Two weeks ago, I had four precious 12-year-old girls, including my daughter, with me at the county fair. They were getting blue Icees and corndogs for the walk to the car and ride home. (1/21) They were debating names for the goldfish they won at a carnival game. After a hard 2 years, it was a last breath of summer, full of lights and laughter. (2/21)

1/ Also… and I have no data to support this unlike my other thread… Just a hunch from having always lived here. I don’t think that white women in the South who have gotten an #abortion ever tell anyone about it outside of immediate family, if that. 2/ Because of the silence, people in the community know very few, if any, women who have had an abortion. And that makes it much easier to take extremist policies because who those policies will affect is an abstract “other.” #abortion

1/ For many (not all) white women, particularly in the South, “Pro-Life” is an identity, not a consistent policy position. That identity was constructed in opposition to feminists, who they believed (and were told) looked down on their traditional gender roles. 2/ Stung by that criticism, they demonized feminists as man-hating or promiscuous, or lesbian, or selfish, or anti-motherhood, or all of the above. And they doubled down on their own embrace of white, Christian, patriarchal, moralistic motherhood as identity & status.

🧵(1/17) I listened to @POTUS’s speech in my Jeep driving home after dropping off my kid at her masked dance class. Overwhelmed by his support for educators & those who have worked so hard to keep our kids safe, I finally just pulled over & parked. #COVID19 #Arkansas #GoJoe 🧵(2/17) As @POTUS spoke, I was flooded with 18 months of grief for those we have lost, despair for those who died alone and their loved ones left behind. #Covid_19 #GoJoe

(1/8) Sigh. All the in-fighting about $ spent & which orgs were effective & which weren’t. IT CLEARLY TOOK ALL OF US. We will learn in weeks ahead what moved the needle the most & where. But this isn’t a one-size-fits-all country & Democrats can’t be a one-size-fits-all party. (2/8) In deep red southern states like mine, I’m inspired by the voter protection and grassroots mobilization efforts led by @staceyabrams. We need it desperately! Folks are curing ballots and fighting to count every vote here as I type.

Well, here's Gordon Brownwell's letter to Harry Dent. Dent worked for Strom Thurmond, Goldwater, Nixon, Ford, Reagan, and George H. W. Bush. Here's Strom Thurmond who stumped and strategized with the Goldwater and Nixon campaigns (excerpt written by former Republican Congressman Paul N. McCloskey, Jr.) huffpost.com/entry/republic…

Thread (1/28) Today, @Hulu drops the 1st episodes of #MrsAmerica which tells the story of our failure to ratify the #ERA in the 70s/80s. I know this story-You should too. Why? B/c it explains the 2016 election. Really? What does the ERA have to do with Trump’s win? Glad you asked (2/28) “At one time, ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment seemed like a foregone conclusion. In fall 1971 and spring 1972, the #ERA sailed through the House & the Senate by votes of 354 to 24 and 84 to 8” from my piece in @washingtonpost #MrsAmerica washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/0…

Found the kid playing with her dog instead of Zooming with her teacher. She told me not to worry. She took a screenshot of herself “paying attention,” then cut her video & replaced it with the picture. “It’s a gallery view of 20 kids, mom. They can’t tell.” She is 10. #COVID19 (1/5) Thanks for the LOVE folks! A few things: 1-she was still listening & they weren’t doing a lesson just checking in. We’ve talked about when it’s inappropriate. She gets it. She’s always pushed the limits, but her heart is big.

THREAD: (1/11) 3 years ago, @ewarren read Coretta Scott King's letter opposing the 1986 appointment of Jeff Sessions to a fed'l judgeship. @ewarren thought King's objections remained relevant in 2017 as the Senate considered the confirmation of Sessions as the US Attorney General (2/11) In her letter, Coretta Scott King was critical of Jeff Sessions' actions as a US Attorney in the early 1980s, and she did not want him to have a lifetime appointment to the federal bench. For example, she wrote:

(1/7) Since @DineshDSouza refuses to do"takebacks" (despite getting schooled daily by @KevinMKruse & his fellow #twitterhistorians) & since I still can’t believe that @CandaceOwen denied the GOP’s Southern Strategy, I’m reposting this short thread of evidence to the contrary. (2/7) In a 2005 speech to the NAACP, the former head of the GOP, Ken Mehlman, apologized for his party’s Southern Strategy. At the time, Bob Herbert called it an empty apology in the @nytimes because it was still going on. It still is. nytimes.com/2005/07/18/opi…