The thing that occupies my mind these days is how we are being forced to go backwards, or even racing to a new bottom. That's reflected in these tweets from March 2017.
Right at the end of the month, there was a lot of outrage about Mike Pence’s refusal to ever be alone with a woman who’s not his wife:
Can't control his own body enough to dine alone with women who aren't his wife yet wants to control the bodies of women who aren't his wife.There was, of course, the ongoing attention to Turnip's collusion with Russia. There was a lot more about this, but I just don't bother most of the time:
Dab Aggin
yes, nothing says "I respect my wife and also other women" like viewing all women everywhere as just objects for the sexing
Nicole Chung
If a man doesn't trust himself around women, he shouldn't be in any position of authority over women or frankly anyone else.
Powerful men who will meet one on one with men but not women hurt women's careers. That is not moral or normal.
If I refused to be alone with men I would have a hard time keeping a job. That men can have decades long careers without women says a lot.
Jill Filipovic
If Keith Ellison refused to dine one-on-one with women and used his religion to justify it, the political right would lose their minds.
Franklin Leonard
Mike Pence, an adult who is grown,
Cannot sit with women alone.
However, he can
Stand by an old man
Whose fondness for groping is known.
Limericking
I have no idea if the Trump campaign colluded with Russia. But if they didn’t, what else could possibly be worth this amount of ham-handed deception?There were lots of tweets about various policies generally, including the Gorsuch (which autocorrects to Grouch!) nomination:
Derek Thompson
White House would sure as shit have a comment on Manafort if he was a black guy kneeling during a football game.
Tim Murphy
Trump knowingly named a foreign agent to be his national security adviser. Let that sink in.
Jared Yates Sexton
Trump rose questioning millions of people's Americanness. Now, every day, he gives us new cause to doubt the Americanness of his own government. This is a remarkable case of what psychologists call projection: a president with hidden foreign links projecting foreignness onto others.
Anand Giridharadas
Last night's Rachel Maddow Show in sum: the Putin/Trump collusion is being realized in a thorough dismantling of the U.S. State Department. By refusing to appoint an independent commission to investigate this scandal, the entire GOP has become part of a massive cover-up
Langdon Winner
I resent that MSNBC's Brian Williams gets to analyze whether Sessions and the Trump cabinet are lying about being in bed with the Russians.
Stacey Patton @DrStaceyPatton
It's hard to fathom how a Benghazi committee was necessary and one for Russia isn't, unless one or both decisions were politically motivated.
Evan McMullin
It makes sense that Trump wants to reinvigorate the coal industry. Mordor wasn't built in a day.Of course, there were many on the health care bill specifically and the losing vote:
Aparna Nancherla
More Americans are employed in the solar industry than in coal. This bullshit is not about jobs.
Hank Green
House Republicans: We can't release Trump's taxes, we must protect his privacy
Also House Republicans: Here's everyone's browsing data
Sarah Cooper
Today, Trump orders an end to all federal action on climate change. Just think about that for a moment, and imagine what history will say.
Bill McKibben
After all the ideological see-sawing, the GOP is settling on deficit-financed tax cuts, deregulation, and aggressive use of military force.
Matthew Yglesias
Cooperation with the law begins with trust in it and not fear of it. Women are less safe in communities that fear deportation.
Phillip Atiba Goff
Important to note that every Democratic senator, simply by attending the hearing, is treating Gorsuch with more respect than GOP gave Garland.
Ari Berman
GOP: Women shouldn't have sex unless they are willing to bear the consequences of children
Also the GOP: Ugh why did you have a baby?
lyz lenz
Total number of DHS border device searches in the year 2015: 5,000
Total number in the month February 2017: 5,000
Phil A. Buster @onekade
The idea that Paul Ryan is a policy wonk is an insult to policy wonks. He's fucking terrible at his job.
Sarah Mackey @sarahjanet
I'm reminded of that job-killing regulation that got lead out of gas. Did more to reduce crime than Donald Trump could even dream.
Dean Baker
H-1b visas are flawed. But at least half of the complaints about H-1b read to me as "Get those scary Asian people away from my job."
Noah Smith
Vouchers don’t work for public housing they sure won't work for education. Voucher recipients face discrimination and there's no accountability
Judith Browne Dianis
Indeed, while car/gun/air pollution/coal mining probably kills 100k American lives annually, foreign-born jihadists kill < 10. Priorities?
Shadow Cabinet @ShadowingTrump
Much of the budget deficit would be made up if we just properly collected taxes that are owed
@fmanjoo
Maybe the best time to lecture the poor on spendin' ain't while Trump's blowin' 3 million a weekend just to play golf?
Tea Pain @TeaPainUSA
I can't keep up with the horror, you guys. every time I manage to stop worrying about one way in which the GOP is attacking my family and I, I remember another, different attack coming. I’m Arab, my kids are Black, immigrants in family, on Obamacare, living in Great Lakes watershed, etc. etc. It's too much.
Saladin Ahmed
Double down on this:
Khaled Beydoun
Your tax money is going to a vanity wall against Mexico, a fantasy "investigation" into Obama, and housing POTUS's wife in a golden tower.
Sarah Kendzior
When it came to the final healthcare push, Trump really put in the effort of a lunchtime.Which leads into the the Dickensian Trump budget:
Glenn Thrush
Republicans' biggest problem on healthcare isn't not knowing things, but knowing many things that are not so.
Josh Barro
Waaaah waaah healthcare is hard. Being in power's hard. Know what's hard? Surviving cancer in America. Save your tears, Trump and toadies.
Xeni Jardin
Yet I am not reveling in triumphalism. This is only stopping disaster. Not advancement, while the world heats and inequality grows.
@pattho
STOP CALLING PAUL RYAN A WONK, MEDIA. HE IS A LAP DOG TO BILLIONAIRES WHO DRESSES UP HIS SOCIOPATHIC AYN RAND BULLSHIT WITH WONK SPEAK.
Adam McKay
No spin to be done here. This is the chief example of something hard that Trump won [the election] by calling easy. It was a farce, and he's been exposed.
Nick Merrill
I've never understood how R's convinced themselves that what people really want is to shop for health care:
Jared Bernstein
GOP: It's up to us whether a woman continues her pregnancy. It's up to her to pay for it.
Angela Morris @AMradio_
This healthcare bill, SCOTUS appointment and budget should all grind to a halt until the question of treason is settled. Let's do that.
Mikki Kendall
Trump margin in Pennsylvania in 2016: 44,000. Pennsylvanians who’d lose Medicaid if ACA repealed: 670,000.
David Frum
All health care policy is unpopular because health care is 1/6 of our economy, but nobody wants to spend 1/6 of their income on it.
Josh Barro
People hate the mandate. They want to be offered insurance they would buy voluntarily. In practice, that means pricing it below cost. You may think it's unreasonable, but it's the public sentiment—and it's public policy virtually everywhere, including the employer market.
Josh Barro
Basically, the GOP critique of the CBO report is that projections can't predict the vast savings from people who will die without access to care
Jonathan Metzl
Am I crazy to think simply lowering the Medicare eligibility age to 60 would help everyone a lot?
Christopher Hayes
TrumpCare: It's like Trump University, but you die.
@Elizasoul80
For non-Americans, Trumpcare means people legally must buy insurance from corporations that don't legally have to cover illness. Crazy, no?
@umairh
Let's not get bogged down in particulars. Clearly Chaffetz's point was that the poor should spend everything they have just to stay alive.
Dan Abromowitz (responding to Jason Chaffetz's suggestion that poor people should buy health insurance instead of the latest iPhone)
It's weird how when conservatives complain about the things poor people "waste" money on, it's always the frigging cheapest stuff. Trivial consumer electronics and cheap snack foods. This is where they think the money goes. They don't know what rent costs. They don't care.
@mcclure111
People in poverty use upwards of 70% of their income just to pay rent but the reason they won't be able to afford healthcare is...an iPhone?
Clint Smith
"It's either health care or iPhones. You poor people gotta stop being so greedy."
Josh Patten @thejoshpatten
I just want politicians to have to spend a year living like the poor people they routinely demean to justify terrible policies. One year.
Mikki Kendall
It’s long been GOP canon that minority poverty is a personal failure and white poverty is a governmental failure.
Barry Petchesky
IMO the Achilles heel in all GOP plans is the assumption that people want “choice” (i.e. paperwork managing plans) instead of free money.
Dave Weigel
The chutzpah of "I know the President is a lunatic but watch us screw up your health care now" is a real historical moment for the GOP.
@Rschooley
When does the medical industrial complex realize it would do better with Medicare buy-ins than an individual health insurance market death spiral?
Helaine Olen
Being poor is not a character flaw. Further, EVERY SINGLE AMERICAN depends on the government for something. To imagine otherwise is counterfactual.
Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones
This is almost absent from our debate: There is no logic or justification to adding $50 billion a year to the Pentagon budget.And of course, many about Trump and his administration generally:
@7im
Just to be clear: the U.S. can't have universal healthcare because death panels, but it's cool to chop Meals On Wheels? Ok.
meg @megmantis
Taxes aren't theft. You are thinking of capitalism.
David Kaib
Man. Arguing against feeding kids while you golf at government expense is up there on the Marie Antoinette list of Not a Good Look.
Ted Underwood
Time for these Meals on Wheels freeloaders to learn a thing or two about belt-tightening:
Matthew Yglesias
I hate to say it, but if I wanted to undercut America's standing in the world, I'd start with medical research, diplomacy &\and foreign aid.
Noah Shachtman
Trump supporters on Twitter always asking WHAT ABOUT HOMELESS VETS?
Trump is cutting the council working on ending veteran homelessness.
Alexis Goldstein
Americans who complain about taxation being theft but then living their whole life on stolen land...
@Didymath
When people have everything and no idea how they got it, they vote against their best interests. The same can be said for people who have enough and assume they did it themselves. You are not as in control as you need to believe you are. The time comes for everyone when they need help, and I hope when that times comes for some of you, you remember who you have denied help.
@iSmashFizzle
Dear Donald, are you remotely aware that "safety" includes safer cars/guns/air/coal mining? Loss of life means loss of income, right?
Shadow Cabinet @ShadowingTrump (replying to a Trump tweet that said his budget put safety first)
If you think a society that doesn't care for children or the elderly can survive I assume you're completely ignorant of everything. I mean you can sign up for that feral violent short-lived community if you like, but do it way over there. Away from everyone else.
Mikki Kendall
It is a vicious, ignorant, angry old man's view of the world: "America" must be great at all costs, but actual Americans are on their own.
Mark Harris
Basic Trump budget: let's defend at any cost a country we won't spend a dime to make a better place.
Bill McKibben
When he said Mexico was gonna pay for the wall, what he *meant* was homebound senior citizens are gonna pay for the wall.
Christopher Hayes
Shorter Trump: the rich aren't rich enough, the military hardware budget isn't bloated enough, poor people don't suffer enough.
David Kaib
Cost of average NIH grant = $500K.
Cost of a Trump Mar-a-Lago weekend = $3M
= 6 NIH grants.
Bill Gardner
Annual federal budget...
for the entire NEA: $148 million
for the entire NEH: $148 million
for military marching bands: $437 million
Mark Harris
I keep trying to tell y'all, if you want to know what's coming in the Trump admin, just look to Alabama. It's the Alabamization of America.
Josh Moon
Fancy names like "Opportunity Grants" and "State Flexibility Funds" are just euphemisms for cutting aid to the poor.
Ben Spielberg
Great New Yorker cover by Barry Blitt. This is sure to piss off Trump:These days all of my other usual topics can overlap with Trump tweets, but oh well. Here are the ones on climate change, transit, and sustainable cities:
Benjamin Ramm
Maybe when these guys call themselves "alpha" they mean they're not even ready for beta testing.
Josh Barro
imagine believing this is what's actually happening as Trump hires his sixth Goldman Sachs guy for his administration:
21logician
If you're a Trump supporter and call yourself Christian, you either don't understand Trump, don't understand the New Testament, or are lying.
Tim Minchin
The Mercers gave us Breitbart. Somehow that it is a cabal of batshit billionaires behind the mess we are in feels like a relief.
Natalie Hopkinson @Nattyrankins
At what point is it fair to see supreme self-assurance as evidence someone has no grasp of the challenge ahead?
jimgeraghty
The most inappropriate analogy in history—government would work better if it were run like a business.
Bruce Bartlett
Here's what fascinates me about Cheeto and his family...he's literally setting his kids up to be prosecuted. Is this arrogance or stupidity?
Mikki Kendall
Side note is it just me or does Eric look like he'd be the weakling unnamed minion for a powerful but evil vampire queen:
Alisha Rai
I sincerely think that Trump and his team believed being president was like being king.
Jamelle Bouie
Man, if only Republicans had had the slightest clue that Trump might be a grifter whose leadership skills were hugely overblown. If only they'd had some inkling that he was a con man with a history of failed businesses known primarily for hosting a scripted tv show. If only there had been some way to foresee the problems that might arise from his aggressive ignorance and autocratic style.
Tom Tomorrow
Regular reminder that Donald Trump’s core competency is not dealmaking with powerful counter-parties. It is duping gullible victims.
David Frum
Literally the only way for anyone to have realized Trump was a fraud would have been to read anything about any of his undertakings ever.
Matthew Yglesias
Trump has few modes, main two: (1) used car salesman who tells you how cool you look in the Corvette, or (2) student who didn't do homework.
Tom Tomorrow
Donald Trump will always be one of the most embarrassing things the United States has ever done.
Jon Favreau
Trump voter James Walker, 31, from Nashville, says: "This is the first step: showing up and being honest."
@SmithInAmerica
Trump converted "values" voters into "nostalgia" voters. They re-imagined a 1950's America.
@ToThePoint_KCRW
The Trump Administration is about reversing the gains of progressivism and multiculturalism, furthering a culture of corporate dominance. All these immigration policies are about reversing demographic trends and pushing a continued white majority. It's the last vestiges of a dying system that's fighting to survive but is helpless. It's a veiled promise to a group that's desperate. It's a wink and a nod to working-class white voters while dealing with CEOs and corporatists behind closed doors. Sessions with private prisons, billionaires in the cabinet, health care overhauls that're actually tax cuts. This is the truth of Trumpism. Trumpism is corporate-driven interests smoke-screened by so-called populist and intolerant rhetoric. It's reverse-engineering. For years Republicans had the subtext of racism with the text of populism, but now they've brought the racism into the text in order to hide their true motives. When subtext becomes text, you know there's a new subtext, a new thing behind hidden. The GOP swallowed racism/xenophobia and regurgitated it. Now we have a system that's dying, struggling to sustain itself and lying and cheating to do anything to maintain its grasp. This is about demographics and profit. Period. There's no strategy beyond that, no focus beyond that. Every decision comes down to it.
Jared Yates Sexton
It's like the president's administration is a demented von Trapp family, only untalented and sympathetic to fascists.
Jared Yates Sexton
Trump built an archipelago of gated clubs for the rich and now America is literally paying him to help his rich members get richer.
Jason Fagone
We've gone from being a sophisticated global actor to a lurching self-lobotomized puppet overnight. The consequences haven't even begun.
@section_sign
A President Hillary would already be being impeached over some "scandal" that amounted to a tenth of one of the hundred Trump whoppers.
@omearan
I still think all the corruption doesn't hurt Trump that much in good times but will compound negative reaction to him when things go south.
Josh Barro
When you call Trump "crazy," you're actually participating in a very long tradition of White racial innocence.
Ebony Elizabeth
Idea for the networks: chyrons under pundits that list how many times they've been fooled into thinking Donald Trump has changed.
Jared Yates Sexton
It took decades for Americans to believe that breathing air from a fire stick causes health problems. With that in mind, Trump makes sense.
Hari Kondabolu
Donald Trump is a stupid man's idea of a smart man, a poor man's idea of a rich man, and a weak man's idea of a strong man.
James F. Haning II
A 70-year old man who watches 6 hours of TV a day, plays lots of golf, and always seems to be in Florida is a retiree, not a President.
Jason Kander
The only thing that keeps Trump afloat is modern society's weakness of attention span and nonexistent memory.
Jared Yates Sexton
Who would have guessed that being President would be harder than doing real estate swindles with NY/NJ mobsters?
Langdon Winner
90% of solar capacity in Minnesota was installed in the last 12 months.
MN Farmers Union
Do you ever cry at night because Trump said they're gonna dismantle the EPA because me too.
nasty gabby @gabsthehuman
cutting through the jargon on how transportation planning works in most regions:
Streetsblog USA
How do you make change in a city that cares more for those who came before us than those that will come after us?
Father Sonn @mikesonn
It is impossible to prioritize automobile access without a systematic approach which makes life unpleasant for anyone using other modes.
Rik Adamski
The world is run by people who think cars came with the Garden of Eden.
Free Public Transit
Parking vs. housing: underground parking is akin to digging a hole and throwing money in.
@pyry
From 1910-40, Chicago spent $340M on street-widening to accommodate cars — the estimated cost (at 1923 prices) of a comprehensive subway system.
Taras Grescoe
Every moment local leaders spend trying to get $$ for new highways is time they could spend addressing real issues.
Strong Towns
The arrogance of space of car-centric planning in cities:
21st Century City @urbanthoughts11
Key finding: Cyclists break laws to stay safe. Driver's break them (at an equal or higher rate) to save time.
MPLS Bike Love
I can acknowledge that people disagree with me. Seems NIMBYs think everyone agrees with them.
Father Sonn @mikesonn
Local businesses won't close because their patrons have to walk an extra 100 feet. Drivers already walk further at big boxes. I'm glad we get to rehash this discussion for *every* business node since they're all so very different. All unique. No two the same.There were many, many, many on racism, racist policing, white supremacy:
Father Sonn @mikesonn
It's climate "crash," not climate "change," folks. It affects most of our cherished "economy.”
Langdon Winner
Transit and density are not only fiscally conservative, they are socially conservative. They build community and strengthen bonds.
KJ @kyjlue
Most energy expended by YIMBYs/urbanists should be laser-focused on data that supports multi-family housing and its positive effects on single-family home values.
Justin Merkovich
We've spent trillions to save seconds of time on driving. How exactly does this make us a more prosperous country?
Strong Towns
We ban bars near churches, despite totally different peak hours. Then churches tear down neighborhoods so cars can park one morning a week.
Rik Adamski
This is absolutely ludicrous. It’s 2017 and this is settled science. It’s on par with the Surgeon General not believing in germ theory.
Tom Laskawy (responding to EPA chief Scott Pruitt saying CO2 is not the primary cause of global warming)
How do we know that CO2 is the dominant cause of the recent warming? First, CO2 absorbs infrared radiation, so there is a good physical reason it should warm climate. This was the basis of Arrhenius’ work in the late 19th century. Second, CO2 is going up, due to human activities. Just based on that, one should predict that the climate SHOULD be warming. Indeed, the climate is warming, about as much as our theories indicate. So that makes a pretty strong case that CO2 is the cause, but there’s more: there’re no other explanations for the warming that explain anywhere near as much as CO2. If you did manage to come up with an alternate explanation, then you’d still have to explain why CO2 is NOT the cause. After all, we have good physical reasons why CO2 should be causing the warming. But whatever mechanism you invoke to cancel out warming from CO2 also has to NOT cancel out the alternate explanation. At some point, everyone who’s looked carefully at the physics concludes that the only logical explanation is CO2.
Andrew Dessler
Seniors living in single family homes should care deeply about walkability and slowing down our streets. Their life may depend on it.
Christina Morrison @StinaMo
The two polar vortex winters of 2013-14 and 2014-15 were aberrations in a long term warming trend. Last 12 months were record warm in Northeast.
Eric Holthaus
Every day, twice a day, my kids and I dodge SUVs and exhaust fumes on our walk to school. If we can ban the peanut, we can fix this madness.
Chris Bruntlett @modacitylife
I wonder how many annual car trips a new urban grocery store eliminates. The Target [in the Minneapolis neighborhood called Dinkytown, near the University of Minnesota] has to be thousands.
Nick Magrino
hey: residential development in cities barely generates car traffic. a 1 story Walgreen's generates more car trips than 50 stories of condos
Nick Magrino
charm is the opposite of parking
Christina Morrison @StinaMo
Designing our road network for the brief spike [of morning rush hour] is expensive as all hell. Employers don't do enough to help spread out the driver tidal wave.
Anondson @xeoth
NYC spent ~$50m last year arresting people for fare evasion. Would be cheaper to give all those arrested free year-round Metrocards.
Colin Kinniburgh
It is profoundly unfair to force people to buy a car to be economically viable.
Steve Mouzon
How can the phrase "Black Lives Matter" be inherently anti-police unless we also agree that policing institutions are inherently anti-black?And that's not even including the tweets that specifically responded Steve King’s racist statements about “other people’s babies” (and there were already a bunch of others in an earlier post):
Bree Newsome
I'm disgusted by the exploitation of trans people's experiences so that white folks can disavow their whiteness (but not white privilege). Whites remain the ones in power to suss out "true race," which racial categories are possible (or not). Whites dictate race, still. If this "trans-racial" thing catches on, it will be because white folks demand it — not people of color.
EricAnthonyGrollman (responding to the Rachel Dolezal story and claims by some that her situation is comparable to that of trans people)
One of these men murdered 10M Europeans the other murdered 15M Africans. We were only taught about one. Why?
Crystal Johnson
That's for 14 years of back payment to NATO. Can't wait till somebody hands Trump the bill for 400 years of segregation and slavery.
Will Saletan (in response to the news Trump handed Angela Merkel a bill for £300bn to pay for past NATO defense)
I find it very odd when the U.S. is compared to other nations and portrayed as a society that "values diversity.” The reality is that the majority population in the U.S. has proven to be highly resistant to racial and ethnic equality for *centuries*. At most, you could say the U.S. superficially values diversity—as long as it doesn't challenge political and socio-economic white supremacy. Black and brown individuals are not existentially threatening to most whites—as long as they remain in a subordinate *group* position. History shows that even virulent racists can tolerate a few non-white individuals in "high positions" if they accommodate white supremacy.
@alwaystheself
If only people cared as much about addressing racist, oppressive behavior as they do about their fear of being labeled a racist.
Gabrielle Union
People of color have faced existential and economic crises for all of American history and have managed to not become Nazis.
Vann R. Newkirk @fivefifths
Fannie Lou Hamer: "Black people know what white people mean when they say 'law and order.'"
Melina Abdullah @DocMellyMel
I don't hate white people as such. I hate Whiteness: the idea that there's a racial hierarchy placing whites on top and blacks at bottom.
Son of Baldwin
Really struck by the fact that Kaepernick's ongoing silent, peaceful protest was deeply, rage-inducingly unacceptable to white America.
Actually, @eaton
if only the world cared for black women as much as black women care for the world.
Brittany Packnett
"Africans sold their own people into slavery." So did Europeans, back in the day, only it wasn't called that. (Please read about feudalism.)
Ebony Elizabeth
The complicated truth is that even those who are advocates for racial justice can harbor profound racial prejudice in their hearts. It is fully possible that someone can fight to end mass incarceration, but also not want your child to attend the same school as theirs. Racism is complicated and nefarious. People can do good work to fight against it and still participate in it every day.
Clint Smith
Listening to the grievances of racists means there may be some middle ground to work with. Listening to racist anger asks me to participate in my own destruction. And fuck you very much with all that
Keep It Surly @surlyurbanist
One thing I have learned over the last year — and that I should have known — is not everyone sees racism as dangerous. Oh, they think racism is impolite and ignorant and indicative of bad morals. But that's the extent of it. Racism as a character flaw. They don't see racism—from casual racism to endorsement of racist ideas—as a *threat*. Something dangerous to one's life and livelihood. Nor can they see how racism has little to do with ignorance. How it is an ideology that seeks to justify itself, not a cognitive error. Anyway, that's how we get this world where folks make excuses for people who defend and enable racism. They just don't see it as that bad.
Jamelle Bouie
"Racism is used to divide us" (which is true but not the whole truth) should be directed at racist white people and that's it.
David Kaib
I'm not really going to rehash who elected Trump or how. But racists being angry that people think they're racist is racists' brand. And it takes some serious hubris to tell black voters they should care about racists' anger and not the racism.
@tressiemcphd
Most white people aren't taught to hate Minorities. But I do think they're subtly trained by media and family to think they're better than us.
Hari Kondabolu
A black man born to apartheid USA creates an art form and lives to 90. Yes, he won.
@tressiemcphd (commenting on the death of Chuck Berry)
Whiteness is considered the *absence* of race in the American context (a state of neutral, "normal" racelessness).
wikipedia brown @eveewing
The class wars inside Black communities are complicated, but we know we can backslide in a generation. White people seem unprepared. So many back a system where illness can bankrupt them, vote for politicians that promise to gut safety nets because they think they're safe. And sure, white America often thinks it is a nation of temporarily embarrassed millionaires. But the rest of America has been here.
Mikki Kendall
A key way racism works is that black people must always be excluded from "taxpayer." I pay more taxes than probably most people ever.
@tressiemcphd
All it takes is a Democratic governor in some of these states and you can push back felon disenfranchisement and change the electorate. End felon disenfranchisement in Florida and the state literally gains hundreds of thousands of eligible black voters.
Jamelle Bouie
This would be huge. Florida disenfranchises 1 in 10, more than any state, including 1 in 5 black adults. ~88% have fully served their sentences
Stephen Wolf (in response to news that the Florida Supreme Court was considering an end to permanent felon disenfranchisement)
I can't get enough of these stories about middle and upper class white guys who are bitter they're only well-off and not incredibly wealthy. Meanwhile, that bitterness festers into an all-out war on the poor and minorities as they try and chase that wealth.
Jared Yates Sexton
"If I fall, I will fall five-feet four-inches forward in the fight for freedom." Civil Rights icon Fannie Lou Hamer died on this day in 1977.
Philip Lewis
You can't sit back and claim this is "about mass immigration and cultural dilution and not race" when jazz is considered "outside.”
@FoldableHuman
here's what it means to be adopted and nonwhite in this country: you become a symbol of white America's generosity. your life and your experience is leveraged to represent whatever they want. because you're the "good," hand-picked-by-white-people person of color.
Nicole Chung
Why should people of color listen to scientific racism? Why should we be civil in the face of arguments that negate our right to exist?
Ebony Elizabeth @Ebonyteach
The sad truth is that a book like Hillbilly Elegy appeals to people who might empathize with poor people but really want to keep their money. Why support the social safety net if you're only going to reinforce a "culture of helplessness”? It's a portrait of a guy's escape from poverty, a good story, but it's extrapolated into a one-size-fits-all narrative that indicts the poor.
Jared Yates Sexton
White people don't like being called "white people." It's like they're upset that their whiteness isn't an invisible power.
Hari Kondabolu
“For every 100 Black women not in jail, there are only 83 Black men.” This gap, driven mostly by incarceration and early death, barely exists for whites.
@monaeltahawy
And I've met the 83. They mostly all have PTSD because of what happened to the other 17.
@tressiemcphd
It was a waste of time chasing Reagan Democrats and NASCAR Dads. It's always a waste of time chasing white resentment. Fight voter suppression.
Doc McStabby @eclecticbrotha
In a city where black people represent 5% of population but 39% of people booked into jail, a jury of their peers is myth.
Joel D. Anderson
Given these statistics, it should be a requirement that trials involving a black defendant have at least one black juror.
Samuel Sinyangwe
Going through the archives and kind of amazed/horrified by how often politicians refer to "plantation politics" when talking about black people.
Leah Wright Rigueur
Black feminism is not a reactionary project. It is not here merely for checking white women. Black feminism is about building the world we want.
Brittney Cooper @ProfessorCrunk
The myth of a majority white world makes some of you think diversity looks like tokenism. Nope. White people aren't the majority.
Mikki Kendall
*whispers* just about every "market based solution" to societal ills is coded re-segregation
Vann R. Newkirk II@fivefifths
[White people voted] for Bull Connor and claimed they aren't racist but he just makes them feel safer by maintaining segregation. What people oftentimes forget about hate is that it doesn't come in the form of "whites only" signs anymore, but rather in rhetoric about nationalism and tradition, which is basically code for, "Hey remember when white men didn't have to compete with everyone else to advance in society?" And the funny thing is that they're so transparent too, this society constantly tells black and brown kids to work hard, go to school and pull themselves up by their bootstraps despite the fact that this government and white folks robbed our grandparents of the same ability to create and pass down wealth as our white brothers and sisters have. Yet, despite their lecturing black and brown folks on the virtues of responsibility and self-reliance, Trump's whole campaign was about giving a leg up to working class white folks who couldn't bother to get an education and want to hang onto fucking 20th-century jobs that are being automated and becoming outdated.
Black Aziz Ansari
How many who reject Steve King 's racist articulation still embrace the idea that Western Civilization is the pinnacle of human achievement?Then there was education:
Greg Carr @AfricanaCarr
Why is it Congressman King spews hate but Republicans don't censure him, Sen. Warren reads a letter by Coretta Scott King about racism and Republicans silence her?
Robert Reich
Stop inviting White Supremacists to debate their ideology like genocide is just another legitimate position in the "marketplace of ideas.”
Arash Daneshzadeh
In the ugly future when the history of the rebirth of American eugenics is written, it will be titled Someone Else’s Babies.
jelani cobb
These ideas will kill us all. No one is pure enough; all must turn on others to preserve their place in the deadly hierarchy.
MGH @InnerBabysitter
Not to mention the fact that diversity *within* our species is what preserves us from extinction.
Ebony Elizabeth
Came home from watching [the movie] "Get Out" to Steve King’s tweet re: "somebody else's babies." We built this nation by enslaving somebody else's babies.
Joan Walsh
If you want creativity, you have to tolerate some mess.And this month, there were even enough tweets about women to warrant a section:
John Miller @agileschools
lots of people who were born rich and inherited successful businesses regard themselves as particularly intelligent rather than lucky. an underappreciated aspect of public school is it can teach a privileged kid how many smart people there are who just weren't lucky
@AdamSerwer
The dirty truth is that what's known as "achievement" is a synthetic metric that centralizes colonial power and fortifies hierarchy.
Arash Daneshzadeh
My own politics is that everything an upper middle class child takes for granted should be free, for everyone, at whatever cost to the rich.
David Klion
Most inmates are high school dropouts. In California we spend more than $50k/year on inmates for whom we would not spend $10k/year to ensure they had decent schools.
LindaDarling-Hammond @LDH_ed
Way back in 1948, social psychology pioneer Morton Deutsch (1920-2017) found higher levels of achievement when people cooperate than when they compete. Among other reasons, Deutsch discovered that when we compete, our communication tends to be "unreliable and impoverished.”
Alfie Kohn
Again. It seems all ideologies are merely a vehicle for thwarted toxic masculinity.And finally, the best of the rest:
Nesrine Malik (responding to news that the Westminster attacker was a domestic abuser)
yeah, we don't need feminism, but men would rather starve than be treated like women.
lyz lenz
Policies that let women fully participate in the workforce could grow GDP by $600 billion.
Dan Crawford @dpcrawf
32 million voting-age women in the U.S. don't have proof-of-citizenship documents with current legal name. Voter ID is huge burden.
VoteRiders
FACT: Females aged 15 to 44 are more likely to be maimed or killed by men than by malaria, cancer, war or traffic accidents combined.
Peter Daou
"What I see is a society on the verge of collapse," said one of my international colleagues recently. They're not wrong. Either power will be shared, or this nation won't survive. We really are at a "change or die" moment. The crisis is here.
Ebony Elizabeth
I have been trying to talk about everything but politics lately. Not because I'm not paying attention, but some shit shows are unwatchable.
Mikki Kendall
Landmass is red
People are blue
But the electoral college
Gives it all a red hue:
Jed Kolko
On especially monstrous news days, please remember: your primate brain thinks your constant rapt attention will help, but it is lying.
Erin Kissane
Staggering to see the number of people fixated on American "greatness" who see no connection with giving every baby a healthy start.
jelani cobb
I would love to see people write more about the ups and downs of relationships that are still working. People seem kinda starved for it.
Ashley C. Ford
*whispers* rich people will always find a way to feel comparatively poor and over-taxed. it's ok to not feel bad for them
Chelsea Fagan
Unfriendly reminder that you can love a thing and still point out problematic issues in it. Criticism =/= hating a thing by default
@cypheroftyr
Billionaires do nutty things because they equate wealth with intelligence, and think their ideas are inherently superior.
Joe Nocera
The false "liberal scientist" narrative was invented by corporate lobbyists scheming to undermine data by alienating the messengers. Conning people into fearing and blaming others is easier and cheaper than debating facts. That's why the oil lobby strategy works.
Christine Arena
How we phrase a question has a huge effect on the results — my favourite example, from Gerald Ashley:
richard shotton
Key to politics: As long as people remain numbers and not people, destroying their lives can be fun and fulfilling.
5'7 Black Male @absurdistwords
The big trouble with dumb bastards is that they are too dumb to believe there is such a thing as being smart.
Kurt Vonnegut
WHAT IF OPENNESS HAS MADE US CLOSED-MINDED WHAT IF TOLERANCE IS INTOLERANT WHAT IF I SHOVED MY HEAD EVEN FARTHER UP MY ASS
Saladin Ahmed
That feeling when airlines delay dozens of coach passengers from boarding so first class can get its preflight drinks service
David M. Levinson @trnsprtst
I thought the point of learning history was to prevent us from repeating mistakes. However, since we're a nation of C students...HERE WE ARE.
Hari Kondabolu
The greatest threat to America is not foreign terrorists, but domestic imbeciles.
John Fugelsang
Los Angeles County (red) has a larger population than each of the 43 individual states shown in blue:
Mark Abraham @urbandata
I always thought authoritarianism needed leaders who knew what it was. I'm starting to see it's just basic human frailty amplified by power.
Anand Giridharadas
“Any time you have a hierarchical relationship, I suspect that one person is taking from the other.” – Ta-Nehisi Coates
@pattho
If social justice movements were convenient, everybody would be out in these streets. It takes sacrifices and struggle. Always has.
Linda Sarsour
We can't have a Chicago dependent on private donors to run schools. we can't have a Flint that relies on donated bottled water. It's wrong.
wikipedia brown @eveewing
I don't envy small business owners. It is cut-throat world, I get it. But maybe don't be an asshole to your customers.
Father Sonn @mikesonn
Here’s the reality about illegal immigration in the United States:
Eric Lipton
The main issue with the missionary paradigm is that it never has anything to learn and only has something to teach.
Broderick L Greer
Considering that most of my Biblical knowledge comes from Jeopardy clues, my last tweet about Jesus and Pontius Pilate is quite impressive.
Hari Kondabolu
So we get local control of fireworks, but not things to make lives better like sick leave, wages, or even lower speed limits. Thanks, Minnesota Legislature.
@pattho
::sigh:: Might write a story about hospitals as singularities of life energy, sucking it in whether you're sick or not, returning only some.
N. K. Jemisin
How to text:
1 Staring at the keypad, type the name of a Welsh mining village
2 Delete that and retype your message as separate English words
Chris Steller
The at least 2,000-year-old olive tree of Vouves still bears olives. This Crete tree was here when Rome burned in 64 ad Pompeii was buried in 79:
Ticia Verveer
Hate is not a "point of view."
Hari Kondabolu
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