#ThePoliceToldMe that if I was lying about the rape that almost killed me, I would be prosecuted. After five hours of questioning and being photographed nude in a storage closet for the report, the SVU detectives apologized when they saw the extent of my injuries.
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#ThePoliceToldMe that a serial rapist had been raping women on his lunch hour for months and I was another of his victims. There was never any notification to my poor, 95% Black neighborhood that this was happening so we could stay safe.
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#ThePoliceToldMe I would have to ride in a locked police car like I was the perpetrator, not the victim, to the SVU. Olivia Benson is a fictional character and no one follows up on your rape.
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I put my story on #ThePoliceToldMe as women are never seen as victims of police, yet we are far more likely to be victimized by police than men. And also to have the crimes against us dismissed by police. I will never be fully healed, but I appreciate your messages of support.
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19 Nov
Roxane Gay said at the #NationalBookAwards that writers have an obligation to write about times like these. One of my besties and I were working on a book when Bush took us to war and we both veered off to write about it and then we got cancer and I did a book about that instead.
Life overtakes art all the time. You can never prepare for it. I was mid-way through a novel about child abduction and women's losses when I was paralyzed and I haven't stopped being shell-shocked long enough to go back to that because I want to write about paralysis but can't.
Helluva metaphor. Except I am living it. I want to write about having the same view out the same window for 4yrs and that today is day 1,565 of MY quarantine. I thought that would make THIS quarantine easier. It did not.
A lot to take in.
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12 Nov
In 2016 when Bernie refused to concede, Obama invited him to the White House and both he and Biden asked him politely to stop aiding the GOP by claiming Hillary was not the legitimate winner. But Bernie claimed--without evidence--that there would be a contested convention.
The impact of that counterfactual narrative created the "Bernie or Bust" phalanx. 25% of Bernie voters voted for Trump. Another portion voted 3rd party. To this day many claim that the nomination was "stolen" from Bernie, even though he lost in a landslide. This harmed Hillary.
Refusing to acknowledge the facts and promoting a false alternative narrative because you think you should have won weakens people's belief in government. Trump is doing that now. He has Bernie's precedent and sees it didn't hurt Bernie--it hurt Hillary. Trump thinks he can win.
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12 Nov
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This is a thread about #poverty and how people who aren't poor treat poor people. I was reading a thread about people giving expired food to food banks and it sent me into a memory hole to my and my parents' lived experience of poverty. DO NOT DO THIS.
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One of the miseries of my poverty childhood was wearing other people's clothes. It was also a misery of my mother's and why I was taught to sew at 8. Our clothes were either made by my mother, who was an extraordinary seamstress, or came from the thrift store.
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DO NOT GIVE TORN, TOO-WORN OR STAINED CLOTHES TO THIFT STORES. Why would someone else, who already has to deal with the humiliation of wearing USED clothing, want your stained ("just a little stain") blouse or moth-eaten ("someone handy can mend this") sweater?

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11 Nov
This is stellar reporting & beautifully written. The final quote is extraordinary. Read the whole piece. It's just so heartening about our nation & statewide officials' tranparency.

The Times Called Officials in Every State: No Evidence of Voter Fraud nytimes.com/2020/11/10/us/…
What is most gratifying in this story is how GOP secretaries of state refuse to bolster Trump's narrative. Additionally, the Georgia GOP Secretary of State called Loeffler and Perdue's claims of lack of transparency and fraud "laughable," noting he had posted HOURLY counts.
The story also points out that Trump and his cohort are seemingly unconcerned about voter fraud in states Trump and the GOP won, like SC, OH and KY. But the GOP Ohio SoS was outspoken that there is no voter fraud in his state and he did not support Trump's claims.
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9 Nov
Dems repeatedly fail to acknowledge, no matter how often I or any other journalist explains it, is Republicans support Trump. A handful of wealthy Never Trumpers--all still GOP--distancing themselves from Trump is not the Senate, House & Trump courts. Twitter is not the GOP base.
Of course McConnell and Graham were going to weigh their power. But they both just crushed their opposition in large part because Trump got Republicans voting. It is a grim reminder that half the country-Independents skew right--voted for Trump AND believe he was cheated.
There was bigger turnout than ever since for the 1st time in US history, every state had early voting & no-excuse mail-ins. Trump got nearly 10M more votes than he got in 2016. EVERY demographic went up for him, including BIPOC and LGBTQ. This is why the GOP is standing with him.
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Important clarifying thread from @jbouie. He notes that it would be good if folks read what AOC said rather than hear something else. Why she never gets credit for her work is a factor of misogyny +racism. But she is 100% right that we should be focusing on Democrats not GOP.
It is significant that Kamala Harris worked on bills with her they co-sponsored. One of the critiques of Harris when she was running for POTUS was that she was too left. And her Senate ranking is in the top three. My endorsement of Harris was because of her progressive policy.
Being a progressive senator is not a bad thing. @KamalaHarris's LIFT proposal is something I reported on in depth and it was far more progressive and far reaching than any other anti-poverty program and would radically add to Black wealth by raising people into the middle class.
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