Not active on here, but reachable via email or on Signal @lpolgreen.39
May 8, 2023 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
I'll never forget @connie_walker telling me how her in the late 1970s, her father, then a policeman, pulled over a man for driving erratically. It turns out he knew the man. He was a Catholic priest who had abused him at a residential school for indigenous children.
He beat the man to a pulp and left him by the side of the road. She told me she wanted to find out who that priest was, and what he had done to her father. I wanted to know too. It was the beginning of an incredibly arduous reporting journey.
May 7, 2023 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
What’s wild is that the F train connects some of the most affluent areas of New York City - routinely packed with bougie Brooklyn gentrified, downtown scenesters and media execs headed to Rockefeller Center etc etc etc.
If it was like, the 7 train *maybe*? Or the L from Canarsie but well before Bushwick?
Apr 14, 2023 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
Republicans have lost the culture war by winning their most cherished goal. So now they are trying to whip up an anti-trans frenzy. It isn’t working. My latest column. nytimes.com/2023/04/14/opi…
Republicans seem to think that transphobia is the perfect post-Roe wedge issue. But the abject cruelty of their post-Roe lawmaking blitz has only alienated the swing voters wedge issues are meant to peel off.
