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Sep 4 • 3 tweets • 2 min read
Looking at my notes on the Trump speech tonight and what an absolute flaming racist this guy is and has always been. (NBC still managed to find the only Black man at the #TrumpRallyPA to interview about how great Trump is.) Trump's till calling Liz Warren a racial slur, too.
When you consider the absolute meltdown the GOP and legacy media had over Biden's speech about democracy when you've got Trump being an outright racist in his speech and lying about, well, everything, it highlights just how broken it is to "bothsides" Biden and Trump.
#TrumpRally
The GOP won't say a word about the #TrumpRally in #WilkesBarre. And the Democrats won't, either, because they're already nervous about the reaction to Biden's speech. And this is how Trump slides and his most egregious excesses get normalized. You cannot let this guy run again.

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Sep 2
You know the scene in Rosemary's Baby where Mia Farrow realizes that all her husband's friends are witches?
Or the scene in The Stepford Wives where Katherine Ross realizes that all her friends have been turned into femme bots?
That's how I felt Thursday night watching CNN.
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Throughout the Trump years Kaitlyn Collins regularly chased Trump out of the briefing room with her incisive bull's eye q's that made him name call her in tweets. Brianna Keilar b*tch slapped Trump's stooges frequently and ordered Peter Navarro off her broadcast for lying.
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Erin Burnett called Trump a liar more than any other news anchor. She and Keilar each had segments devoted to showing clips of Trump's lies. Burnett has been MIA for a few weeks,on vacation or perhaps refusing to have the new bothsides chip implanted. But Poppy Harlow. Sigh.
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Aug 26
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August 26 is the 6th anniversary of my being paralyzed. This is my story. I have never adjusted to it, I have never stopped being angry about it, I have never stopped hoping I would somehow recover. I have been having PTSD flashbacks of that day and the trauma for hours.
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I am paralyzed because I was prescribed a drug that had not been tested on women and which has side-effects of spinal and other paralyzing bleeds. I am paralyzed because the first hospital where I spent 4 days ignored my pain and told me to "take Tylenol and walk it off."
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The pain was like the last hour of labor. It was as bad as abdominal surgery. I thought I might go mad from it. The first hospital knew from the scans they did that I had a huge blood clot in my left upper thigh and another in the middle of my posterior abdominal wall.
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Aug 25
Those who are actually poor (as opposed to cosplaying poverty) try hard to pretend to be middle class. The lengths my mother went to to make us look middle class by making our clothes or teaching me (the oldest) at the thrift store how to find the best clothes w/designer labels.
The daily instruction when we were younger on how to speak, breeding that Philadelphia accent out of our pronunciation and giving us vocabulary tests. She wanted us to pass better, because when she went to Wellesley on scholarship with her handmade clothes, she didn't.
So much of our childhood was framed by my parents having grown up in deep poverty and their internalized rage over how that restricted them. But it also gave them superb left, anti-racist politics. Which was a far better gift to us than those dreaded thrift store outings.
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Aug 24
This thread on McConnell's ableist commentary is important. @SER1897 and I have talked about career access for #disabled people. I didn't know when I went to college that I'd be dxd with MS at 30. I'm fortunate I have a career I can do while being seriously disabled.
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What's especially annoying in McConnell's statement is that he had debilitating effects of childhood polio--so he knows not everyone is physically able to get that high-paying construction or trade job. Also, those jobs remain mostly closed to women.
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The trades pay as well or better than many jobs that require two degrees but because they are mostly gendered, pay low, like teaching and social work which are predominantly held by women. I'd make far more as an electrician or plumber than I make as a contracted journalist.
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Aug 21
There are over 200 banned books on Ron DeSantis's list, nearly all about race or with LGBTQ content or both, like James Baldwin and Alice Walker. There's a list at the end of this story.

Miami Bookstore Owners React to Florida's Banned Books miaminewtimes.com/news/miami-boo…).
Major writers like Judy Blume and Ibram X. Kendi are in this list. Dr. Kendi is one of the foremost scholars on race in the US and Judy Blume has been a standard of middle school literature since forever.
Books exploring Black queerness are all over the list (I have only screenshot a portion of the list), many of them award-winning.
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I miss The Wife as she was before this cancer devastated her body and our lives. I miss her voice, her laugh, her pre-cancer energy. It's gutting to witness how much cancer has changed her and be powerless to fix it. I admire how brave she's become,but wish she didn't have to be.
I'm so grateful The Wife is willing to undergo these surgeries and these treatments. I've had two dozen surgeries--I know how devastating and scary this is. I hate that she has to endure this. But she is incrementally better. She has less pain from the bone metastasis. Promising.
This week she has made a conscious effort to puree foods so she can have things other than boost and ensure. Because she's been starving and we didn't want the feeding tube. People don't realize cancer is a full-time job--exhausting for the person with cancer and their caregiver.
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