Happy Halloween
Here’s our Delta variant safe trick or treating set up. We can wave from the door :).
Omg. This was all my wife. I thought that was obvious what with the clear indication of giving a crap.
I was in charge of the music. (Keith David, Princess and the Frog). And the dog. :)
What’s great right now are that kids are running up and then the dog is barking loudly and the kids can’t see her so they *freeze*. It’s kind of hilarious… like the candy is *bait* for a little beastie

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2 Nov
There was a problem at my polling place, the machine for my ED went down. And it created a backlog and a bit of a line.
Person in front of me and my mother gave up and walked out.

I felt bad... he made it all the way to the polling place but still didn't vote.
Like, not *too* bad because he was a white guy who rolled up in a Range Rover so, you know, not who I'm targeting with my mailer.

BUT STILL... it just drove the point home about how important *frictionless* voting is. Even *minor* hurdles can put some people off.
It also brings to mind that even with the best of intentions, things can break or go wrong. There can be delays.

Now imagine how much worse it is when people *don't* have the best of intentions. When they're actually trying to make people give up and walk away.
Read 4 tweets
1 Nov
I do think that one upshot of live audio oral arguments is that normal people (like my mom just sitting her listening to these arguments) can see JUST HOW MUCH male justices interrupt women lawyers AND the other women justices.
The differences between how hostile they are to women talking than they are to men, even men they *disagree* with... should be eye opening for people who aren't used to their bullcrap.
Like my mom is just like "WHY DON'T THEY LET HER TALK??" "They let the other guy talk."

Yeah.

Like justices interrupting lawyers is a thing, but it's worse when the lawyer is a woman and OBVIOUSLY SO.
Read 5 tweets
29 Oct
My theory is that white folks try to tattletale to the media employers of black folks (like Matty Yce tried it on me last week) on the theory that the white people in charge honestly don't know what the Negroes are running around saying.
The reality that these people don't understand is that there is not a black person *employed* by in white media who doesn't have the support of the majority of white folks who read that publication.
Cause we're not allowed to have our jobs any other way.
It's not enough for anybody from me or @AngryBlackLady to @AdamSerwer or @jelani9 to have *only* Black people read us. We *have to* appeal to a DIVERSE audience or we don't get our jobs.
And we do. And we KNOW we do, so we don't have to coddle the dingdongs.
Read 6 tweets
28 Oct
Randomly offered Liz Phair song ranking:

Stratford-on-Guy
Divorce Song
Polyester Bride
Supernova
Jealousy
I'm... procrastinating pretty effectively right now.
Twitter friends: OMG, you like Liz Phair
Real Life friends: You don't understand, *never* let Elie control the radio on a road trip. NEVER. You're better off walking.
Read 5 tweets
25 Oct
CSPAN Caller: "Do you believe our rights comer from God?"
Me: "No."
CSPAN Caller: "Life begins at conception."
Me: "Does citizenship?"
CSPAN Caller: "Can you tell where IN the constitution it protects the right to kill babies?"
Me: "They're not babies. But anyway: 4th, 14th, 9th, and if you don't like all those than the 13th."
Read 5 tweets
21 Oct
Since telling truths to white data bros is apparently my thing here today, here are some more:
* Calling your thing "Popularism" while centering the whole discussion around what's popular with non college whites is bullcrap black people notice.
* Columbusing the problem of non-college educated hostility to racial justice is bullcrap black people notice.
* Having exclusively white faces push the so-called "solution" to that old and well understood problem, is bullcrap black people notice.
* Having that "solution" be (again) ignoring calls for racial justice is bullcrap black people notice.
* Trying to avoid criticism of the policy prescriptions those white solutions functionally require with a "just talking about messaging" euphemism is just straight bullcrap.
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