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@NickyFrank30
Nov 7, 2024 • 1 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
Gillibrand is fairly well liked and she ran ads touting her support for 9/11 victims. She keeps her head down and does the work. A lot of activist types hate her for that, but it works.

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Jan 16
I want to tell a story about enabling, and why I have no patience for the "let's forgive and move on" mentality about how to deal with MAGA supporters when all this ends.
I hesitated to tell this story because I didn't want to drag family secrets out in the open, or sound harsh about my late grandmother, whom I loved dearly, but I think it's worth hearing 🧵 (1)
My uncle was a drug addict from about 1984 until 1991/2. He would get sober, then fall off the wagon, get sober again, and fall off the wagon. Happened over and over again.
My family would do the bare minimum to try to get him clean because they were both embarrassed by his addiction and feared trying to end it would tear the family unit apart. Plus, my grandmother would call off the dogs. She was extremely protective of her youngest child. (2)
My family tried appealing to their love for him, saying, "We love you, please stop hurting yourself like this," but that didn't work. They tried telling him that he would keep losing jobs, but since my grandmother paid his bills, that didn't work. Instead, they made excuses. His first wife left him (to get clean), he lost a good job, and my grandfather died. All those things, they said, made him an addict. It's not his fault. (3)
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Mar 18, 2025
Wanna do a thread about popularity and politics because I keep hearing "But Bernie is the most popular politician in the country." Thsi is a story about the infamous 2021 City Council race in my neighborhood where DSA and Chuck Schumer both lined up behind the Democratic candidate in my Biden +16 district and she ended up losing 2-1🧵(1)
During the campaign, some of the people working on the Democratic candidate Felicia Singh's campaign told me they believed she would win because "she's likable" and her oppoent, now Councilwoman Joann Ariola, was not. It is true Ariola was a bit of a divisive figure in the neighborhood and she had lost two previous elections, but the politics was shifting here by 2021 (2)
At the end of the campaign, when it became clear Singh was going to lose, she was canvassing my block, and she met with a neighbor of mine, a lifelong Democrat who probably hadn't voted that way since before 9/11. He was a contractor with an AFL-CIO sticker on his truck, who had built his business from the ground up and was environmentally conscious, using well water in his house and growing his own food. (3)
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Mar 3, 2025
We are gay tweeting the #Oscars tonight
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Feb 23, 2025
In Frankfurt. CDU is on top, but Greens are outperforming SPD in the city. Frankfurt has typically been a Green stronghold. #GermanElections
Greens are holding on to Stuttgart I and thier seat in Munster, and are locked in a very tight race in Berlin's Tempelhof-Schöneberg constituency, which was an SPD seat. The Greens pretty much are responsible for a lot of the recent fuckups but not really paying a political price. #GermanElections
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Jan 11, 2025
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Nov 9, 2024
Talking to some friends in the trans/non binary community yesterday and today. A lot of anger, not so much at voters or Democrats, but at activists, mainly those outside the community, who prioritized issues like sports over housing/jobs/healthcare and helped trigger a backlash against it all. Progressive groups are in a world of hurt going forward
One said progressive activists are like “locusts” who move from one cause to the other, “exploiting marginalized groups and using them to spark unwinnable fights and leaving them in a worst place than before.”
Another said trans people feel like the Left’s “pikemen” saying “we were placed in the front lines by people who have nothing to lose if the battle goes badly.”
She added “we just wanted basic rights and instead we lectured people about pronouns. I just wanted to make sure I can get HRT, I don’t care if some asshole calls me a ‘he.’”
She added “they took down black people by losing the policing issue, immigrants and now us. Palestinians better realize they’re next.”
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“Five years ago, the worst thing that happened to me in Miami was some jerk in Florida called me a ‘he.” And that sucked. Now I have to be scared of the cops and everybody else and can’t even access healthcare in the state. How is this better exactly? How has all the activism helped?”
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