This month is only 30 days long, and I even added the first day of September to my August Twitter post. But still, there were a lot of tweets about you-know-what and -who.
Most recently, there was the first presidential debate, both during and after (and a little bit of the worrying before, listed here in reverse chronological order):
What type of president do Americans want? An unstable insomniac, probably.Not to mention the election generally:
Josh Barro
Trump thinks doing a sex tape makes you disgusting but being a proven sexual harasser like Roger Ailes makes you a friend and top advisor.
Frank Conniff
"Go watch that fat pig's sex tape" – the nominee overwhelmingly supported by Evangelical Christians.
joe mande
At some moment, while we were all still asleep, female weight gain became a plank in the GOP platform.
Jennifer Senior @JenSeniorNY
Oh for fucks sake I really need people to stop:
1. fat-shaming the people who are fat-shaming, and
2. saying “but she isn’t even fat!”
It’s not outrageous that Trump said that shit about Miss Universe because “she wasn’t even fat.” THAT IS MISSING THE POINT. Like, “oh, it’s okay if he says that shit about someone who is ACTUALLY FAT, this is just offensive!” No. Stop it.
Sarah Mackey @sarahjanet
Funny how Trump touts cyber polls where people can vote 15 times, but supports voter suppression laws...
Tony Jordan @twjpdx23
If you're a working person, YOU KNOW THIS GUY. You know a version of this rich cheap prick. And you're going to let him run the country?
Andy Richter
I didn't pay taxes because you would have squandered it:
David Waldman @KagroX
When asked why he doesn't help pay for our military, or taking care of vets, or paying for police, Trump said: “That makes me smart.”
Michael McFaul
How does Donald Trump expect the government to do so much when he thinks that smart people don't pay taxes?
Rainbow Rowell
unable to face a level playing field, apoplectic in the face of facts, full of hurt feelings — Trump is everything he claims the PC crowd is
Saladin Ahmed
Trump denying black folks housing based on race then criticizing the state of the neighborhoods black folks live in is America in a nutshell
@AdamSerwer
Most of us don't realize the extent to which very wealthy people avoid taxes, people whose income comes from financial transactions, not labor. Maybe people think, "Yeah, that's what I'd do if I were rich, keep it all for myself. Fuck taxes." But taxes pay for everything good and necessary! It's working people, paying taxes who make this country great. Not wealthy people who only look out for themselves.
Rainbow Rowell
Complete silence from either candidate about Native people, Native issues, Indian law, Indian summer, Jeep Cherokee #NoDAPL
BigIndianGyasi
Debating while female, in one graphic:
Sarah Kliff
We all have to admit Donald Trump is the Whitest White man to ever White. Dude showed up to a Presidential debate. Wingin' it and confident.
Elon James White
Takeaway from tonight: Reality TV editing can make anyone look good.
Hemant Mehta
Donald Trump may destroy the American experiment in democracy, and god help us all, but history will remember him as a pathetic evil shit.
Tom Tomorrow
whenever trump says "that's not very nice" he sounds exactly like a tv serial killer about to claim a victim
Saladin Ahmed
Take a moment to consider how much money you'd be able to amass if you just didn't pay your bills and then got people to forgive you for it.
Arielle Brousse @thewordunheard
The Trump Look:
Ann Telnaes
Trump runs out of gas pretty quickly when he doesn't have a howling racist mob egging him on.
Chris Dashiell
If Trump wants to make America great again, he should make sure he pays his workers and pays his fair share of taxes.
Steven Greenhouse
Guy who is proud of not paying taxes is mad NATO members aren't paying their fair share.
LOLGOP
I literally think Trump has never had to listen to a woman for this long in his life.
Paul Musgrave @profmusgrave
Trump doesn't have any political experience but he has lots of experience berating women so this debate could be close.
OhNoSheTwitnt
The moderators are begging off of fact-checking Trump at the debate, putting the onus on Hillary. This is setting Hillary up for failure. Trump presents a blizzard of lies. If Hillary fact checks all, she'll have time for nothing else.
Judd Legum
White working-class economic frustration is never not about race. To fall economically is to be drawn closer to black people and blackness.There were enough tweets specifically about Hillary Clinton’s "basket of deplorables" specifically to warrant their own section:
Brent Staples @BrentNYT
The worse Trump gets, the clearer it is that the attraction of him for many is not love of Trump so much as hate for those who hate him. I think Trump's opponents haven't internalized this deeply enough.
Anand Giridharadas @AnandWrites
The worldweary position that criticisms of Trump are worthless unless they change his staunchest supporters' minds is facile and unhelpful. Nothing is going to change their minds. Set them aside. Anything that gets out the vote against him is worthy.
Erin Kissane
I hope Gary Johnson and Jill Stein eventually find the Christopher Guest movie they belong in.
Una LaMarche @sassycurmudgeon
Voting third party is the electoral equivalent of "thoughts and prayers."
almightygod
DonaldTrump's pick for EPA transition chief likes global warming because 'people die in blizzards.'
Bill McKibben
Trump is such a weird combination of bully and crybaby.
Robert Wright
A challenge for the left: to pay heed to kernels of genuine anti-globalism and anti-neoliberalism on the vast, often-racist cob of Trumpist anger.
Anand Giridharadas @AnandWrites
Can't decide between the racist promising WW3 and the person who used home email at work? Maybe voting is too hard for you.
almightygod
Let us remember that if Donald Trump had not been born into massive wealth and power, he would essentially be unemployable.
Jason Pinter
The repudiation of alt-right racism by keeping deranged lunatic bigot Donald Trump out of office is America's greatest test since Jim Crow.
Bill Madden @activist360
Trump hasn't created a "resurgence of racism," he's just given white folks the permission to be unapologetic about it.
Broderick Greer
Don't vote to "send a message." It won't be heard. Cast a vote for the candidate who will best advance equality, justice and climate change.
George Takei
Does anyone have any doubt that Trump would view the Presidency primarily as a way to enrich himself?
Christopher Hayes
How weak do you have to be to think Donald Trump is strong?
Hemant Mehta
"I am sorry. I was wrong. I will learn more and do better." Such powerful words and yet, so rarely used.
Jess @JessLif
Political correctness imposes the greatest constraints on odious people, so those who complain loudest have the weakest case against it
Josh Barro
I hate this election with a burning passion that is also full of dread and exhaustion.
Tom Tomorrow
Maybe Trump is afraid to say he believes Obama was born in the U.S. because the next question will be "what changed your mind?" There is no way for Trump to say he's no longer a birther without implicitly admitting to being a moron. There is really no good answer to "what changed your mind?" The long form birth certificate? Which he continued to question for years?
Josh Barro
Trump calls those who turn other cheek "fools." He is for revenge, says making others miserable makes him happy.
David Cay Johnston
Art inside the Trump/Pence headquarters at Trump Tower in NYC:
Ines de La Cuetara @InesdLC
Trump promising to end regulations of "food production hygiene" and "inspection overkill" doesn't seem politically (or substantively) wise. He risks illustrating something important: "regulation" in the abstract is expensive and annoying, but specific regulations serve purposes.
Josh Barro
Gary Johnson's wild popularity with under-30s should reduce one's confidence that the Bernie people were ideologically committed socialists.
Matthew Yglesias
Donald Trump: "So many of my friends who are black say, 'You are the least racist person.'"
Yamiche Alcindor (New York Times reporter)
To which Alex Burns, also from the New York Times, responded:
Trying hard to imagine the circumstances where a black person would say this to a white person they're friends with.
Trump has privately held companies. He can set policy. None of Trump's companies offer paid maternity leave as he now proposes. #AreYouKidding
stuart stevens
Mike Pence, who said discrimination against LGBT people ought to be legal, just condemned Clinton for treating people with "contempt."
Hemant Mehta
My theory is that Trump envies and admires Putin's success as a kleptocrat.
Tom Tomorrow
Washington Post: How will history judge America if it elects a madman because his opponent used work email at home?
Nicholas Thompson @nxthompson
If in 2008, Senator Barack Obama had praised Putin as a better President than the American, Republicans would have demanded he quit race.
stuart stevens
Just a reminder: In 2003 the Dixie Chicks were boycotted and crucified for saying they were ashamed of President Bush.
Maggie Jordan @MaggieJordanACN
"Lord, give me the confidence of a mediocre white man." – Sarah Hagi
@sualbu
I don't know who democrats are appealing to when they lift Reagan up as an example of a great presidency but it surely ain't me.
Bree Newsome
Gary Johnson is guileless. In a way, it's refreshing. But I think we want a president with at least a little guile.
Josh Barro
Fine, it's better to be honest when ignorant than lie, but it's even better to not run for president if you don't know what Aleppo is.
Kelsey D. Atherton
NBC News Commander in Chief Forum. How Trump answers in 3 steps:
1. repeat the problem,
2. criticize someone,
3. state no plan.
Lauren Victoria @LVBurke
One of the things that's really striking about Trump is the utter lack of acknowledgement of trade-offs or that any decisions are hard.
Christopher Hayes
What Bill Clinton did post-presidency isn't illegal, it's very DC-business-as-usual. But that business-as-usual is what voters hate.
amy walter
This is the year the media taught us that racism, sexism, and homophobia aren't as bad as charitable foundations and private email servers.
Frank Conniff
Third parties exist to flatter people. We should stop pretending it's a replacement for the boring work and hard compromise of actual elections.
Clay Shirky
Sure, Trump is authoritarian racist, but the Clintons have a foundation that provides health care to AIDS patients, so they're the same.
Ian Millhiser
Christians shaming Clinton for her husband's actions are the same people who say divorce is bad. Pick a lane. You can't say divorce is bad and that Trump is the candidate of morals without looking like a fool.
lyz lenz
"Every critic, every detractor, will have to bow down to President Trump.” [Said by] his African American outreach director. Americans don't bow to presidents.
David Cay Johnston
To him,"sexually undesirable" is the worst thing a woman can be. Every woman he wars with is "ugly" or "fat" or "look at that face.” Whereas the way he compliments *his own daughter* is to say she's hot and he'd date her.
jtlevy
Don't tell me "gender isn't a factor" when Hillary Clinton is more despised for being cheated on than Trump is despised for cheating.
Rachel Held Evans
Trump has no real talent in making money. His talent is all in borrowing and spending it.
Josh Greenman
Trump gambled that GOP politicians would value their own ambition over his heresies, insults, and outrages. He won the gamble.
Yoni Appelbaum
Does it really not matter that the Republican candidate is relying on advice from man accused of harassing female employees over decades?
Rebecca Traister
Reading polls about Clinton is revealing; she wins on all substantive measures, but people have "doubts." This is how job discrimination works
Darren Hutchinson @dissentingj
So I don't know about you guys, but I genuinely resent all the time I've had to spend thinking about Mr. Trump. I'm thinking we've got a class action lawsuit here, for intentional emotional distress on a mass scale. Who's with me?
Tom Tomorrow
Trump's strategy to lie faster than the media can fact check was pioneered by Joseph McCarthy. And it hasn't stopped working.
jelani cobb
I think people are over-thinking why Trump is competitive. He's the GOP nominee and he's winning about 90% of Republicans. That makes you competitive! If you win a major party's nomination you've got a good shot to be president!
Christopher Hayes
It’s also difficult to see folk who’ve scarcely conceded racism’s deformative power now rush to discuss the additional “nuances” of Trumpism.
jelani cobb
Trump's only policies:
1. Build a wall and deport all Latinos
2. Ban all Muslims
3. Stop and frisk every Black person in public.
Marcus Hassan @smoothkobra
Jamelle Bouie replied:
It's almost as if Trump's core message is that nonwhites are inherently suspect and dangerous.
One big problem with Russ Douthat's column is it conflates two separate discourses about political correctness (Trump's and academic). If you listen to Trump's speeches (which you should do!), when he says PC he doesn't mean trigger warnings of liberal cable news shows. By political correctness Trump means the end of Christian cultural hegemony (Happy Holidays!) and respect for human rights (no waterboarding).
Jeet Heer
Is there any meaning left to one person, one vote when a billionaire donates $100 million in a campaign cycle?
Steven Greenhouse
As a kid, I used to wonder how people would ever allow Fascism to take over. Then, I grew up and started watching and learning.
Johnny Argent
I found Reagan's mythical Welfare Queen! It's Donald Trump:
Tim De Chant
Bree Newsome responded:
It happens exactly like it's happening right now. Economic anxiety + public hysteria + cultural scapegoating + weakened press
The Trump kids would last about 19 seconds in Willy Wonka's chocolate factory.
Scott Weinberg
Wait. What percent of <gun owners/Syrian refugees> pose a mortal threat to Americans? What percent makes it sensible to ban <guns/refugees>?
Joseph Nathan Cohen
I get so freaked out about this election sometimes, and then I remember how thoroughly black and brown women get shit done. (And then I scream into a bag, send money to support get out the vote, and get back to work.)
Erin Kissane
Most of what Trump says boils down to "I would act the role of President well. I'd make President sounds. You would think 'He's President.'"
Mark Harris
If you are investing writing and ink in trying to make racists that are "nice" not deplorable, you're missing the point about racism.I look forward to the day when I don't have to include a section on Black Lives Matter, racism, and the killings of unarmed black people (this month, the killings were in Charlotte and Tulsa... oh yes, and San Diego this week, too), but this is not the month. This section also covers the quiet protests of the Star Spangled Banner inspired by Colin Kaepernick:
ProfB @AntheaButler
There are obviously some deplorable views that society views as automatically disqualifying. That people don't think racism is one is telling.
Vann R. Newkirk II @fivefifths
It's pretty simple. If you aren't deplorable, she isn't talking about you. Are you mad for your deplorable friends or something?
christine teigen
What an election year. The anti-PC crowd are triggered and suddenly want a safe space.
Keith White @keethers
Tell me we’re smart enough not to get into a debate about whether calling someone a bigot is more bigoted than actual bigotry. Please.
Jamil Smith
funny how these 'no filter' dudes never respond to militant feminists with SHE MIGHT BE OUTRAGEOUS BUT AT LEAST SHE SAYS WHAT'S ON HER MIND. NO SPIN! NO SUGARCOATING! but when I post harsh things about America these dudes don't admire my lack of filter, they call me a sand nigger
Saladin Ahmed
Deplorables on police brutality:
meh, there's always a few bad apples BLUE LIVES MATTER
On refugees:
it only takes one BAN THEM ALL
Tony Webster
Twisteth this not: White people – and almost no one else – are voting for Donald Trump. This is a racial issue.
Broderick Greer
Wow:There was a good grouping of tweets about the environment and climate change:
Dave Zirin @EdgeofSports
Shoutout to the non-Black people on Facebook writing heartfelt paragraphs for non-adopted dogs but being silent on Black deaths. Truly amazing.
Ivie Okechukwu-Ani @ivieani
"the officer discharged his firearm" is the most disgusting rhetorical term.
Linda Tirado @KillerMartinis
Even when structural racism is acknowledged, its ambiguity and enormity frighten us out of action.
Rich Benjamin @RichBenjaminUSA
White folks be like: It's people like you who keep the races divided. But that falsely presumes this country was ever united in the first place.
Stacey Patton
Haven't seen a photo or sign that sums up this country's policing crisis any better than this:
Dave Zirin @EdgeofSports
Racial justice isn't a zero-sum game: white communities don't have to be deprived of rights & resources to equalize communities of color.
Stacey Patton
The paradox runs deep in the U.S.: the man who wrote "all men are created equal" also owned 607 people.
Christine Folch
"Not seeing color" isn't the answer! My color isn't a problem, being treated differently because of it is.
bevysmith
2016: 70% whites disagree with Kaepernick's stance
1966: 85% whites think civil rights movement "hurts the negro"
Christopher Petrella
"What is the alternative? We do the work because we have to." —Melissa Harris Perry on facing crushing systems of oppression.
Sasanka Jinadasa @lankanfeminist
interesting how uncomfortable conservatives get when you start talking about racism in the United States. I mean, if you think racism is over and we should all just get along, why do you feel the need to silence those who disagree?
ProfB @AntheaButler
For racists, the definition of reverse racism is having to treat people of color fairly and with respect to the point where it feels uncomfortable.
Stacey Patton
I swear people talk about MLK like he died in his sleep at a kindly old age.
Jemele Hill
If you care more about the flag than the freedom it represents, you're missing the point of America.
Rainbow Rowell
The effects of racism on the lives of black people are material and measurable and it needn't be powered by any explicit, verbalized animus.
Gene Demby
The longer I go, the more I realize: the biggest obstacle for white people with racism is realizing it's not just a personal failing.
Andrew Lipsett
My freedoms depend on dissenters and protestors, not soldiers.
David Kaib
Apparently fighting against America should be celebrated, but peacefully protesting shouldn't:
Black Aziz Ansari @Freeyourmindkid
if the anthem requires compulsory observance, doesn't that cheapen the supposed patriotism underlying standing for it?
Gene Demby
All the anger at Kaepernick is easy to grasp once you understand that many people do not believe blacks face any particular disadvantage.
Jamelle Bouie
What's in the best interest of young black people is at odds with the established socioeconomic power structure of the USA
Bree Newsome
You'll be surprised at how many companies/institutions/ politicians still benefit from the profits of slavery. Lloyds Bank, founded in 1688, insured many of the trading fleets in the transatlantic chattel slavery. I don't see Lloyds going bankrupt. If Swiss banks paid £680 million in settlements to the victims of the Nazis, why is Lloyd's not doing the same for the victims of chattel slavery?
Kamil_Kamikazi @TheKamikazi
White supremacy isn't cops violently manhandling black girls in school.
It's that doing so is perfectly legal
5'7 Black Male @absurdistwords
Protip: lust for Black bodies is not pro-Black. It does not help our liberation. It has often, in fact, been used to further enslave us.
Phillip Atiba Goff
On Colin Kaepernick: "I wish that my country didn't demand fidelity; I wish that it would instead, earn it." – Melissa Harris Perry
Sarah Colome
Every time I hear "Why isn't there a white [version of this People of Color thing]," it really means "How dare you have anything. Anything at all. Ever."
N. K. Jemisin
When you think about structural racism as an imbalance of risks along racial lines, everything makes sense
Vann R. Newkirk II @fivefifths
Poisoning Native water is a basic humanity issue. Police killing black folk is a basic humanity issue. You don't treat humans like that.
BigIndianGyasi
The Charlotte protests aren't black people against whites. They're black, white and brown people against systemic violence.
Steven Greenhouse
America you are f*cking testing my patience. I'm sick of your fearful, incompetent racist policing and the excuses and bold-faced lies. You kill us with impunity and expect us to kiss your weak a$$ fear and bolster you up by pretending you're better than us. Insanity. Let me be clear. This nation will implode if police don't get a grip. How long can this go on without a reckoning? Look, the thing you fear most, white people, is black folks exacting judgment for your evils against us. Keep fueling the racism and hate... You may reap what you've sown. And don't come into my timeline with "not all white people" BS. I know that, I teach the civil rights movement. I want you all to understand this constant loop of Black Death is not going to make your streets safer. I want you to understand that we can't stand for a flag that has choked us, disrespected us and killed our dreams to honor yours. Most importantly I don't love your white nationalist Jesus. Your patriotism and false Christianity hides the hate you have for my people. Your fear and weakness are killing generations of Black people. Get a damn grip.
ProfB @AntheaButler
If they don't want to speak out against police violence? Vote 'em out. Not an election year? Keep score. Don't forget.
BigIndianGyasi
Racists view anti-racism as anti-white people... because they're racist. That's why they call whites who do anti-racism work "race traitors"
Bree Newsome
Dr. King literally sat in jail and wrote an entire letter expressing disappointment in the very white people who now quote him out of context.
Clint Smith @ClintSmithIII
we have to destroy a system that normalizes sending SWAT teams to deal with petty warrants and uses the police to terrorize. [Referring to Korryn Gaines, killed by police in her own home in Baltimore]
profloumoore
I don't subscribe to the "bad apples" theory, but the difference is telling. Teacher unions are targeted, police unions are protected.
Brian Jones @brainyandbrawny
Again, slavery never ended. Codified in 13th Amendment, it has evolved into the prison industrial complex. Police brutality is one part of it. What we have today isn't chattel slavery, of course, but it's actually a more evolved, efficient system of political and economic control.
Bree Newsome
Police are employees, can be demoted, fired, etc. If their employers wanted them to stop killing black people, they could make them stop.
Brian Jones @brainyandbrawny
being black and living in a constant state of grief and anger is confusing and hard. it's difficult not to just numb yourself to it all
is that nut? @jadaaaolsen
White people, your fear of black people is going to destroy us all. Think about it. Change. #TerranceCrutcher [killed in Tulsa]
ProfB @AntheaButler
Every time one of these police killings happen without consequence, it is not simply giving sanction, it is *encouraging* officers to repeat.
Imani Perry
I have a collection of parody Don't Tread On Me flags I've saved from the Internet:
Smol and Sweet @Blueloid
Planning a post-petroleum world doesn't meanAnd even more about sustainable, livable cities and pedestrian safety:
1) we rid ourselves of all oil usages ASAP or
2) there aren't good uses. It means "planning."
BigIndianGyasi
18 months ago, we cheered when solar broke below 6 cents/kwh. Today a new record: 2.42 cents/kwh, and still falling.
Bill McKibben
Food waste and too much protein (especially animal) are the key issues facing the world's food system. Not yields.
Jon Foley
Exxon = Philip Morris, except that instead of taking people out one by one they do it a planet at a time.
Bill McKibben
Cars or biosphere. Choose. Now.
Free Public Transit
40% of food wasted globally. 75% of agricultural land devoted to feeding animals. – Jonathan Foley
Ensia @ensiamedia
Americans are nice people. If they knew people are being killed to support their car-dependent life, they would be upset.
Free Public Transit
Environmental racism is affordable public housing policy dictating buildings being built next to toxic waste sites. Environmental racism is when Nestle gets priority on profiting off of water systems but rainwater catchment is deemed illegal.
Someone, Somewhere @CapobiaNB
Stop signs are a requirement brought on by cars, not needed by bikes.This time, I am combining tweets about children with tweets about rethinking schools:
Erik Griswold
It is a mainstream opinion to think government has no business feeding hungry children yet has a social mission to provide adults with parking.
Rik Adamski
kids can't play outside because of the miniscule chance they'll be kidnapped. at age 16 they get keys to a 2000-pound machine powered by fire
Josh Fruhlinger
Abolishing cars is the lowest hanging fruit for degrowth. Ask leaders why they're so quiet on this.
Free Public Transit
[I saw] multiple options of good public transit in Warsaw. People who use cars spend 25% of income in mobility. Non-car: 5%
Gil Penalosa
Billions of words have been written to support capitalism. Basically, they add up to "stealing is ok."
Free Public Transit
I don't know, maybe don't drive a SUV the size of a small bus around in urban areas or speed and you wouldn't need 14' lanes. *shrug*
mike @mikesonn
People aren't going to stop using their phones, so the only real solution is to have them stop using their cars.
William Lindeke
It is amazing the things you see if you sit at an intersection for 2 hours. I wish we could get Public Works and elected officials to do it.
mike @mikesonn
Pipelines will stop when there are too few customers, not before.
Free Public Transit
Density is the natural progression of cities, not single family homes. So it actually takes a vast government system to build/maintain/subsidize single family homes.
mike @mikesonn
"It continues to amaze me that we view 38,000 deaths every year as merely 'the cost of doing business.'"
Strong Towns
Focus on the most vulnerable citizens: Children, Older Adults, Poor. Equity. Prioritize PUBLIC space.
Gil Penalosa
Sidewalks are a symbol of [the quality of] our democracy" – Gil Penalosa
AntonioGomez-Palacio @aurbanist
Ten garbage trucks have come down my little street already this morning. Ten. This represents freedom to some people.
Matt Becker
self-explanatory:
William Lindeke
How to get kids to walk and bike? Get parents to walk and bike. Lead by example. If possible, do it through parks, health.
Gil Penalosa
When I am in most suburbs, I spend most of my time reflecting on how depressing they are for anyone outside of a vehicle.
la flaneuse
Conservative Americans think they are voting for "values." They are. The values are: racism and slavery to the car.
Free Public Transit
1st generation smart transportation thinking knows streets move people, not just cars. 2nd generation thinking knows streets do much more than move people.
Brent Toderian
Owning a home doesn't entitle you to free on-street parking any more than renting does and neither does paying car registration fees.
Second Ave. Sagas @2AvSagas
“Nobody goes to a city because it has great highways.” Tourism is pedestrian. People walk, have a cappuccino, walk, wine, walk...
Gil Penalosa
Bike infrastructure is already there. It was stolen by cars. Let's take it back.
Free Public Transit
Cities would move forward much faster if they spent less money on studies and more on DOING. Usually more studies are a way of delaying decision.
Gil Penalosa
Jane Jacobs rejected modernist visions of the city, arguing that they get better as they get messier, more chaotic and more human.
jennifer keesmaat
“Reflection journals” to encourage “metacognition”??? If you were TRYING to make young people hate their lives, you’d invent that.And finally, there are the best of the rest:
Carol Black @cblack__
Yes, the most compliant kids often get rewarded the most. Funny, though, because compliance rarely named as great leadership trait.
mitch center
Everyone wants to express themselves; they only despise writing when they aren't allowed to do that honestly.
Roger Schank
Why are people blind to this? School works pretty well for 1/3, it's "eh" for 1/3, and it's incredibly destructive for 1/3. That's not OK.
Carol Black @cblack__
Where is the justice when a quarter of children live in poverty and many more go hungry in the richest country in the history of the world?
Nikhil Goyal
I believe that public education means that it is public—not for sale—and education—the whole child, music and sports too.
Zephyr Teachout
Chicago laid off 500+ teachers this summer and now plans to hire 500 cops in the next two years. This ain't what the city needs.
jewels @YungJeanRalphio
Sports:
Ryan Dow
Spanking isn't just a private act between parent and child. It's a social experience where parents are complicit in perpetuating community violence.
Stacey Patton
Meg Murray [from A Wrinkle in Time]: Patron Saint of Awkward, Angry, Non-Femmy, Nerdy Little Girls.
Maggie Koerth-Baker
The belief that teenagers are intrinsically rebellious and unstable is EXACTLY equivalent to the belief that women are naturally “hysterical.”
Carol Black @cblack__
It's important to understand that high stakes testing is a combination of federal overreach and billionaires who want to privatize public education.
Zephyr Teachout
I take some comfort knowing that no girl or boy today would consider looking at a magazine:
Chris Steller
Our assessment of the risk of leaving a child alone is colored by (our moral judgment of) the REASON s/he's left alone.
Alfie Kohn
The thing about eugenics is that its biggest adherents are always the poorest arguments for genetic superiority
Adam Weinstein
"Government is so wasteful!"
"Why not work for the government and help fix it?"
"Are you kidding? The salaries are awful."
Matthew Burton
Curiosity dies when you understand something. Unfortunately, also when you FALSELY believe you understand. While that's when you need it most.
Ola Rosling
Nearly all digital media jobs require journalists to move to three of the most expensive cities in the U.S. Self-defeating business strategy.
Sarah Kendzior
People who aren't well-read often fail to realize that anyone can find any book that will support their own argument.
the ratchet preacher @msbond2u
Oh, hell yes:
Tiff Fehr
I find it so interesting that funders, elites etc... do not ask for *evaluation* from prisons, police and surveillance. They shovel $$ there
#FreeBresha @prisonculture
The decline in teen births is an incredible public health trend. Imagine obesity went down 50% in seven years. That's what's happening here.
Sarah Kliff
I have such a love-hate relationship with yoga. Stop telling me about breathing in glowing light and just show me how to bend! I need yoga for sarcastic people. They’re always so EARNEST.
Sarah Mackey @sarahjanet
Today I helped a woman in Peoria find her lost car keys. 4,286 kids starved to death while I was occupied with that.
almightygod
Gonna hear a lot about crime stats today. Specifically, murder, rape, and aggravated assaults are all up since 2014. Here's the thing... Every one of them is lower than 2008. And most of the rise is attributable to 5 to 7 cities. Doesn't mean they don't matter, but the increase is not historic. Our relative level of safety, however, is. During the Presidential debate, remember: Violent crime is DOWN since Obama. The new 2015 stats deserve our attention—but not our fear.
Phillip Atiba Goff
Teachers and police are unfairly tasked to fix social ills they did not produce: poverty, homelessness, malnutrition, mental illness.
Nikhil Goyal
‘Why do so many churches have statues of jesus dying? they should show him, like, playing on the monkey bars.'
SIX YEAR OLDS ARE EXCELLENT
Saladin Ahmed
People pretending to be better than they are is what holds society together.
Josh Barro
"Economics failed us with slavery, child labor, trashing the planet, etc. That's why we need ethics training, too." – Jonathan Foley
Todd Reubold
If a man tells you obvious lies, it means he thinks you're an idiot. If you believe him, you are an idiot.
Josh Barro
The Periodic Table of Elements Scaled to Show The Elements’ Actual Abundance on Earth:
Ninja Economics
News = events (usually bad), not trends (sometimes good), so readers miss the major positives, e.g. the decline in global poverty,
Steven Pinker
Bemoaning the loss of "areas once considered relatively apolitical" is basically a plea for safe spaces for conservatives.
Gabriel Snyder
I had a professor who instructed us to immediately disregard anything attributed to the ambiguous "They," as well as the person saying it.
jelani cobb
I get irrationally angry whenever I see "penned" used to mean "wrote."
Josh Barro
Imagine a world where more girls wanted to be President than Princess.
HigherHeights
THE ONLY POORLY VETTED YOUNG MALES WHO SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO RANDOMLY KILL AMERICANS ARE WHITE MEN WITH ASSAULT RIFLES!
Saladin Ahmed
We give terrorists power by pretending they're not mostly chancers and jerkoffs.
a bad idiot @markclapham
terror alerts are useful because they stoke the fear of manipulable chickenshits AND allow macho racists to feel like terror cops on the hunt. meanwhile, the things that are actually killing americans in real numbers all get commercials instead of terror alerts
Saladin Ahmed
One lonely bra at clothing swap, who brought, who tries, who tells your story?
Aparna Nancherla
Avocado: not ripe
Avocado: not ripe
Avocado: not ripe
Avocado: I'M RIPE NOW
Avocado: okay you were in the bathroom so I rotted
Elspeth @elspetheastman
"Just deserts" theory can be seen as very naive because it presupposes there is a general agreement on who owns what.
Branko Milanovic
It is now easier to carry a gun than vote in Missouri. —Denise Lieberman
Judith Browne Dianis
Standardization and surveillance, the enemies of happiness. True of doctors. True of all professions.
John Warner @biblioracle
I wish people better understood how much oppression is killing people. Slowly but literally.
northern transplant @colocha_rachel
White people can’t ever let go of 9/11, a single day in our history, but want you to get over 300 years of racial oppression lol
elexus jionde @Lexual__
The Wall Street Journal publishing an op-ed by Dick Cheney on 9/11 is like the Post Office issuing a Unabomber stamp.
Frank Conniff
Matt Levine on Wells Fargo [fined because it employees were creating fake customer accounts in order to meet quotas] is delish:
1. You get what you measure.
2. The thing that you measure will be gamed.
Matt Cutts
One reason everybody is watching your videos with the captions on is because we would have preferred to just read the story.
A. Dash @anildash
By far, the greatest way Americans are less safe since 9/11, is the 24% suicide rate increase between 2002 and 2015.
Micah Zenko
If you build big, universal social programs, you create constituencies that will defend them.
Bhaskar Sunkara @sunraysunray
America should have a Congress that is responsive to people, not big donors. People get that. We CAN change the way we fund elections.
Zephyr Teachout
I don't hate men. I want them to be better humans.
science lab ready @blowticious
There's really only one test for a journalist or newsroom. How committed are they to describing reality, as best they understand it?
Nate Silver
Maybe I’ll have a gender reveal party where we open a box of “gender is a social construct that can’t be determined by ultrasound” balloons.
Sarah Mackey @sarahjanet
Over the past decade, cities have adopted more criminal justice reform, while rural areas stuck with failing approaches from DAs and judges.
Piper Kerman
Inclusion is important. It doesn't start with more panels about it. It starts with paying people from marginalized communities for the work.
Mikki Kendall @Karnythia
Among many other things, the fight against the Dakota pipeline is inspiring powerful art #NoDAPL:
Bill McKibben
Police departments and unions want to hide the ugly truth of police officers who see coerced sex as a "benefit" of job.
Barbara Arnwine @barbs73
Wishing all the hateful people would talk amongst themselves and get out my timeline. I don't want to be in the way when God strikes at them,
Judith Browne Dianis
You didn't know what you know today, two years ago. If more people remembered that, we'd all be more generous to each other.
#FreeBresha @prisonculture
The aranha-flor flower spider is incredible!
Strange Animals (Photo: Geoff Gallice)
It sickens me every time prison rape is used as a punchline in entertainment and media.
Doc Sportello @dogstar7tweets
Unlike a solid, a liquid has a readiness to flow and no fixed shape. It therefore takes on the shape of any container:
Dick King-Smith HQ
A draft unified theory of complimenting children and adults: Focus on what they've chosen to do, not what they were born with. (Assuming you have standing to speak to them and are respectful, and they're not wearing headphones and/or beaming loathing at you.)
Erin Kissane
