Writer on lots of things, longtime chronicler of the right wing of U.S. politics. Winner of Hillman Prize for essays. Also plays the ukulele. She/hers.
Mike Johnson: "Let me look right into the camera and tell you very clearly: Republicans are the ones concerned about healthcare. Republicans are the party working around the clock everyday to fix healthcare. This is not talking points for us: we've done it."
Hey, @OptimumHelp, your requirement that the only way to cancel your service is over the phone, coupled with your refusal to pick up the calls waiting on hold is punitive. I thought I'd be signing up with you after my next move, but definitely not now. 30 mins on hold & counting.
Hi everyone. Reactivating twitter to share this
I was denied entry, detained, and deported from the USA at the end of last week because of my reporting on the Columbia student protests
I arrived back in Melbourne on Sat 6am and had my phone handed back to me upon landing
For those of us who’ve spend the last 6 months discussing how the Trump would use deportations to create chaos is the Blue states and then use that chaos as an excuse to declare a national emergency and seize total power, things are right on schedule
talked to an immigrant cobbler at my local shoe repair shop who told me he found out a customer supported deportations so he put a tiny pebble in his insole on purpose
Not sure how I missed that Bill Pulte, who spent years doing a shady marketing ploy on this platform, has a federal director job now. His shtick was promising random cash payouts to people if they follow him and give him their data. Wrote about it in 2019
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“The funders and institution-builders of the right have been working at their projects for decades, building movements and communities and political power, some outside the party structure, and some within,” @AddieStan writes in @JoDemocracy review of @kathsstewart’s Money, Lies, and God. “But tech bros are hungrily eyeing the landscape; billionaires Elon Musk and Peter Thiel, with misplaced confidence in their own genius, are likely pondering ways to reshape the model to their own liking.
“Meanwhile, the American left and center-left haven’t built much by way of institutions. Their separate interest groups do not intersect to the same extent as do those on the right. Rather than create their own institutions, the left and the center-left have stuck with the institutional party structure, which is designed to win elections, not build the kinds of training centers and think tanks that have been cranking out right-wing policy and activists over the course of generations.”
Hey, @Amtrak, whoever you had managing the line for train 86 at Union Station should never be allowed to manage customers, especially disabled women. I stood for 20 minutes—not easy for me—at the front of what I thought was the Priority Boarding. 1/
I would also like to say that I travel @Amtrak at least twice per month, and I have received many kindnesses from their employees. But that doesn't excuse the mistreatment I received for no reason other than what I represent to somebody. /FIN #disability#sexism#ageism
@Amtrak 🧵Your gate agent was clearly all about shaming me. Shouting at an old, disabled woman in a mask who is mistakenly standing a the front of the wrong line can mean only that. I guess it made him feel powerful. So, Amtrak, make it right. 4/