80-something grandmother and activist re education, women’s and girl’s opportunities and rights, diversity, leadership, social justice, and mental health.

Arizona, USA
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For two years, people have speculated about the potential for a constitutional crisis. Let me be clear: we have reached one. newsletters.democracydocket.…
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Jennifer Hesketh Aviles🦉🇺🇸 retweeted
I never once remember a protest against Joe Biden like this. This is Boston. No Kings Protest. Oh that’s right Joe Biden didn’t think he was a king. He just wanted to make America better for everyone.
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Jennifer Hesketh Aviles🦉🇺🇸 retweeted
What a great morning in LD2!! Let’s get those ballots in for Rep Simacek, Dr Gallitano, and all of our incredible legislative candidates. Make sure to vote Blue all the way down the ballot 💙
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Jennifer Hesketh Aviles🦉🇺🇸 retweeted
A lot of Democrats have been suspiciously quiet about the raid on Ilhan Omar’s home, which is why I’m so glad President Obama is speaking out. You can feel however you want about Omar, but this attack on her is incredibly dangerous, and the same thing will come for anybody who stands up to Trump and these fascists. We cannot ignore this stuff.
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Jennifer Hesketh Aviles🦉🇺🇸 retweeted
I’m feeling like I need to make a boomer defense website at this point. No, we aren’t the selfish generation. We are the most hardworking generation. We don’t want to sell our homes because we worked damn hard for them, and now we have grandchildren visiting with our children and we like there is room for them. AND it’s OUR HOME. Those that are wealthy (not as many as you all imagine) ARE helping their children with paying for college (no student loans) and helping with them buying a first house. Those not wealthy now depend on the SS and Medicare they paid into their entire lives. They are also babysitting grandchildren and loving your children as no one else on earth will. We are not selfish. We are living on the years of hard work. Maybe you’ll understand when you get there, but now this bullsh*t narrative on your parent’s generation has got to stop.
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Jennifer Hesketh Aviles🦉🇺🇸 retweeted
$1 billion of medical debt cancelled. 4 Saudi Arabian leases ended to stop unlimited groundwater pumping. 700,000 Arizona kids fed through free school meals. 80% cheaper prescriptions through AZRx. Trump can call me all the names he wants, I’m busy delivering for Arizonans.
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RT @MakeTexasBlue22: All three of Texas major newspapers endorse James Talarico for our next Texas Senator. Thank-you San Antonio Express.…
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Jennifer Hesketh Aviles🦉🇺🇸 retweeted
Read this article about the childrens' lives that have been forever changed by 3 minutes of terror. Then go down to your early voting site and vote out every politician who cares more about the gun industry than our kids. cnn.com/2026/10/17/us/bend-o…
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Jennifer Hesketh Aviles🦉🇺🇸 retweeted
State law makes them eligible to vote where they go to school. But Republicans are afraid of their votes. Remember, no one would be trying so hard to take away your vote unless they understood how powerful it makes you. Vote no matter what.
NEW: Thousands of Florida college students will be disenfranchised by a law banning university-issued ID cards to vote, says new lawsuit. Concealed carry gun IDs are OK, but not college IDs to comply with Florida's voter ID law. democracydocket.com/news-ale…
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Bravo!
SORRY IF THIS OFFENDS STORE MANAGERS, BUT I'M DONE. I just pulled $140 worth of groceries off the shelf, carried them across the store, scanned every item myself at a self-checkout kiosk, bagged every single item, and tapped my own card. Then the machine screen flipped around and asked: "Would you like to round up your total to donate to corporate charity?" ABSOLUTELY NOT. You eliminated 12 cashier jobs to cut corporate payroll, forced me to provide free manual labor for 15 minutes just to buy food, and now you want ME to fund your tax write-off? If I'm doing the work of an employee, give me a 10% self-checkout discount at checkout. Stop asking for tips and donations at kiosks where I did 100% of the work.
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Jennifer Hesketh Aviles🦉🇺🇸 retweeted
The first subpoena from the new Democratic Congress should be to Mark Zuckerberg, for taking down the No Kings Instagram account in the middle of one of the largest days of civic activism in American history. No Kings. No Courtiers.
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Jennifer Hesketh Aviles🦉🇺🇸 retweeted
🚨MEET SAYLOR GRAHAM. SHE’S ONLY SEVEN YEARS OLD. AND SHE’S FIGHTING TO RECOVER AFTER BEING SHOT IN THE FACE AT SCHOOL. I want everyone to take a moment to look at this beautiful little girl. Her name is Saylor Graham, and she is one of the youngest survivors of yesterday’s horrific mass shooting at Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend, Oregon. Saylor, who uses a wheelchair and already lives with significant medical challenges, was inside the classroom when 16-year-old Griffin J. John II opened fire with a 12-gauge shotgun, killing three children and a 25-year-old teacher. Saylor survived. And tonight, there is some encouraging news. According to the Bend Police Department’s latest update, Saylor received lifesaving treatment at the scene and is now hospitalized at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland, where she remains in serious but stable condition. This little girl and her family were already fighting battles long before a gunman entered her classroom. According to a GoFundMe established to support her recovery, Saylor has numerous existing medical needs. Her parents are both self-employed, and caring for their daughter has already significantly limited their ability to work. Now they’re facing an unimaginable additional burden. Hospital expenses. Travel. Lodging. Lost income. And the uncertainty of what Saylor’s recovery will require in the weeks and months ahead. I’m sharing the fundraiser below for anyone who would like to help. If you cannot contribute financially, I’m asking you to do something else. Pray for Saylor. Pray for her parents. Pray for her medical team. And pray for every family whose life was forever changed yesterday. Please also share her story and her fundraiser everywhere.  Four innocent people didn’t get to come home. Saylor did survive, and I’m praying this beautiful little girl continues to fight her way back to the life she deserves. God bless you, sweet Saylor. ❤️🙏
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Jennifer Hesketh Aviles🦉🇺🇸 retweeted
The order to disrupt Starshield which allowed Russia to kill numerous civilians in Ukraine came directly from the White House. 🤬 Trump is a traitor and a Russian asset. reuters.com/world/europe/ord…
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Jennifer Hesketh Aviles🦉🇺🇸 retweeted
My son is a senior in high school who works thirty hours a month at a sporting goods retailer. He submitted a written time-off request four weeks in advance for his high school graduation ceremony and family dinner. The supervisor signed the paper and pinned it to the bulletin board. When the weekly roster was posted, the store manager had scheduled him for a closing shift right through the exact hours of his graduation ceremony. When my son brought the signed approval sheet to the manager’s desk, the man shrugged and said: "Business needs change. If you don't show up for your shift, consider it job abandonment. In the real world, you learn that your job comes before personal plans." My son sat in the car in our driveway, completely defeated, genuinely believing he had to choose between walking across the graduation stage or keeping his job. I walked into the store with him, found the manager, and had my son hand over his nametag and uniform shirt on the spot. I looked the manager in the eye and said: "In the real world, you are a retail manager attempting to manipulate a teenager into missing a once-in-a-lifetime milestone he worked twelve years to earn, all to fold sweatpants on a Friday evening. His resignation is effective immediately." The manager stammered, turned red, and started offering to find shift coverage on the spot. We walked out. Teach your children early: an hourly job that demands you sacrifice your education, your milestones, and your self-worth does not value you as a human being. Never let an entry-level supervisor convince your child that their future is negotiable.
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Jennifer Hesketh Aviles🦉🇺🇸 retweeted
This is the man who punched a woman in the face at a Trump rally for daring to ask Trump about Epstein from the crowd, as Trump and other attendees cheered him on. Anyone know his name? Let's make him famous.
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Jennifer Hesketh Aviles🦉🇺🇸 retweeted
Let’s be crystal clear. @Ilhan Omar came to America as a Somali refugee in 1995 when she was just 12 years old. She became a naturalized citizen in 2000 when she was 17 years old. Her father worked for the U.S. Postal Service. This is a political and racist attack because Trump and Republicans know they are going to get killed in the midterms.
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Jennifer Hesketh Aviles🦉🇺🇸 retweeted
Trump's DHS raids Rep. Ilhan Omar's home because of paperwork filled out by her father in 1995. The Trumpists are desperate. But loyalists at powerful agencies will obey orders. Desperation is dangerous. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
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