Show threadAIF-Massachusetts2d ago

We also hear that folks may want to focus on calling elected representatives specifically for now, the ICE field office appears to have turned off the phone. 🤡

#ImmigrantRights #MeltICE #Massachusetts #MApoli #MauraHealey #ElizabethWarren #EdMarkey

MusiqueNow   ✡️ 🇵🇸 May 4

https://jayapal.house.gov/2023/03/30/jayapal-markey-introduce-landmark-trans-bill-of-rights/

#PramilaJayapal

Jayapal and #EdMarkey Introduce Landmark #TransBillOfRights   

Also signed on to the bill: Presentatives #SaraJacobs (CA), #MarkPocan (WI), #MarkTakano (CA), #DavidCicilline (RI)

#FascistUSA

#TransAndNonbinaryRightsAreHumanRights   

Jayapal, Markey Introduce Landmark Trans Bill of Rights - Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal

WASHINGTON – U.S. Representative Pramila Jayapal (WA-07), U.S. Senator Edward J. Markey (D-MA), and Representatives Sara Jacobs (CA-51), Mark Pocan (WI-02), Mark Takano (CA-39), and David Cicilline (RI-01) are re-introducing the Transgender Bill of Rights amidst unprecedented attacks on trans rights. This resolution provides a comprehensive policy framework to provide protections for transgender and nonbinary […]

Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal
skuaApr 8

Here's the names of the 14 Democrat Senators who voted to support #BernieSanders' resolutions to block billions of $US of military aid and weapons to #Israel on Thurs 3rd April, 2025.

#RichardDurbin
#MartinHeinrich
#MazieHirono
#BenRayLuján
#TimKaine
#AndyKim
#EdMarkey
#JeffMerkley
#ChrisMurphy
#BrianSchatz
#TinaSmith
#ChrisVanHollen
#ElizabethWarren
#PeterWelch
#NonGenocidalSenators

The others nowhere!
#TheGreatWhen

https://www.axios.com/2025/04/03/senate-democrats-cancel-military-aid-israel

15 Senate Dems vote to cancel billions in Israeli military aid

Sen. Bernie Sanders wants to cancel the Trump administration's proposed sales of $8.8 billion in bombs and other munitions to Israel.

Axios
Show threadknizerMar 28
Saturday noon-1 - #Indivisible #protest in #Newton #massachusetts - with Senator #EdMarkey
https://bsky.app/profile/newtonindivisible.bsky.social/post/3lld3cbzzv22k
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Newton Indivisible (@newtonindivisible.bsky.social)

Ed Markey will be joining the Newton Standout rally in Newton Centre this Saturday, noon to 1! Newton Indivisible will be there!! Bring signs and get loud! Corner of Beacon and Centre. #newtonindivisible #indivisible #handsoff #newtonupstanders #newton

Bluesky Social
Jonathan Kamens 86 47Mar 16
Oh, thank God, #EdMarkey and #ElizabethWarren both voted against cloture for the continuing resolution.
I mean, it didn't help in the end because #ChuckSchumer is a #FecklessCoward who sold us out to the #GOP, but I can be _slightly_ less angry at my two senators for at least the next few days.
P.S. If you live in NV, IL, PA, NY, NH, MI, or HI, you should be VERY mad at one or both of your Dem senators. Find the group that's working on primarying them and volunteer.
#politics #USPol #MAPoli
AIF-MassachusettsMar 14

**Final edit: both MA senators voted NO on cloture. Call to thank them!**

Massachusetts Voters:

Warren and Markey are both unclear on whether they are going to vote for cloture on the CR although rumors are they will vote no. Regardless, call them to encourage them to vote NO on cloture and NO on the CR.

Markey: https://www.markey.senate.gov/contact

Warren: https://www.warren.senate.gov/contact/office-locations

#MApoli #Massachusetts #Shutdown #EdMarkey #ElizabethWarren

Contact | U.S. Senator Ed Markey of Massachusetts

The Official U.S. Senate website of Senator Ed Markey of Massachusetts

Show threadJonathan Kamens 86 47Mar 8
Josh Marshall over at Talking Points Memo is highly skeptical that the Democrats in the Senate are going to successfully use the only leverage they have, funding the government, to wring concessions out of the Republicans:
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/sounds-like-senate-dems-may-not-hold-the-line
I fear he's right.
They Just. Don't. Fucking. Get. It.
#EdMarkey #politics #USPol #MAPoli
Sounds Like Senate Dems May Not Hold the Line

So it looks like at least Roll Call thinks Republicans will be...

TPM - Talking Points Memo
Show threadJonathan Kamens 86 47Mar 8
I was chatting with someone else who attended the town hall, and she offered a theory which, I'm sorry to say, rings true:
The Democratic strategy is to let everything go tits up so they can pin it on the Republicans in two years and win enough seats in the next election to take back the Senate and the House.
They've decided there's nothing they can do before then except CYA.
Just one problem: by then, our "elections", such as they are, will be fully rigged.
#EdMarkey #politics #USPol #MAPoli
Show threadJonathan Kamens 86 47Mar 8
Here's the email I just sent to Markey about the town hall
#EdMarkey #politics #USPol #MAPoli
Show threadJonathan Kamens 86 47Mar 8
Here is what I think: Markey still does not understand, or at least is not willing to admit in public to understanding, that Trump and Musk are using an extra-Constitutional strategy and therefore fighting back within the Constitutional system is not going to work.
In this I am certain he is joined by many other Democrats in Congress.
I walked out of this "town hall" less hopeful than I was walking into it.
#EdMarkey #politics #USPol #MAPoli