on federal debt,
and ensure that tens of millions of Americans receive their Social Security checks, tax refunds, and Medicare benefits,”
Warren wrote.

“The American people deserve answers about your role in this mismanagement,
which threatens the privacy and economic security of every American.”

Representative Alexandria #Ocasio-#Cortez, a Democrat of New York,
described the intervention of Musk,
who spent more than $290m on the 2024 election,
as a “five alarm fire” and a “grave threat to national security”.

“This is a plutocratic coup.

If you want the power, run for office and be chosen by the people,”
Ocasio-Cortez said in a social media post.

“Short of that, this is an exercise in vigilantism.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/03/trump-musk-plutocratic-coup?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

@AlexaFontanilla2024 @samlitzinger

From the UK it looks as though #Alexandria #Ocasio #Cortez
has more balls than the rest of the Democrats put together Trump and his team must see that. Power to her elbow.. as they say 💪

“In #Kamala #Harris we have a chance to elect a president who is for the middle class because she is from the middle class,” progressive Rep #Ocasio-#Cortez said in her speech on Monday.

“She understands the urgency of rent checks and groceries and prescriptions. She is as committed to our reproductive and civil rights as she is to taking on corporate greed.”

Ocasio-Cortez issued a wholehearted endorsement of the new nominee, and she promised that, if elected, Harris would serve as a champion of the middle class.

In his own convention speech, Senator #Bernie #Sanders pledged that Democrats would use their governing power to “tax the rich”, “take on price gouging” and “expand Medicare”.

The possibility of that change has animated progressives.
“The energy is electrifying and it’s a lot of young folks,” the congresswoman #Pramila #Jayapal, chair of the Congressional #Progressive #caucus, told the Guardian.
“If you have young people, if you have progressives, Black, brown, Indigenous folks, working-class folks, that is actually the base that helps us to win because they are the ones that go door to door. They’re the ones that mobilize voters.”

To deliver on the promises that progressives are seeking, Harris may have to distance herself from Biden in certain areas, especially climate and the war on Gaza.
During his 2020 campaign, Biden embraced a sweeping climate agenda as he looked to reassure the millions of progressive voters who had not backed him in the primary.
While Biden signed the most significant federal climate bill in history, the Inflation Reduction Act, however, failed to follow through on his campaign pledge of “no more drilling on federal lands”.

Progressives hope Harris will stick to some of the promises that Biden made as a candidate but then walked back.

“We cannot have that happen again,” #Jeff #Merkley, a senator, told the Guardian.
“We, as climate truth-tellers, have to be very present, very loud, very determined to say,❇️ ‘We will back you 1,000%, but you can’t keep expanding the fossil infrastructure.’”❇️
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/22/progressive-harris-support-policy-expectations?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other