You’d think it would be bigger news when a sitting congresswoman retweets her daughter’s message of solidarity with the Cuban regime while on a trip to Cuba sponsored by the aforementioned regime, but apparently not.

“yes i am in cuba!” posted Isra Hirsi on X in late March. “people are here from across the globe to express solidarity with the Cuban people. people who are standing against the oppressive blockade exacerbated by the trump administration. i am honored to be here. i am honored to make history and Eid Mubarak to all.” [editor’s note: there is no blockade]

Hirsi is the daughter of Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and her ex-husband, Ahmed Hirsi. The two married in an Islamic ceremony but not legally in 2002, had two children including Isra, and then divorced Islamically in 2008; Omar then married Ahmed Elmi in 2012 (who some have alleged is her brother, although she has denied this), divorced him in 2017, then reconciled with Hirsi in 2017, legally married him in 2018, had a third child with him in 2019, before divorcing him again and marrying political consultant Tim Mynett four months later in 2020.

Despite being just 23 years old, Hirsi has been outspoken about politics for years — perhaps unsurprisingly, given her mother. When Hirsi was in the first grade, as she told Jacobin in May 2019, she went with her mother to picket a church in Fargo, North Dakota, that didn’t admit gay people. At age 12, in 2015, she joined a BLM protest with her family that shut down the Mall of America. It was a protest against the killing of Jamal Clark — a nice young man, protesters insisted, never mind the fact that he was convicted of a felony for first-degree aggravated robbery and later of making a terroristic threat after saying he would burn down his ex’s apartment.

“I would say that I grew up a very radical child,” she continued in her interview with Jacobin. “I just have always wanted to change the world.”