Showing posts with label Tlaib. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tlaib. Show all posts

Thursday, September 25, 2025

Friday, May 12, 2023

'We Will Not Be Silenced': Tlaib Headlines DC Nakba Event Despite McCarthy Meddling

"The Nakba is a well-documented historical event that is recognized by the United Nations," Tlaib added. "We cannot allow the same people who want to ban books and erase history simply because they're uncomfortable with the truth to silence Palestinian voices." 

More than 750,000 Arabs from hundreds of cities, towns, and villages fled or were expelled from Palestine—sometimes by massacre, "death march," and other violence—during the formation of the modern state of Israel in 1947-49. Hundreds of Palestinian villages were destroyed to make way for newcomers whose only prerequisite for Israeli citizenship is being Jewish…

Saturday, April 8, 2023

House Progressives Revive Legislation to 'Cut Child Poverty by Nearly Two-Thirds'

Reps. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), and Jesús "Chuy" García (D-Ill.) revived the End Child Poverty Act, which was first introduced by Tlaib and then-Rep. Mondaire Jones (D-N.Y.) in February 2022...


Sunday, April 2, 2023

Tlaib Blasts Republicans as 'Servants' of Big Oil After House Passes Pro-Polluter Bill

"It's hard to overstate the catastrophic impact H.R. 1 would have on our public lands and our ability to address the most severe effects of the climate crisis." 

"This bill is nothing more than a cheap political stunt to pad the profits of the same greedy oil and gas companies that are gouging my residents at the pump and poisoning the air they breathe and the water they drink," said Tlaib (D-Mich.), noting that her constituents "are sick of respiratory issues, their children developing asthma, the unbearable odor, and the other public health impacts of pollution."…https://www.commondreams.org/news/house-republicans-energy-costs-bill




Saturday, March 19, 2022

Raskin, Tlaib, others hear report on White Christian nationalism as a threat to democracy - The Washington Post

"A lot of Americans look at that day and think: 'A lot of crazy people acted out.' But it was far more organized, and it wasn't just the Trump political organization," he said. What tied many unconnected people and groups together was a shared worldview that Christianity should be fused with civic life and that true Americans are White, culturally conservative and natural born citizens...


Sunday, October 4, 2020

Twitter bans posts wishing for Trump death. The Squad wonders where that policy was for them - CNNPolitics

The four progressive Democratic congresswomen known as "The Squad" expressed surprise on Friday night when Twitter posted about its policy against wishing harm or death to someone in light of President Trump's Covid-19 diagnosis. Democratic Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, Ilhan Omar of Minnesota and Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts have all spoken out about the threats they receive on social media and say Twitter isn't doing enough about it....
https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/03/politics/twitter-trump-policy-ban-the-squad-politics-trnd/index.html

Wednesday, January 8, 2020

Fake Tlaib Tweet Resurfaces Amid Iran News - FactCheck.org

An old tweet from an account impersonating Rep. Rashida Tlaib resurfaced on social media — this time with an erroneous claim that the tweet was her response to the recent attack on the U.S. embassy in Baghdad.
https://www.factcheck.org/2020/01/fake-tlaib-tweet-resurfaces-amid-iran-news/

Saturday, August 17, 2019

Bernie Sanders To Israel: Ban Our Lawmakers? Then Don’t Take Our Money - HuffPost

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) has suggested Israel should now decline the billions of dollars it receives in U.S. aid in the wake of its ban on Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) from entering the country.....
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/bernie-sanders-israel-ban-donald-trump_n_5d56565ae4b0eb875f21be7b

Tuesday, August 6, 2019

Rashida Tlaib to Ivanka Trump on Shootings: 'Your Prayers Aren't Working' - Newsweek

President Donald Trump's daughter and adviser, Ivanka Trump, is facing backlash after calling on Americans to raise their voices against "cowardly acts of hate, terror and violence" following the weekend's deadly mass shootings in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio. ....
https://www.newsweek.com/rashida-tlaib-slams-ivanka-trump-donald-trump-el-paso-1452530

Sunday, August 4, 2019

Friday, July 26, 2019

Trump's Day With Young Republicans Was Full Of Racism And Lies - HuffPost

President Donald Trump on Tuesday used his speech to the nation's largest group of college Republicans to further his racist attacks against four minority congresswomen. Trump spoke for an hour at the Turning Point USA summit in Washington. ....
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-racism-turning-point-usa-speech-ilhan-omar_n_5d3743a0e4b004b6adb6eac9

Thursday, July 25, 2019

Limbaugh Falsely Claims Kamala Harris, Barack Obama Not African American - Newsweek

Conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh on Monday falsely claimed that 2020 candidate Kamala Harris and former President Barack Obama are not African Americans and that freshman Democratic congresswoman Rashida Tlaib is not a woman of color. ....
https://www.newsweek.com/rush-limbaugh-falsely-claims-kamala-harris-barack-obama-are-not-african-american-rashida-tlaib-1450601

Sunday, July 21, 2019

Trump's racist attack on AOC, Omar, Tlaib and Pressley | Pod Save America recording stream

Jon, Jon and Tommy discuss Donald Trump's racist attack on Congresswomen Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib and Ayanna Pressley. Then they discuss the internal conflict happening in the Democratic controlled House and the latest in Bernie, Biden and 2020.
Interview:
https://youtu.be/DXZHkWgchuY







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