Representative Ryan Clancy

What are you thankful for? Our readers’ reflections on gratitude - Wisconsin Muslim Journal

Thanks to the Wisconsin Muslim Journal for the opportunity to reflect this week.

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Wisconsin Democratic legislators join training on how to monitor ICE presence Democratic state lawmakers and organizers participated in a training session at the Wisconsin State Capitol on how to alert communities about immigration enforcement and ICE presence.

I’m beyond grateful for the amazing folks at Comité Sin Fronteras and Voces de la Frontera, and to the many people who showed up to equip themselves to defend our community.

We keep us safe.

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This is a great idea -- price fixing by algorithm is still price fixing but with plausible deniability.

We should not let landlords collude to raise rents, especially in the midst of a nationwide housing crisis.

Remember Jamal Khashoggi.

Folks should let the PSC and Evers know that it’s unacceptable to treat new gas plants, data centers, and the unchecked expansion of “artificial intelligence” (which is a terrible, inaccurate term) as inevitable, or good.

We need to be ready to act asap when leadership changes in the legislature.

Great q re data centers!

1) Wisconsin’s Public Utilities Commission regulates (some!) energy users like data centers *and* energy providers like We Energies. They have been rubber stamping what the utilities want
2) @govevers.wisconsin.gov has refused to use his leverage to change this status quo.

As legislators, we should not treat these changes as inevitable, or "good for the economy": new technologies are so often anti-worker --especially when their power is concentrated in the hands of a few, unaccountable people.

We should treat data centers and AI skeptically, and as tools of capital.

We must confront the massive energy and water demand data centers *will* present to Wisconsin, if we don't act: but that's not enough.

There's very little evidence that data centers create good jobs post construction -- and even less evidence that they're economically useful *where they're built*.

Right now, data centers in Wisconsin are treated like other energy user. That's ridiculous: We Energies (one of the biggest drivers of data center growth!) is planning for them to *double* our energy use.

And guess who gets a guaranteed 9.8% profit from building new gas plants? (Yep, We Energies.)

Knocking doors today in the Cambrdge Woods neighborhood and having some inspiring, in depth conversations about big, bold ideas: carceral reform, taxing the rich, the limits of individual charity, robber barons, and how we restore empathy to community. I’m honored to serve here.

The Implications of Federal SNAP Spending Cuts on Individuals with Medicaid, Medicare and Other Health Coverage | KFF Proposed changes in eligibility rules in both SNAP and Medicaid may jeopardize some people’s access to both adequate food and health care if various provisions of the bill take effect, in part because...

Chirporactors and naturopathic doctors are not, in fact, medical doctors. We should not take their advice on this question -- and I wish that WPR had provided that context.

Work requirements and arbitrary restrictions on benefits are terrible policy, full stop. www.kff.org/medicaid/the... (2/2)

Assembly to vote on bill blocking SNAP recipients from buying candy, soft drinks and energy drinks Republicans in the Wisconsin Assembly are holding a vote on a bill preventing SNAP recipients from using their benefits to purchase candy, soft drinks and energy drinks.

We should not be telling people on FoodShare/SNAP what they can or can't buy for their families. Especially not now, as the Trump Administration is threatening to claw back November's benefits, out of spite.

This bill is badly written, mean, and terrible policy.

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A reminder to reporters (and others): The Epstein files bill seeks to compel a step Trump could voluntarily take at any time.
If he’s really in favor of the bill now, why not just order Bondi to release the files?

I’m glad to be part of a community committing to driving our ICE at every opportunity. ICE is inherently harmful, only two decades old, and should be abolished.

We cannot improve conditions in our jails and prisons as long as they are controlled by people who won’t let us inside. These bills seek to improve public safety by restoring some measure of dignity and transparency to our carceral systems.

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This is happening because Starbucks refuses to come to the table with its unionized workers -- this is classic union busting, almost certainly done under the advice of extremely expensive union busting lawyers.

Don't listen to management's BS. Don't cross the picket line. #NoContractNoCoffee

GO PUBLIC! Voucher and Independent Charter Transparency Hub - Wisconsin Public Education Network Resources & action opportunities to demand transparency and accountability for ALL schools that receive public money.

Want to know more -- and learn how to defend public K-12 education in Wisconsin? Consider joining our friends at @myweac.bsky.social: www.wisconsinnetwork.org/news/go-publ...

Even worse: charter schools and voucher schools (in Wisconsin, at least!) can pick and choose which students they accept, even expelling kids with special needs.

That puts the cost back on public schools -- who are only reimbursed around 42.5% of the cost.

It's a failed, unaccountable system.

We were supposed to tour MSDF yesterday, in fact. Instead, we gathered to release this legislation, together -- and hopefully this is the last time we need to beg the Department of Corrections to let us do our jobs. (4/4)

The bill also mandates access for elected officials like myself who oversee these facilities. This is unfortunately necessary, as my office -- along with many others -- have recently, repeatedly had tour facilities cancelled for less-than-convincing reasons. (3/4)

These bills are common sense, many of them establishing basic protections for things that most of us take for granted: access to sunlight, access to the outdoors, and hot showers. (2/4)

Milwaukee Legislators Draft Bills to Improve State Prison Conditions 16 bills range from rights to sunlight to county-control of jails.

This week, we released an updated Conditions of Confinement bill package designed to improve the abysmal conditions in Wisconsin's overcrowded jails and prisons. Read more: (1/4)

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Act 12 continues to hold Milwaukee back and endanger our residents. We’re committed to repealing the policy provisions, from getting police back out of our schools to restoring policy power to the Fire and Police Commission. www.jsonline.com/story/news/p...

am proud to follow the leadership of WISDOM Wisconsin, dream.org, Andron Lane, and many others with first hand experience of these systems – it’s now on the legislature, and Governor Evers, to finally act." (11/11)

The root of the problem is obvious, though: we are imprisoning too many people, for too long, for too many crimes. But improving conditions in our prisons is a moral imperative, and it will give many people a better start as they return to their communities. (10/11)

It also requires the free provision of services and goods that prisoners in Wisconsin, right now, must work at pennies an hour to earn, including communications with the outside world and menstrual products. (9/11)

Our Conditions of Confinement package also contains basic protections that most people in Wisconsin never have to think twice about: access to sunlight, access to the outdoors, regular hot showers. (8/11)

We should not have to fight to get access to these facilities that we already oversee as elected officials – this bill package addresses that lack of access to Wisconsin’s jails and prisons, but it should already be reasonably granted. Instead, here we are. (7/11)