#Introduction - I'm Congress member Ritchie Torres from #NewYork , The past few days here have been great, I want to keep building our platform here on #Mastodon to make sure we can continue our conversations on a public social media platform.
Can you please BOOST this post and FOLLOW our account and encourage your followers to do the same? Thank you.
@RitchieTorres Your staff should work on setting up verification.
I’m sure it’s *probably* really you, but prominent fake accounts have been set up here before, and using that Twitter blue check in your name is misleading at best.
@Chris @RitchieTorres Agreed you should follow this process and show this account has ties to your official site.
https://opensource.com/article/22/11/verified-mastodon-website
Why not post a little about the Cross Bronx RAISE grant?
It’s a really exciting opportunity.
@atthenius @RitchieTorres it looks like the $2m will all get spent on the study. Where will the funding for the actual project come from?
Mr. Torres, if you want to make an immediate impact, find out why the NYPD 46th Pct allows local car shops to use Jerome Ave b/t Featherbed Ln and 175th Street as a parking lot, blocking lanes of traffic on both sides, sometimes quadruple parked, on the sidewalk, and narrowing traffic to one lane at a major highway junction.
@RitchieTorres I'm glad you, as a public representative, see some potential in a digital space like this. I hope your colleagues in Congress can also come to see the potential of having full control over and public ownership of government social channels.
@[email protected] has a certain ring to it, don't you think?
@RitchieTorres Please bring your Democratic colleagues here as well (especially AOC)* as the only way to make Birdchan irrelevant is to rob it of engagement and clicks which in turn will give the advertisers the motivation not to resume their financial support.
*I don’t care whether you love or hate her, she’s undeniably a social media draw and her leaving would undoubtedly lower the site’s traffic.
@JeremytheJedi @RitchieTorres suggestion: there's a tool called mastodon twitter crossposter, it allows for well, crosposting both ways (you set it up). It's very reliable, even tho twitter API changes made it less so.
Of course, you'll fork conversation (here and there) but at least announcements reach most followers.
@RitchieTorres Hello from the Zero #Covid server. I look forward to hearing what you are doing to help stop Covid.
We need #HEPA filters, #CorsiRosenthalBox es, #N95 masks, #P100 masks, and most of all, *education* about the fact that #CovidIsAirborne.
#CovidIsNotOver. People are being infected by *doctors* who don't understand how Covid spreads. This must stop!
@RitchieTorres good to see you here and congrats on being ahead of the curve.
I wonder if anyone is maintaining a list of federal, state, and local representatives who are using Mastodon either personally or in an official capacity?
Great to see you here! It is so wonderful for the Mastodon community to have your moderate, liberal, progressive voice. You're one of the people who understands how America is supposed to work - not by dividing us, but by finding ways for us all to work together for a stronger tomorrow
@RitchieTorres Demohave to deal with this👇
People know this, those that don’t feel it
“The preferences of the average American appear to have only a miniscule, near-zero, statistically non-significant impact upon public policy.”
Gilens & Page, Perspectives in Politics
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@RitchieTorres pleased to see you here, #Congressperson @RitchieTorres 💜
A quick tip, #HashtagEverything ! It' helps US find YOU.
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