Saturday, February 08, 2020

Some Tweets from Rebecca Traister


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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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    . asks if Planned Parenthood has a branding problem, but actually poll after poll shows it is remarkably popular with a majority of the country, notwithstanding sustained attacks.
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    Missed opportunity to ask Pete Buttigieg about women in Indiana, including in the town over from South Bend, who have already been criminalized for pregnancy outcomes.
  • Okay. Great week, everybody. Let’s never do it again.
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    As a Federici superfan I really get annoyed by Andrew Yang's perennial false equivalence between UBI and Wages for Housework. They're really not the same.
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    if this is really the final question, the gap between the top three talkers and Warren/Klobuchar here is perplexing. (Look at # of speaking segments...)
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    From our story today: "Ms. Warren’s allies, faced with questions about whether a woman can win, believe Mr. Buttigieg has been treated with kid gloves by journalists who see themselves in a 38-year-old man more than a 70-year-old woman."
  • “I mean, it’s a disagreement” gif
  • “Let’s talk about Barbara Lee!” (Me, always. Also, Tom Steyer, just now)
  • What. Is. He. Talking. About.
  • Huh.
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    Several years ago it would have been inconceivable that discussions on redlining, the racial wealth gap, and reparations would have been brought up in a presidential debate. It’s good that these issues are finally being discussed in this type of forum.
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    . fought the takeover of the Court by radical anti-choice judges right alongside us. I remember her out at the all night people’s filibuster against Brett Kavanaugh. She knows our freedom is at stake.
  • Warren and Bernie bringing history of housing discrimination and need for bail reform is the kind of control of conversation I would like to see going forward here...
  • No.
  • Roe should be the floor not the ceiling.
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    Decriminalize drug possession and increase access to safe consumption sites and harm reduction services. If it saves lives, it’s worth doing. It’s that simple.
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    Smart of Klobuchar to bring up criminalization of abortion patients and doctors. Has Pete ever talked about Purvi Patel, a woman in his own state who was prosecuted for self inducing abortion?
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    “litmus test” is such a dated frame to ask about abortion and the court. Trump already promised to specifically appoint anti Roe judges and won. That ship has sailed.
  • Oh, you’re the reason many justices are on the Supreme Court, you say?
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    How come these candidates never get asked about housing? A HUGE issue that moderators seem oblivious about.
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    Immigration, private equity, domestic workers, farm workers, big pharmaceutical
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    Unpopular opinion. I wish housing, reproductive justice, climate change, police brutality, mass incarceration, unions got at least half of the airtime healthcare has gotten through a year of debates
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    NO NO NO WHY. You could be asking questions about Immigration Education The opioid crisis
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    bernie and warren are clear in all their answers that whatever they'd do will involve real fights biden has zero excuse for pretending otherwise, and pete has no experience so i guess that's his excuse
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    Please someone just ask Pete like the three ways in which he thinks his vision is a change.
  • She is going in again. She is INCANDESCENT in her hate.
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    I BEG you
  • Every debate reminds me anew that maybe none of them wants to end Pete as much as Amy wants to end Pete.
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    how much $$$ matters: we're actually seeing the cory booker/kamala harris theory of post-iowa biden becoming true and they're just not around to reap benefits. instead it's bloomberg/steyer
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    If you work in a prison education program or know incarcerated people running similar discussion groups in adult or youth facilities, please DM me information so I can send copies.
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    I got a letter from an incarcerated man in California saying he and some others had started an African-American history study group and asking if I could send him copies of the . I sent and have done so every time I've gotten such a request. I'd like to do more.
  • "Islam...recently made headlines for petitioning the Federal Election Commission to let her use campaign funds to pay for health care, arguing that it would make running for office more accessible to working-class people." Structural change from new kinds of candidates.
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    This could be us, if we want it to be. ⬇️
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    It might serve Donna Rotunno’s career to be the defense attorney version of Katie Roiphe. Does it serve her client?
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    I’m struck by how much Weinstein’s defense seems to want to make their case a culture war, a referendum on Me Too.
  • To my mind, the story here is not that Deutsch is a toad. It's that he, & others who voice similar attitudes, have been the ones (well) paid to shape the story of this primary. So when you wonder how it's shaken out the way it has, look at the storytellers.
  • This morning he explained that Warren's electability challenges aren't tied to gender or sexism, rather they exist because she is strident. This guy's wisdom is remunerated and broadcast widely to viewers wanting to understand the election.
  • In a 2005 book he wrote "I cannot remember a time in my career when I was not having either a flirtation with a woman in the office, or a friendship, a fantasy, or all of the above. I am at my best when women are there to energize & excite me." He's tasked with political analysis
  • I wrote this last year, but it's evergreen. In 2008, Deutsch called Palin a "new feminist ideal:" because "I want her watching my kids … I want her laying in bed next to me...women want to be her, men want to mate with her" He's paid to explain politics.