Melanie D'Arrigo (@DarrigoMelanie) / X

Melanie D'Arrigo

46.2K posts

Melanie D'Arrigo

@DarrigoMelanie

Exec Director @NYHCampaign, VP Legis NY National Organization for Women, LGBTQ nonprofit cofounder, Bluesky: @darrigomelanie Threads & IG: @melanie_darrigo

Port Washington, NY

Joined July 2019

Melanie D'Arrigo
@DarrigoMelanie
Jan 29, 2025
It only took 10 days to get to concentration camps.
CSPAN
@cspan
Jan 29, 2025
Today I'm also signing an executive order to instruct the Departments of Defense and Homeland Security to begin preparing the 30,000 person migrant facility at Guantanamo Bay. Most people don't even know about it."
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Melanie D'Arrigo
@DarrigoMelanie
Nov 12, 2025
Just to be clear: “sex with an underage girl” is rape.
Rep. Eric Swalwell
@RepSwalwell
Nov 12, 2025
If Trump had sex with an underaged girl, should he still be our President?
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Melanie D'Arrigo
@DarrigoMelanie
Feb 8, 2025
Tesla paid $0 in federal income tax last year. 2022: $0 2021: $0 2020: $0 2019: $0 2018: $0 Tesla reported $6.7 billion in profit in those years.
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Melanie D'Arrigo
@DarrigoMelanie
Aug 18, 2025
- No universal healthcare - No paid family leave - No universal childcare - No tuition free public college - No guarantee of live-saving care when pregnant due to abortion bans - Average cost of $310k to raise a child to 18 yrs old Of course US birth rates are at an all-time low
unusual_whales
@unusual_whales
Aug 18, 2025
U.S. birth rate hits all-time low, CDC data has shown.
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Melanie D'Arrigo
@DarrigoMelanie
Aug 10, 2025
This is currently New York under Eric Adams.
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Melanie D'Arrigo
@DarrigoMelanie
Jan 28, 2025
If you’re upset that immigrants know their rights, it means you were planning on violating their rights.
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Melanie D'Arrigo
@DarrigoMelanie
Dec 20, 2024
Your reminder that churches don’t pay taxes because they are supposedly spending their money to help their communities through things like food banks, shelters and after-school programs.
Wu Tang is for the Children
@WUTangKids
Dec 19, 2024
Do they give out LSD and mushrooms at the Texas mega churches during their Christmas shows
Bugman Hegel
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Bugman Hegel
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Melanie D'Arrigo
@DarrigoMelanie
Jun 27, 2025
Zohran Mamdani’s plan to tax the rich is a 2% tax on income over $1 million. If you make $1.1 million, you’d pay an extra $2,000. Watching working class conservatives and politicians completely meltdown about this is wild.
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According to his official platform, he will "champion a 2 percent tax on all incomes over $1 million ... Under this new plan, someone earning $1 million will pay an additional $20,000 in city income tax." The tax rate would go from 3.9% to 5.9% for those earning >$1 million zohranfornyc.com/revenue zohranfornyc.com/platform
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Melanie D'Arrigo
@DarrigoMelanie
Aug 16, 2023
If your job requires a college degree, you should be able to write-off your student loan payments as a business expense the way CEOs write off their private jets and yachts for their jobs which require neither.
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Melanie D'Arrigo
@DarrigoMelanie
Apr 25, 2025
“Millionaires and billionaires will leave the country if you tax them” is a myth created by millionaires and billionaires so you won’t tax them.
Aaron Rupar
@atrupar
Apr 23, 2025
Trump says he doesn't support a millionaire tax because millionaires would leave the country
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Melanie D'Arrigo
@DarrigoMelanie
Jun 11, 2025
You could end homelessness with 8 days of the military budget.
Maine
@TheMaineWonk
Jun 10, 2025
The Tanks have arrived in DC. Surreal.
Nurses Against Dick Pics. 🪷🇺🇦
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Nurses Against Dick Pics. 🪷🇺🇦
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Melanie D'Arrigo
@DarrigoMelanie
Dec 6, 2024
Reminder that Breaking Bad was a TV show about the U.S. healthcare system.
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Melanie D'Arrigo
@DarrigoMelanie
Oct 31, 2024
If you were going to choose a metaphor for the 2024 Republican Party, a garbage truck chauffeuring around a billionaire traveling around in circles and going nowhere, all for a photo op, is pretty spot on.
Hey, Dave!
@davegreenidge57
Oct 30, 2024
He’s just out on the tarmac having someone drive him around in circles. Why do I feel like this will become the defining meme for his entire campaign?
Kate Sullivan
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Kate Sullivan
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Melanie D'Arrigo
@DarrigoMelanie
Jun 8, 2025
To be clear, this is what an insurrection looks like:
Stephen Miller
@StephenM
Jun 7, 2025
An insurrection against the laws and sovereignty of the United States.
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