Tag: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

AOC ‘killing’ this Twitch streamer was easily the best moment of her Among Us stream

“It was an honor!” Pokimane yelled after being killed by Rep. Alexandria-Ocasio Cortez in the Twitch stream.

Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Representative Ilhan Omar took part in a Twitch stream on Tuesday night.

While this is a sentence that would not have made much sense to me a few years ago, I can tell you now that Ocasio-Cortez and Omar’s stream broke Twitch streaming records, with hundreds of thousands of people tuning in to watch the two play the game Among Us.

To understand what’s about to happen, and why the moment was so great, you need to understand a little bit about Among Us. Among Us is an online multiplayer game that has puzzles and such, but the main point is that there is a group of characters on a spaceship, and two of the characters are “imposters.” They try to sabotage the spaceship, or actually kill the other characters.

The twist to the game is that no one knows who the imposters are, and over the course of an individual game you have to try and figure it out.

So, that sets up this moment with Ocasio-Cortez. She was playing with Rep. Omar and several popular Twitch streamers, and AOC was (in this round) the imposter.

She found herself alone with the Twitch streamer Pokimane, and despite her hesitation … she did it. She killed Poki.

Even better was Pokimane’s reaction when she realized that she had just been murdered by a sitting Congresswoman.

“IT WAS AN HONOR,” Poki yelled, before bowing her head.

Anyway, the entire stream was actually kind of delightful, and now I want to play Among Us. And vote. So mission accomplished.

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Twitter roasts the Washington football team over its #BlackoutTuesday post

“Want to really stand for racial justice? Change your name,” wrote Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

Yesterday saw the launch of #BlackoutTuesday, a social media movement where Instagram and Twitter users posted a black square in solidarity with the protests over the killing of George Floyd. The movement was controversial, in and of itself, and that was before the Washington football team got involved.

The team posted a #BlackoutTuesday post to its Twitter yesterday afternoon, and was quickly roasted by all sorts of people, up to and including the congresswoman representing New York’s 14th congressional district, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

The main argument: A team with a racist nickname needs to examine itself before it tries to join an online movement, however misguided, fighting racism.

My colleague at USA TODAY Sports Scott Gleeson reached out to the team this morning for comment, but did not immediately get an email returned. We will update the post if the team makes a statement.

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