Another long as hell month, and now to add to our raging pandemic and long-needed but obviously painful reckoning on all things related to white supremacy (in policing and everything else), we also have straight-up treason from Mafia Mulligan.
So let's start with that. After everything we've been through, is anyone surprised that Mulligan has known for months that Putin had put a bounty on the heads of U.S. troops in Afghanistan, and our president not only did nothing about it but made positive overtures to Russia?
Read this again: "the President naively elevated Russia -- a second-rate totalitarian state with less than 4% of the world's GDP -- and its authoritarian leader almost to parity with the United States." The harm that has been done is incalculable.Of course, not only was Mulligan committing treason with Russia, he was betraying his oath domestically and in other ways around the world as well, and his lackeys were devolving things, too:
Anne Applebaum, quoting a Carl Bernstein story summarizing Trump's interactions with foreign leaders, including Putin
Remember when Republicans spent $25 million investigating Benghazi because they thought the black President (and the woman Secretary of State) MIGHT have been negligent? Now we have EVIDENCE that the white male president let Russia PAY for the MURDER of US soldiers and they are SILENT.
Mikel Jollett
This morning I made a drawing of Trump and Putin sitting on an American coffin. Please retweet this image; I want Trump to see what treason is:
Mark Dolk @vrjrdgstknng
**Kaepernick kneels to protest police murdering black people**
REPUBLICANS: “you’re disrespecting our troops!!!!”
**Putin hires Afghan militants to murder U.S. troops**
REPUBLICANS: “invite him to the G8 summit!”
Kaivan Shroff
It’s pretty clear now why trump kept saying Obama committed treason. He knew the story about him being ok with Putin putting out a bounty on our military would become public soon. It’s ALWAYS about projection w him.
@Grtseeker
So trump signed up off on both the Chinese concentration camps and the Russian murders of United States soldiers?
Molly Jong-Fast
I would have never said anything like that on Twitter before, but people need to wake up and realize the president is killing Americans at home with ineptitude over the virus, and abroad by his devotion to Putin. He is destabilizing the nation he swore to protect
ProfB @AntheaButler
It took hours for Trump to delete his "white power" retweet. The claim now is that he couldn't be reached while golfing. This leaves two horrifying possibilities: (1) his staff wouldn't know how to reach him in an emergency or (2) it took hours to persuade him to delete the video.Comments on Republicans and Trumpism more generally:
Walter Shaub
Remember that the guy who tweets "LAW AND ORDER!" is the same guy who tweets "White Power." Those two concepts are connected for him.
Chris Carfizzi
Never before have we lived in a time when the vast, gigantic reserves of American stupidity have been so closely wed to political power and public policy.
jelani cobb
It shouldn’t be hard to have leaders who:
- aren’t completely corrupt
- don’t commit crimes
- don’t deliberately divide us with fear, hate, and ignorance
- don’t put lives at risk by ignoring science and medical advice
- aren’t sexist jerks
- aren’t racist a**holes
Dr. Jonathan Foley @GlobalEcoGuy
It is going to seem very strange to future historians that anyone was surprised making the Iran-Contra coverup man [Bill Barr] attorney general turned out badly.
Adam Serwer
This presidency is one long never-ending Saturday Night Massacre
Virginia Heffernan @page88
When weird ideological theocrats rise to power, uplifted by a small minority of voters, bad governance happens.
D.A. Bullock
Ilhan Omar made a misjudged remark about "Benjamins" and for weeks we talked about her alleged antisemitism, the left's bigotry, and Congress passed a resolution. Trump told the president of China he was ok with him locking up a million Muslims in concentration camps. Silence.
Mehdi Hasan
I just saw someone refer to the fenced-in area around the White House as "Tinyman Square."
@Mocraig13
As we get closer to November, Trump WILL get more divisive and dangerous. He planned to get re-elected on the economy, but that's out the window now, so the only thing that he has left is othering marginalized groups to gin his base up, and this othering includes stoking violence.
@Freeyourmindkid
BREAKING: Man who thinks a mask makes him look weak is now erecting a baby gate around his entire house.
Andrea Junker @Strandjunker
The one thing I will never, ever understand is how people can look at Trump and see strength. Every single thing he does, including surrounding the White House with a #babygate, just reeks of fear. It drips off him.
David Roberts @drvox
melania married an aging, obese amphetamine tweaker who lives on fast food and hasn't exercised in 50 years, with the perfectly reasonable expectation that he'd be long dead by now and she'd be in the "rich widow" stage of her life. she did not expect to still be doing this shit at 50.
lieutenant winslow
Getting an 8 pm curfew alert on my phone during a pandemic and Depression while Trump invites Putin to the US is about where I thought we'd be in year 4 of Trump.
Ben Rhodes
Really, with rare exceptions, the Republican solution to every social problem is “the more marginalized you are, the more exceptionally successful you must be at ~everything.”It was a hard month to compile all the tweets on racism, white supremacy, and police brutality (big surprise!). I've separated a couple of the subtopics (policing and statues) out after this general part, which covers mostly racism and white supremacy:
@csilverandgold
rich retirees cruising in golf carts yelling “white power” is the essence of trumpism
@jbouie
VP Mike Pence and Second Lady Karen Pence voted absentee in Indiana this April and listed the Indiana Governor's mansion — where they haven't lived in almost 4 years but are still registered to vote – as their address
Grace Panetta
Something everyone in US politics should understand: the GOP is the farthest right major party in any developed democracy. To find analogues you have to look to splinter neo-fascist parties in the EU:
David Roberts @drvox
Somebody pointed out that the GOP nominated the last FOURTEEN out of eighteen Supreme Court justices. Holy shit.
@csilverandgold
Answer to the classic question is increasingly obvious.
Q: What are "conservatives" conserving?
A: White wealth and privilege!
(You're welcome.)
Langdon Winner
Since the Republicans have such a hard time getting the name of the Democratic Party right, maybe we should return the favor and just call them the "Racist Party." It would be interesting to see, if Democratic politicians used the term "Racist Party" to refer to the Republican Party, if media just reported it without comment, the way they do when Republicans politicians refer to the "Democrat Party."
Dean Baker
The GOP position (at least in Georgia) appears to be in-person voting is both a sacred right and something that should be made as hard to do as possible.
Sam Stein
You guys do realize that if Trump is voted out of office, Republicans (including Never Trumpers) will go right back to normal and actually try to pretend like the last four years didn't happen. Right?
chris evans @notcapnamerica
I say this at the end of ALL my talks: There is NO FORM of protest that white supremacy will approve of. None. March, take a knee, throw a rock, boycott, vote, let it burn...you can always bank on resistance. Freedom won't be given, it must be won.Comments on policing and defunding police specifically, since there were so many this month:
K Carter Jackson
When a black person says “Black Power” it means let us live and take your knee off our neck. When a white person says “White Power” it means let us kill and put our knee on your neck. See the difference?
Arjun Sethi
I think having a Black POTUS broke white people forever.
@hyster181
For people crying that the name Karen is "ruined" because of jokes: Research has shown that African American names like Lakisha and Jamal have stopped Black people from getting *hired*. Black parents have stopped naming their daughters with names that indicate they're Black.
@IDoTheThinking
Recent student evaluation stated that I should never teach again & I had committed malpractice since I made race central to American history. And my worst stated that I should be ashamed that I was pregnant & Black with no husband as I was a walking stereotype. #BlackintheIvory
@BlackDigitalHum
Black people's journey to transcending racial oppression (and race itself) involves a struggle for equality and basic respect which white people have never had to wage _on racial grounds_. That's why "white lives matter" and "black lives matter" aren't equivalent.
Nicholas Guyatt
Clear Language on Slavery:
Slaves = Hostages
Slave Owners = Human Traffickers
Slave Catchers = Police
Plantations = Death Camps
Mistresses = Rape Victims
Discipline = Torture/Murder
Overseers = Torturers
Trading = Kidnapping
Profit = Theft
Middle Passage = Genocide
Make a note
5'7" Male Black @absurdistwords
They want to keep the racist stereotype of a fictional Aunt Jemima on the pancake syrup but they don't want put real life freedom fighter Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill.
Keith Boykin
so many white people talk about having a “racist phase” and we have just decided to accept that’s part of a white kid’s childhood without once thinking about the black kids who don’t get to be children because of racism
@comradevenustas
Was asked about allyship and white saviorism. Allyship isn't self-declared, but a process. A process of learning, privilege deployed, welcomes critique and actively demonstrates growth. Saviorism seeks external affirmation, resists critique & often walks around as performative ally.
Beronda Montgomery
When you replace "Owned slaves" with "Was an active and willing participant in a vast conspiracy to kidnap children from their families in order to force them into industrial and sexual servitude" it becomes harder to write slave owning off as just a blot on one's record. For instance: George Washington was our first President and was an active and willing participant in a vast conspiracy to kidnap children from their families in order to force them into industrial and sexual servitude.
5'7" Male Black @absurdistwords
racists on long island will be like “my ancestors were here first” but will live in towns like Amagansett or Wantagh or Commack or Hauppauge or Massapequa or Wyandanch or Bohemia or Ronkonkoma or Quogue or Nissequogue or Mattituck or Mineola or Sagaponack or Asharoken or Yaphank
@kkaylarenaee
Juneteenth shouldn't be a national holiday because of the way class is racialized in this country. White people will take the day off and Black people in the service industry will still be working.
@Naimaism
Replying to Jason Lewis [Republican candidate for Congress in Minnesota]:
@bornhereinTexas
For Juneteenth, white people should be required either go to work or to attend seminars on Black history. Everybody else gets the day off.
@kateschmidt
I cannot think of one historical example where policy was formulated to accommodate the fascists’ demands and the fascists didn’t instantly demand the next fascist thing on their fascist list. The appeasement of fascists never ever works. Never, ever.
Alex Andreou @sturdyAlex
don’t buy anti-racism books from Amazon are you fucking kidding me
Tisya Mavuram
Even the statement, “Let’s invite more Black people to the table,” implies ownership of the table and control of who is invited. Racism is about power.
@BerniceKing
Between 1910 and 1997, African-Americans lost about ninety per cent of their farmland.
The New Yorker
As a white person, you can’t “non-confrontationally” learn about racism. The entire process is a confrontation of your life, your family, your culture, your belief system, your status, and your narratives about yourself. Etc etc etc.
@flotisserie
Whenever white people tell BIPOC not to make EVERYTHING about race, it’s like, ok, well, you guys started it
Aparna Nancherla
I need every single person on earth to stop complaining about looting. How the hell you think Black folks got here in the first place?
Marcus Ferrell
anyone who doesn't "believe" that systemic racism is real or that white supremacy has no effect on our laws is not fit to govern – anything. it's dangerous to let people wield power when they live in an alternate reality.
Rhiana Gunn-Wright
Any scholarship kid who went to a private high school can tell of the criminal behavior of wealthier kids. Drugs, violence, theft, property destruction. Behaviors many white Americans say justify police violence are Friday night fun for their children.
Victor LaValle
This is a Third Reconstruction moment, just like after slavery and after the Brown decision. It’s a time to restructure and reorder all of society. When Emmett Till was killed, Rosa didn’t just go after the murderers. She went after the entire Jim Crow system.
Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II
A reminder that NO ONE *wants* to be talking about this stuff endlessly. Folks simply want things to be equitable.
Lisa Lucas
Black Lives Matter protests are essentially a national exorcism. If seeing them makes you rage and shake and froth at the mouth, maybe you’ve got a demon in you.
Victor LaValle
400+ years of oppression. Couple days of some folks getting it. The end isn’t close. Let’s go.
Phillip Atiba Goff
If you are a British taxpayer, you were paying reparations from the abolition of slavery in 1833 all the way to 2015... but to the *owners* of slaves rather than to former slaves themselves (and no one made a peep). Keep that in mind next time you say reparations are unthinkable.
Jason Hickel
Nearly every book on the New York Times paperback nonfiction bestseller list is about race, racism, or antiracism. America is suddenly cramming for an exam it's been failing for 400 years.
Renee Graham
America is trapped in a permanent past of violence and hatred as a society because its constitution, and the institutions built atop it, were meant for a slave state. That fundamental problem is why little changes.
@umairh
Imagine being shown this photo in 2019 with no explanation:
actioncookbook
The Gone With the Wind and NASCAR stuff are related: GWTW is obviously Lost Cause porn, and it was also responsible for "democratizing" the Confederate flag, making it popular among white people besides Klan members and White Citizens Council members.
@GeeDee215
White supremacy won’t die until White people see it as a White issue they need to solve rather than a Black issue they need to empathize with.
Dwayne Reed @TeachMrReed
"I'm not racist! I'm just fighting to preserve the character of my neighborhood that is 99% white and where every house costs at least $500,000"
@GettingGophery
Someone tell Langston we found the answer: It definitely explodes.
michaelharriot
It occurs to me how much I hate all of this. Like really, really hate it. Even the beautiful parts remind me that we are so good at memorializing our dead because we’ve had so much practice.
jelani cobb
"Elvis Presley waiting for his food while a woman, who is not permitted to sit, waits for a sandwich, 1956":
Nathaniel Parkinson @np1959
My beloved south asian community, we can either stand in support of the Black Lives Matter movement or we can be the foot soldiers of white supremacy. I know where I stand.
Nish Kumar
Colin Kaepernick's peaceful protest won't be fully appreciated until there's a protest that isn't so peaceful
Vincent Goodwill
There is a 100% chance that conservatives 30 years from now will be scolding black activists for not being more like Colin Kaepernick, whose ideals and methods they always revered.
A.R. Moxon @JuliusGoat
Tiny BLM diorama:
Chris Steller
If you don’t even *realize* that Black and Brown people are the ONLY ones positioned to tell us anything of value about how much “progress” white people and white institutions have made, then have you really made much progress at all?
@alwaystheself
Honestly I think that whiteness has a social contract that racial violence is acceptable as long as white people have jobs or the promise of jobs, and too few white people feel confident that they will have jobs
Cass Adair
uptown theatre: @AdamTurman (i think):
will martin
People bring up the importance of “free speech” and “free press” when defending racism in mainstream publishing as if these things haven’t always been reserved for white society with Black people systemically denied access to either. We’ve gotta hear both sides even when we’ve only been allowed to hear from the racist side for the past 400 years
Bree Newsome Bass
liberals have learned to call racism "systemic" but then suggest exclusively non-systemic fixes like police trainings as solutions
micah herskind
Reminder of what they said about MLK when he was alive:
@WhackNicholson
"diversity and inclusion" needs to be upgraded to "anti-racism and dismantling white supremacy"
Tatiana Mac
My favorite thing to say when law enforcement complains about me suing them for breaking public records laws: “I'm enforcing the law. What do you have against people who work in law enforcement?” Their heads turn like 720°.There were not as many comments on statues and monuments:
Tony Webster
i really hope the lesson people take from elijah mcclain is not "it's extra sad because he was so sweet" but rather, "no amount of gentleness and respectability can protect a black person from the arbitrary wrath of police"
@itsSupercar
all cops are going to need rehabilitation and therapy once we abolish them before they can be allowed to safely move into different careers without carrying their cop mentality with them.
@OhDionne
Our local media will breathlessly report any opinion from any dullard who owns something in Minneapolis about "their safety" but won't make the analytic connection to the current failure where we currently invest huge money into "failed" public safety.
D.A. Bullock
Key facts:
1. Police killings fell from 1970-2000, then SKYROCKETED
2. Police killings are now ~9% of all violent deaths in the U.S., up from 4%
3. The # of police officers killed fell in the 90s and hasn't risen since
4. Police killings are biased against Black people
In the last few years, the number of Americans killed by police each year has been over 30 times the number of police killed by Americans.
@Noahpinion
When crime stats go up, police use that to justify their increase (you need more of us to save you), when crime stats go down, police use that to justify their increase (See we are saving you so well, don't you want to stay safe?) It's absurd. please stop.
D.A. Bullock
cops are supposed to investigate crimes for a living but every one of their attempts to fake a crime has resulted in them being thwarted by McDonald's workers within two hours
@The_Law_Boy
Police don't really need a union, they have Republican state legislators who represent them for every violent criminal act and wrong-doing.
D.A. Bullock
In order to truly do abolition work we must grapple with our obsession with punishment.
@itsrabiyatu
Police “unions“ are violent, white supremacist fraternities. Kick them out of the labor movement.
Haymarket Books
Rayshawn Brooks ran from cops because a DUI would've revoked his parole. Public transit in Atlanta has been deliberately under-funded by the racist legislature, so he had no choice but to drive. Car-dependency in this country just skyrockets your chances of encountering cops.
@IDoTheThinking
you ever see a church sign writer go supernova:
@cubosh
The only headline every day for the last two weeks should’ve been “At Protests Against Police Violence, Police Use Unthinkable Amounts of Violence”
@nicetryofficer
You want police to exist because u know with 100% certainty they are your strong arm muscle in any mundane social disagreement. You don't want to give that up despite knowing the harm they inflict on other people not like you. That has absolutely nothing to do with public safety.
D.A. Bullock
This is obvious but worth noting: it is because of cars & freeways that cops can live in Oakdale or Anoka and work in Minneapolis.
Dan Marshall
George W. Bush has a DUI
Dick Cheney has a DUI
Matt Gaetz has a DUI
Mike Crapo has a DUI
Beto O’Rourke has a DUI
But Rayshard Brooks had a DUI, couldn’t get a job and was killed. This country’s criminal justice system was built to incarcerate and kill black and brown Americans.
@DeNarde4MDDel
What elites have given poor communities: Cops to keep everyone in line and teachers to extract the talented
Chris Arnade
I don't get these "cities need a policing structure like suburbs" takes. The existence of the suburb itself is policing. It's predicated on tax hoarding revenue generated in the city. Suburban cops aren't patrolling streets, they're patrolling city limits for dark skinned motorists.
@IDoTheThinking
One of my favorite things Fox News does is talk about how police are tirelessly and endlessly brave but that they might all quit or stop doing their jobs if everyone doesn’t worship them or stop saying mean things.
Jared Yates Sexton
Something I learned researching this story is meter maids and other non-police traffic enforcement started to dress like cops because angry people getting tickets would assault them. Dressing like cops gave them a veneer of authority.
Aaron W. Gordon
This is the best graphic I’ve seen in a while:
@CoolWindBreeze
I wonder if a lot of the resistance to defunding cops comes from this very strong idea, in my opinion, that white men, regardless of education etc. should be entitled to good paying jobs. Also why politicos like Trump use coal miners as props.
Angie Schmitt
If you're a police officer and you're shocked the public is upset with your profession after literally hundreds of videos of your fellows brutalizing citizens over two weeks instead of shocked at your colleagues you are telling on yourself in a profound way.
@tznkai
imagining a world where everyone had a union that acted like a police union. where, like, a librarian could choke you to death for being too loud and then get a million dollars. and then their union rep went on TV and was like "and if you don't like it we'll fucking kill you too"
@Chinchillazllla
On hour 10 of analyzing NYPD brutality against protestors from over the last couple of weeks. One thing that has stood out to me is both the viciousness & number of instances of male (cop) against female (protestor) violence. Punches. Body slams. Pushes. Neck grabs. Baton swings.
Scott Hechinger
I’m sorry, the city of Philadelphia can’t drop teargas from helicopters on peaceful Black Lives Matter protesters and at the same time protect groups of bat-wielding white men who are assaulting people and not expect us to demand a complete reform of policing in this city.
Conrad Benner @StreetsDept
It's kind of insane that Angela Davis is alive and well but every major news source is like "what's prison abolition? matt here, who half read a wikipedia article about it while also replying to a nate silver tweet, has the answer!"
@surlybassey
Something I've been curious about and would like to read more on: seems to me one of the major factors in the militarization of police is America's insane lack of gun restrictions. Police go into every single encounter thinking that they could be shot because *it's true*. I mean, literally anybody could have a gun and be upset enough to use it -- a traffic stop, a domestic abuse call, even just a routine patrol. How could you police an insane society like that without becoming paranoid and violent? So I'm wondering how (or whether) the defund-the-police movement is connecting up with gun-law reformers. Seems like they're properly part of a package. Is this a thing?
David Roberts @drvox
That feeling when a country that struggled to (barely) come up with $1200 for (some) people in the midst of a plague not only has apparently endless resources for its violence workers, but demands you *worship* them
@PatBlanchfield
It's hard to overstate just how badly police across the nation have screwed up this moment. Had they shown even the slightest modicum of restraint and empathy, centrist white folks would have gone on believing that Black folks were exaggerating police violence. Instead, they exhibited a national showcase of televised brutality, commiting the mortal sin of US public relations: assaulting white people. Not to mention, reporters, legal observers, medics, and of course the BIPOC that have always been at the receiving end. In their hubris, these cops gave white America a window into the contemporary militaristic police brutality that Black Americans have long been accustomed to; and in doing so—hopefully—precipitating its demise.
@wjfarr
what if we use our taxes for universal healthcare and free college and then we can do a gofundme for the police if an emergency comes up
Adam J. Kurtz
I saw this yesterday. It's too good not to share. Brutal, but completely on the mark:
@caerbannog666
If the police did their jobs, everyone would trust them. Ain’t no song called Fuck The Fire Department.
@itskingapollo
Police departments get hundreds of millions of dollars a year, but children have “school lunch debt.” Make it make sense.
Cora Harrington @lingerie_addict
If you have to train people not to kill me because I’m Black, I’d really prefer you just not give them the power to kill me at all maybe?
Bree Newsome Bass
Black people and white people pay taxes but are subjected to an entirely different experience of policing. Wealthy white communities have enormous control over their police forces while Black communities don’t. White people regularly weaponize police against Black people while Black people are afraid to call the police in real emergencies. There is no colorblind, race-neutral lens for evaluating the function of policing in America unless the goal is to be intellectually dishonest. So how can it be said that those most subjected to police violence have no right to propose defunding their local forces? That talking point is also racist because it’s about denying Black people political autonomy or self-governance. Wealthy people aren’t policed this way at all.
Bree Newsome Bass
Medicare for all is a pipe dream but giving police a bunch of money might make them less racist
@MurderBryan
THIS man wrestles THE FIRE OF THE GODS to KEEP YOUR HOUSE WARM AND LIT. he's the THIN YELLOW LINE between you and PREINDUSTRIAL BARBARISM. he's an ELECTRICIAN, and his job is more dangerous than ANY COP'S:
@Theophite
The Minneapolis Police budget is 193.3 million for 2020. That does not include the budget for Metro transit police, Parks police, Sheriffs Dept police and University police.
D.A. Bullock
As we see multiracial crowds fighting for police reform, I keep thinking of how so many white liberals react when policymakers attempt to integrate their children's schools and gifted classrooms, or construct affordable housing in affluent neighborhoods. My colleagues and I have written story after story about opportunity hoarding in the institutions of our daily life, which create the highly segregated living conditions that contribute to racism, dehumanization and over-policing.
Dana Goldstein
Man, remember earlier this year when a cop said a barista wrote pig on his cup then it turned out she didn't but got fired anyways then it turned out cops were doing it all over the country like some weird munchausen by proxy thing to get sympathy for themselves?
@JenYetAgain
The people who are telling you that you will never get anywhere with a slogan like "defund the police" never would've imagined such a phrase gaining mainstream momentum in the first place, so they aren't exactly political fortune tellers.
Puff the Magic Hater @MsKellyMHayes
The problem with America isn't the "depraved individuals" that murdered George Floyd: it's the system that gave those murderers badges and guns and qualified immunity.
Cory Doctorow
Reflecting on all those years of SimCity brainwashing, where you can demolish homes for a highway and no one's life is ruined. Where crime happens for no real reason — just a function of population—and paying for police stations makes it magically disappear and everyone is happier.
Daniel P. Huffman @pinakographos
If we banned domestic abusers from possessing firearms, about 40% of cops would no longer be allowed to carry a gun.
Joshua 4 Congress
Every word police utter and report they write should be considered to be under oath. Any misstatement of fact by an officer of the law is perjury and should be immediate grounds for dismissal. How did we get to this point where lying by cops is tolerated?
Kendal Killian
ok fine I have been convinced "defund" is both too strident and abstract, so I'm gonna move to a compromise platform of police demobilization, disarmament and truth and reconciliation commissions combined with reparations and universal employment under a 75% wealth tax. hows that
@PatBlanchfield
Every bartender I've ever met is better at de-escalating conflict than the police.
Lucie Steiner
You realize police forces around the country have just been holding up cities for protection money for decades, right? And you realize their monopoly over funds has destroyed social services that would've helped curb crime without them and saved lives and property anyway, right? Cut police funding and invest in communities. Stop throwing our money away for fear and white supremacist paranoia and fund education, infrastructure, social services, and human projects.
Jared Yates Sexton
I really want to see cost of average arrest, prosecution, jail for things we most often don't need to arrest for, and that go virtually unenforced among richer, white people. Like costs for arrest for drug use, drunken tussle, mental health crisis, weapons possess, prostitution
kar nels
defunding the chicago police department definitely doesn't seem that radical when you remember that they closed down 60 public schools and half the city's mental health clinics to spare corporations from paying taxes.
@loveformypeople
I've been thinking about this a lot lately. We have trained a ton of radicalized men that will soon be unemployed and they all likely have massive weapon caches at home.
@mikesonn
People twisting themselves in knots over the "Defund Police" slogan when the GOP slogan, to great success for many decades, has been "Defund Healthcare, Education, Social Security, Unemployment, Public Transit!" Maybe if we just tell people they'd get a tax cut that would do it?
@DougScha
"Defund the police? Impossible!" they cried as they defunded education, healthcare, social security, welfare, planned parenthood, public transit...
@batwingdings
Black people been talking about the problem with police brutality since the police were first formed. White people are the recipients of that shit for less than two weeks and now we got a major city disbanding their police force. Wow.
@crissles
Cities are just police departments with some underfunded services on the side:
Kailash Srinivasan
Defunding the police sounds radical until you realize realize we’ve been defunding education for years.
T.J. McKay
The difference between a police union and a real union is that when a steelworker shoves a 75-year-old man to the concrete and cracks his skull, the steelworker goes to jail.
Zach Carter
Does anyone know who took this photo because it deserves an award:
Diego Lopez
i am by no means an expert in policing or criminal justice. but even from the brief fieldwork i did in police departments, i am not kidding when i say that i have never studied a system designed to be *more* resistant to reform than police departments.
Rhiana Gunn-Wright
The cops are rioting in NYC. de Blasio and Cuomo aren't doing anything to stop them. This isn't just a Republican problem.
Max Berger
The police kneeling with and hugging protesters is like when your abusive boyfriend brings you flowers after hurting you. when he makes a grand gesture of love in front of your friends. It’s to pressure you into forgiveness, it’s manipulation, it’s abuse. Don’t fall for it.
@TheBlackLayers
I hate to be so on-brand, but one easy, concrete step we could take towards de-policing society would be installing speed and red-light cameras and ending random traffic stops
Henry Grabar
Imagine living in a country that it took months to respond to a pandemic and seconds to militarize the police against its citizens
Solomon Georgio
everyone saying that responding to a murder of one of your own with some aimless property damage and petty theft is completely indefensible: i have a few questions for you about our ongoing 20-year war in the middle east
eevee
Each time I've been called for jury duty here in Manhattan, defense inevitably gets to "Do you think that the police always tell the truth?" and each time I've honestly answered "No," and so the last time I was on a jury was 1985.
Jack Womack
ComicsGate: Modern comics are too political
MAD Magazine, 1970: Hold my sign:
Andrew Farago
When we say police abolition we do not mean abandoning all tasks currently performed by the police. We mean turning those tasks over to appropriate professionals (and who do not rely on violence).
@ExileTheology
Rubber bullets are not a safe alternative to lethal force. Often they ARE lethal or debilitating. 3% of people hit by them die from the injury, and 15% are permanently injured. They should not be used on people exercising their 1st Amendment rights.
Julián Castro
Wild seeing the same people who screamed that shutting down hair salons was some Nazi shit now saying that protesters deserve to be brutalized by the state for staying out past curfew.
Joshua Holland
Liberals have talked for years about federal military complex as bloated and sucking $$ from the community investments needed most, but haven't been willing to talk about our own backyards an municipal/state policing. Young BIPOC activists changed this narrative @reclaimtheblock
Elizabeth Glidden
17 kids get shot to death at school: (*nothing*)
3,000 Americans die in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria: (*nothing*)
100,000 die in a pandemic: (*nothing*)
People protest police for strangling a Black man: whoa whoa WHOA, let's get the Army out there for this
Greg Greene
conservatives a month ago: “why should we listen to the government and stay home? you are all sheep, this is a free country!”
conservatives today: “if you just follow the government mandated curfew, the paramilitary police stormtroopers won’t shoot you in the face, it’s simple”
@heycrisp
Some of the dudes who seemed super into liberty and free speech when they were talking about a dean’s email about Halloween costumes are weirdly silent about cops tear gassing peaceful protestors. What gives?
Mehrsa Baradaran
This is going to be a superficial analogy because I don’t really know the details, but: as part of bringing an end to the Troubles, Northern Ireland disbanded the police, the Royal Ulster Constabulary, and started over. We need something like that
Adam Miller @ajm6792
America is a Confederate monumentFor once, there were just a few on sexism, misogyny, and toxic masculinity:
michaelharriot
The president, who promised lengthy prison sentences for anyone who damages a monument, has been dismantling and desecrating protected monuments since he took office.
Chris D'Angelo
Philadelphia is removing a Columbus statue after multiple violent attacks instigated by guys protecting the statue. A truly incredible self-own.
Bradford Pearson
Fun fact: Gay marriage has now been around longer than the Confederacy.
Keith Edwards
I guarantee people are learning more about history reading about why statues are being torn down than they ever learned by looking at those statues.
Amanda Marcotte
"But you're erasing history!" -- usually said by a white person upset that actual history is being shared and a previously venerated icon turns out to be an asshole
Newfangled Dad
Quick reminder that the government closed almost 800 public libraries from 2010. These complaints that removing statues erases our history would have been useful when they literally were getting rid of our access to history books.
@JamesManuell
If the US really wants to get real about abolishing monuments to slavers how about the electoral college?
Hanna Jameson
Germany doesn’t have Nazi monuments to “remind” citizens of their history. Instead, they have memorials for the 6 million Jews and others who were murdered. The U.S. doesn’t need statues of confederate generals to “remind” us. We need monuments for Nat Turner and Harriet Tubman.
Padma Lakshmi
Removing statues and renaming buildings is *not* erasing history.
Removing statues and renaming buildings is *refusing to celebrate* the hatred and violences of our past.
Paul Thomas
This was vandalism:
Aaron the Anthropologist @Anarchopology
I still can't believe that Cuomo said that Columbus is a source of Italian-American pride when there are so many other people who can be just that: Caravaggio? Da Vinci? Alighieri? Versace? Sophia Loren? Like come on. Don't give us that crap.
Morgan Jerkins
For the umpteenth time: There’s a huge difference between honoring historical figures in spite of their sins (Washington, Jefferson, etc.), and honoring historical figures because of their sins (Lee, Davis, Forrest, etc.).
Radley Balko
You're not allowed to complain about participation trophies if you fly the original American participation trophy: the Confederate flag.
Sunrise Movement
Nobody wants Columbus to be forgotten from History they want to treat him like the monster he was
@PandaWhoIsPink1
Doesn’t the fact that so many people are just discovering their statues are of horrific racists kind of prove they weren’t actually teaching anyone history?
@TheAndrewNadeau
If you think tearing down a statue of Christopher Columbus is bad, wait until I tell you what Christopher Columbus did.
Charlotte Clymer
Let’s learn some MN history. The Columbus Statue on the MN Capitol Grounds was installed in 1931. Also in 1931? The height of Klan activity in MN. Also the year MN State Auditor King, who was a card-carrying KKK member, was elected.
Erin Maye Quade
It’s weird how the same people who want to cancel immigration are really angry that indigenous people knocked down a statue of a guy from a foreign country.
@mrotzie
If you're upset about Jefferson Davis remember that statues of the bad guy who lost the war are literally the visual device that they use in movies to reveal that you fucked up your time travel
Daniel Kibblesmith
“You’re erasing history” is consistently the most Orwellian argument of racists and bigots who erected the statues in the first place specifically to erase the stains those people left on history. No one is a erasing history; they’re erasing your lies.
August J. Pollak
"Things should change but it is wrong to change them." Liberalism in a nutshell:
@MediocreDave
One reason people insist that you use the proper channels to change things is because they have control of the proper channels and they’re confident it won’t work
Jon Stone
Confederate statues are literally monuments to losers, but please tell me more about how it’s liberals who want participation trophies.
The Volatile Mermaid @OhNoSheTwitnt
Every confederate statue is a place we could put a fiberglass dinosaur.
1. Also important historical figures
2. Also all got killed
3. Didn’t declare war on the U.S. (yet)
Daniel Kibblesmith
If you’re one of the people who thinks throwing a statue of Edward Colston into the sea is bad, wait until you find out about the 19,000 slaves who died whilst his company transported them to the Caribbean.
James Felton
This nation made monuments of slave traders and then told black people to get over slavery.
Bev Gooden
Sometimes I see someone change "man-made disaster" to "human-made disaster" and I always think... no, no man-made is correct.And hey, remember we're still in a pandemic? And it's getting worse again as the month is ending?
Dr. Samantha Montano
The word "muse" was invented to not pay women for ideas, right?
Hana Michels
*whispers* Biden is running the Hillary campaign and it will probably win in a landslide because the only thing that really mattered in 2016 was misogyny
@coldlawgic
Here's a quick visual summary of what got us here:Within the COVID topic, there was the subtopic of masks:
Rishi Desai
The rush to open bars (can’t wear masks, minimal social value) while being super-cautious about schools (masking possible, large benefits) is absurd but it’s a straightforward consequence of GOP fiscal policy hanging state/local governments out to dry.
Matthew Yglesias
Any zombie movie that doesn't have hordes of people running towards the zombies to deliberately get bitten because they're convinced it's a liberal hoax is going to look pretty unrealistic now.
@CaseyExplosion
85 cases, from a single restaurant, that followed spacing guidelines, in a state with relatively low transmission. I’m very pessimistic that there’s any safe way to reopen indoor dining. Capping occupancy won’t cut it. Outdoor and carry out only for now.
@JeremyKonyndyk
“we opened the businesses so we could kick their workers off unemployment, not so you would GO to them!!!!”
@aherman2006
If the USA has 3% of the world’s population and 25% of the world’s COVID cases and is traveling south at 65 MPH, and Trump has 50 sexual assault allegations and 5 kids by 3 wives and is traveling east at 45 MPH, what’s it going to take for you to vote for him out of office?
The Volatile Mermaid @OhNoSheTwitnt
Science is not our missing ingredient in beating this virus. Empathy is.
Andy Slavitt
Nigel Farage was given special permission to enter the US for Trump's Tulsa rally, despite a ban on travel from the UK, after DHS officials determined it "would be in the national interest"
Jon Swaine
Our acceptance of mass death in America (guns, cars, COVID etc) like nothing can be done because of freedom is insane. Plenty of places who even outpace us on freedom indices have fixed this shit.
@DougScha
Alex Zalben:
@azalben
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The rush to justify Covid deaths as only people with pre-existing conditions is crass and places a stigma on health and implies that their deaths are somehow less than an otherwise"healthy" person
Lyz Lenz
So we are definitely going with 'recovery' as the word to describe a return to the state of permanent crisis that defined the pre-lockdown era?
Chris Shaw @kalahar1
Prisons in 21 states have gotten *more crowded* even as the number of those imprisoned has *declined.* It’s because states have been closing prisons — to save $$ — faster than they’re letting people out. One result: Massive COVID outbreaks.
Eric Umansky
PSA: The subtext of herd immunity is culling.
@lizbon
My patient works at a homeless shelter in Brooklyn. Tearfully she told me every resident there got COVID in April. Every single one. More than 20 died. No one had a funeral. No one called. No media reported about it. Think about that. They just disappeared.
Haitham Ahmed, MD, MPH
Seriously: Every place opening up or loosening restrictions is forcing low-wage workers back into unsafe conditions so that folks with money can get back to “normal” life.
Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones
The Covid numbers are rising because the political apparatus of the US as a whole was simply unwilling to meet a pandemic with the baseline action of "pay people to stay mostly indoors for 4 months," or the follow-on of establishing comprehensive testing and tracing.
Kelsey D. Atherton
Nothing has changed in terms of the pandemic. If we shouldn't have been open in mid-March then we shouldn't be opening anything now, literally nothing has changed except that the government doesn't want to send you any more checks and so is just giving up
@PlanetofFinks
The Republican Party has dedicated 2020 to arguing that senior citizens have to be sacrificed to the cannibalistic economy during a pandemic and if they get in the way of marauding police they should expect to end up bleeding on the pavement and left for dead.
Jared Yates Sexton
Trump's labor secretary confirms OSHA has only brought one citation against employers nationwide during the pandemic
Jeff Stein
There are more maskless people in grocery stores and restaurants right now than at protests. Just pointing that out for when the "Reopen!" people blame any COVID spikes on Black Lives Matter.
Zach Heltzel
How are you gonna say All Lives Matter when just two months ago you wanted to sacrifice your grandma for the economy?
@sdellag
Extremely mysterious how masks were an affront to liberty when the virus was tearing through communities of color in the Northeast, and are now a pragmatic protective measure as the virus explodes in key Sunbelt battleground states, gee, must be a coincidence.Meanwhile, climate change continues (and renewable energy solutions still exist):
Alex Schieferdecker
The unacceptable sacrifice isn't wearing a mask, it's acknowledging that science and progressives are right. THAT is the bridge too far, being compelled to signal, through one's behavior, over and over again, that Trump and his cabal were catastrophically wrong.
Lori K. Brown @LKB64
O2 kinetic size is about 350pm, N95 mask filters down to .3 microns. So, we are looking at a molecule that’s 1000–10,000 times smaller than the filter size. That’s like saying that a soccer goal net is stopping grains of sand blowing through.
Seamus Blackley
this mask pushback confirms my suspicion it truly is just an all-in mentality with some folks. whatever we want, they’re always gonna want the other thing. can’t even agree on a fucking plague
@robwhisman
I know masks aren’t exactly comfortable, but neither are bras, and a good portion of the population wears those regularly for far less important reasons.
Ashley Bissette Sumerel
I keep seeing couples where just one of the two is wearing a mask... and why. And yes, it’s always the man who isn’t wearing a mask.
Alex @mplsalex
Only in America is wearing a mask deemed too burdensome but people are forced to wait in line for 5 hours to vote
Ari Berman
South Pole warming 3x faster than the rest of the globe, new study findsAnd livable cities and sustainable transportation are still being talked about:
Bill McKibben
Fracking, overall, has been an incredible money loser for the companies doing it. Meanwhile, the companies deploying solar and wind have made steady, predictable returns.
Ramez Naam
To end the climate emergency, we need to fix the systems that make us think that some lives are worth less than others, and that the exploitation – of people, or resources – is ever ok. Climate change is not about emissions. It's about justice:
Eric Holthaus
I hope seeing how the US has responded to coronavirus has quashed any remaining notion that climate action depends on facts, reason, persuasion, or even appeal to personal interests. You want change, take power. Everything else is vapor.
David Roberts @drvox
PSA: if you’re worried about CO2 accumulation from masks, our climate crisis is going to blow your mind
Arjun Arya, MD, MSc.
U.S. shale has lost $300 billion in 15 years, and "peaked without ever making money"
Nick Cunningham
Yes but a handful of CEOs got rich, and a bunch of industry shills got to yell about "energy independence" for a decade or so, so it wasn't all bad.
Chris Nelder
The Green New Deal isn’t a radical idea. Continuing to let the Arctic cook to boost fossil fuel industry profits is a radical idea.
Mondaire Jones
Siberian town tops 100 degrees F, the hottest temperature ever recorded north of the Arctic Circle. This scares me, I have to say.
Bill McKibben
The theory we can rely on billions of people doing everything they can in their own lives to stem the climate crisis feels like it's been pretty decisively refuted by the fact that hundreds of millions of people won't even put a cheap cloth mask on to save their neighbor's life. We're not going to save civilization on a volunteer basis, in our free time, when we feel like it and it doesn't cost too much.
Alex Steffen
Of course we can address climate change and inequity at the same time. You think we got here by distinct tracks, the department of damaging the climate and the department of structural inequity? One internally consistent worldview adhered to by those in power got us here.
Dr. Elizabeth Sawin
Future people don't get to choose what future they'll live in. We're deciding for them, now. Our choices will be effectively irreversible:
Alex Steffen
Who in the USA is concerned about climate change?
49% of Whites
57% of Blacks
70% of Latinx
Imagine what would be possible if POC didn’t have to deal with racism and could devote that energy to
Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson
Climate change is dire and we can't get any sort of hold on planetary systems unless we have the beginnings of a more equitable and just society. That means we have to find solutions that both sequester carbon, replace agriculture, & repair & address racial and economic justice.
BuildSoil via One Million Mixed-Species Chestnuts.
Setting emissions targets in the distant future (2030, or 2050) is suicidal. Governments have no reason to care about such targets. The *only* target that matters is an immediate cap on fossil fuel use and legally binding objectives for annual decline.
Jason Hickel
Public transportation should be free. That’s why Ayanna Pressley and I introduced the Freedom to Move Act to support fare-free public transit and guarantee the freedom of mobility for all—a freedom that is critical to achieving social and economic justice.There were several about media criticism (including criticism of social media platforms):
Ed Markey
Aspirations: Rotterdam is transforming seven iconic spaces, removing cars, adding nature and creating places ‘to be’ recognizing that the city landscape needs more places for people. This is the city of the future:
Jennifer Keesmaat
“Car owners have mistaken their century-long domination over pedestrians for a right rather than a privilege. The truth is cities are not doing nearly enough to restore streets for pedestrian use, and it’s the pedestrians who should be furious.” Quoting a story about Madrid in the New York Times
Brent Toderian
Apropos of nothing, it should be illegal/frowned upon/discouraged for anyone to build 6/7+ lane pedestrian crossings that don't have median islands at least. We know that's not safe, esp. for slower moving groups. You shouldn't have to be an olympian to cross the street.
Angie Schmitt
Eliminating parking minimums is the single easiest and cheapest thing your city probably hasn't done to fight climate change.
@reubencollins
When suburbanites fight against any public space near their houses, they are using car access as an invisible way to create a gated community.
Angie Schmitt
No renewable energy investment can change the fact that these needlessly wide neighborhood streets get really, really hot in the sun. Parking lanes are climate injustice:
@ban_SUVs
Funny how building affordable housing or striping a bike lane requires a decade of hearings and approvals and lawsuits and temporary restraining orders, but if cops want to commandeer an entire street for parking or build a barbed-wire-covered wall across the fucking sidewalk, it's up in a couple days.
Neptune
'The motor vehicle is like a cuckoo in the nest of the urban environment; it cannot share the space without murdering its companions.' Powerful words from @crisortunity
@CirclingBear
Bike lanes are not tools of oppression. That would be forcing people to own cars in order to work, eat, go to school and access health care, while poisoning their own air.
Mary Morse Marti
Wish we had something like this in the US. "A trip with the kids or shopping without a car? Apply now to test the Cargoroo bicycles for free for two weeks":
Brandon Lust
As we lurch toward progress, do not forget that cars, trucks and the infrastructure that supports them bankrupts households and poisons the most vulnerable and that redesigning our transportation system for bicycles, trains, and feet is imperative to wealth building.
Mary Morse Marti
Car tires —28%:
Brandon Lust (graphic from World Economic Forum)
“Would Facebook have provided a platform for Hitler?” Bickert once asked in memo when weighing whether or not take down Trump’s anti-Muslim call to violence years ago. They decided the answer to that question was an enthusiastic yes.Wealth inequality, wage theft, and a better way to run an economy:
@BrandingBrandi
tl;dr: Facebook's VP for Global Public Policy clerked for Scalia, was a part of "Brooks Brothers Riot" that stole 2000 election, worked 8 years in the Bush administration, and was a lobbyist for the coal industry. In other words, a normal Republican.
@mateosfo
NPR is news for people who are okay with war and genocide as long as the paperwork is filled out correctly.
Aren R. LeBrun @proustmalone
A note to media folks: If your newspaper or outlet is no longer covering the *enormous* BLM protests because they're peaceful now, question why the news business fetishizes blood and violence and ignores racial justice movements otherwise.
Heidi N. Moore @moorehn
I hate that "diversity" in newsrooms is framed as a social justice issue and not a journalistic failure. It should be clear: Out-of-touch white publicationss spent decades ignoring police brutality bc their limited experience with police blinded them to what policing looks like for black people
Jack Herrera
Extremely noticeable that cable news spent the early days of protests covering them nonstop while condemning the burning and looting and then stopped covering the ongoing protests once there was no burning and looting
Hamilton Nolan
When we were kids, our parents told us watching too much TV would rot our brains, and the internet was full of creeps. Now they get all their news from FOX or MSNBC and a FB group called “WAKE UP SHEEPLE.” I guess they were right.
Sunrise Movement
Shame on every centrist who just wants to return to normal.And finally, as always, the best of the rest:
Normal means 87 million are underinsured or uninsured.
Normal means the Black-white wealth gap hasn’t changed since 1968.
Normal means more war, more inequality and more injustice.
Fuck normal. WE NEED A BETTER WORLD!
@ProudSocialist
It's almost as if we know exactly what to do to address every single problem facing our country and our world, but we actively refuse to do it because it might require the richest and most powerful people to not have a fifth vacation mansion.
David Sirota
Apparently, it's only looting if you steal less than $500 worth of goods and actually put in some physical labor. Rich people are just doing "capitalism."
Hari Kondabolu
Capitalism sells itself as the height of Reason. But there is nothing rational about an economic model that systematically undermines the web of life on which humanity itself depends.
Jason Hickel
Hedge fund investors are suckers. Fascinating paper shows that when a hedge fund makes $1, the client only gets 36 cents.
Jesse Eisinger
Weird that I haven’t bought an avocado toast in more than three months and I still don’t have the down payment for a house.
Sophie Vershbow
The quote ringing over and over in my mind in 2020 is that good will is not public policy. Good landlords aren’t the same as rights under the law. Good cops aren’t the same as actual experienced safety everywhere. Good businesses aren’t universal guarantees against wage theft/virus spread. I don’t want your one-off stories about good actors. I want a world where everyone’s health, safety and dignity is fully enforceable under the law, and not enforced thru the machine of policing/mass incarceration. We live in a world built to guarantee wealth/health of a select few.
Mitra Jalali
Me: every one of my 40 browser tabs is precious I couldn't possibly narrow these down
Also me when my computer crashes and the tabs don't recover: I can't remember a single tab I had open
Nneoma Adaku @theemdphd
Again, the two Supreme Court justices accused of sexual assault and harassment have voted to uphold a law that tells women, sorry, you're not in charge of the most intimate parts of your own body.
Jill Filipovic
5% of Americans say they feel things in America today, generally speaking, are going "very well" via new CBS poll.
Ryan Struyk
This is the corner of a block of balsa wood as seen under a scanning electron microscope: balsa wood’s cells are big and thin-walled, so that the ratio of solid matter to open space is very small. Only about 40% of the volume of the wood is solid substance:
@Rainmaker1973
“you’ll get more conservative when you’re older” were words spoken by the more privileged of a generation who were actually saying “i expect that you, like me, will acquire wealth and property as you age, and therefore stop desiring to challenge that status quo”
@jessfromonline
boomers got more conservative as they got older and attributed that to age instead of accumulated wealth and a total lack of immunity to corporate news propaganda. then they voted in politicians who froze wages & deregulated the economy until it exploded
@shaun_vids
Jesus never mentioned gay people or abortions, but he made it 100% clear that he does not allow divorce and remarriage. Of course, nearly all churches ignore that.
almightygod
My advice: Share the work you find beautiful and meaningful more often than you announce your rejection of the work you dislike.
Imani Perry
People get mad about new acronyms like BIPOC but expect you to understand what a Presbyterian is
@lodgepolepines
This figure is pretty scary. The share of residential investment going into renovation jumped dramatically after the Great Recession and stayed there. Basically, we replaced the construction of new housing with home-flipping and owner occupancy of rental units:
@ShaneDPhillips
Allyship is prone to fatigue, but solidarity has some staying power.
Dr. Elizabeth Sawin
What if politics was about making the world a better place and not about insisting it can’t be any better?
Zach Carter
Every marriage has one person who doom scrolls and reads headlines out loud pre-coffee, and another person who is begging them to stop
@Almost_Anna
The Klamath River was the third largest salmon run in the world until shortly after WW2. The US dammed it up to irrigate farmland that can never, ever possibly make as much food as that salmon run did. Before industrial meat, US cities used to get most of their protein from fisheries. This whole "food comes from farms" thing? The "cities depend on the countryside for food"? That's actually kind of a recent development.
Dr Sarah Taber
Most people don’t know how to self educate because they spend their formative years being conditioned by school which forces passivity in learning. For the most part, we socialize education as something done to you, not something you control.
Mother Bae I @tiersaj
The US is obsessed with personal responsibility for systemic problems that require systemic solutions. You’re supposed to bear the brunt of the problem, take the blame for causing it, and also solve it all on your own.
Amy Westervelt
“Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of supply and demand; it is the privilege of human beings to live under the laws of justice and mercy” -Wendell Berry
Alfie Kohn
anti-discrimination laws are literally meaningless if we don't also abolish at-will employment. "i'm not firing you because you're trans, i'm firing you because uhhhhhh you missed a spot while mopping last night"
JordantheKitty
Alito says that "sex" must be defined exactly the way that lawmakers understood that term in 1964. I'm skeptical he'll apply that same rule to defining what counts as "arms" when reading the Second Amendment.
Adam Winkler
The Bundy crew still grazes on federal land without paying fees -- ain't no "law and order" for them.
Dean Baker
History is actually very radicalizing, which helps explain why so much effort is expended in suppressing real knowledge of it
Ben Tarnoff
people get so weird and cagey whenever you talk about letting incarcerated people vote like what do you think they’re gonna do........ write in “murder should be legal” on their ballot and then suddenly lawmakers will be like “well my hands are tied. murder is legal now”
@hanabryanne
"Your binky, my liege?" #medievaltwitter:
Emily Steiner @PiersatPenn
Basically my brain is a third generalized anxiety, a third Ursula LeGuin and a third Ecology.
BuildSoil via One Million Mixed-Species Chestnuts.
My children are going to make a little high school coven of theater goths so very happy someday.
Maggie Koerth
My plan:
1) Set the rules so no one can follow them.
2) Threaten to eternally torture everyone who breaks even one rule,
3) Watch humans kill My Son/Self.
4) Now I’ll only torture ALMOST all people.
You’re welcome!
almightygod
Absurdity is the state assigning you The Grapes of Wrath at 16 and tear gassing you at 26 for understanding it.
Aren R. LeBrun @proustmalone
Was just reminded of this Census study from 2011 showing that people who claim to work 75 hours a week or more typically actually work 50 hours a week.
Josh Barro
I kinda think institutions work the opposite of the famous Tolstoy line: all bad institutions are the same; every good institution is good in its own way.
@csilverandgold
Sunlight is a bad disinfectant. Not getting infected in the first place is an excellent plan
David M. Perry @Lollardfish
If you think antifa’s bad, wait until you find out about fascists.
@kashanacauley
Future historians will be asked which quarter of 2020 they specialize in.
David Burr Gerrard
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