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Danielle Muscato @DanielleMuscato
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I haven't written about #MikeBrown today because i don't know what to say. I wish I were home in StL so I could go to the vigil. I wish his murderer was charged & convicted. I wish Mike was alive. I wish that in his death, the whole country would unite around #BlackLivesMatter.
I'm getting gas in a little town called Washington in western Pennsylvania, on my way from DC back home. 35% voted blue in 2016 here, I just checked.

I'm so angry yet I feel so helpless. Racism has gotten WORSE in so many places since BLM took off. It's disheartening.
But that's all the more reason we have to keep fighting it and exposing it and calling it out and standing up to it. It's not going to magically get better on its own.

I am so tired of the people I care about being in mortal danger just for fucking existing. I'm tired of white
people thinking that racism is a harsh word, or that racism ended in 1964, or 2008. Or fuck, 1865. It's so, so far from reality.

So we keep fighting. And in the meantime, Black people keep getting imprisoned, beaten, killed.

It's gotta stop. We gotta stop it. Now. Yesterday.
Mike, I'm so sorry you're not graduating from college this year. I'm so sorry we failed you so badly. I'm sorry. And if it takes the rest of my life, I'll fight for you.

We miss you, Mike.
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I've come to a realization. It took me a really long time to admit this, because for me, politics is so personal…#trans rights, feminism, racism, anti-capitalism. I wanted to believe that the right—in their own way—had authentic values-based reasons for being politically active
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To them, this is entertainment.
They go to rallies to have fun. They create groups to have fun. They exploit our anxiety & fear of being killed or legally "erased" as queer people or dying of poverty because it's FUNNY to them.

@AdamSerwer nailed it when he said, "The cruelty is the point."

They are SADISTIC.
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It's the first ever International #PronounsDay! I'm so excited and I want you to be excited, too.

Here are a few things to know about pronouns:

1. Many #trans people, myself included, HAVE to out ourselves & tell people our pronouns, if we want others to gender us correctly.
YOU CAN HELP normalize this by doing a couple of REALLY simple things:

- Edit your Twitter & FB bio, email sig, etc to include your pronouns, whether you're #trans or not.

- ALWAYS introduce yourself with your name AND pronouns, eg: "I'm Danielle & my pronouns are she/her."
2. Understand that correct pronouns are NOT optional, nor a preference. In some jurisdictions, it's even against sex-based discrimination laws to misgender someone.

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I need someone to hold me.
Oh great. This was retweeted by a Trump supporter with a million followers. I just blocked 150+ people mocking me for being a trans woman, posting photoshopped horrible pictures, calling me slurs, etc.

It's gonna be a long night.
200+ & 3 threats of violence now.

I appreciate your kind words everyone. Y'all are amazing.

One way to get back at them is to support my work. I'm a full-time civil rights activist—my @Patreon makes that possible. Please consider a small monthly pledge: patreon.com/daniellemuscato
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Every time I tweet about voter disenfranchisement, people reply, well if you're a "rapist" or "murderer" you should lose your right to vote.

The truth is overwhelmingly those being disenfranchised are young Black & Brown people convicted of offenses like petty theft.
No one should lose their right to vote, but people need to understand what it means to have a felony conviction. It certainly doesn't mean you have been convicted of rape or murder.
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Benjamin Daley, long-sleeve white shirt; Michael Miselis, backward red cap; Thomas Gillen, goggles around neck & Cole White, white shirt/ sunglasses, right; charged & arrested in connection w 2017 Charlottesville racist / GOP rally

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(1) Thread #4 about the #TaosCompound New Mexico case, starting 8/30/18.

Read my series of threads about this case:
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NM has a GOP Governor with power to direct the state AG to take over the case from the small-town DA.

Facts > Speculation

#MAGA
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On the GOP side, we must clean up our act when it comes to reporting & discussing this case. It is serious!

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Home
no one leaves home unless home chases you
fire under feet
hot blood in your belly
it’s not something you ever thought of doing
until the blade burnt threats into
your neck
and even then you carried the anthem under
your breath

#home #warsanshire #poems
#WhereAreTheChildren
only tearing up your passport in an airport toilets
sobbing as each mouthful of paper
made it clear that you wouldn’t be going back.

you have to understand,
that no one puts their children in a boat
unless the water is safer than the land
no one burns their palms
under trains
beneath carriages
no one spends days and nights in the stomach of a truck
feeding on newspaper unless the miles travelled
means something more than journey.
no one crawls under fences
no one wants to be beaten
pitied
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So yesterday I damn near got hit by a car, driven by a police officer, who recklessly endangered at least dozens of people if not more.
What happened next was: protesters - the front-line Ferguson crew, specifically, de-escalated the situation while police did the opposite.
And with NO MENTION of that car incident, the police in #STL are now saying that protesters were just weirdly angry! Nearly spontaneously!
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