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A long book thread, because it's pub day for @Sarah_Smarsh's Heartland, which I've started & is gorgeous (& long-listed for a National Book Award!) & because I got behind on books when I was writing my own & am now taking such pleasure in catching up: amazon.com/Heartland-Memo…
Do not miss @schemaly's Rage Becomes Her, which was published last week and is on a topic near and dear to my heart, women's anger, and is REALLY good: amazon.com/Rage-Becomes-H…
I was late to @ambertamblyn's Any Man but thought it was terrific: amazon.com/Any-Man-Novel-…
Also behind on this, but a book that bent my brain and is SO STUNNINGLY SUITED TO THIS MOMENT: The Power, by Naomi Alderman amazon.com/Power-Naomi-Al…
Next on my pile is Small Animals by @KA_Brooks, which I gather is great: amazon.com/Small-Animals-…
And @tayari's An American Marriage, which I'm so late to that every other human in the world including Oprah told you to read, but it also just got long-listed for a national book award! amazon.com/American-Marri…
Also upcoming, but I got to read early and it's wildly prescient: Those Who Knew, by @IdraNovey amazon.com/Those-Who-Knew…
And Thick, by @tressiemcphd which is just remarkable and will blow you away in the new year: amazon.com/Thick-Essays-T…
Thanks for following me down this lengthy path away from the sickening news cycle. Books make it better. I mean, to the extent that that is possible.
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Whose challenges are framed as aggressive and whose are practically indiscernible as disruptions? Relevant to my interests:
This is power dynamic I write about in Good & Mad. @Ocasio2018’s civic participation gets framed as problematic, eruptive. But 5 white guys come for Pelosi from right & it’s just a tactical move. Women’s raised voices are problematic, men’s are comprehensibly professional.
More than comprehensibly professional: some people are granted political validity at the outset. Others are understood as chaotic, divisive, suspect and disruptive to legitimate politics.
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I know that this race is too close to call but I just have to say that McBath’s path here, the fact that she is this close to victory on GA-6, is astounding. This is the district Jon Ossoff could not win. Dems! Get behind women of color!
Lauren Underwood, Sharice Davids, Ayanna Presley, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, Deb Haaland, Veronica Escobar, Sylvia Garcia, maybe Gina Ortiz-Jones...this is the future, looking to the women who have long been the democratic base, for leadership.
Reminded that I left out Jahana Hayes. (And probably others! I’m still catching up on lots of races)
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Also every white guy currently explaining the (extremely real) villainy of white women to me can take a seat until they’ve come to collect Joe Manchin, almost all of the Republican Party, and the vastest share of Trump’s base.
To be clear, that is not letting Collins, 53% of white women & MANY generations of their forebears off the hook! My new book is in part about ww’s eagerness to support a white capitalist patriarchy & in doing so leave their sisters to suffer. Which is what Susan Collins just did.
No wait, clearer: Not just leaving sisters to suffer. Actively participating in the further oppression and subjugation of people of color, women and men. But be clear—white women aren’t coming up with this horror all by their lonesome.
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Most hilarious news of the day!!

That "chip" note, which claimed to end fake currency & kill black money is now going to have a premature death..

Even Tughluq cant stop laughing 🤣 theprint.in/economy/india-…
Now my prognosis:

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OFFICE OF THE VICE PRESIDENT
PRESS STATEMENT

NO VIOLATIONS IN APPROVAL OF N5.8B EMERGENCY FOOD INTERVENTION FUND FOR NORTH EAST

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Our attention has been drawn to a report of the House Committee on Emergency & Disaster Preparedness issued on Thursday,Nov 8, 2018, particularly in respect of funds released for “emergency intervention of food security to the NorthEast” in June 2017,when the VP was Ag President.
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She shared important information with her boss, which could affect the case. -- She had the obligation to inform her friends and her job what might be happening so they knew what might be found by the prosecution. She was honest!

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