January 2017. The semi-calm before the feces storm of Turmp as president. As always, these tweets are in reverse chronological order, and as much as possible, so are the topics. The whiplash was pretty extreme this month. So many important topics that lasted a few days and then were gone almost without a trace, replaced by some other outrage that would normally be the story of the month or the year. How can this last?
The month ended with the travel ban for refugees and people from seven Muslim-majority countries:
Let's also remember that the entire refugee program is suspended for 120 days for no apparent reason. Not only people from Muslim countries but people from China, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Colombia, even Cuba. are not allowed to apply for asylum in the U.S. for four months.The issue of regulation was just getting started on the last day as Trump talked with representatives of pharmaceutical companies about gutting the FDA and rumblings continued about what he plans to do to the EPA:
Sandra Newman @sannewman
The White House claims its travel ban was needed to "get ahead of threats." That's the exact same argument used to justify the Internment.
George Takei
Can't overstate how incompetent you have to be to fuck up Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Olivia Nuzzi
ACLU took in more money this weekend than any of the Oscar nominees for Best Picture did during their opening weekends.
Dorsey Shaw
Wow - Donald Trump has managed to make lawyers popular!
Maggie Fox @maggiemfox
Here's a thought: maybe everyone could have been just a but more suspicious of a company called "Uber" in the first place.
@pattho (responding to the “drop Uber” campaign after Uber drivers were encouraged to pick up passengers at JFK while taxi drivers refused in support of protesters)
They're playing games with people's lives, the very foundation of American liberties. And it's obvious Trump doesn't understand that a president can't simply rule without encountering the boundaries of public opinion and law.
Jared Yates Sexton
So far, by my count, we've seen three or four different explanations of the immigration ban from this administration. They're winging this.
Jared Yates Sexton
Our immigration vetting for these countries is already extreme. Could easily have made it more extreme without creating such a spectacle. The spectacle has to be part of the intention. Again, makes me feel like this is the lead up to armed conflict. Very scary stuff.
Phillip Atiba Goff
Be wary of the idea that "the Constitution will protect us." Under the Constitution we still had slavery, Jim Crow, & Japanese internment. The Constitution is, and has always been, an aspirational document. And historically, it has often failed to live up to those aspirations.
Clint Smith @ClintSmithIII
Make no mistake — Trump and Co. consciously mean to completely redefine who is a citizen and what protections and rights citizenship provides.
Rick Johnson @WoodCowBooks
This executive order is a legal document, a piece of policy, entirely reverse-engineered around bigoted, knee-jerk campaign rhetoric. There was, as far as I can tell, *no* actual policy process that centered on: how do we best prevent violence? Instead it was: how can we make the president's campaign pronouncements into law? This will produce *disaster* if continued. Mark that.
Christopher Hayes
If Trump wants to ban those who can be radicalised by extremists, then he should start with anyone who voted for him.
Prince Charles @Charles_HRH
Trump said he'd run America like a business. Specifically, an Alabama lunch counter in 1936.
Norm Wilner
I find it odd how the Bible is super relevant if you have to bake a cake for some gays but not if desperate people need your help.
daniel_barker
This doesn't make us safer. This only inflames tensions. Gives people a reason to hate us more. This is unparalleled madness.
Jared Yates Sexton
The people angry at Trump's order ride subways & buses with Muslims every day. The people cheering it have never met one. Who's in a bubble?
Mark Harris @MarkHarrisNYC
We shut the door on Syrian refugees on the same day we marked Holocaust Remembrance Day and the March for Life. "Never forget"? "Pro life"?
James Martin, SJ
Every single refugee and immigrant is vetted a hell of a lot more than Trump's cabinet nominees, but here we are.
Sejal Singh
Donald Trump is signing a refugee ban on Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Steph Haberman @StephLauren
this is from the 1920s:
worth noting that the guy depicted as a human bomb here is some white bigot's grandpa or great-grandpa
Saladin Ahmed
Of all the groups to scapegoat and vilify, scapegoating and vilifying refugees fleeing the horror of war is about as low as it gets.
Christopher Hayes
Total violent crimes committed, 2015: 1,197,704
Crimes committed by illegal immigrants, 2015: 6,911
Checkmate bitch @FAIRImmigration
THE LEGO BRO DUDE @ironghazi [the anti-immigrant group FAIR is the previous employer of Trump’s new head of Customs and Border Patrol]
Trump wants extreme vetting of immigrants to ensure embrace "American values" but short cuts vetting of his cabinet.
Judith Browne Dianis (early January)
Collectively, regulation has vastly increased GDP. Marginal regulations may (or not) expand GDP. Environmental regulations, for example, generally save lives. Costs show up directly in GDP, benefits show up elsewhere in system, hard to measure. Imagine a country without laws (say Somalia): how's GDP doing there? Enforceable law is a type of regulation.There were many tweets on Trump's charming personality and sterling qualities:
David M. Levinson @trnsprtst
When people say they're removing "regulations", ask "Oh, so you're against *protections* for ordinary Americans?"
Jon Foley @GlobalEcoGuy
From now on, I will refer only to President Bannon.There was lots of general angst and outrage about life in Turmp’s America:
@pattho
She. Literally. Had. To. Explain. The. Geneva. Convention. To. Him.
Amir @amiraminiMD (referring to Angela Merkel)
Reminder: 81% of White Evangelicals voted for a man who can't name a single Bible verse and stands against everything Jesus ever said or did.
Reza Aslan
Easily the most elaborate Russian Trump tribute yet:
max seddon
It’s much easier for Trump to make life worse for those he promised to hurt than it will be to make life better for those he promised to help.
Christopher Hayes
It's astounding how much damage can be done to the legal traditions, reputation & institutions of a country in the course of a single week.
Robert O. Simonson
It isn't just an issue of Trump's unsuitability, it's that the GOP is also criminally negligent for unleashing a sociopath onto the world.
Propane Jane™ @docrocktex26
While easily mistaken for a *ridiculous* hairpiece, Prairie Dropseed (Sporobolus heterolepis) can be found throughout Badlands National Park:
BadHombreLands NPS
It's so funny that Trump can't say "I'm a smart person" without saying "I'm like a smart person."
@pattho
In other presidencies the last 48 hours might have spurred a cabinet vote over whether the president was functionally incapacitated.
Josh Marshall @joshtpm (and that was only on January 21)
Possibly the most appropriate spelling mistake ever:
Very Brexit Problems @SoVeryBrexit
The Donald Trump that conservatives voted for is an entirely fictitious person they invented in their minds.
Jeremy Wilcox
I wonder how many of his fans realize the Trump Organization employs around 100 people. It's like electing the manager of a reasonably large grocery store, in terms of management experience. I don't think matters one way or the other for the Presidency, but his business qualifications are overstated at best.
Tom Tomorrow
The guy who ran for president on his ability to make and close deals could not successfully book a Bruce Springsteen cover band.
Chase Mitchell
Anyway, for context, Trump starts his presidency popularity-wise around where George W. Bush was post-Katrina.
Will Jordan @williamjordann
Trump ran a campaign based on the dehumanization of POC, LGBT people & women and is now positioned as a victim of bullying from these groups. Maybe we need to stop talking about bullying and start talking about oppression. Oppression is structural and requires structural change.
Nelson Flores
Hello I am here to tell you from experience that "just ignore him" doesn't work for harassers, and definitely doesn't work for presidents.
Rose Eveleth
Professionally speaking, it's laughable that Trump disavowed #goldenshowers because he's a germaphobe--that's precisely how fetish works.
Jonathan Metzl
Being a fool doesn't make Trump less dangerous, but he sure is a fool.
Bree Newsome
Boing Boing
Please stop *acting* shocked at Saffron Satan's behavior/actions. THIS IS WHO THE MAN IS. Figure out how you'll resist & do that instead.
FreeBresha @prisonculture
A president saying news organization is "going to suffer the consequences" for printing something he doesn't like is FUCKING UNBELIEVABLE.
igorvolsky (January 11)
he figured out that everything holding the legitimate State together is self-imposed. without will to persecute, he will keep winning. honestly, if it didn't mean likely world war III and the end of Planned Parenthood I'd be laughing. he out-whited white america.
Tressie Mc @tressiemcphd
Q: Who describes their own business as an "empire"? A: Someone who thinks they are "emperor.”
David M. Levinson @trnsprtst
forget policy, forget substance, forget rhetoric forget all that. how can his overall public persona be appealing? it's so weird to me.
Atrios
Nothing that this administration is doing is a distraction. It is all oppression.I only marked a few about Trump's lies and love of “alternative facts”:
Mikki Kendall @Karnythia
At this rate Bannon & co will awaken the sleeping giant -- the 50% who didn't care enough to vote. The majority of the country leans progressive. GOP quelled that by stoking apathy; "both sides" BS. Folks are seeing that it matters now.
N. K. Jemisin
Being ideologically committed to compromise just allows the people who aren't to drag the baseline in whatever direction they want.
Elizabeth Bruenig
Is it sinking in, yet? That you live in a society of inextricably linked individuals? That there's no way to hurt Them without hurting You?
Iron Spike
One silver lining to all this: Think of the revenue increases to USPS from all the postcards being sent to Congress.
@pattho
The fact that we actually have to call our congressional reps to tell them "Hey don't let him burn down the country" is frustrating.
Awesomely Luvvie
Been doing a lot of thinking about history this weekend. We have always been a fascist country - for some. What's changed now is breadth. Now everyone is in danger, if they oppose T's regime. Customs has been giving *political* + religious tests. But here's the thing: We've been shitty, but *believe* we're better. Some of this is delusion. Some, tho, is aspiration. We *can be* better. My career exists b/c of the power of fantasy. Fantasy isn't just escapism. It can motivate. Belief in what *we should be* is powerful. So I'm... hopeful. That most of this country *does not want* this regime. That the fantasy of America will drive us to fight, make it real. I have to embrace a little fantasy to get thru these days. So I choose to believe that *some ppl* in our gov't have some goddamn principles. *Somewhere* there are federal employees who will defy this puppet's effort to turn us into Russia 2: Electric Boogaloo. Or Reconciliation 2. Or Internment 2. Or Trail of Tears 2. (Like I said, we've *been* fascist. Just selectively.) But goddamn it, it's the 21st century. We might not have flying cars, but we do have social justice theory. We can *think* like the future. And if we can think of it, we can fight for it. That's what's really got these mfs so scared: true equality is actually a possibility now. So we CANNOT despair. That's what they want. We can get overwhelmed, sure. Go recharge. Then come back and help overwhelm *them.* So embrace the fantasy. Remember where we've been, but focus on where we need to go. Fucking FIGHT.
N. K. Jemisin
How Nazis think:
Imraan Siddiqi
America won't need world-leading universities anymore once we all have coal mining jobs.
Matthew Yglesias
Breitbart is a tiny racist conspiracy website and somehow its publisher has taken over the most powerful government on earth.
southpaw @nycsouthpaw
I used to think "Who are all these people who keep falling for the Nigerian Prince scam in 2016?" After Trump was elected, I had my answer.
Hari Kondabolu
New collective noun: a confusion of Steves.
@pattho
I feel like none of us make it out of this life thing alive, so we might as well do something that means something to us while we can. It's not going to be the same for everybody, but now is the time to get quiet for a minute and really think about what matters to you.
Ashley C. Ford @iSmashFizzle
2016: "Don't boo Mike Pence."
2017: "Don't punch Nazis."
2018: "Don't run so fast when Donald Jr. and Eric are hunting you for sport."
Amos Posner
Soon we'll be at a point where Trump says he's halved the deficit or even the debt and there will be no data to disprove him. His goal.
@pattho
I bet Jamie [her husband] really looks forward to the time of day when he comes home from work and I yell at him about all the shit that’s on fire.
Sarah Mackey @sarahjanet
Outstanding. A Trump fan tells Martina Navratilova, who fled Communist Czechoslovakia aged 18, to "educate yourself on Communism.”
Michael Deacon
With trust, approval in the President already so low, be very vigilant about national crises manufactured to rally the nation around Trump.
Wilfred Chan
I mean, seriously, who knew when fascism came it would be so transparent and pathetic.
Jared Yates Sexton
Conservatives call liberals overly sensitive but elected a president whose favorite pastime is crying about the media being mean to him.
Nelson Flores
In the past politics was about discussing the future, what avenues would lead to what results. Now it's an all-out war about present reality.
Jared Yates Sexton
The liberal order we are watching crumble was created because humans now have capacity to destroy all life on earth. We're at the mercy of fools.
jelani cobb
Donald Trump's alma mater, University of Pennsylvania's motto is "Leges sine moribus vanae." "Laws without morals are useless." Pretty damn ironic.
Angry Snowflake @buckfruitt
Hopefully this whole ordeal will be the impetus for Democrats to fundamentally change its mission to actually listen to the people.
BigIndianGyasi
Me to a reporter today: "if we weren't all about to die it would be funny." Also my official comment on everything for foreseeable future.
Tressie Mc @tressiemcphd
I'm holding on to this comic. I feel like I'll find use in showing it to people in the future. The muscular Congress is such a bonus:
Joseph Nathan Cohen
this is just to say
i have stolen
the presidency
which
you probably wanted
to go
to someone qualified
forgive me
i am so rich
and so white
Chaos @chaosprime
1 crazy orange toddler, a herd of vultures, and all the millions of the rest of us. Adults. We are responsible for fixing this. We the people.
Xeni Jardin
My latest @theobserver cartoon: Trump in the morning; nation take warning:
Kevin Siers
These days, I’m more worried about incompetence than corruption and more about the environment than national security, just to switch it up.
emily nussbaum
EveryDAY something happens that 10 years ago would have rocked the nation. We are numb. and how can even we help it? It's all so much...
Sarah Silverman
Interesting to see comparison to Nixon go from being a terrible insult to a comforting analogy of survivability. "We got through Nixon..."
jelani cobb
Couple months ago I unplugged cable TV. Don't miss it, especially lap dog "journalist" rituals of Trump normalization.
Langdon Winner
Populism!
Atossa Abrahamian
[Sean] Spicer says there's been a "dramatic expansion of the federal workforce in recent years." This is unequivocally false:There were some miscellaneous Trump-related tweets about decisions and appointments that went by in the blink of an eye:
Christopher Ingraham
On his first full day in office, Trump and team tell at least seven falsehoods even as Trump berates the media as "dishonest.” Journalists are human. We make mistakes. But very few of us are dishonest. What is dishonest is to brand the entire news media as dishonest.
Steven Greenhouse @greenhousenyt
There are real challenges in covering an administration with no regard for reality. But there is no excuse to keep putting Kellyanne Conway on TV.
Liliana Segura
“Alternative fact” means lie. Only it's worse than lie because it's a propaganda lie.
Kate Knuth
Fake news, tweeted the vaccine-truther birther who suggested his opponent's dad could have killed JFK.
LOLGOP
The NEH and NEA get a combined $300 million a year. The GOP-led shutdown in 2013 cost the economy $1.5 billion a day.And remember that charming news cycle or two about the suppression of science and facts in government agencies?
Mark Harris
Reminder: two types of Trump appointments. Those wishing to destroy the agencies they run and those who wish to abuse coercive power of state.
David M. Perry @Lollardfish
Kushner isn't taking a salary because his lawyers think it will get him around federal anti-nepotism laws. Also he's a billionaire. The President and his staff are supposed to take a salary because they work for us. The People of the United States are their employers. America shouldn't be a place where leaders don't take salaries bc they're billionaires who don't need the money and want to skirt the law.
Erika Heidewald
I think it is time to take the focus off Trump, and to focus on Congress's willingness to save the US from self-damage To my mind, Trump is now a known factor. All publicity and spin, no concrete plans and proposals. Congress now has to be held accountable Congress has the ability to block much of the damage Trump can inflict. If they don't act, they are complicit. It's their job.
Joseph Nathan Cohen (January 16)
House Republicans held a secret vote during a secret meeting on a national holiday in order to eliminate their independent ethics watchdog
igorvolsky
I don't know about you, but when it comes to picking sides, I'm gonna go with team national parks and *LITERAL ROCKET SCIENTISTS*Just after the inauguration, there was that moment when neonazi Richard Spencer got punched, and some people had thoughts about those who criticized that act:
Emmy Bengtson
Trying to suppress facts and science is morally wrong. And it won't work. The dustbin of history is full of people who have tried.
Jon Foley @GlobalEcoGuy
In Trump's first 4 days:
-A hiring freeze for federal employees
-Suspension of day-to-day work at the EPA
-Gag orders for USDA scientists
Eric Holthaus
Whether you agree or disagree with punching Spencer, let's try not to frame Nazism as merely a "different opinion." Libertarianism is a "different opinion." Nazism is an ideology of genocide; inimical to (and corrosive of) pluralist values. And it is not so obvious to me that "freedom of speech" requires treating Nazis as legitimate participants in public discourse.Also right after the inauguration was the Women’s March:
Jamelle Bouie
Fascists do not seek to convince you of an opposing fact, but to debate and argue everything so you give up on idea of facts period.
The Ing Pope @ingdamnit
*black ppl die*
"..."
*muslims die*
"..."
*LGBQT ppl die*
"..."
*a nazi gets punched*
"WE MUST PUT A STOP TO THE VIOLENCE."
@XLNB
If you expect marginalized people to quietly lay down their lives instead of fight because you like martyrs? You are in the wrong reality.
Mikki Kendall @Karnythia
Dissent and internal conflict is a feature, not a bug, of the women's movement- and it is to our benefit, says Rebecca Traister.Trump’s inauguration was a big topic, from the concert to the crowd size to the speech to the protests against it:
Tess Engebretson
Not getting arrested in a march doesn't mean you're better than anybody. The police state doesn't deem you a threat. So slow your roll.
wikipedia brown @eveewing
Low arrest numbers aren't proof that the women's marches were virtuous. They're proof of a different mode of policing. And as the public and historical face of American innocence, we, white women, often benefit from American policing. Worse than that, to me, is the praise for a lack of anger, because anger against injustice is reasonable and rational and righteous. A lack of anger means you do not have the same level of investment in injustice. That's it. And that's nothing to inspire pride. Here's the thing: we should center the marginalized because it is morally right. But if that's not convincing, try this: We should center the marginalized because they know more about this than we do. Respectability will not save us. Etiquette is largely about maintaining an unjust social order. Many of us are socialized to be more outraged at breaches of etiquette than breaches of justice.
Krisandry Harridan @KHandozo
For my white women friends at #WomensMarch + are thanking the police, reflect on your experience + that of Ieshia Evans:
JessieNYC
Fellow white ladies: cops are usually nice to us because they are SUPER RACIST, not because they're usually nice or we're extra special.
EDW @EmilyDWarfield
no one in a privileged group who actually exemplifies the truth of "not all [white people/men/etc]" has ever had to say or type "not all..."
PiaGlenn
This sign is relevant to my interests:
Mazel Tov Cocktail @AdamSerwer
"I do not weep at the world. I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife." Zora Neale Hurston #WomensMarch
Ava DuVernay
Emboldened by the new President, someone threatened to bomb my 4YO niece's preschool this week. I will march tomorrow.
Jennifer Rensenbrink @gradientgirl
The man on record as saying he sexually assaults women is eliminating the Office for Violence Against Women. See you Saturday. #WomensMarch
Jen Statsky
“There may be two-word slogans that capture a profound… thought…‘America First’ is not one of them.” —Eric BlackThere were some thoughts on the Obamas, many in contrast with their successor:
MinnPost
Regardless of how many willing people attended this inauguration, there were still TOO MANY. Don't normalize a hateful, lying POTUS.
Angry Snowflake @buckfruitt
A few abortion clinic bombers doesn't negate the prolife movement, but if any protestor litters then we can ignore their message.
Vicki Hartzler
Property destruction is bad, unless done by a illegal bank foreclosure or a drug search or industrial pollution.
David Kaib
After 18 months of the most negative, depressing campaign in history, what do you expect?
ian bremmer
Conservatives: I need guns so I can shoot the government if I get mad at it. Also Conservatives: A window broke, your protest is invalid.
Matt H. @ShoesThenPants
The "American Carnage" speech, as it will be forever known, comes amid generationally low murder and crimes rates.
Andrew Cohen @JustADCohen
Angry white young male supporters arguing with protestors, intimidating journalists, doing everything but listening to the Inaugural Address. It's never been about policy. Trump was right. It's about winning. It's about dominance.
Jared Yates Sexton (who spent Inauguration Day mingling with those attending)
-What vibe do you want for the inauguration photo?
-What if Frankenstein's monster went to the DMV and didn't understand what was happening?
Joseph Scrimshaw
John Roberts, who gutted Voting Rights Act & unleashed wave of voter suppression, fittingly swearing in Trump.
Ari Berman
Dr. Seuss 1941:
Russel Neiss
The overwhelming imagery today (crowds, choirs, Trump/Pence box) is of the restoration of a white world after an interregnum.
Anand Giridharadas
It's real, y'all. Donald Trump is about to take the oath of office. White middle-class voters got him there. What are you going to do?
ShowUp4RacialJustice
ATTENTION ALL MEDIA: No matter how many times you say it, you cannot convince me that these people are having a good time:
W. Kamau Bell
tWhite people. Most celebrating Obama leaving, vocalizing Trump as revenge. They're reveling in sending him as punishment, not governance. Guy wearing a Confederate flag bandanna pointed to it as protestors with LGBTQ signs walked by and said, "This means you're not welcome.”
Jared Yates Sexton
It only took 8 years from the Financial Crisis for us to hand the country over to real estate moguls, hedge funds and Goldman Sachs.
Downtown Josh Brown @ReformedBroker
Talia @2020fight
Welcome to the age of plunder, bluster, and empty rhetoric. In other words, to the Age of Dumb. If you voted for him, you're responsible.
Stephen King
Put on your safety goggles because the American Experiment is about to explode.
Brian McFadden
Trump Era: sociopathic kleptocrats, neo-nazi propaganda mill, lapdog media, delusional narcissist at the helm, abused public crying in pain.
Langdon Winner
Trump putting up a gaudy Jumbotron that blocks the view of the Lincoln Memorial is a perfect metaphor for his administration:
My favorite picture of Trump at his inauguration today:
Faces in Things @FacesPics
Barack Obama was the best president of my lifetime. The guy replacing him isn't even the best game show host of my lifetime.There were still thoughts on how all this happened, some of it related to the idea of bubbles, who is in one, who is not:
Frank Conniff
Goodbye to the President the GOP foolishly refused to admit was Christian, and hello to the President they foolishly insist is one.
Hemant Mehta
During Obama's eight years, not one administration official was indicted. How do the other President's stack up? Notice a party bias?
Pitt Griffin
I hope Michelle Obama has a hot tub to climb into with a glass of whiskey or whatever. A private beach, something. Bless that woman.
Kim Ruehl
The hilariously sad thing is so many people expected Obama to be a Magical Negro. When he was merely human the anger started & never stopped. Now people are blaming Obama for Trump winning instead of their own racism. It's fascinating. And horrifying. We'll all pay for it sadly.
Mikki Kendall @Karnythia
And in a very real way, Obama *is* the president of a different country than Trump. I’m gonna fucking miss that place.
Ana Marie Cox
I guess my favorite thing about the @BarackObama administration was being able to sleep at night.
Rose Surnow
we're really about to go from a president who publishes law review articles to a president who publishes tweets with typos
Jonathan @jnthnwll
There would be no GOP control without gerrymandered districts, vote suppression, FBI and Russian intervention. Those are facts.Just before the inauguration, there was Trump’s attack on Rep. John Lewis:
Samuel Sinyangwe
53% of white women and 63% of white men voted for Trump. It was up to the rest of us white folks not to let that happen.
Michael Moore
What I'm hearing about how liberals made the country elect Trump is: if we don't allow implicit fascism, we get explicit fascism.
Alexandra Erin
sorry, but if you hate what America really looks like...you don't love America.
Nicole Chung
I think many think they have class consciousness but their conception of class is fake: pickup drivers, non-pickup drivers and "welfare people.”
Colb Hard Cosh @BennyCarefully
i come from a small town. we all left to get out of the bubble. the ones who stayed stayed because they didn't want to leave theirs.
jalb @jalbus
I'm beginning to think saying "This is why Trump won." is a way to get women, POC and LGBT to shut the fuck up about equality.
Desi @DesiJed
What if... what if the people who live in diverse cities filled with multitudes of points of view AREN'T the ones living in a bubble?
Justin Marks
Any set of beliefs, including a religion, that led people to vote for an anti-fact fascist is a set of beliefs that is manifestly evil. People cite their faith like it excuses their behavior. No, it only implicates their faith in their crime.
Julian Darius
Intrigued by Trump's instinct to turn men of exceptional physical courage into passive people. McCain "was captured." Lewis is "no action."Which makes a decent segue into the topic of racism, race, and intersectionality:
Jennifer Senior @JenSeniorNY (January 14)
It's going to take me a while to reckon with being a citizen of a country whose leader uses racism as a distraction from probable treason.
Franklin Leonard
Donald Trump was quicker to denounce John Lewis, a staple of the civil rights movement than David Duke, the head of the KKK. Telling.
Simar Ahluwalia
One of the people in one of these photos told one of the people in the other photo that they're all talk and no action:
Hend Amry @LibyaLiberty
Rep. John Lewis knows what he's doing, has known all his life. Resistance is spectacle.
Matt Pearce
[John Lewis] calling Donald Trump illegitimate because of Russian interference is not the same as calling Barack Obama illegitimate because he is black.
Sarah McBride
we have to be able to admit thatLots of talk about health care, the abortion funding ban, and the Affordable Care Act:
1. slaves built America
2. the immigrant success story is made possible by racism
profloumoore @loumoore12
The truth is this: the romantic immigrant narrative in US history has always been one about becoming white or being "like" white people...
Imani Perry
Kellyanne Conway, Tomi Lahren and Ivanka Trump are fine examples of how white femininity is weaponized to spread and normalize bigotry.
Chloe Angyal
I know you're panicking, but don't say that "we're all descended from immigrants/refugees.” The indigenous/native peoples are the group who were robbed of their lands. The African blacks were neither refugees or immigrants.
darrylayo
weird how when a white guy kills a woman because he doesn't like who she slept with it's never an 'honor killing’. violence against women is pandemic and hideous. 'honor killing' is a western term that tries to make it a uniquely muslim problem.
Saladin Ahmed
At the height of lynching in the 1900s, people were saying "what about black on black crime."
Jamelle Bouie
In the United States, the prevailing feeling seems to be that our kids aren't ready to learn uncomfortable truths about this nation until... When? When are kids supposed to learn the truth? When they're teens - do we also then unravel the pretty little lies we've taught them, too? Here, at colleges and universities, where so much of our research and criticism gets denigrated as "pushing an agenda?" As "liberal bias?" After graduation, through our still-segregated life experiences? Through our (problematic) media? When are people supposed to learn history?
Ebony Elizabeth
Exaggerating crime of different races, ethnicities long been a tactic of white nationalist propaganda.
Southern Poverty Law Center @splcenter
reminder: our president's mother was an immigrant. his wife is an immigrant.
this.
is.
about.
race.
miel
We passed the Chinese Exclusion Act four years before we got the Statue of Liberty.
profloumoore @loumoore12
White women who are angry at black women for pointing out that white women helped elect Trump would be wiser to direct their ire at THE WHITE WOMEN WHO HELPED ELECT TRUMP.
Melissa McEwan @Shakestweetz
If your faith allows you to believe that Donald Trump is a God-fearing Christian and Barack Obama wasn't, your faith is white supremacy.
Keith Boykin
White women getting mad when women of color point out racism in feminism is like getting mad at being told there's junk in your teeth. ITS A FAVOR. FIX UR FACE.
Eliza Skinner
Repeat after me:
Feminism with out intersectionality is white supremacy.
Feminism with out intersectionality is white supremacy.
CallMeWin @WintanaMN
Intersectionality is about inherent, immutable identities and socioeconomic situations that create differing oppressions. Intersectionality is NOT a mandate that feminism include people who want to take away reproductive rights.
Dianna E Anderson
Myth: Racism diminishes as time passes.
Reality: Racism fluidly adjusts, rises and retrenches in line with political interests.
Khaled Beydoun
"Playing the race card" = a person of color interrupted the norm of whiteness, perhaps even identifying acts of racial discrimination/violence. If Blackness is a card one might play, white supremacy is the whole damn game.
EricAnthonyGrollman @grollman
Also "inner city" is simply euphemism for "where poor minorities live." Geographically, it doesn't get more "inner city" than Trump Tower...
Charles M. Blow
Somewhere right now a white man feels a shift in the force, "a black person doesn't understand race. I must correct them!"
Tressie Mc @tressiemcphd
Funny how no one who thinks they can "fix" the hood can explain its present conditions in any other terms than the inferiority of Blackness
Ornamental Oriental @Hermit_Hwarang
The New Jim Crow in one graph - America's direct response to gains made in Civil Rights Movement:
ChuckModi
Trump won the White House because of an archaic technicality invented by slave owners and a Russian scheme to undermine our democracy.
Kaili Joy Gray @KailiJoy
"Racial difficulties" — quite the euphemism for racism.
Samuel Sinyangwe
Lindsey Graham just asked Jeff Sessions how it feels to be called a racist. Once again, racist's feelings are more important than people harmed by racism.
Salena @Salencita
Chicago: White victim's disability intensifies horror.
Idaho: Black victim's disability means rape was "bullying."
David M. Perry @Lollardfish
I need my White followers to explain how Europeans enacted genocide/enslavement in search of spices but can't seem to use any when they cook
@FeministaJones
It's not your country. Stealing land & resources then getting mad that people won't passively accept it is racism.
Mikki Kendall @Karnythia
"...my father was a slave...my people died to build this country...no Fascist-minded people will drive me from it. Is that clear?" –Paul Robeson
bryonn bain
Hitting your child to prepare them for the harsh realities of being Black in a racist society is not an effective liberation strategy.
Stacey Patton
Megyn Kelly and Ivanka: when will we stop reading beautiful, rich, white women with composure as automatic paragons of intrinsic moral good
Jia Tolentino
white people seem to genuinely think black intellectuals are mainly around to explain things to them
fairly bad cyber @pninterest
What we have in Australia is far better than ACA. Just spent an evening at the hospital with my sick niece. Emergency care was all free. Explaining to Aussies why GoP so determined to take away health care.They just stare. It does not compute. Even amongst conservatives here.And who can forget the supposed 3 to 5 million fraudulent votes and the all-to-real likelihood of voter suppression in response:
Justine Larbalestier
Representative crowd of Americans looks on while Trump signs anti-abortion executive order:
Bill McKibben
The middle class thinks Medicaid is healthcare for the poor. They don't realize most of it goes to pay for nursing home coverage for them.
Jon Schwarz @tinyrevolution
Rand Paul: We need better risk pools.
Al Franken: "I tell you how we get a really big risk pool. It's called 'Medicare for Everyone.'"
Dan Diamond
Call it "Obamacare” and 85% oppose it. Call it "Insure Tennessee” and just 16% oppose it.
Sahil Kapur
Say it with me: you can never ban abortion, you can only ban safe abortions.
REPEAT FOREVER.
Jess Tholmer @tholmz
Pro-life folks: Pregnancy is completely safe! Everyone should do it!
Insurance Industry: Pregnancy is a pre-existing condition like cancer
Emily Finke @seelix
Oppposition I’ve heard to ACA:
• it cost me money
• it’s not perfect
Support:
• I would have died without the coverage it guaranteed
Casey Liss
An estimated 3,000 people per month died from lack of health coverage before the ACA. That's a new 9/11 every month. The GOP voted for this.
Bob Cesca
NEW LIVING WILL: If the cancer ever comes back, have my ashes thrown in the eyes of friends & family who voted for Trump and the GOP.
Janine Brito
Now trolls are trolling me for being a childhood cancer survivor who depends on the ACA. What truly good, patriotic Christians.
Janine Brito
So GOP will let people die on the one hand, but will defund Planned Parenthood on the other. Then NOT give health care to children.
Mo Gaffney
Applying the term "pre-existing condition" to people is evil. We are not damaged objects, we are human beings.
Summer Brennan
Didn't a congressperson say that contraception shouldn't be covered because pregnancy isn't a disease? So why cover prenatal care? And anti-vaxxers go hand in hand with home birth advocates. Just tell women to have babies at home. No coverage needed. I seriously believe we will see these arguments made.
Emily Metcalfe
Insurance as luxury commodity rather than human right is an obscenity I have grappled with.
Tom Tomorrow
I'm a cancer survivor. I was 4. Preexisting condition. ACA freed me from worry I'd be punished for it; GOP plans to strip-away that freedom. Why? So millionaires and billionaires can have just that much more. My life for their largesse.
Elias Isquith
When you watch room full of rich people cheering taking health care from 20 million Americans, always remember that Hillary sent an email.
Forever44 @theonlyadult
Doctor wouldn’t tie my tubes because I wasn’t married and maybe someday my husband might want kids. Medically, my body belongs to a man I haven’t met.
Writey McScriberson @afroSHIRL
The fact that republicans can run on the platform, "I'll take away peoples health insurance" and win is a symptom of a sick as fuck country.
Jamie Kilstein
AP learns Donald Trump's voter fraud expert was registered in 3 states during 2016 presidential election.Education, including the Betsy DeVos nomination for Secretary of Education, got more attention than usual:
The Associated Press @AP
Four cases of voter fraud. Over 50 million Americans unregistered to vote. It's clear what the real problem is here.
Demos
Beyond his views, it's also just stupid politics to cast a vote for the guy who wants to undermine the voting rights of your national base.
Jamelle Bouie
Those "3 to 5 million illegal votes" claims tell us what would have happened had Trump lost the Electoral College.
Monika Bauerlein
Love the idea of a massive, unprecedented, insanely logistically intensive conspiracy to turn out millions of illegal votes that didn't realize how important swing states were.
Christopher Hayes
Stop making it sound like Trump is the only Republican who believes there is massive voter fraud. Every voter ID law is premised on the idea.
Joy Reid
I like how the number of made-up illegal voters steadily grew with Clinton's popular vote lead.
Nate Cohn
In Trumpland: Democrats sneakily ensure 3 to 5 million illegal immigrants vote Clinton but forget to put 77,000 of them in the states she needed to win.
John Hudak
How is Trump managing to be a sorer loser than the person who got 3 million more votes and didn't win?
LOLGOP
If you’re going to the trouble of illegal votes WOULDN’T YOU SPREAD THEM OUT SO YOU ALSO WIN THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE?
Sarah Mackey @sarahjanet
Obama: "We are the only country in the advanced world that makes it harder to vote, not easier. That traces directly back to Jim Crow.”
Ari Berman
Counting incarcerated persons as residents in redistricting is a rejection of both common sense and fairness.
Demos
Dump DeVos:Back in mid-January, Martin Luther King was a topic around his birthday:
Networ4PublicEd
School choice = SCHOOLS choose, NOT parents. School admits and expels based on whether or not child performs.
Anita Jiles
NO Betsy DeVos:
Dr. Pangloss @junziforhire
Both parties have bad Ed. policy. But DeVos threatens to turn privatization/defunding into total destruction & hellish school experiences.
Imani Perry
Please, fellow liberals: don't use words like "broken" to describe public schools. Implies we're fine with destroying. "Imperfect," fine.
Jennifer Rensenbrink @gradientgirl
If we really wanted to "teach the whole child" we would give them freedom while surrounding them with stimulating resources and conversation.
Sisyphus @Sisyphus38
One of these pictures is of a dramatic threat to public school students, the other is of a bear:
LibrarianShipwreck
The real injustice is that as public schools are being gutted, unions are being blamed instead of shitty structures.
Mikki Kendall @Karnythia
A vote for DeVos isn't conservative / Republican in any traditional way. It's an admission that qualifications don't matter for mega-donors.
flippable
Privatizing public education is a bipartisan effort. That's what allowed DeVos to destroy Detroit Public Schools.
Ella Septima-Hamer @Jbrous14
I had to pay a six years-old parking ticket before I was allowed to join Department of Justice in 2009. But DeVos ignoring a $5.3 million campaign fine is a-ok.
Matthew Miller
Another study confirms rewarding students for achievement fails to improve achievement and also reduces interest in learning.
Alfie Kohn
Public education is not the free market. In the free market there are winners & losers. Why would you want a system like that for your kids?
Clint Smith @ClintSmithIII
The question that is before us, I am afraid, is whether we as Americans believe in the PUBLIC part of public education or not.
Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones
DeVos testimony: Senator, I look forward to working with you to dismantle the American tradition of public education which I don't understand.
Langdon Winner
Public schools are oppressive institutions that squash creativity, but the solution is revolutionizing not dismantling public education. #DeVosHearing
Nikhil Goyal
School choice was invented for white flight. Few parents wanted choice until desegregation.
Steven Singer
What's the worst way for kids to develop decision-making and agency? Following other people's instructions all day.
Bruce L. Smith @numbalum89
Meier’s Mandate: “No student should be expected to meet an academic requirement that a cross-sec'n of successful adults in the community can’t.”
Alfie Kohn
nb.: if how moderates remember MLK is any example, resistance requires a readiness to be called morally low now & be respected posthumously.As always, there were a few tweets on climate change and sustainable cities:
Brandon O'Brien @therisingtithes
The line for acceptable non violent resistance just keeps moving further away from anything remotely effective for some of y'all. Don't march, don't yell, don't kneel, don't stand, don't interrupt..you don't want nonviolent resistance, you want sheep ready for slaughter.
Mikki Kendall @Karnythia
First they criminalize you, then they kill you, then they act like they agreed with you all along...
IG: TechImmortal
When people say they're removing "regulations", ask "Oh, so you're against *protections* for ordinary Americans?"And finally, the other topics and things that don’t fit into categories:
Jon Foley @GlobalEcoGuy
To help understand how extreme this is, even *North Korea* signed on to the Paris agreement on climate change.
Eric Holthaus
Tolls can raise funds for transit AND reduce congestion AND change behaviour.
Cherise Burda
Which part of downtown is most focused on the automobile? Which part is the least successful? They are the same.
mike @mikesonn
Moral: If you want bike riders to live, build safer streets. If you want bike share to die, require helmets.
Janette Sadik-Khan
Ever think about how we've decided to destroy the planet so that a small portion of us can have the perfect size baggies for 1/2 an avocado?
Jebsica @aspiringcat
Climate change is like fascism. It happens slowly, then all at once.
Kameron Hurley
Make buses free and gradually increase tax on cars. This will reduce sprawl and growth.
Free Public Transit
We either succeed or fail as a planet at this point. We are all in this together. We don't have time to do anything but pursue truth.
Eric Holthaus
FFS: Hit-and-Run Chevy Tahoe Driver Struck and Killed While Fleeing, by Second Tahoe Driver, Who Also Fled.
StreetsblogTexas
Slow down cars, save lives. It's pretty straightforward.
jennifer keesmaat
if a baby on a plane annoys you just remember you're getting back at the baby by leaving a massive carbon footprint with your plane ride
morninggloria
Build free roads for suburbs, let cars pollute for free, and spend $8,000 per minute to kill Muslims for oil.
Free Public Transit
One of many depressing things: knowing if Hillary had won, nobody would know the bullet that got dodged and would bitch about her nonstop.
Sarah Mackey @sarahjanet
Compassionate conservatives are a myth. Like leprechauns and people who feel full after eating a handful of almonds.
Molly Hodgdon @Manglewood
Weird how many mid-century American snacks had high-toned, country-club names: Ritz, Club, Town House. Class aspiration thru crackers.
Robert O. Simonson
"Libtard" has got to be the lamest piece of name-calling neologism ever. I get embarrassed just thinking about people actually using it.
Robert O. Simonson
You might remember hearing that Chicago can't afford to keep schools open. Why? We spent $662 on settling lawsuits [for police accused of brutality].
Mikki Kendall @Karnythia
I don't know how America is going to progress as a nation if people don't stop believing that bad things only happen to bad people.
Alp Ozcelik @alplicable
protip: people who call themselves provocateurs are usually just assholes
Saladin Ahmed
There are more books for sale on Amazon from the 1880’s than the 1980’s. The missing books are out-of-print but still copyrighted. Insane!
Feross
I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival.
Kurt Vonnegut
"Fascism is openly against people-in-general, in favor of people-in-particular." -EB White
@pattho
Compulsory voting is one reason Australia’s far right lacks the power of its European or American counterparts.
NYT Opinion
Jury duty compels you to register your judgment on criminals; compulsory voting just extends this to politicians.
Justin Wolfers
Why aren't people more moved by fiduciary rule? Maybe because so few have substantial financial assets, and those who do will turn a blind eye to it in order to support the party that champions regressive tax cuts. I would wager that the "tax" of deceptive retail finance practices on lifetime accumulation could outweigh tax cuts for the vast majority.
Joseph Nathan Cohen
US public: stop accepting wealth is earned, without dishonesty & inequity; the wealthy are not universal experts.
Paul Thomas @plthomasEdD
Anti-choice rhetoric from people who won't fund SNAP, CHIP, or public schools never impresses me. They want control, not community health. The same people who would block access to birth control and sex ed will blame unprepared parents for having kids they can't afford. We know what America looked like without social safety nets. It was Triangle Shirtwaist fire, labor riots, and kids starving in the streets.
Mikki Kendall
"system" should not be a dirty word
Rachel Cohen @rmc031
Paranoid Manhole:
Faces in Things @FacesPics
If you're interested in decarceration, Prison Culture’s 3 point plan for the next 4 years is:
1. Work to abolish money bail and be suspicious AF of *reforms* focused on creating *new risk assessments.*
2. Work to decriminalize everything (drugs, sex work, etc. etc.). Stop supporting elected officials who keep adding more laws to the books.
3. Organize against *tough on crime* DAs. Vote in your local elections to oust them and support ones who are more progressive.That's it. No need for endless retreats/discussions to figure out *the way forward.* It's all there and has been discussed for decades.
FreeBresha @prisonculture
I want a bumper sticker that says "Your Home Mortgage Interest Deduction Is a Government Handout."
Keith Harris @useful_noise
Some of the percent of the White evangelical and Pentecostal vote can be explained by the preaching about the "spirit of Jezebel" in churches. Meaning of "the spirit of Jezebel" has been stretched beyond recognition to encompass any form of female agency whatsoever. Even in a CNN segment featuring black women from Detroit on the election, you heard one sista say she didn't think a woman should run the country.
Ebony Elizabeth
Increasingly, the basis for Western democracy (if we can still call it that) seems to be, "You have a right to work, not a right to live." The idea that most people can't work effectively, to their full potential or at all while struggling to live is not accounted for. People who won't pay for healthcare, libraries, hospitals, welfare etc but who want to live in a functional society? THEY are freeloaders.
Foz Meadows
Just passed a place called Vision Dental and I think they can solve either all or none of my problems.
Akilah Hughes @AkilahObviously
Anyone who still thinks locking up juveniles is a good idea is either financially motivated or just ignores data.
BigIndianGyasi
Half of public housing residents stay in their subsidized home for less than 5 years. Almost 70% stay for less than 10 years. The public housing residents who stay +10yrs are mostly elderly, disabled, or concentrated in high cost, low vacancy markets such as NYC.
Diane Yentel
Evolution vs. intelligent design:
almightygod
Another e-mail request, asking me to work unpaid. "But you do it on your blog." I dig my garden for free, too. Doesn't mean I'll dig yours.
Joanne Harris @Joannechocolat
Anti-vaxxing is bad for herd immunity but also bad because it stigmatizes autism, which it often treats like some kind of demonic hex.
Abraham Riesman
"When violent crimes go unpunished while nonviolent ones hammered, many conclude the state seeks control, not justice."
Nikhil Goyal
Men think being an ally means standing up for a woman in front of her. Real allies stand up for women when none of us are in the room.
Alice Goldfuss
Beware anything that’s “just trying to start a conversation.”
emily nussbaum
99.99% of the time the conversation already exists and the would-be "starter" just isn't willing to travel there.
Dara Lind
"We wasn't expecting you.."
Faces in Things @FacesPics
MAN-date: when you think you have permission but you really don't.
@pattho
If the headline of your article includes "..and why it matters," it doesn't matter.
Robert O. Simonson
Expertise is good. Authority masquerading as expertise isn't. And expertise cannot tell us what our goals should be.
David Kaib
1. Do you know many people spend far longer in horrific conditions of jail, pre-trial/no conviction, held on bond, than they do in prison?
2. That their guilty plea is motivated by the desire to end the endless months to years of jail, to relatively better conditions and an outdate.
3. So "guilt" or "innocence" is meaningless, and the only legit place from which to declare either is relative freedom of pre-trial release.
4. Which is denied to most people held on bond in jail simply because they're poor, and for Black people, because bonds are statistically higher.
5. So system is unable to demonstrate guilt or innocence because it's design is to detain and convict poor and Black people, regardless of guilt
Holly Krig @holidarity
White straight dude sexin' his way thru impossible adventure: What a heroic journey!
Woman of color having fun: Unrealistic wish-fulfillment Mary Sue!
Sarah Kuhn
I'm writing a story about dragons and fighting white supremacy for New Year's. What are you doing?
N. K. Jemisin
Gingerbread Fellowship of the Ring, courtesy of my husband:
Rainbow Rowell
I need a way to slap people with history books through the internet. Can one of you developers make that happen? Pretty please?
Mikki Kendall @Karnythia
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