Saturday, December 14, 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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  •   Retweeted
     22 hours ago
    Every candidate who is set to be on the debate stage this month has said they will not cross the picket line as LMU food service workers with fight for a contract with Sodexo. Warren was the first to announce her boycott.
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  •   Retweeted
     Dec 12
    "Schmidt’s refusal to submit to correction, substituting his “belief” about what a younger Warren may have done for actual reported evidence, in the midst of an exchange about accuracy and trustworthiness, was striking."
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  •   Retweeted
     Dec 12
    and even if you want to say “well those were moderates” you should probably also contend with the fact that the most left-wing candidate in the presidential race with near-universal name recognition consistently outpolls trump
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  •   Retweeted
     Dec 12
    democrats won big statewide victories in kentucky, louisiana and virginia like, three weeks ago
    One lesson from the UK: if the Democrats don't stop their hard-left slide, they'll suffer the same fate as Labour. If they don't move off their support for mass immigration, they're toast. Ditto the wokeness. Left Twitter is not reality.
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  •   Retweeted
     Dec 12
    keep organizing
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  •   Retweeted
     Dec 12
    easier to write the hot takes when you don't feel genuine and intractable despair at certain current events
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  •   Retweeted
     Dec 12
    Oh gawd. Here we go with the "left can't win" takes. The UK political situation while similar in some ways to the US is also massively different to the US on so many other levels. For a start, the US isn't trying to leave the EU. Anyways, the UK result depressing all round...
    Warning from across the pond to Dems flirting with Bernie/Warren
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  •  Dec 12
    I remain here mostly for the moose content
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    Moose running through deep snow
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  •   Retweeted
     Dec 12
    Another Buttigieg line we may see again, from that CBS interview: “I may be the only person on that debate stage who’s not a millionaire.” Buttigieg grew up wealthier than Biden, Warren, or Sanders, but emphasizes that he’s the poorest candidate *now.*
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  •   Retweeted
     Dec 12
    While Warren is certainly talking about opponents more "lashing out" seems a stretch. It was her refusal to talk about them that was the aberration. This, right now, is pretty normal and where most of her opponents have been for months
    Gone are the days of summer when Warren was soaring in the polls and declining to say a negative word about her rivals. Now, as she sinks nationally and in early state polls and risks winning neither of the early contests, she is lashing out.
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  •   Retweeted
     Dec 12
    There's also a broader political point about the way TV shapes the respective bases. Dem punditry is mostly the establishment lecturing the grassroots, while Fox is the inverse -- its biggest voices reflect the grassroots and lecture the establishment
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  •   Retweeted
     Dec 12
    Family sociologist Christina Cross has gotten a lot of unfair flak for her NYT op-ed taking on America's "long and troubled history of viewing racial inequality primarily through the lens of family structure." My response to one of her critics.
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  •  Dec 12
    After much consideration I’ve decided that Twitter is the appropriate place to let my fellow Outsiders kids know that I suggested this piece be headlined “Stay Gold, Phony Boys.” And that my idea was not even acknowledged by editors.
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  •  Dec 12
    If you’ve spotted the way the president—who spews garbled, racist, all-caps fury on this site & all over our imperiled planet every day—is trying to discredit a woman whose fury is part of a global challenge to power by calling her angry, you might like:
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  •  Dec 12
    Hi, so...
    So ridiculous. Greta must work on her Anger Management problem, then go to a good old fashioned movie with a friend! Chill Greta, Chill!
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  •  Dec 12
    I wrote about Morning Joe, Steve Schmidt, Elizabeth Warren, Joe Biden, which candidates get tagged as dishonest, which ones get anointed as straight-talkers and how it doesn’t actually correspond to their truth-telling history:
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  •   Retweeted
     Dec 11
    It matters that some candidates get tagged as inauthentic phonies, while some are regarded by broad swaths of America as familiar, direct, rock-solid truth-tellers and safer bets for the American presidency. writes
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  •   Retweeted
     Dec 11
    Nancy Drew And The Mysterious Disappearing Anti-Union Social Media Accounts
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  •   Retweeted
     Dec 11
    EXCLUSIVE: Prez knew of sexual misconduct & personally promoted staffer anyhow. Dozens of interviews & court records show that 5 men not only kept their jobs, but some received promotions. Henry has refused to meet w/ survivors.
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