The most powerful tool of oppression is keeping you so busy with the daily struggle that you don’t have the time to connect all the dots and become truly enraged.
The richest man on the planet, and possibly in history, zeroed out a black woman professor because he felt her anger and her words were not acceptable and he felt he was the right person to put her in her place.
Says quite a lot.
Today I am telling my story. I never planned to share the details of my experience working in the Cuomo administration, but I am doing so now in hopes that it may make it easier for others to speak their own truth.
It’s not about Musk suspending Kathy Griffin from Twitter (or anyone else who impersonates him for that matter).
It’s about making you just uncomfortable enough to avoid tweets critical of him or posting that next expose on him.
That’s the goal and that’s fascism.
Yes,
@NYGovCuomo
sexually harassed me for years. Many saw it, and watched.
I could never anticipate what to expect: would I be grilled on my work (which was very good) or harassed about my looks. Or would it be both in the same conversation? This was the way for years.
My husband: I don’t want a dog. We don’t need a dog. We don’t have time for one.
My husband 2 years later: I read an article about dog emotional well-being & we should stop saying goodbye when we leave because Truffle will be more sad. We don’t want her to worry when we’re out.
What’s the word for when a corporation brings in a woman after every man has failed and it’s virtually impossible for her to succeed because so much structural and fundamental failure has happened before she even walked in the door?
As much as my boss
@NYGovCuomo
hurt me when he harassed and assaulted me, nothing has hurt more than the silence of friends and colleagues who saw all of it and did nothing.
Amazing to me that there was a story about Elon Musk having to pay off a flight attendant he had give him sexual massages on the corporate plane and that he tried to give her a pony to keep her silent and now we are hearing nothing except him buying Twitter.
How things work.
It was racist and dangerous when Trump said things like “the China flu” and it’s racist and dangerous when Nancy Pelosi says “go back to China where your headquarters is…”
I’m angry to be put in this situation at all. That because I am a woman, I can work hard my whole life to better myself and help others and yet still fall victim as countless women over generations have. Mostly silently.
I hate that some men, like
@NYGovCuomo
abuse their power.
I cannot express how unhelpful this is.
@BernieSanders
bears much responsibility for changing the narrative around what is possible in politics for a generation. Speaking as someone who grew up very much inspired by
@HillaryClinton
, I genuinely don’t get this choice.
Hillary Clinton about Bernie Sanders in a new doc per
@THR
: “Nobody likes him, nobody wants to work with him, he got nothing done. He was a career politician. It's all just baloney and I feel so bad that people got sucked into it.”
Andrew Cuomo wouldn’t understand the concept of mentorship if it punched him in the face. He grooms women to feel like they have no way out. That’s the training he does.
I’ll have more to say tomorrow.
“No one bothered to contact us to find out Michael’s story…They write all of these things about him, but no one bothered to ask him what happened or look at his receipts.”
He is a 17yo kid who uses citibike and he doesn’t have an expensive attorney.
I am grateful for the support I’ve received since telling my story – not just from people in New York but across the country. When we show up & support victims, we make it easier for others to come forward. Only by shining a light on this kind of abuse will we be able to end it.
Everything about this makes me sick. I cannot believe how we treat women and it happens every day.
Sharon Stone says she lost custody of her son because of scene in Basic Instinct
My abuser used the full force of state government, of all his power, to destroy me when I spoke out.
He did not destroy me. He will not destroy me. I will help dismantle his abuse of power.
As a woman you tried to destroy for your brother, one who actually contemplated suicide because the pain of your smears & lies were too much, I am offended.
I am offended that we still have to hear about your feelings.
Why do we hear from you at all?
@ewarren
@JerryNadler
This is my daughter writing you a thank you note for running for president. I told her all about you. I won’t tell her the story of how you didn’t even bother to know who I was before you endorsed my opponent.
Don’t pretend for a second that any victim will come across as “credible” by the time powerful men are done making them look the opposite in our culture.
Cooper: You have every right to be outraged today and angry and never watch this network again. But do you think staying in your silo and only listening to people you agree with is going to make that person go away?
Not knowing what to expect what’s the most upsetting part aside from knowing that no one would do a damn thing even when they saw it.
No one.
And I *know* I am not the only woman.
I think it’s really sad and ugly how all the students involved in this are effectively being smeared by politicians who find it easier to miss what they’re saying than to address what they’re saying.
Such a joke.
Here are photos of the “horrific scenes of antisemitism at and around campus.” Muslim & Jewish students celebrating Shabbat & praying together.
The students who are at risk are the ones being harassed, doxxed, & arrested for expressing solidarity with Palestinians.
Just thinking about all the dudes over the years who told me it was silly to make my vote about abortion access. How, one after the other they said Roe v Wade had settled the issue and I shouldn’t be so “small-mind” and binary in my thinking…
My first experience of workplace sexual harassment was when my mom got her first real office job after graduating from college when I was in high school.
She was so excited to be taken “seriously.” Her bossed isolated her and kissed her. She never had that type of job again.
Like a true abuser,
@NYGovCuomo
continues to work behind the scenes to undermine the truth and to harm his many victims. His abuse of power never ends. He does not get to choose his judge and jury. We do. And what is abundantly clear to me is the governor should resign.
From the beginning, I simply asked that the Governor stop his abusive behavior. It became abundantly clear he was unable to do that, instead attacking and blaming victims until the end. It is a tragedy that so many stood by and watched these abuses happen.
@ewarren
@JerryNadler
.
@ewarren
. Have been a big supporter of your career and it’s unfortunate that you looked right past me to the guy who it took 3 decades to pass 3 things and who takes as much money from companies as he does from people. How is that progressive?
🧵: I am tired of being asked about homelessness as a blight for people who have homes to experience and not as a life and death problem for people experiencing homelessness.
We don't say "water-infused" for wet.
We don't say "humorously-motivated" for funny.
We don't say "falsely-tinged" for wrong.
We don't say "anger-charged" for mad.
Call a racist what he his. Call racism what it is.
TIME FOR MORAL CLARITY.
I just think we don’t need to make fun of how a woman looks or dresses simply because we don’t like her politics. That’s misogyny. Stick to policy people.
Pelosi husband gained nearly $5 million on Alphabet stock ahead of vote to advance five antitrust bills targeting major tech giants -husband-won-big-on-alphabet-stock
Elon Musk didn’t like his Twitter offer being rejected by Donald Trump.
Why, the fuck, did a picture of a half naked woman and a priest being propositioned by said woman seem the right parallel to him?
Because he sexualizes & disrespects women. In two words - rape culture.
First it was Trump can't win.
Then the Electors will stop him.
Then the GOP will.
Then the
#MuellerReport
will.
Then the unredacted Mueller report will.
Then Mueller speaking will.
Then Mueller testifying will.
Then SDNY will.
Let's stop waiting for a savior and
#ImpeachTrumpNOW
.
@SavannahGuthrie
: "The 1st Amendment... doesn't protect lies that amount to defamation."
Amber Heard: "...It's a freedom to speak truth to power."
SG: "But 'truth' is the word... And that was the issue."
AH: "And that's all I spoke. I spoke it to power, and I paid the price."
“Victim’s families and survivors wanted nothing to do with our work…”
This should have been a message to Ryan and his collaborators. Instead it’s like he’s patting himself on the back.
Ryan Murphy claims that he reached out to 20 victims’ families and friends throughout the 3.5 years it took to prepare for Netflix’s ‘Dahmer’ series:
“Not a single person responded to us in that process. So we relied very, very heavily on our incredible group of researchers,”
Happy
#LovingDay
! My husband and I wouldn’t have been able to marry for most of the last century in America.
Today, I am especially grateful for Mildred & Richard Loving’s bravery which led to the historic SCOTUS decision that legalized interracial marriage. 🧡🧡
Going to tell my grandkids this is part of the dark ages:
We live in a culture that gets to determine if women crying seems “real” and that determines whether or not these women are telling the truth about lived experiences.
One of the five male jurors from the Johnny Depp-Amber Heard defamation trial spoke exclusively to GMA about the reasoning for their verdict:
“All of us were very uncomfortable. She would answer one question and she would be crying and two seconds later she would turn ice cold.”
@ewarren
@JerryNadler
This is my daughter writing you a thank you note for running for president. I told her all about you. I won’t tell her the story of how you didn’t even bother to know who I was before you endorsed my opponent.
I just got a no caller id call. Because I worked for
@NYGovCuomo
this gives me PTSD every time. That’s how he would call to verbally abuse me or be a total creep. I’m one of many who must have this reaction every time.
If someone can say goodbye to a loved one, see them for the last time, on an iPad, Congress can find a way to forgo recess and work remotely. Seriously. Fix it now. Tomorrow. This is so fucked.
A lot happened today. I saw important dialogue about the meaning of culture and symbols and colonialism.
What we didn’t need was Jeff Bezos weighing in on any of it here. He already does that with his billions, his corporate lobby, and his power over much of our press.
Why isn’t this bigger news?
“According to the suit, the disciplinary process in question stems from an incident where Meyer allegedly spilled coffee on a football player who was accused of sexually assaulting a minor on her team.”
@MarkHamill
Am I the only one who thinks this is not a great response?
Speaking truth to power is so important. I don’t think that’s what JK Rowling is doing. I think she’s engaging in a toxic dialogue that she herself began. She is not powerless. She is not without resources and contacts
If you just started caring about pregnant women and new moms in prison, you don’t care about pregnant women and new moms in prison.
You care about rich white women as pregnant and new moms in prison.
When the Republican Party adopts extremist positions and the Republican President spews racism, Democrats should not strive to meet them in the "middle."
THERE IS NO MIDDLE BETWEEN JUSTICE AND INJUSTICE.
And I promised myself I would never let those kind of guys win. I would work hard my whole life to put myself in positions of power to change things. To end the violence & corruption. Give voice to the voiceless.
I am not stopping. I refuse. I will never give up.
Lis Smith helped to smear me and the other women who came forward. She actively did this work. She should not get to tell any part of this story and pretend at remorse and then block the people she harmed.
This is quite a read from someone who saw it all happening inside the
@andrewcuomo
circus.
My Time at the Side of Albany’s ‘Prince of Darkness’ -
@politico
@Lis_Smith
It’s been less than 24 hours since Elon Musk took over Twitter and the worst men hiding in their mom’s basement throwing barbs at women have realized it’s their time to shine.
Tonight I put all of my children in my bedroom, so we died, we died together without one of us having to bemoan the other.
This is how mothers in Gaza are now💔
#Gaza_Under_Attack
It was then how I learned how hard it is for women. How hard this world can be for us when we are trying to be taken seriously and help our community. How easily jerks can destroy the lives of women.
Why should I? Should we pretend when a hero has acted as an opportunist? Should we cheer when we see the grimy underpinnings of how our federal government works? Should we cheer for those who talk about change but show up for more of the same? So, no, I would not take this well.
Bill is a perfect metaphor for our time. It is never about Bill. It is always about someone else. Someone else is always the problem. Harvard. MIT. DEI. Business Insider staff. It will never end because the world is full of people he can hold accountable besides himself.
I just don’t have words. But the most powerful man in this state
@NYGovCuomo
tried to destroy me when I spoke my truth about his abuse.
I will NEVER give up. I will NEVER give in. We will not be destroyed by our abusers.
🚨 Per ABC News: Matt Gaetz was part of a group of young male lawmakers who created a "game" to score their female sexual conquests, which granted "points" for various targets such as interns, staffers or other female colleagues