Reposted by ireneAparna Raj @aparnafordc.bsky.social · 24/06/2026From DC to NY, people see democratic socialists as the candidates who will fight for working people in the face of growing fascism and complacent neoliberalism. Go @socialists.nyc! Excited to have more allies for DC in Congress 🌹 0366
Reposted by ireneME @capnmax.bsky.social · 15/06/2026Aparna's campaign has been incredibly impressive. We have had 4-5 canvassers in our multifamily building, which is honestly unheard of. A powerhouse of a ground game. Today I was very proud to rank Aparna first on my ballot to represent ward 1 on the DC council. You should too by this Tuesday. 0123
Reposted by ireneAparna Raj @aparnafordc.bsky.social · 07/06/2026We had our biggest canvass day yet and knocked the doors of over 5,000 voters just yesterday!! 🚪🔥 There’s still time to join us this afternoon to fight for a Ward 1 and a DC we can all afford: www.mobilize.us/aparnafordc/... 052
Reposted by ireneAparna Raj @aparnafordc.bsky.social · 03/06/202613 days left. That’s all that separates us from a Ward 1 and a DC that we can afford. But it will only be possible if we’re willing to organize and fight for it. Join us on the doors: mobilize.us/aparnafordc/ 193
Reposted by ireneBrad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 29/05/2026reminder: @ward1democrats.org did not make an endorsement in the Ward 1 Council race because no candidate received a 2/3 vote at our endorsement meeting, though @aparnafordc.bsky.social came closest Read the candidates' responses to the W1D questionnaire: ward1democrats.org/dccouncilward1 143
Reposted by ireneAparna Raj @aparnafordc.bsky.social · 24/04/2026This campaign is for all of us. We're not just building a broad coalition- we’re building a movement. I am so honored to be in the fight with all of you and so excited for what we can win together! Join us: www.mobilize.us/aparnafordc/ 043
Reposted by ireneJon Stewart @codeslack.bsky.social · 23/04/2026Welcome to Mount Pleasant! @aparnafordc.bsky.social staffs the barricades for safe dropoff and pickup in front of Bancroft every week and her people have knocked on my door. 0112
Reposted by ireneKylie Cheung @kylietcheung.bsky.social · 10/04/2026I wrote abt the bad faith smear campaign to equate support for Palestine with rape apologia—a strategy that's actually emboldened Israelis to escalate sexual violence against Palestinians (pulling from my forthcoming book on connections btwn state violence & DARVO): substack.com/home/post/p-... 17613
Reposted by ireneClaire M 🌞 @edgyvegggie.bsky.social · 13/04/2026fastest ward level campaign EVER to public matching max, 20,000 doors knocked, 200+ unique canvassers, 20+ endorsements and counting… all that’s left is a WIN on election day and we need you with us to make it happen!!! www.mobilize.us/aparnafordc/... 042
Reposted by ireneAparna Raj @aparnafordc.bsky.social · 17/03/2026We’re going all out for Aparna! 🪩🎊 Join us for a special fundraising event on March 31! Hear directly from Aparna about her vision for Ward 1, ask questions about what matters to you, and help us win a DC for working people! RSVP here: www.mobilize.us/aparnafordc/... 122
Reposted by ireneClaire M 🌞 @edgyvegggie.bsky.social · 15/03/2026telling which candidates turned out folks to speak on transit at today’s @dcbikewalkbuspac.bsky.social town hall (most didn’t…). and @aparnafordc.bsky.social’s people were the ones to speak on the working class power it’ll take to get real mass transit, rather than just cutting deals for crumbs 032
Reposted by ireneAparna Raj @aparnafordc.bsky.social · 13/03/2026“We didn’t have any sort of say in what happened to us.” Despite Ward 1 being two thirds renters, that story of instability is too common. We deserve someone who will fight to stop major rent hikes, hold bad landlords accountable, and create more housing. newrepublic.com/article/2076...newrepublic.comZohran Mamdani and the Rise of the Renter PoliticiansFrom city councils to Congress, homeowners have always dominated elected office. But after Mamdani’s victory, a slew of candidates want to follow in his footsteps. 0105
Reposted by ireneZach Teutsch @zteutsch.bsky.social · 12/03/2026Kenyan McDuffie delivered us all higher Pepco bills. A new @markrodeffer.bsky.social piece in @51st.news explains the details. "Kenyan McDuffie could have scrutinized utility rate hikes and defended struggling ratepayers. Instead, he sided with utilities. Now D.C. families are paying the price."51st.newsOpinion: D.C.’s lax utility oversight is costing customersThe Public Service Commission needs stronger supervision from the D.C. Council. 02416
Reposted by ireneAparna Raj @aparnafordc.bsky.social · 03/03/2026@nonprofitunion.bsky.social has endorsed our campaign in the Ward 1 race! 🙌🏾 This is our fifteenth endorsement! As a nonprofit employee myself, I'm honored to stand with NPEU members in the fight for fair wages and benefits, stronger worker protections, and more respect on the job. 1146
Reposted by ireneBenjamin Balthaser @blbalthaser.bsky.social · 28/02/2026Rather than perceive the genocide in Gaza as a warning to Israel & the US about the limits of their power & global forbearance for their crimes, they seem to have interpreted as a sign that they can now get away with anything 2179
Reposted by ireneSen. Lemon Gogurt @ugarles.bsky.social · 28/02/2026indiscriminately bombing Iran is not a distraction of the Epstein files, it is a validation of their significance as more than a sex pest hunt. this is what elite impunity for morons looks like. a school turned to rubble on a whim. 81993452
Reposted by ireneSarah Lazare @sarahlazare.bsky.social · 28/02/2026The bombing of Iran, the starving of Cuba, the waging of genocide in Palestine. It's time to let go of the idea the role of the US is to enforce a rules-based order, and instead recognize the incredible harm our country unleashes around the world, and take meaningful action to reduce it. 2335119
Reposted by ireneAli Ahmadi @aliahmadi.bsky.social · 28/02/2026Diplomacy was entirely fake - again. Reuters reports that the US and Israel were planning to attack Iran for months and the date was decided weeks ago, before even the recent few rounds of talks took place. 14617
Reposted by ireneBill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 26/02/2026I think this justifies the White House meeting by itself 3252
Reposted by ireneUFCW Local 400 @ufcw400.org · 19/02/2026“We don’t have to wonder what she stands for – she has proven it over and over. We have no doubt she will continue to champion the needs of our members and look forward to her leadership on the DC council.” www.ufcw400.org/2026/02/19/u...ufcw400.orgUFCW Local 400 Endorses Aparna Raj for Ward 1 DC Council Seat - UFCW Local 400"We have no doubt she will continue to champion the needs of our members and look forward to her leadership on the DC council.” 052
Reposted by irenein the pocket of Big Tenant @allezlesboulez.bsky.social · 09/02/2026Woke 2.0 ya está aquí 09113
Reposted by ireneLauren @larrygoose.bsky.social · 28/01/2026My husband and my friend Jules both represented. Commonweal is crushing it this month 2294
Reposted by irenesouthpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 27/01/2026While glad to see Bovino humbled, I really don’t have any higher opinion of Homan—a cruel, cold, corrupt, calculating bureaucrat who’s devoted more of his career to mass deportation than almost anyone. He’s the architect of child separation. 510121212241
Reposted by ireneSpencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 27/01/2026Bovino’s retirement needs to be a cage. His command environment yielded Renee Good’s death, Alex Pretti’s death & Julio Sosa-Celis’ shooting. Failure to prosecute Bovino & everyone else materially responsible for these atrocities will be understood by ICE, CBP, etc as a green light for the next ones 8365071341
Reposted by irenetaylr @taylordahlin.com · 25/01/2026signs left at alex pretti’s memorial in minneapolis: “i love you so much / i’ll miss you forever” photo with a friend, “i would have done the same. RIP alex,” a stethoscope and “we’ll take it from here, alex” and a tshirt for the minnesota nurses association 3662641487
Reposted by ireneBrandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 24/01/2026Alex Pretti "used to tell people off when they made sexist comments to female physicians. He bought me coffee when I had a really bad day as an intern...I laughed alongside him daily. He made a point to teach medical residents without judgement, but with a smile on his face and a joke." 4433336910323
Reposted by ireneMelody Schreiber @melodyschreiber.com · 24/01/2026Alex Pretti took care of veterans as an ICU nurse. “He was a super nice, super helpful guy – looked after his patients," said @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social, who worked with Pretti both at the hospital and on scientific research. "I’m just stunned.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...theguardian.comMan shot in Minneapolis by federal agents identified as VA nurse: ‘He wanted to help people’Alex Pretti, 37, worked in the ICU at the Minneapolis VA Health Care System and had assisted on scientific research 5689340
Reposted by irenemolly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 24/01/2026they're executing moms and nurses in the street. they're using preschoolers as bait. they're stealing people's dads and grandmas and children. they're tear gassing babies. they're staking out schools. there is no remedy but abolition. any proposal that doesn't start there is an act of violence. 241274029835
Reposted by irenelowtax speedrun enjoyer @rickywlmsbong.bsky.social · 24/01/2026you should be horrified and your blood should be boiling, but a guy shouting "you'll have to kill me" at these goons to protect his neighbors should bring you the opposite of despair 853582
Reposted by ireneSimon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 24/01/2026The detention of witnesses and seizure of their phones is an extraordinary violation of every fucking Amendment you can name: bsky.app/profile/timd... 131289443
Reposted by ireneScreamer Jim @screamerjim.bsky.social · 24/01/2026One upside of living through the Bush-Cheney years was learning never to believe Republicans when they say they believe in anything. All you need to know is their ideology will pretzel to reinforce hierarchy and power no matter what. It’s actually fine for the government to kill you if you’re armed 213224
Reposted by ireneJonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 24/01/2026ICE agents killed a man and are disappearing the witnesses. 2124621212
Reposted by ireneSean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 24/01/2026Every single one of them is risking their lives against death squads to prove that the fascist vision of America, a country where we hate everyone different than ourselves, is a fucking lie 1692175
Reposted by ireneNunufyor B. Swachs @flavorfree.bsky.social · 24/01/2026They put five more bullets in this guy when he's already lying prone on the ground, five feet away from them, in addition to the previous several bullets they shot him with. 02012
irene @ireneyk.bsky.social · 22/01/2026just realized that march for life is this weekend, i’m cackling 😈 130
Reposted by ireneDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 22/01/2026This guy went to work today, put a mask on, kidnapped a 5 year old child, and then used him as bait so both he and his father could be sent behind bars 13942540111982
Reposted by ireneceej @ceej.online · 22/01/2026I guess I do think if you participated in the arrest of a five-year-old you are probably just fundamentally incompatible with society. That you are not a safe person for humanity to be around, generally 291274986170
Reposted by ireneNorm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 22/01/2026Unclear to me if this fucking five year old kid getting kidnapped is breaking through outside of the Twin Cities and I don’t want to speak for anyone else but this has really steeled my resolve. This shit cannot be allowed to stand. 544460818
Reposted by irenebort @crushbort.bsky.social · 17/01/2026the funny thing about these lectures, which i would love to give this person a bullhorn to yell in minneapolis right now, is that a harris administration would have kept increasing funding for ICE despite the certainty a right wing president was eventually going to inherit it. we tied our own noose 322158258
Reposted by ireneAnders @derzquist.net · 16/01/2026UNITE HERE Local 17 represents more than 6,000 workers. The majority of our membership is women, immigrants and people of color. Minnesota is under attack by Federal ICE Agents indiscriminately targeting people of color. WE NEED YOUR HELP — Please support this hardship fund.workingpartnerships.betterworld.orgUNITE HERE Local #17 Hardship Fund | Working PartnershipsHelp Working Partnerships meet their fundraising goal by sharing this campaign. 2183133
Reposted by ireneC.M. Lewis 🦬⚔️ @thehousered.bsky.social · 16/01/2026every single successful general strike in US history has had union backing through the local AFL-CIO this is the first time it’s been called for since the 1940s 4593043811245
Reposted by ireneClaire M 🌞 @edgyvegggie.bsky.social · 10/01/2026happy january! it’s the year we’re electing @aparnafordc.bsky.social to DC Council… and we’re starting with 30+ folks knocking doors (even in the pouring rain)! 042
Reposted by ireneNovelty Cistern @noveltycistern.bsky.social · 20/11/2025Mamdani is going to bring him that snowglobe that plays "Memories" from CATS and we're going to get government grocery stores nationwide 506641893
Reposted by ireneAparna Raj @aparnafordc.bsky.social · 18/11/2025We've gotten $500 from DC donors today! Can you pitch in (or ask a friend) to help us get to $750 by the end of the day and $3,200 by the end of the month? secure.actblue.com/donate/aparn...secure.actblue.comContribute to Aparna for DC!Let's build a DC for all. 052
Reposted by ireneAparna Raj @aparnafordc.bsky.social · 10/11/2025Our first 1,000+ door day of the campaign! 🚪🍂 Thank you to everyone who came out to canvass in Columbia Heights! We will win a DC and a Ward 1 that works for the people, not for billionaires or developers. Door by door. Voter by voter. 161
