Friday, October 18, 2019

Some Tweets from Rebecca Traister


  •  Pinned Tweet
     Sep 15
    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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     7 hours ago
    "I don’t yearn to see anyone — not even Harvey — in prison; I really don’t. ... I know that locking up a couple of bad guys won’t fix what’s broken. ... all I really want is for them not to be in charge anymore." Great piece by
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     14 hours ago
    they're not supposed to care about themselves, only other people.) Anyway, it was always a bullshit charge, but it's nice to see the media is finally reckoning with its bullshit-ness. Go Chicago teachers!
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     14 hours ago
    For years, conservatives—and many pro-market liberals—loved to bash teachers as selfish agents of their own interests. (Weird how pursuing your own interests in one case is fine, but in another, not so fine. The fact that teachers are often women plays a role here; like nurses,
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     13 hours ago
    Not a fan of this smug pundit position that says talking about Medicare for All is pointless because it’s politically impossible to pass—as if talking about it and making a case to the American people isn’t part of the work of *making* it possible.
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  •  11 hours ago
    For women (& men) of any age seeking honesty on this topic, I wrote a reported book about how adult female life has historically been configured around an early hetero marriage model & how resistance to/straying from that model has shaped history & policy:
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     12 hours ago
    Dolly's America listeners: When producer-hosts Jad and Shima mention that I've written a lot about Dolly and class, that was a 2016 long (40,000-word!) print series for roots-music magazine . ran an excerpt:
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  •   Retweeted
     12 hours ago
    with my previous tweets in mind, if buttigieg is going to try to snatch biden’s support he probably shouldn’t appear at a fundraiser for the lawyer who tried to help rahm cover up the murder of laquan mcdonald
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  •   Retweeted
     13 hours ago
    Not sure who needs to hear this on a Friday morning but it's OK to change your mind. Once you learn new information and also when contexts shift, you can change your mind. That's not a sign of unseriousness or not being revolutionary etc. etc... It's a sign that you can evolve.
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  •   Retweeted
     13 hours ago
    We need to flip 9 seats to win it — the filing deadline is 12/9 and there are still top targets without candidates. Donate right now to amp up our recruitment campaign in Texas.
    Karl Rove tells Texas House Republicans that it is critical for them to hold the majority heading into redistricting. "If the trend continues, we'll lose the House"
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  •  14 hours ago
    Can’t believe I missed yesterday’s because I learn from every day; she is a model for rigorous & electrifying public discourse; she’s my compatriot in wild rides, I’m so lucky I get to spend time traveling through this world alongside her.
    I love Dr. Cooper’s work because she is invested in making sure that black feminist theorizing does not stay within the privileged walls of the academy. She is a model for how to be a public intellectual & stay real. …
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  •  14 hours ago
    Yes yes yes yes
    Equating support for middle-class families -- with opposition to increasing their tax rates -- is a conservative project. There is no reason for any Democratic candidate to be advancing it.
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  •   Retweeted
     Oct 17
    Tonight I had the honor of paying tribute to a great statesman and humble public servant, Chairman Elijah Cummings, on All In with Chris Hayes. Watch as I discuss his legacy with
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  •   Retweeted
     Oct 17
    In Chicago, teachers and support staff have gone on strike against austerity:
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  •  Oct 17
    So grateful for 's segment with two of the people I wanted to hear most from about their experiences working with Elijah Cummings, and . Thanks for that, at the end of this sad day.
    Tonight on ⁦⁩, I spoke abt Rep as not only an eloquent speaker, but as a listener. Here he is listening at a community town hall he co-sponsored w/ ⁦⁩ on policing reform a…
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  •  Oct 17
    Cool, cool. Let's defeat a totally implausible parody of performative masculinity with a....totally implausible parody of performative masculinity! Very cool.
    .⁦⁩ campaign now selling “Beat Him Like a Drum” t-shirts.
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  •   Retweeted
     Oct 17
    Forgot this. Buttigieg in debate two on raising middle class taxes for expanding coverage and eliminating premiums: “Look, this is a distinction without a difference, whether you're paying the same money in the form of taxes or premiums.“
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  •   Retweeted
     Oct 17
    As I was paying my respects to our forever Chairman, his staff told me that in his final hours he signed subpoenas to USCIS and ICE, pursuing justice for immigrants in my district & across the country with chronic medical conditions. A man of his word every moment of his life. – at House Oversight Committee
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  •  Oct 17
    Everything is going to be heavy lifting from here on out. Part of that, though, is because we should have been lifting a lot more long before we got to this point.
    And that's going to be some serious heavy lifting.
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  •  Oct 17
    Look, we are going to have to expand the whole federal judiciary in order to redress this grotesque malpractice, and the manipulation and degradation of the courts by an incompetent president and his party of malevolent lackeys.
    Justin Walker is 37, has never tried a case in court + earned a rare and embarrassing "not qualified" rating by the American Bar Association. So naturally, Republicans just voted to move forward with making him a…
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  •   Retweeted
     Oct 17
    If you don't have a plan that accounts for McConnell and SCOTUS, then you don't have a plan. You have a wish. Centrists selling you "achievable" plans are not being forthright about the challenges the next Pres will face. My latest in
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