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30 May, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Just had a deep existential crisis over a pretty keyboard that doesn’t work with my laptop.

Basically went from: my laptop won’t recognize this cute blue keyboard

To: what is the point of existing if we’re just going to slog through 40+ years of work, 5+
Days a week only hoping for maybe 2 weeks of vacation that we’ll be afraid to take because we don’t want to lose our jobs, Being on the receiving end of micro aggressions after micro aggressions and gaslighting so I can pay off a mountain of debt in the midst of a collapsing
Country and on top of all that I CANT SPEND ANY OF THAT TIME LOOKING AT PRETTY THINGS BECAUSE THE PRETTY THING I BOUGHT TO HELP ME ENDURE EVEN A LITTLE BIT OF THAT IS NOT COMPATIBLE WITH MY LAPTOP.
Update: I just looked at compatible replacements and they’re all a utilitarian black or gray.

Imma go get [redacted] before I start crying.

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11 May
A memory of my mom was just revealed through a talk I just did.

When I was in middle school, my mom wanted me to transfer to one of the best middle schools in NYC and would go every day to beg administrators to let me apply (even after the school year had started)
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9 May
Im gonna need more Nondisabled people to pay attention to the ways that the disability community is used to justify horrible shit, because there’s a new class of disabled white supremacists taking public office and if you don’t pay attention to the way disability’s portrayed,
You and others are going to be easily manipulated.

Easily.

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You know how you all always point to a disabled person and ask, “well if they can overcome their disability, what excuse do you have?”

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3 May
In summation:

1. Dems’ constant ceding of ground on keystone policies while simultaneously telling constituents “what we need” strikes voters as disingenuous and performative.

2. “Blue” states are no less authoritarian and for the communities harmed, there is no difference
Which means those constituents won’t see any point in investing in Dems.

3. Dems greatest threat isn’t the GOP but the feeling of the futility of voting.

4. Dems organize midterm to midterm and via reaction. They are not seen as proactive or long planning which forces them
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2 May
Again, this is reactionary organizing. They are always on the defense, they need to be on the offense.

The big tent only exists because they’re constantly trying to appeal to people who are only a fraction on the fence about the GOP, and because of this, they run the risk of
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That is the greater threat than possibly losing moderates.

They’re always compromising, and constituents see that as their greatest weakness. The “big tent” isn’t
Working and is actually shifting the party further right than before which is why people like Tim Scott and Joe Manchin keep getting elected.

They need to develop and invest in actual policy ideas and not move the needle to a compromise every time the GOP says “boo.”
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2 May
It’s not an impossible policy idea. For more than a decade, democrats have been preaching that we need universal healthcare and the pandemic has tee’d it up for them at immeasurable human cost, but they’re more concerned with the fallacy of promoting bipartisanship than
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