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@sarahljaffe
Aug 28, 2019 • 4 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
I am so tired of the amount of space given to the *feelings* of literally the most powerful people in the world thehill.com/homenews/senat…
like, Bret Stephens has a sad and the Internet erupts. Susan Collins has a sad and articles get written. their feelings > the actual harm they do in the world. people were supposed to have a sad for Theresa May when she cried as she stepped down.
being sad is part of life! everyone has sad days! what is not part of most people's lives is literally being able to sign off or not on policies that decide *who lives or dies*!
so please stop ok

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Jan 7, 2022
your faves bashing teacher unions again
just tapping the sign: this is what decades of cuts to any sort of social program have left us with: rage at the people who *provide* one of our last public social services rather than the people who have systematically denied us anything else we need.
expecting teachers to somehow magically produce covid-proof schools when the things they have been demanding for decades--often really basic shit like reasonable class sizes and *soap in the bathrooms* aren't provided is magical thinking
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Jan 7, 2022
Worth noting how often anticommunism in practice overlapped with antiblack racism, antisemitism, and homophobia. The new wokeness, same as the old wokeness.
And because I have been binge-listening, if you want to learn more I highly recommend the episodes of @badgayspod on Roy Cohn and J. Edgar Hoover
And Robin D. G. Kelley's Hammer and Hoe, or in shorter version this interview I did with him: thenation.com/article/archiv…
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Aug 3, 2021
Today is @ninaturner 's primary, which has turned into a big expensive proxy battle between the left and the mainstream of the Democratic party. Here's my report from her campaign: prospect.org/politics/nina-…
The left always gets blamed for causing trouble by daring to run, to make demands, to criticize. But at this point it should be absolutely clear that the center's efforts to crush the left are a demonstration of, shall we say, skewed priorities.
We can see what the Democratic leadership prioritizes clearly in this race: Turner argues it should get things done, the Party big guns all endorse her opponent.
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Jul 26, 2021
can you imagine being this mad about ice cream, I think I'm going to declare being unable to buy a Gatorade in the UK when I'm hungover antisemitic now
they were not, I would note, this mad when actual raving antisemitic fash marched in Charlottesville chanting "Jew Will Not Replace Us"
also do they think the decisions about where to sell the ice cream get made in the factory because I have some bad news for them about how businesses work
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Jul 26, 2021
this is interesting--when I was tagged in it I thought it'd be citing Necessary Trouble and my writing on movements but actually situates the question with Work Won't Love You Back
anyway, more on movement burnout and care practices please! here's more of my stuff on the subject: dissentmagazine.org/article/emotio…
and this conversation with @RepSheenBean who was planning four-day week policy around it progressive.org/latest/rasheen…
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Mar 25, 2021
so thanks to a chat with a new comrade I am re-watching @ninaturner's amazing speech from the 2017 People's Summit and I recommend it to everyone
And there's a thing she does in the middle of it where she grabs a couple of people from the audience and says "We have two hands, one to reach forward and one to reach back"
She's using it to make a generational argument--reaching forward to work with young people and back to work with elderly people--but it also, if you'll forgive me, makes sense if you actually take seriously the argument that "the workers" are sometimes confused by pronouns
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