Category Archives: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Trump under fire over Islamophobia after man threatens to kill Ilhan Omar

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Ocasio-Cortez also makes direct link between controversial remarks by Fox News’s Jeanine Pirro and threat against Omar

Donald Trump and Fox News are coming under fire for contributing to a climate of Islamophobia, following the arrest of a supporter of the president who threatened to kill Ilhan Omar, a Democrat from Minnesota who was one of the first Muslim women elected to the US Congress.

Related: Ilhan Omar: man arrested after he made death threat – then left contact details

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez talks popcorn, politics and DIY with Instagram followers – video

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In her latest Instagram live, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez takes questions from followers while assembling furniture in her chair-less Washington DC apartment. Covering topics from popcorn flavours to staying focused on the issues that matter,  Ocasio-Cortez demonstates her ability to use social media in an authentic way that engages potential young voters

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Ocasio-Cortez’s critics babble and bluster … but can’t ignore her | Arwa Mahdawi

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The young congresswoman has turned the tables on the Wall Street Journal after it accused her of taking ‘pride in ignorance’

Large swaths of America appear to be suffering from a debilitating condition known as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Derangement Syndrome (AOCDS). Symptoms include bouts of extreme condescension, an inability to stop sputtering the word “socialist”, and overwhelming anger that a young woman of colour is unapologetically succeeding.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez targets Trump finances at Cohen hearing – video

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'Who else knows that the president did this?,' asked Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez during her grilling of Donald Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen. The Democratic congresswoman's line of questioning seemed to be aimed at getting names of people who could back up Cohen's testimony or further the investigation into Trump's finances. 'Who would know the answer to those questions?' she asked, and, 'Where would the committee find more information on this?' By the end of her question time, Ocasio-Cortez had a list of names of people who could help uncover any potential financial misdealings of Donald Trump

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Ocasio-Cortez rebukes Ivanka Trump ‘as a person who actually worked for wages’

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Congresswoman condemns first daughter’s comments to Fox News on Green New Deal’s living wage guarantee

Without calling her out outright, the Democratic freshman congresswoman and Twitter wonder Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Tuesday rebuked the first daughter Ivanka Trump for sounding off on something she could never truly understand: working for a living wage.

Describing her expertise “as a person who actually worked for tips and hourly wages”, Ocasio-Cortez essentially pointed out that Ivanka Trump has never had to work a minimum wage job in her life and that her comments on the Green New Deal jobs guarantee rang hollow.

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Amazon cancels plans for New York headquarters after fierce opposition

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Tech company says it has ‘decided not to move forward’ with giant campus in Queens

Amazon has cancelled its plans for a new headquarters in New York City following a torrent of local political opposition.

“After much thought and deliberation, we’ve decided not to move forward with our plans to build a headquarters for Amazon in Long Island City, Queens,” the company said in a statement.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez rejects Aaron Sorkin’s call for new Democrats to grow up

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Congresswoman takes issue with the The West Wing creator’s suggestion that the fight for equality is a trend

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has hit back at Aaron Sorkin after the Oscar-winning screenwriter said on Sunday that the young Democrats needed to “stop acting like young people.”

Sorkin, 57, told Fareed Zakaria in an interview on CNN on Sunday morning: “I really like the new crop of young people who were just elected to Congress. They now need to stop acting like young people, OK? It’s time to do that.”

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez uses first house floor speech to lambast shutdown – video

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‘It’s not normal to shutdown the government when we don’t get what we want,’ says Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez during her first speech on the house floor. ‘The truth of this shutdown is that it’s actually not about a wall. The truth is, this shutdown is about the erosion of American democracy and the subversion of our most basic governmental norms’

• Pelosi asks Trump to delay State of the Union address, or deliver it in writing

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‘Congresswomen dance too’: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez hits back with new video

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The youngest US Congresswoman in history posts a video of herself dancing to Edwin Starr’s War outside her office after an attempt to humiliate her on Twitter backfired, instead prompting an outpouring of support. 'I hear the GOP thinks women dancing are scandalous,' she wrote on Twitter 'Wait till they find out Congresswomen dance too!' However, the original video was posted by a Twitter user called AnonymousQ who does not necessarily represent the Republican party 

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‘I love this’: bid to discredit Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez with college dance video backfires

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Effort to embarrass freshly sworn-in Congresswoman fails after footage endears her to wide audience

An attempt to humiliate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as she was sworn in as the youngest ever US Congresswoman has backfired impressively, prompting a huge outpouring of support for her.

A 30-second video was posted by a Twitter user called AnonymousQ, showing Ocasio-Cortez dancing on the roof of a building while in college.

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