Julia Conley Posts

"Even if this rule change were acceptable, how would any Bahamian apply for a visa right now?"

"Corporate greed is eviscerating the working class."

"The previous attempts at privatized inspection have led to weaker food safety performance."

"This is as damning as it is shameful."

"It's not the government's role to tell journalists how to do their jobs. This bill is unnecessary state meddling with the press."

"The horrifying conditions these children face is a human rights emergency that won't be solved with a wall."

If their taxes are raised, wrote 48 millionaires to New York lawmakers, "most of us will literally not notice the difference."

"Lobbies influence politics, I don't think that’s controversial to say," said the director of Jewish Voice for Peace

"Trump's long and winding history with Deutsche Bank could now be at the center of Robert Mueller's investigation."

"We witnessed unimaginable atrocities at the border this weekend—yet terrible treatment does not end when people cross the border."

Schools, first responders, the MTA, NYCHA, homeless programs, senior programs and others could all put this money to far better use.

"There you have it: Donald Trump is no self-made man, he was a millionaire at age eight and only survived on his daddy's money."

A document sent to Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen in April suggested that prosecuting parents and separating them from their children would be an effective deterrent to migration

"This proposal says work and family don't matter—only money matters. And at a time when one-fourth of children in America have at least one immigrant parent, it's a direct attack on children."

GOP congressman is running against Democrat Andrew Gillum, who would be Florida's first black governor

"Many citizens before me have fought for the equal rights of women. I can't be silent when someone is nominated to the Supreme Court who would take our equal rights away."

"Don't tell anyone but, uh, we're gonna win."

"Once again, the main impediment to the success of Medicare for All is actually liberals who are either stupid or dishonest about this stuff."

"Every one of these instances is about a family that has a citizen and a noncitizen, and probably children...Here we have a trap laid out to separate them."

"None of this is a bug. These are features of an economy that transfers massive wealth to the very top, by hollowing out the middle class."