I think a lot about how to maintain hope in terrible times. You might say it's my job. And even more so, to help other people empower themselves with that same hope. I have nothing real to offer today except some practical ways that I maintain a practice of hope. The first and most important thing is to stay at what I think of as "your rawness." Lots of folks call that vulnerability. The first person you must be vulnerable with is yourself. I had a good cry this morning, looking at pictures of those children. It was not convenient.

I see a lot of you sharing this and I cannot let this shit stand and then I have to answer questions for years about "why Latinos are conservative/"Defund the Police lost us something" or whatever racist/elitist shit you repeat as your original thoughts. (1/?)

https://twitter.com/EricLevitz/status/1367108489156386818

(This is going to be long, buckle up. This is truly a time saving intervention for me for literally years, so I am going to make it through.) (2/?)

I think it's actually really important for us all to understand what's happening here. Family separation and detention has created a groundswell of people who are paying attention to this moment like never before. Let's make sure we understand what the battlefield is. (1/?)

https://twitter.com/aurabogado/status/1364325374662897664

I want us to understand what to where to hold our government accountable and how the immigration system works. That's how we transform the system to something that is fair, humane, and functional. As we know, right now it's...not. (2/?)

In case you don't follow immigration obsessively, what this means: MPP was one of the worst abuses of the Trump Admin, keeping refugees from presenting themselves for asylum and separating thousands of families. MPP has led to 10-20k people at the border stuck in limbo. (THREAD)

https://twitter.com/Tanvim/status/1352056328877961219

Families stuck in MPP are living in shelters, on the street, in refugee tent cities on the bridge at the border, etc. And they were often denied a just process, not receiving information about legal proceedings, when they got anything at all.

Have been wanting to demystify #DNCConvention for folks as we head into this week, so a thread on what a DNC Convention is, who runs it, and how it works.... The #DNCConvention is run by the DNCC, the Democratic Convention Committee. This is significant -- the DNC proper is a (somewhat) separate entity from the DNCC. Why? Because the nominee is often very deeply involved in the Convention.

Political Data World, you are my last nerve today. Let's talk about anti-blackness in the Political Data community. Honestly, part of me doesn't even need to do this thread so much as I just need to point out at you that one tweet led to a flurry of replies and some DMs from operatives of color. So.

I am extremely grumpy this morning so figured I would do some tweeting about staff diversity on presidential campaigns and potential senior staff in 2020. (What could go wrong?) (1/many) The idea that presidential campaigns will become diverse on their own is ridiculous. 2020 races reflect the larger world in which they live and thus are not without racism, prejudice, unconscious bais, and discrimination.

THREAD: Let's say you haven't been following everything #KavanaughHearings related. Here's what you need to know: this guy is a liar and under no circumstances should he be a Supreme Court Justice. Let me break this down because it's actually kind of astonishing the lengths Kavanaugh and Republicans have gone to conceal how right wing this guy really is. #StopKavanaugh

THREAD: This is what a 🇺🇸 United States of America 🇺🇸 looks like. 773 events in all 50 states, united because #FamiliesBelongTogether Our smallest rally tomorrow is likely to be in North Dakota. Antler has a population of 27. #FamiliesBelongTogether

Are you confused about #WhereAreTheChildren? Of course you are. Your friendly immigrants’ rights advocate (reporting to you from vacation because the kids are counting on us to get this right). (THREAD) “Did the government lose 1500 children that are now missing?”

...sort of. 1500 of the 7000 children who came here alone, mostly from Central America, are “missing” because the government couldn’t find them after they attempted to get in touch with them: pbs.org/wgbh/frontline…