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A good morning for reading suggestions to help process fury. Because I wrote it, I’ll start with my book, Good and Mad, about the history & political power of women’s anger, now in paperback (& on sale in hardcover). BUT WAIT THERE’S LOTS MORE:
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last night someone walked around chinatown hitting homeless men in the head with a metal object while they were sleeping — 4 men are dead
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Something for everyone tonight on #VanJonesShow @cnn at 7pm.
@VanJones68 talks the impeachment inquiry with @RepJahanaHayes , Gov. @PhilBryantMS , @NYMag #GoodandMad author Rebecca Traister @rtraister , and @by_the_ppl co-founder Alexandra Flores-Quilty @AFQ_92 @by_the_ppl
This has ALWAYS been the message, & it’s predicated on (early) hetero marriage as institution that organized power & labor, and the panic when that institution is reimagined or destabilized as central to women’s lives & worth. Anyway, it’s a good book:
I wrote a book, All the Single Ladies, that chronicles the history of this exact pattern of cultural messaging to women — you’re getting too educated/successful to get a man — in late 19th century, mid 20th century, and 2010s (hi Steve Harvey!)
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Inside Chinese camps thought to be detaining a million Muslims https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/inside-chinese-camps-thought-detain-million-muslim-uighurs-n1062321 … via @nbcnews
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REPORTER: Have you seen enough evidence to vote to convict Donald Trump and remove him from office?
ELIZABETH WARREN: “Yes.”
- Rebecca Traister RetweetedScoop: the Warren campaign has fired its national organizing director Rich McDaniel. "Over the past two weeks, senior campaign leadership received multiple complaints regarding inappropriate behavior," Kristen Orthman says. Full statements screenshotted https://www.politico.com/news/2019/10/04/warren-staffer-inappropriate-behavior-campaign-2020-028583 …
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- This has, in fact, been on my mind. But the history of women's outrage as a defining American story extends well before this election cycle. https://www.amazon.com/Good-Mad-Revolutionary-Power-Womens/dp/1501181793 …
- I mean...there’s a Le Creuset of frozen Han Solo! I am imagining talking to my cornbread batter: I love you. Cornbread batter: I know. BAM you get put in carbonite. WHAT IS THIS AND WHY DO I CARE WHEN THE WORLD IS FALLING APART
- Rebecca Traister RetweetedI know this all looks bad. But I'm still very grateful to all the dedicated political reporters who worked so hard to make sure that we wouldn't elect a woman who used a personal email account to conduct work business.
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- Rebecca Traister RetweetedKavanaugh and Gorsuch here will likely overturn Whole Women’s Health v. Hellerstedt, an extremely recent precedent from 2016. This near-inevitable decision should put to rest any remaining pretense that the Court is not a political institution.
- Rebecca Traister RetweetedSanders > Warren by that small of a margin is probably not as impt as Sanders + Warren being so much bigger than everyone else. The left ascending as Biden dips (and their donors can give again)
- Rebecca Traister RetweetedWith this new abortion case at SCOTUS, expect the GOP appointees to pretend they aren’t overturning the 2016 decision in Whole Woman’s Health, which said abortion restrictions need to be based in science or benefit patients. The only difference is Kennedy is gone.
