Javier Mabrey

@javiermabrey.bsky.social

State Representative for SW Denver | Tenants’ Rights Organizer & Attorney

It’s a shame we won’t see an AG debate moderated by Kyle. He’s been tough but fair in other debates and you should be able to take the heat if you’re running for a job like AG. How can you say you’ll stand up to Trump as AG if you won’t even take tough questions from Kyle Clark before the election?

Kyle Clark@kylec.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I was unable to get a Dem AG primary debate together but all four candidates have been invited on Next for extended interviews. I hope all will choose to appear.

I was unable to get a Dem AG primary debate together but all four candidates have been invited on Next for extended interviews. I hope all will choose to appear.

Brian Giulieri@briangiulieri.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I know this isn't entirely in your control, but it would have been fascinating to have a debate on @nexton9news.bsky.social with the Democratic candidates for attorney general. You have one show horse and three work horses in that race. #copolitics

Attacking civilian infrastructure is a war crime. Our President is threatening war crimes and the result will be the US being more entrenched in an unjustified war that will kill thousands of innocent people and wreck the global economy.

Rep. @javiermabrey.bsky.social lays it out in @westword.com: "Denver’s tax dollars should not flow to companies whose business model depends on the surveillance and deportation of our neighbors...We do not need Flock, Axon or any company like them in Denver. Our community is safer without them."

Denver Already Rejected One Surveillance Company: Don't Make the Same Mistake Twice

The mayor is asking city council to sign a contract with Axon Enterprises, which has even deeper ties to federal immigration enforcement than Flock does.

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Clean campaign pledges in democratic primaries are designed to benefit the candidates who are aligned with the oligarchs. We have to reject the politics of big money, small ideas and generic platitudes. Our economy is broken for the working class and policies that tinker around the edges won’t work

Chase Woodruff@chasewoodruff.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Colorado's establishment Dem blog of record making a fairly overt threat re: a rumored primary challenge to Hickenlooper. www.coloradopols.com/diary/218469...

As for Sen. Julie Gonzales? She’s an energetic young progressive, and if she chooses to run an above-board primary race focused on ideas and not cheap shots at Hickenlooper personally, her likely losing bid doesn’t have to be a negative for her career in the long term. This comes with a warning that if Gonzales goes “scorched earth” against Hickenlooper the mold of Hickenlooper’s 2020 primary opponent Andrew Romanoff, much like Romanoff that will end badly for her prospects beyond losing the primary.

If you are running for office at any level right now and you aren’t speaking up about Trump’s mass deportation efforts and obvious human rights violations but you claim you will “stand up to Trump” or “Fight Trump” when you win I don’t believe you at all.

Allison Gill@muellershewrote.com · last yr.

NEW: The trump administration attempted to remove 600 terrified unaccompanied minors to Guatemala in the middle of the night on a holiday weekend. Judge Sooknanan stopped it. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/the-sookna...

Reminder to my fellow Dems, this is who we are up against! Stop buying into corporate backed polls presented by lobbyists that say voters want “bipartisanship.” Voters want us to fight to make their lives better, they don’t care how we get it done. Let’s stop elevating bullies.

Kyle Clark@kylec.bsky.social · last yr.

COMMENTARY: Colorado's House Republicans again face allegations of inappropriate behavior toward women. Colorado deserves better leadership than a cafeteria table full of the meanest girls and most immature guys you remember from high school. #copolitics

Dems can’t expect voters to trust us to be on the right side of anything if we can’t speak out against genocide & weaponized starvation. How can we ask anyone to support us to stand for any vulnerable people if we can’t support a vote to stop arming the government causing this?

Yashar Ali 🐘@yasharali.bsky.social · last yr.

1. Wow… Twenty-seven US Senators voted for the first resolution to block bomb sales to the Israeli military. Like so much that has been happening in the past few weeks, this would have been unthinkable two years ago.

It would be really cool if either of the two major candidates running for Colorado Governor would say that they supported expanding collective bargaining in Colorado by signing the Worker Protection Act. Seems like an easy ask in a Dem primary 👀

Pope Francis’ advocacy for migrants & the poor highlighted the central tenants of my faith, that we should all do everything in our power to make this world better for the most vulnerable. He made the world a better and we will be worse off without his voice on the global stage.

Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley@pressley.house.gov · 2y ago

Pope Francis was a compassionate man who centered the dignity & humanity of all people. He practiced his faith in word and deed until the very end. I thank God for the blessing of his life, and I mourn his loss alongside all people of faith and conscience.

A photo of Pope Francis and a dove.

Pope Francis was a compassionate man who centered the dignity & humanity of all people. He practiced his faith in word and deed until the very end. I thank God for the blessing of his life, and I mourn his loss alongside all people of faith and conscience.

A photo of Pope Francis and a dove.

If you’re running for office right now, be specific about what you stand for. Every politician is generically concerned with affordability and every democrat is talking about the rule of law. Be specific, this isn’t the time for platitudes.

Migrants found dead at Krome Detention Center in Miami, due to possible starvation and dehydration. The facility, which was a detention facility prior to it being converted for ICE use, has a max capacity of 500.

‘They are being treated like dogs': Families concerned over living conditions at Krome Detention Center

Family members of detainees being held at Krome Detention Center are speaking out about the alleged harsh conditions of the facility.

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If you watch one thing today, check @javiermabrey.bsky.social talk about the real people served by housing protections. www.instagram.com/reel/DHrX46j...

javiermabrey on Instagram: "There is a narrative going around in this building that we over regulate landlords. It’s ridiculous. Your landlord can raise your r…"

There is a narrative going around in this building that we over regulate landlords. It’s ridiculous. Your landlord can raise your rent by as much as they want year over year and evictions are at all time highs. I am proud to stand with Coloradans who cannot afford to own their homes as the scratch tooth and nail to survive, the people living pay check to pay check. If you are working class in this country you live seven years less than everyone else. If you have been in the business of being a landlord in colorado for years and years and years and you are talking about getting out now because we are trying to do the bare minimum to help the people living pay check to pay check, congratulations because your pay out when you sell will be massive. Since 2000, home values in Colorado have seen significant appreciation, with Colorado seeing a 329% return on investment. If you have multiple properties you will be a millionaire and when you sell you cant take the property with you so it will be back on the market and increase the supply of housing for sale. I am not saying that landlords are bad, I am not attacking landlords, I am just saying, you can charge want you want and evict a renter behind on their rent easily. When you are a landlord, that is typically a bonus, meaning the vast vast majority of landlords have another job that brings in the income that they live on. And that is ok, I agree that those investments should be protected, you should be able to recover your property from renters who break the rules destroy the property or fall behind in the rent. But there should also be basic protections, these are homes for people who cannot afford to own. I know we all got sent a green book outlining the law in this space in Colorado and it’s a nice prop but I am proud of what is in that book. Legal standards outlining that homes should be safe and habitable, free of mold and bed bugs, with functioning plumbing and heat. I hear every year of renters who pay full rent for years in homes without functioning heat in the winter or infested with bed bugs, we need a few pages of law protecting people like that.

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Our bill to ban the use of algorithms to price fix in the rental market passed the House! A recent study by the White House showed that use of this technology lead rents to inflate by $1600 a year. I’m proud we are standing up to end the use of this software.

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Not to be a wide-eyed naïf about such things but... am I right in thinking that they levelled an entire building to get to one guy and *that* is not controversial to anyone in the American media or political class, only that this information was recklessly shared in an unsecured chat?

Screenshot of the Atlantic Signal exchanges, including Michael Waltz saying "the first target - their top missile guy - we had positive ID of him walking into his girlfriend's building and it's now collapsed".