Maybe the βpro-lifeβ legislator should focus more on helping his most vulnerable constituents and supporting Alamogordo staff than on throwing unnecessary punches at our neighborly city.
14.02.2025 19:25 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0@johana-b.bsky.social
Probably about to be denaturalized Mexicana, community organizer, Las Cruces city councilor, progressive, unapologetic. βπ½π
Maybe the βpro-lifeβ legislator should focus more on helping his most vulnerable constituents and supporting Alamogordo staff than on throwing unnecessary punches at our neighborly city.
14.02.2025 19:25 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Interesting take from Rep Block, especially given Alamogordo city staff are currently seeking support from LC city staff on how to navigate their own housing crisis & build capacity to support their newly unhoused residents.
14.02.2025 19:25 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Pro-lifers want to interfere in our decisions to have children as long as we donβt dare ask them to help feed those childrenβ¦
28.01.2025 20:34 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Iβm so honored! I love LP so much! ππ©·
27.01.2025 22:29 β π 8 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0Hating immigrants is the easier story they spin because it keeps their base riled up. The real story is that they just want to make their rich friends richer, it just happens to be on the backs of black and brown people. Their base? Yea theyβre still living paycheck to paycheck.
26.01.2025 18:00 β π 2 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0Since Monday, Trump has:
-Halted civil rights investigations
-Suspended public health advisories
-Frozen infrastructure spending on roads and bridges
-Rescinded an executive order prohibiting discrimination by federal contractors
How does this help working people?
Silence is loud.
25.01.2025 21:06 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0First they came for the immigrants, and I spoke out, because Iβve read the damn poem before and I know how it ends.
25.01.2025 02:30 β π 64323 π 12640 π¬ 668 π 357Our beautiful border community rejects your hate!
24.01.2025 01:09 β π 8 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0Follow the money!!
24.01.2025 01:08 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Are you looking at your faith through the lens of your politics or are you looking at your politics through the lens of your faith?!
23.01.2025 20:52 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I know this isnβt enough to protect our immigrant community but my commitment from my role on the city council is to find all the ways in which we can continue to stand with our immigrant neighbors. Please share, the Spanish version is on my insta @johana4lc.
22.01.2025 19:56 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 2Working to put or keep people in the margins doesn't actually make your life better. It just makes you a hater. A miserable hater.
21.01.2025 01:05 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death." β"Beyond Vietnam" (April 1967)
20.01.2025 19:03 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it is not haphazard and superficial. It comes to see that an edifice, which produces beggars needs restructuring. A true revolution of values will soon look uneasily on the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth.
20.01.2025 19:03 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered...
20.01.2025 19:03 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0A revolution of values: "we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values. We must rapidly begin the shift from a "thing-oriented" society to a "person-oriented" society.
20.01.2025 19:03 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0New Mexico: Hereβs What the Largest Female Legislative Majority in US History Can Accomplish
19.01.2025 00:44 β π 15 π 4 π¬ 0 π 0Democrats have lost the plot on immigrationβ¦
15.01.2025 04:08 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0AOC: Trans girls are girls. And for all the folks that are so concerned, thank you for your concern for women for the first time. I don't know who has been to gym class, Iβve played co-ed sports all the time
14.01.2025 18:33 β π 20241 π 3056 π¬ 247 π 209Bernice King speaking the truth.πππ£
13.01.2025 02:48 β π 49 π 17 π¬ 2 π 3@localprogress.bsky.social has been one of strongest pillars of support for me as a city councilor. Couldnβt be more grateful for this network of amazing staff and fellow electeds! πβπ½
13.01.2025 19:47 β π 2 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0Community of Hope is a guiding light in Southern NM! They deserve all the flowers! πππ
11.01.2025 18:42 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I can be grateful to @govmlg.bsky.social for supporting our amazing Amador Xs affordable housing project AND be disappointed in her recent tough on crime policy positions. Because one is a recognized best practice, the other is not. #housingnothandcuffs
10.01.2025 20:06 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0NM, peeps! LA is my second home, and this place & my chosen family there mean a lot to me. My homie, @rudyespi.bsky.social & the org he leads, Inclusive Action for the City, is raising funds to support workers whose livelihoods depend on working outside. Pls share www.gofundme.com/f/cash-aid-f...
10.01.2025 17:22 β π 5 π 6 π¬ 0 π 0Proud of Las Cruces to leading the way in addressing housing with Amador Crossing, 50 units of supportive housing at the Community of Hope. Grateful for state and local legislators for funding, visionaries like Camp Hopeβs director and MPT @johana-b.bsky.social Next up in February: zoning reform!
09.01.2025 02:06 β π 5 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0Border hawk recently drove through LC, through my district, highlighting mostly poverty and making outlandish claims about the unhoused community. But what else is to be expected by a βnews sourceβ created by a white nationalist?!
08.01.2025 18:17 β π 3 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0This man and a small group of capitol police officers singlehandedly saved our democracy four years ago.
In November, 77 million Americans said "to hell with them" and voted for the insurrectionists.
Your "Back the Blue" flags are a pathetic disgrace and your patriotism is bullsh*t.
I'm excited to share more about each in the coming weeks and hope you join me in the work you feel most passionate about. Let's get back to work!
01.01.2025 17:51 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0improve our social infrastructure, animal welfare programs for LMI folks, ensure living wages for ALL city employees, commit to a plan with the opioid settlement, and of course, we must prepare for the Trump administration and the harmful policies of project 2025.
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