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# ![@RitchieTorres Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:26/cr:twitter::1247612029.png) @RitchieTorres Ritchie Torres

Ritchie Torres and his team recently shared a heartbreaking story about a Bronx roofer who suffered a massive heart attack after waiting nine hours in an overcrowded ER. This story highlights the urgent need for better healthcare and emergency services. Torres' office has also passed a bipartisan bill to address a growing fire safety crisis.

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**Social category influence**
[countries](/list/countries)  [finance](/list/finance)  [celebrities](/list/celebrities)  [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations) 

**Social topic influence**
[donald trump](/topic/donald-trump) #3198, [puerto rico](/topic/puerto-rico), [nypd](/topic/nypd) #265, [trump and](/topic/trump-and), [women](/topic/women), [united states](/topic/united-states), [gaza](/topic/gaza) #929, [york city](/topic/york-city) #240, [new york city](/topic/new-york-city) #260, [hamas](/topic/hamas) #362
### Top Social Posts [#](/creator/twitter::1247612029/posts)
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Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours

"NYC fell victim to the worst active shooting in recent memory. We are reminded yet again that the US remains the only industrialized country confronting a never-ending nightmare of mass shootings. Gun violence is not an inevitability. It is a policy choice that we as a society must stop making"  
![@RitchieTorres Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::1247612029.png) [@RitchieTorres](/creator/x/RitchieTorres) on [X](/post/tweet/1950287739766612148) 2025-07-29 20:10:06 UTC 221K followers, 9547 engagements


"Antisemitism is unsettlingly ubiquitous on social media. Anyone who denies its pernicious and pervasive presenceon digital platforms and in society at largeis willfully blind to a reality staring us all in the face"  
![@RitchieTorres Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::1247612029.png) [@RitchieTorres](/creator/x/RitchieTorres) on [X](/post/tweet/1944547142695375050) 2025-07-13 23:59:01 UTC 221K followers, 439.2K engagements


"Officer Didarul Islam was just XX years old a young man with his whole life ahead of him. He leaves behind a pregnant wife and two children. Behind every badge is a human being. A spouse. A parent. A son or daughter. Every time you see the men and women of the NYPD remember the risks they take to protect us. Just take a moment to thank them for their service and sacrifice. We must remove weapons of war from our streets to protect the public and the police who protect them"  
![@RitchieTorres Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::1247612029.png) [@RitchieTorres](/creator/x/RitchieTorres) on [X](/post/tweet/1950648664633889158) 2025-07-30 20:04:17 UTC 221K followers, 3684 engagements


"If Donald Trump and Republicans are going to rig the democratic process through mid-decade gerrymandering then we as Democrats have no choice but to do everything we can to counter the corrosive effects of Republican cheating. Doing nothing or doing too little would mean unilateral disarmament in the face of an authoritarian power grab"  
![@RitchieTorres Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::1247612029.png) [@RitchieTorres](/creator/x/RitchieTorres) on [X](/post/tweet/1950585411828334804) 2025-07-30 15:52:56 UTC 221K followers, 7971 engagements


"Randy Fine is a bloated braindead blithering idiot who has no business being in Congress. I would call Fine a jester who belongs in a circus but that would be an insult to jesters who have more brain cells"  
![@RitchieTorres Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::1247612029.png) [@RitchieTorres](/creator/x/RitchieTorres) on [X](/post/tweet/1948456001713143925) 2025-07-24 18:51:26 UTC 221K followers, 180.2K engagements


"Ratepayers in Puerto Rico pay XX cents per kilowatt-hour53% more than the national average of XX cents. The people of Puerto Rico are paying the highest prices in America for an electric grid that continues to fail them catastrophically"  
![@RitchieTorres Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::1247612029.png) [@RitchieTorres](/creator/x/RitchieTorres) on [X](/post/tweet/1948728463533240655) 2025-07-25 12:54:05 UTC 221K followers, 7713 engagements


"Like most Americans for whom Randy Fine is dripping with contempt I have no college degree. I wear it not as a mark of shame but as a badge of honor. I grew up in poverty and overcame depression and substance abuse to rise to the US Congress. You call that failure. Others call that the American Dream. If you think Congress is not a real job then why did you choose to become a Congressman You should get a job that accurately reflects your moral and intellectual mediocrity"  
![@RitchieTorres Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::1247612029.png) [@RitchieTorres](/creator/x/RitchieTorres) on [X](/post/tweet/1948826234584269198) 2025-07-25 19:22:36 UTC 221K followers, 58.8K engagements


"The latest Senate Reconciliation billwhich all but sabotages solar energyis nothing short of a strategic suicide pact. Why on earth would Congressional Republicans choose to restrict the most rapidly deployable energy sourceat the very moment the United States is locked in a high-stakes AI competition with China The so-called Big Beautiful Bill is a geopolitical gift to Xi Jinping and the Chinese Communist Party"  
![@RitchieTorres Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::1247612029.png) [@RitchieTorres](/creator/x/RitchieTorres) on [X](/post/tweet/1939077832510202301) 2025-06-28 21:45:56 UTC 221K followers, 17.3K engagements


"I am excited to join Fordham University Bronx Borough President Vanessa Gibson Assembly Member George Alvarez and Council Member Oswald Feliz in breaking ground on a new Bronx Green Jobs Center. Green energy is the future of the Bronx. As the Bronx goes so goes the rest of America. Thank you Fordham"  
![@RitchieTorres Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::1247612029.png) [@RitchieTorres](/creator/x/RitchieTorres) on [X](/post/tweet/1946656761047290285) 2025-07-19 19:41:53 UTC 221K followers, 6563 engagements


"The so-called Big Beautiful Bill will endanger the lives and livelihoods of millions of Americans and nowhere more so than in the Bronx. A trillion-dollar cut to Medicaid represents an existential threat to health care providers like the SBH Health System which has been serving the Bronx for nearly XXX years"  
![@RitchieTorres Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::1247612029.png) [@RitchieTorres](/creator/x/RitchieTorres) on [X](/post/tweet/1949485718931128612) 2025-07-27 15:03:09 UTC 221K followers, 6026 engagements


"Speaker Mike Johnson is covering up the cover-up. Hed rather send Congress home until September than release the Epstein files. Revealing"  
![@RitchieTorres Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::1247612029.png) [@RitchieTorres](/creator/x/RitchieTorres) on [X](/post/tweet/1947686621710524565) 2025-07-22 15:54:11 UTC 221K followers, 11.2K engagements


"I stood with Borough President Vanessa Gibson Assembly Member Landon Dais GrowNYC and Hunger Free America to oppose Donald Trumps proposed $XXX billion cut to SNAPthe program that puts food on the table for XX million Americans. In the Bronx one in three residents depends on SNAP. Food is not a privilegeit is a right. Not a luxurybut a lifeline"  
![@RitchieTorres Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::1247612029.png) [@RitchieTorres](/creator/x/RitchieTorres) on [X](/post/tweet/1949095465171005571) 2025-07-26 13:12:25 UTC 221K followers, 6301 engagements


"SNAP is more than just policy. Its deeply personal. It was the safety net that caught families like mine when we fell on hard times. But now Donald Trump and Congressional Republicans have slashed the SNAP budget by XX% leaving working families and vulnerable Americans with too little to afford groceries"  
![@RitchieTorres Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::1247612029.png) [@RitchieTorres](/creator/x/RitchieTorres) on [X](/post/tweet/1947295335669281137) 2025-07-21 13:59:21 UTC 221K followers, 26.9K engagements


"The social media account @DiaperDiplomacy brilliantly captures the infantile absurdity of American politics. As Oscar Wilde once put it life imitates art far more than art imitates life. In the age of Trump politics has devolved into perpetual psychodrama and performance art"  
![@RitchieTorres Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::1247612029.png) [@RitchieTorres](/creator/x/RitchieTorres) on [X](/post/tweet/1949198150792777889) 2025-07-26 20:00:28 UTC 221K followers, 8000 engagements


"The Republican Party is no longer a normal political party. It has become a cult of personality around their lord and savior: Donald Trump. The loyalty of Republicans lies not with the working people of America but with a false god"  
![@RitchieTorres Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::1247612029.png) [@RitchieTorres](/creator/x/RitchieTorres) on [X](/post/tweet/1948798217430143233) 2025-07-25 17:31:16 UTC 221K followers, 40.8K engagements


"If Puerto Rico were a state it would be the lowest-income state in the US. The tragic story of Puerto Rico is one in which the lowest-income ratepayers are paying are among the highest electricity bills for the worst performing electric grid resulting in a perfect storm of energy poverty"  
![@RitchieTorres Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::1247612029.png) [@RitchieTorres](/creator/x/RitchieTorres) on [X](/post/tweet/1948371033137848401) 2025-07-24 13:13:47 UTC 221K followers, 6149 engagements


"Jews make up just X% of the U.S. population yet represent a disproportionate target of hate crimes in America. The violence never happens in a vacuum; it arises in an atmosphere where antisemitism is amplified across social media platforms and college campuses and then ultimately unleashed in the streets. According to the ADL a staggering X in X Americans believes that recent attacks on Jews in the US are understandable. To treat antisemitic terror as understandable is to defend the indefensible and excuse the inexcusable. Antisemitism is an acid that corrodes civilization itself"  
![@RitchieTorres Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::1247612029.png) [@RitchieTorres](/creator/x/RitchieTorres) on [X](/post/tweet/1946730192384278774) 2025-07-20 00:33:41 UTC 221K followers, 154.5K engagements


"Demonizing Leader Hakeem Jeffries as Jihadi Jeffries is a racist comment from a rancid man. I with stand with the Democratic Leader in condemning with moral clarity both anti-Jewish and anti-Muslim bigotry. As for Congressman Randy Fine suffice it to say he is not the brightest bulb in the chandelier. If there is one thing worth hating its not race or religion. Its willful stupidity"  
![@RitchieTorres Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::1247612029.png) [@RitchieTorres](/creator/x/RitchieTorres) on [X](/post/tweet/1943337731666645135) 2025-07-10 15:53:15 UTC 221K followers, 138.4K engagements


"Telling Palestinians in Gaza to starve away is an evil thing to say. The US must make every effort to secure the release of the hostages end the war enable new Palestinian self-governance in Gaza build a durable peace between Israelis and Palestinians and expand the Abraham Accords in the service of broader Israeli-Arab peace"  
![@RitchieTorres Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::1247612029.png) [@RitchieTorres](/creator/x/RitchieTorres) on [X](/post/tweet/1948443908075078002) 2025-07-24 18:03:22 UTC 221K followers, 123.1K engagements


"Like Jeffrey Epstein Donald Trump has effectively taken the Fifth. He refuses to release the Epstein filesand wont even comment on them"  
![@RitchieTorres Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::1247612029.png) [@RitchieTorres](/creator/x/RitchieTorres) on [X](/post/tweet/1948379068392411347) 2025-07-24 13:45:43 UTC 221K followers, 5522 engagements


"A $XX billion recovery would be golden for bondholders like GoldenTree but it would not be so golden for the people of Puerto Rico. A $XX billion recovery would result in rate increases so high that Puerto Rico would have the highest electricity prices in the countrysecond only to Hawaii"  
![@RitchieTorres Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::1247612029.png) [@RitchieTorres](/creator/x/RitchieTorres) on [X](/post/tweet/1950175049001902401) 2025-07-29 12:42:18 UTC 221K followers, 5884 engagements


"I had the honor of convening a two-hour townhall between the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) and the tenant leaders of my Congressional District in the Bronx"  
![@RitchieTorres Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::1247612029.png) [@RitchieTorres](/creator/x/RitchieTorres) on [X](/post/tweet/1950316469394559236) 2025-07-29 22:04:16 UTC 221K followers, 5588 engagements


"It should be possible indeed necessary to hold two thoughts at once. First despite the pervasive amnesia about 10/7 the world should never forget that Hamas is the central cause of the war in Gaza and the untold suffering it has unleashed. The primary responsibility for the war lies with its cause: Hamas. Second the humanitarian crisis in Gaza is morally unacceptable and all parties including the US and Israel have a moral obligation to do their part in alleviating the hunger and hardship that have taken hold in Gaza. Hamas couldnt care less if every Palestinian starved to death. But the free"  
![@RitchieTorres Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::1247612029.png) [@RitchieTorres](/creator/x/RitchieTorres) on [X](/post/tweet/1949948326691946860) 2025-07-28 21:41:24 UTC 221K followers, 233.8K engagements


"Officer Didarul Islam was just XX years old a young man with his whole life ahead of him. He leaves behind a pregnant wife and two children. Behind every badge is a human being. A spouse. A parent. A son or daughter. Every time you see the men and women of the NYPD remember the risks they take to protect us. Just take a moment to thank them for their service and sacrifice"  
![@RitchieTorres Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::1247612029.png) [@RitchieTorres](/creator/x/RitchieTorres) on [X](/post/tweet/1950206924051419242) 2025-07-29 14:48:58 UTC 221K followers, 15.9K engagements


"Republicans like Scott Jennings have been spreading a lie about Medicaid: that XXX million illegals are enrolled in the federally funded program. Never mind that federal law flatly prohibits it. Never mind that the XXX million figure largely refers to legal immigrants. But facts have never stood in the way of good old-fashioned Republican fear-mongering"  
![@RitchieTorres Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::1247612029.png) [@RitchieTorres](/creator/x/RitchieTorres) on [X](/post/tweet/1949819674297864516) 2025-07-28 13:10:10 UTC 221K followers, 40.7K engagements


"I have been sounding the alarm about the sheer persistence of an open-air drug market in the Hubthe central commercial corridor of the South Bronx. Why should the people of the Bronx be forced to witness drug users injecting fentanyl in broad daylight often in the presence of children The Bronx deserves the same standard of public safety and public health as the rest of New York City"  
![@RitchieTorres Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::1247612029.png) [@RitchieTorres](/creator/x/RitchieTorres) on [X](/post/tweet/1944878047968288772) 2025-07-14 21:53:55 UTC 221K followers, 18.5K engagements


"My districtNew Yorks 15thhas the second-highest Medicaid enrollment rate in the nation at 67%. The highest Californias 22nd District where XX% of residents rely on Medicaid. For Representative David Valadao to vote for a trillion-dollar cut to a program that serves more than two-thirds of his constituents is an unprecedented betrayal of the very people he was elected to represent"  
![@RitchieTorres Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::1247612029.png) [@RitchieTorres](/creator/x/RitchieTorres) on [X](/post/tweet/1940907740349497671) 2025-07-03 22:57:20 UTC 221K followers, 410.4K engagements


"Diversity hire and DEI hire have become 21st-century racial slurs on the far rightinvented by moral and intellectual mediocrities to demean Black professionals who far surpass them in talent and achievement"  
![@RitchieTorres Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::1247612029.png) [@RitchieTorres](/creator/x/RitchieTorres) on [X](/post/tweet/1939054634699456652) 2025-06-28 20:13:45 UTC 221K followers, 519K engagements


"Arab citizens of Israel enjoy the same legal rights as Jewish citizens. By contrast the three million U.S. citizens of Puerto Rico are denied the right to vote in federal elections and lack equal representation in the House the Senate and the Electoral College. Yet the far left never accuses the United States of apartheidand often defends a status quo that systematically denies Puerto Rico legal and political equality. Their criticism of Israel is not principled; its propagandistic"  
![@RitchieTorres Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::1247612029.png) [@RitchieTorres](/creator/x/RitchieTorres) on [X](/post/tweet/1930812827872170124) 2025-06-06 02:23:45 UTC 221K followers, 356.2K engagements


"If you refuse to condemn Hamas for the murder maiming mutilation rape torture and abduction of thousands of Jews and Israelis on October X then you have no business calling yourself a humanitarian. A humanitarianism that devalues Jewish life is no humanitarianism at all for it has been hollowed out by antisemitism"  
![@RitchieTorres Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::1247612029.png) [@RitchieTorres](/creator/x/RitchieTorres) on [X](/post/tweet/1948168183115854020) 2025-07-23 23:47:44 UTC 221K followers, 194.2K engagements


"Puerto Ricos electric grid is failing catastrophically. It needs every dollar it can get. The notion of robbing a failing grid of desperately needed dollarsin order to placate essentially one implacable bondholderwould represent the most profound betrayal of the people of Puerto Rico that one could imagine"  
![@RitchieTorres Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::1247612029.png) [@RitchieTorres](/creator/x/RitchieTorres) on [X](/post/tweet/1947995450721571080) 2025-07-23 12:21:22 UTC 221K followers, 6574 engagements


"A shooter has critically injured three people including a police officer at Blackstones headquarters in Midtown Manhattan. We must all pray for the full recovery of those who have been injured. This shocking act of terror is a grim reminder of the persistent danger posed by firearms the hardening of hatred in our society and the exceptional courage of the NYPD officers who risk their lives in order to protect the rest of us. Neither public safety nor the men and women of the NYPD entrusted with upholding it can be taken for granted"  
![@RitchieTorres Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::1247612029.png) [@RitchieTorres](/creator/x/RitchieTorres) on [X](/post/tweet/1949980916001943992) 2025-07-28 23:50:53 UTC 221K followers, 59.5K engagements


"It is profoundly disturbing to see young social media influencers casually rationalize Hitler and the Nazi regimes systematic extermination of six million Jews during the Holocaust. The only thing more terrifying than Holocaust denial is Holocaust glorification. The comfort with which these commentators defend the most evil man ever to roam the earth should send chills down the spine of every decent person"  
![@RitchieTorres Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::1247612029.png) [@RitchieTorres](/creator/x/RitchieTorres) on [X](/post/tweet/1948539563699568832) 2025-07-25 00:23:28 UTC 221K followers, 968.1K engagements


"I represent working people who after paying their bills are left with just $XX a day to live on. Donald Trump and Congressional Republicans want to gut food and health care programs for Americans living on a few dollars a dayall to fund massive tax breaks for billionaires. There is something profoundly wrong with that picture"  
![@RitchieTorres Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::1247612029.png) [@RitchieTorres](/creator/x/RitchieTorres) on [X](/post/tweet/1948420486326620450) 2025-07-24 16:30:18 UTC 221K followers, 5265 engagements


"My heart goes out to the family friends and colleagues of Wesley LePatner one of the victims of the tragic shooting in Midtown Manhattan. A city is only as strong as its people and Wesley LePatner represented the very best of New York. She left a lasting impact wherever she went: as a senior executive at Blackstone a devoted congregant at the Altneu synagogue and a dedicated board member at the Heschel School. Wesley lived as we all should strive to live: with civic purpose compassion and a commitment to something greater than herself. She was a devoted spouse and parent a distinguished"  
![@RitchieTorres Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::1247612029.png) [@RitchieTorres](/creator/x/RitchieTorres) on [X](/post/tweet/1950236190248141194) 2025-07-29 16:45:16 UTC 221K followers, 61.4K engagements