Award-winning writer, stray cat magnet, host of the forthcoming Books of All Time podcast (1/2024). Someone’s mother. She/her.
Nov 7, 2020 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
I just spoke to my Mom, who reminded me of her "That-Time-I-Met-@JoeBiden" story.
Mom was a County Commissioner in Monroe County, PA around the start of the Obama Administration.
Sometime around 2009-2010, she was invited to a state Democrats event where she and the other commissioners from around the state would get to meet then-VP Joe Biden and then-U.S. Senator Arlen Specter (who'd recently switched back to being a Democrat).
Jul 14, 2018 • 18 tweets • 6 min read
Yesterday prior to the @WomensMarchLondon, a group of us stewards were approached by a @BBC producer who wanted to put some of us on air. I couldn't go (I didn't bring photo ID), but she asked a me question I've been thinking about ever since.
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2/ The question was "Do you think protesting will have any impact on policy?" There's only one answer to that: No. Absent something like a general strike, even a protest 4x as big as yesterday's wouldn’t impact politicians' decision-making, especially those at the very top.
