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Victoria Brownworth 🎃👻💀

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29 Oct

Earlier Wednesday evening I called out Bakari Sellers for saying Hillary was the most unpopular candidate on CNN. We have to quit that GOP narrative about 2016. I had to go back to work, but Bakari reached out to me privately to clarify his point, saying that he "loves HRC."
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Bakari said he was referencing Hillary's unfavorables, and noted they were a factor of Benghazi, misogyny, etc. I said I appreciated his reaching out, but that was not what was actually said. I wanted to share this because Bakari is such a good guy and we love him so much.
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I said we can't shortcut misogyny out of the conversation about 2016, because it defined the race. Hillary was the first woman presidential nominee in 240yrs. We can't side-step the enormity of studies showing people distrust women candidates and the impact of that on her.
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27 Oct

It's funny that I said "please don't send me tweets about 'good Republicans'" and then folks tried to claim GOP was good before Trump, which is ahistorical. THE worst racist president in modern history was Reagan, who was also the most corrupt with 181 indictments of his admin.

In fact, Bill Barr, our current AG was AG under Bush1 and his first order of business was to arrange pardons for a bazillion Reagan-Bush folks involved in and indicted in Iran-Contra. Bush1 was involved in myriad covert wars as CIA head. Nixon was in fact a crook.

Eisenhower's first EO was the horrendous EO10450 which outed and fired thousands of lesbians and gay men. Eisenhower --a rabid anti-Communist--executed the Rosenberg and watched Joe McCarthy with glee. So your claims that racists and bigots are "good" is counterfactual.

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27 Oct

THREAD 📌I am so angry and so upset. Like 131M other Americans, I am seriously ill. Forgive me if I don't feel up to coddling folks whose sense of entitlement put us here. When Democrats don't vote for Democrats they give us Republican rule, which is 98% rich white cis het guys.

These are the facts. The party that thinks corporations are people and has ONE Black member in the entire Congress just put their 204th lifetime appointment judge in office. These people will define our lives for the next 30yrs with Trump's policies. Of course I'm angry.

After McConnell completed his coup in the Senate, he adjourned the Senate till after #Election2020. No #stimulus for Americans without food, losing their homes and being evicted and with no more unemployment. Pelosi passed a bill MONTHS ago that he refused to vote on.

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Victoria Brownworth 🎃👻💀

@VABVOX

24 Oct

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These middle of the night incursions on the psyche are so definitive of both COVID & Trump. I read in the dark. As a child I did this, flashlight under the covers. I really ache to return to some level of intellectual & psychological normalcy in a new administration.
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The past 5yrs have been devoted to fighting Trump and everything he's wrought on my intersecting communities: queer, disabled, poor, my mixed race family, my Black neighborhood. It has been overwhelming, leaving no space to breathe and take in new intellectual challenges.
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Two unfinished books sit waiting completion. But I can't get off this current hamster wheel to think those intellectual and historical thoughts because I am in this moment, this here-and-now, fighting for my life and the lives of others in a pandemic of #COVID & #poverty.
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Victoria Brownworth 🎃👻💀

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22 Oct

I just had the most unpleasant exchange with a man on here who dm'd me to demand I interact with him. Listen, guys, consent is real. Boundaries are real. Respect this. If a woman (or anyone) tells you to back off--back the hell off. Why do women have to keep telling you this?

Don't follow women when they don't want to talk to you. This isn't hard to understand. No does mean no. And if a woman says she feels harassed, it doesn't matter what YOU think/feel. Get it? And this is a guy I've had pleasant exchanges with for several years. So disappointing.

I used to get this all the time IRL before I was paralyzed back when I could be in the world solo: Men who want you to smile, want you to say hi, just want to ask you a question. It's not friendly, it's crossing boundaries. I am a very friendly person, but don't cross that line.

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20 Oct

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I've reported extensively on Ivanka Trump and her scurrilous business practices. But Tiffany was in law school and largely--and smartly-- out of the public eye. Now she is campaigning and lying for Trump and using #LGBTQ people to do so. It's shameful.
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Tiffany held a rally Saturday with former DNI Richard Grenell, one of the only out gays in Trump's admin, to cull #LGBTQ votes for Trump--the most virulently homophobic and transphobic president in my lifetime, and that includes Reagan & Bush1 who actively let gay men die.
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For 4yrs in both the queer and mainstream press, I have reported on the dangerously anti-#LGBTQ policies of Trump, Pence, Pompeo, Sessions, Barr, DeVos, Carson, Kelly, Severino and myriad HHS appointees. You don't even know most of it, there is so much. It's harrowing.
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