Saturday, February 22, 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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    Read please: The justice warned that her colleagues are favoring the Trump administration over everyone else.
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    Worth the repost!
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    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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    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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    "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."
  • 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.
  • Oh wow! (I like it)
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    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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    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!
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    Warren giving a clinic on affordable housing at the I want a president who knows policy backwards and forwards like this, don’t you?
  • Sometimes Elizabeth Warren plays Kate McKinnon playing Elizabeth Warren.
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    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)
  • She ended this answer with a sweeping call for housing for working poor, poor poor, veterans, seniors aging in place, the formerly incarcerated...
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    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?
  • As it happens...I wrote a column about that:
  • 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"