Read on Twitter
🧵I took this beautiful gift as a sign last night. Nelba Marquez-Greene, Mom of Ana Grace, is one of the most extraordinary human beings I have ever encountered. Ana Grace stays with us b/c of her family’s determination & love. Alex Jones tortured these families who suffered…
https://twitter.com/juicybodygodde1/status/1733640783482257762
…the unimaginable. He has monstrously led a campaign of gaslighting and assault on the spirit of Sandy Hook families & desecrated the memory of those murdered children. He is a ghoul. His return to this site completes its utter degradation. We are in a war for the human soul.
What is humanity?What is democracy? How can we build a country - a world - in which shared values of equality & justice are core aspirations? Platforming ghouls & allowing them to dominate our discussions, our thinking, our language, our law, our education systems is not the way.
Remember that these men are not creators. What they can do well is build on the infrastructure created & developed by others - think Trump’s takeover of the Republican Party. Or Musk w/Tesla & Twitter. And they can destroy. This they do well.
But you and I can create - must create. We must create spaces for robust and civil communication. Laws that are just and applied equally to the rich and poor, Black & white, and centers the humanity of those it governs. A politics that hears our voices, that can respond nimbly.
A politics that allows for true representation. We can create an education system that shores up our spirits, expands our minds, builds our empathy, and prepares us for work and life in this world. A media that informs, that aids us in citizenship, that teaches & learns.
All of these things and more are possible. I will never stop believing in it or fighting for it. I will never stop believing that music & theatre, dance and visual art, and lots and lots of humor are essential ingredients for building this new world. But it’s not easy.
And so with arrival of Alex Jones, this cannot be a place where I put my energy, my ideas, my plans, my joy. “Pearls before swine” and such. Just know that we created something amazing here. It was so good, they wanted/needed to destroy it. Just the fact that we could and did…
lets me know that we have it in us to make places where we can learn from one another, where separate communities can thrive within a larger community, where standards can be set, uncomfortable topics discussed, raw information shared, new visions of justice explored, and where..
…tears and belly laughs, poems, legal decisions, dashcam videos, original film shorts, and a thousand memes, can be exchanged in equal measure.
The ghouls have come, as they always do. But we have the power to create anywhere. Not just online, but in real life. Let’s do it.
The ghouls have come, as they always do. But we have the power to create anywhere. Not just online, but in real life. Let’s do it.
Follow me on 🧵& on the gram, sometimes Post. My newsletter will be bringing new content soon.
News orgs please post more on Threads, Post, Spoutible, so we can continie to have access to your reporting, videos and content.
News orgs please post more on Threads, Post, Spoutible, so we can continie to have access to your reporting, videos and content.
• • •
Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to
force a refresh
