Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on Thursday put out a public plea for the codes of her Twitter followers and made several 'House calls' to their islands in the Animal Crossing video game.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on Thursday put out a public plea for the codes of her Twitter followers and made several “House calls” to their islands in the Animal. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) hit back at a former congressional Republican candidate who criticized her for playing the video game “ Animal Crossing: New Horizons ” during the coronavirus lockdown. The Congresswoman has found a new, quarantine-approved way to interact with her followers. Just like you, probably, and if not you then about 80 percent of the people in your orbit, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is getting into Animal Crossing: New Horizons. You know, the Nintendo Switch game where you cultivate your own little island paradise, and an erudite but rather patronizing owl chastises you for bringing him bugs?
The progressive firebrand recently purchased a Nintendo Switch and a copy of Animal Crossing: New Horizons, a massively popular source of entertainment during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. She wrote Thursday that she wanted to visit other islands.
Ocasio-Cortez opened up her Twitter direct messages for four minutes so any of her 6.8 million followers could send her their 'Dodo' codes - the unique code generated as an invitation for friends to visit private islands.
Ok I am going to open my DMs for exactly 4 minutes for Dodo code submission. Why 4? Who knows. Here we go! pic.twitter.com/ZWgivtpILS
- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) May 7, 2020'Honestly never in my life did I think opening my DMs would grant me faith in humanity but the brief window actually resulted in a lot of these messages being very wholesome,' she wrote on Twitter. 'People are asking for surprise visits to their spouse's islands!! This is the love everyone deserves.'
Honestly never in my life did I think opening my DMs would grant me faith in humanity but the brief window actually resulted in a lot of these messages being very wholesome
People are asking for surprise visits to their spouse's islands!! This is the love everyone deserves
- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) May 7, 2020With her character donning a customized 'AOC' campaign shirt, Ocasio-Cortez dropped by to exchange fruit and sign bulletin board notes in the interactive realm.
UPDATE 3: Okay! After a few visits earlier I am reopening for a few more #AOCHouseCalls.
DMs are opening again for 4 minutes, drop me your Dodo code and a note and I may stop by!
(Yes that is a hand drawn campaign shirt & no I haven't sorted out exporting screenshots yet ) pic.twitter.com/K7Idxnj09W
- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) May 7, 2020One player, Justin Mirsky, and his wife Laura Smykla told The Washington Post about the congresswoman's visit to their island.
He used to live in Ocasio-Cortez's New York district and said she left a lovely note at the bulletin board outside their island's city hall.
'To Justin, mama, and family - Thank you for welcoming me to your lovely island. It is such an honor to visit your home away from home! - Alexandria from BoogieDown' the message reads.
@AOC left us beautiful note. #AnimalCrossing#ACNH#NintendoSwitchpic.twitter.com/aUSBHZPQ9Z
- Justin (@jmirsky87) May 8, 2020
Nintendo's smash hit game sold a record 5 million copies in March as millions entered coronavirus lockdowns, making it the highest-selling title for any console in a single month.
On Wednesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “All In,” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said she is “extraordinarily encouraged” by President Joe Biden’s executive orders on climate change and that the orders show “a good-faith openness and relationship” to activists by Biden.
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Ocasio-Cortez said, “I’m feeling extraordinarily encouraged. And I think that the significance of President Biden’s executive orders communicates a lot. One is that it really communicates that he meant what he said on the campaign trail, that he would make climate change a central priority of his administration, and that he considers it, not just a national security threat, but frankly, the global matter that it is. But it also really signifies a good-faith openness and relationship to those activist communities that you had mentioned, these grassroots communities and organizations, on the ground workers, etc., scientists, saying, we are not going to be resistant to grassroots movements, but we are going to collaborate and work with grassroots movements all across the United States to make sure that we are creating as many jobs and as much justice as possible as we fight to save our planet.”
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