Saturday, February 22, 2020

Some Tweets from Rebecca Traister


  •  Pinned Tweet
     15 Sep 2019
    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
     6 hours ago
    Read please: The justice warned that her colleagues are favoring the Trump administration over everyone else.
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  •   Retweeted
     Feb 21
    Worth the repost!
    3:25
    "I'm unapologetically black and I'm unapologetically a feminist," says "Eloquent Rage" author . She explains why "being both those things is the thing that will save us."
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  •   Retweeted
     Feb 21
    New: Condé Nast is getting rid of NDAs tied to harassment and discrimination. The move came in the months after the New Yorker union pushed for the magazine to eliminate and nullify NDAs related to harassment and discrimination.
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  •   Retweeted
     10 hours ago
    Did Susan Collins change? Or has she always been this way? reports on the Maine senator who has gambled her legacy on Trump
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  •   Retweeted
     18 hours ago
    "African American women are the first...thinkers and activists toward a human rights vision; toward a vision of women's rights and its interest in all humans. They have always rejected racism and sexism and set a high bar that has been difficult for us as a nation to reach."
    On the black women suffragists who sparked and continue the voting rights movement.
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  •  Feb 21
    I mean...I like it a LOT. This is the kind of structural alteration that can transform how politics works, and it’s coming from (literally) inside the house (as more people who once didn’t have access to it fight their way in and then...open up doors for more). I like it a lot.
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  •  Feb 21
    Oh wow! (I like it)
    Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez plans to endorse an all-female slate of progressive candidates through her new political action committee, working to create a liberal counterweight to the party’s official campaign arm
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  •   Retweeted
     Feb 20
    Former Senator Barbara Boxer on MSNBC: "Bernie really is the ideologue in the race... he's very angry..." Me: "Oh come on, there's nothing wrong with being angry. There's a lot to be angry about!" Watch:
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  •   Retweeted
     Feb 20
    D&M on the Dem debate made me laugh so hard. This segment will be on tonight’s episode, but you can watch it NOW!
    6:20
    "Why you bringin' up old shit?" In what feels like the 1000th Democratic Debate this year, Elizabeth Warren presses Miguelito Bloomberg for his…
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  •   Retweeted
     Feb 20
    Warren giving a clinic on affordable housing at the I want a president who knows policy backwards and forwards like this, don’t you?
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  •  Feb 20
    Sometimes Elizabeth Warren plays Kate McKinnon playing Elizabeth Warren.
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  •   Retweeted
     Feb 20
    THANK YOU to Joan Lima for asking a wonderful Q about housing at the , and Vegas' law criminalizing homelessness. Joan, should moderate the next debate! reminds us the federal govt used to invest in building affordable housing (Part 1)
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  •  Feb 20
    She ended this answer with a sweeping call for housing for working poor, poor poor, veterans, seniors aging in place, the formerly incarcerated...
    Wow. talking about homelessness and the housing crisis from a position of deep, thorough knowledge both personal and civic is breathtaking. She clarifies an issue that is all too often seen as impossible to solve. And she then lays out a path to solve it.
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  •   Retweeted
     Feb 20
    Look at the journalism is compelling from -- like, shouldn't we have known this about the impact of the NDAs before she went HAM on Bloomberg?
    . has spoken with several women who expressed interest in telling their stories, but feared the prospect of retribution from the company, including significant financial losses for violating the terms of their confidentiality agreement by speaking out …
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  •  Feb 20
    As it happens...I wrote a column about that:
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  •  Feb 20
    Hey now. Warren asked about how to address sexism in politics: "If you complain about it you're whining and if you don't complain about it the rest of the women out there wonder what planet you're living on"
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