I wrote about Marilyn Lands' surprise victory in Alabama, where the Democrat won a long-held Republican seat in the state legislature running on reproductive freedom in the heart of Trump country - and what lessons she has for Democrats nationally
@JDVance1
Did you release a similar statement when a far-right terrorist murdered 5 people at Club Q last year? Or at the Buffalo supermarket? What about the El Paso Walmart? The Pittsburgh synagogue? The South Charleston church? The Isla Vista streets? The homes of New Mexico Democrats?
@SenRickScott
Y'all, Senator Scott is in a position to effect change. He chooses not to. He has an A+ rating from the NRA. What I said is deliberately provocative. I will continue to hold to account politicians who choose to do nothing as our people are slaughtered in the streets
Absolutely love Haz taking Murdoch to task. βIt was around this time that I began to think Murdoch was evilβ¦ I didnβt care for Murdochβs politics, which were just to the right of the Talibanβsβ
#Spare
#SparePrinceHarry
@raphousetv2
You can't be "framed" by your victims, because having victims to begin with necessarily implies you did something criminal and harmful to them
@SholaMos1
I donβt know if there is anything I could possibly say that would be helpful but I want to register my solidarity with you, Dr Mos-Shogbamimu. This is repugnant and has no place in a civilised society. Light and love to you and yours
@ProfTomkins
@ShelaghFogarty
I mean she can think whatever she wants, but others are free to think that what she thinks is bad. For me, the line is drawn when she wants to force me to live by her religious views. That's illiberal
@sophielouisecc
No, we just arenβt disingenuous pillocks misrepresenting what was in the documentary. I address that - including your ludicrous tweet - here
@Gabby_Hoffman
This is ahistorical rightwing propaganda. The coal industry in Appalachia began declining in the 1950s with the advent of mechanisation and automisation. By 1990, coal accounted for only 28,876 jobs in West Virginia
Itβs okay not to be a fan of Sam Smith. Iβm not. But complaining about a queer man being gender nonconforming and hypersexual when you never complain about straight men and women doing and being the same really shows your own prejudice
@timloughton
She was mocking herself and you know it, Tim. Shame on you for misrepresenting this to pile on and bully her. I love the UK. It is my second home and the country I hope to live in permanently one day. But the way you all have completely lied about this moment has me appalled
@JohnAnzo
@ppavnr
Depends on what those "opposing views" are. As the GOP becomes more extreme, "opposing views" become "opposing morals" and that cannot work
As an American I am aghast that Anne Sacoolas can escape justice for killing an innocent young man. Harry Dunn's family deserves justice. The US should extradite her if she does not go on her own accord
@Travistritt
@JackDaniels_US
I used to be such a fan of yours. βAnymoreβ is one of my favourite songs of all time, as is βIβm Gonna Be Somebody.β But this hateful turn of yours is so disappointing
@POTUS
Take a look at the replies to this tweet. Lots of people projecting their own issues into this. All I did was accurately assess the logic here. You canβt say you support home-rule but also support the federal government overriding the democratically elected city government
@ShelaghFogarty
@ProfTomkins
But she does, Shelagh. She said she would have voted against equal marriage. That's limiting my rights because of her beliefs, and as a gay man that is a massive issue and makes her different than, say, Tim Farron from a few years back
Mehdi is also, I believe, a naturalised U.S. citizen meaning he legally canβt be deported. The implications of that specific threat make it all the more horrifying
Never mind what the threat to imprison a gay critic of our would-be dictator means to me specifically
Mike Davis β an ex-Gorsuch law clerk touted as Trumpβs next AG β threatens to indict, detain, deport
@mehdirhasan
& put
@Timodc
in a womenβs prison.
Fascism is here, yβall. Mehdi and Tim are treasures. This is obscene.
I wrote about the utter disregard for safety
#OceanGate
CEO Stockton Rush showed, how it echoes the safety failures of Titanic itself, and why - just as our ancestors learned from that disaster - we should learn from this one and regulate adventure tourism
@Sen_JoeManchin
That crime bill was not as bad as you're saying. It would've made it *easier* to prosecute crimes and reformed sentencing so that you didn't get more for destroying property than for murder. I'll never understand how you and your ilk have made it into something so scary
@tedreednc
@YesHunter
Hi. Iβm a journalist who writes about Appalachia and I am currently pursuing a masters in Appalachian Studies. I grew up near Vance in both Ohio and Kentucky
That book did no such thing
@michaellore
@AP
What? That white people need a consolation prize for Black excellence? I donβt understand why people are so upset about this. I mean, I do, but itβs just such a shame
@ColinBrazierTV
That's not what is happening here. This was very clearly Meghan being self-depricating about her lack of knowledge and her own ignorance. That the right-wing press is making this out to be something else entirely is a damning indictment of you lot. Truly despicable
@tnhousegop
@TNGOP
@GinoBulso
@JasonZacharyTN
@WilliamLamberth
@RepChrisTodd
Last year y'all proposed a marriage bill with no minimum age. You've done nothing to ban child beauty pageants which sexualise kids more than a panto dame reading a story at a library ever has. This isn't about protecting the innocence of children. It's a legislative gay bashing
"Lift Every Voice and Sing" has been called the Black national anthem for longer than "The Star-Spangled Banner" has been the U.S. national anthem. This tweet is for all the conservatives currently or about to lose their shit over a song praising God and freedom
@scarlett4kids
@KelseaBallerini
@CMT
So should we prohibit straight white men from being on tv every time one of them does a mass shooting? Because thereβs never be another episode of Tucker Carlson if that happened
@chrisjollyhale
@Justinjpearson
Has he never heard of code switching? I was LITERALLY just discussing this with undergraduates today in an Appalachian studies course and they got it. Why canβt Tucker? (Thatβs rhetorical lol)
@ShelaghFogarty
@ProfTomkins
And people vote against politicians for those things all the time. I wouldnβt vote for an anti-choice candidate anymore than Iβd vote for one who opposes equal marriage. I want to he free to live by my conscience, not by theirs, and certainly not by Kate Forbesβ
@mattyglesias
@thejb_stan
You just tacitly acknowledged that you think 1) conservatives are racist and 2) that you think itβs important that we read racist articles and also 3) sometimes those articles are good
Have a word with yourself
The more I think about that Maureen Dowd column, the more I can't believe the nerve of her. I think it's bringing up all the times people commented on my family situation over the years without knowing the basic facts. Some things are none of your business, Maureen
Dolly Parton, Taylor Swift, and Reba McEntire have all acknowledged their LGBTQ fanbases and have expressed support for our community before. Yet their silence in the wake of Tennesseeβs hateful drag and trans health bans has been deafening. My latest:
Harry Belafonte. Damn. The child of immigrants, he risked his career to stand up for what was right by vocally supporting and participating in the Civil Rights Movement. If that wasn't enough, he changed American music forever and was an immense talent. RIP Legend, indeed.
This is ahistorical rightwing propaganda. The coal industry in Appalachia began declining in the 1950s with the advent of mechanisation and automisation. By 1990, coal accounted for only 28,876 jobs in West Virginia
When you shut down entire industries that keep Appalachia afloat by regulatory fiat - cough, killing the coal industry- you create ghost towns.
On the other-side of the pendulum: SFβs permissiveness of homeless and rampant crime are equally of the Leftβs doing.
Not the own youβ¦
@tonyposnanski
@AdamKinzinger
I don't think that's fair to say of Adam Kinzinger. Most Republicans, sure. But Adam seems like he has a lot of compassion for everyone
@RachelBitecofer
Watch it and then read my essay on how the responses to them are a perfect reflection of the cultural differences between the two nations. (Iβm very proud of it and itβs for a startup and the editor was very kind to me so Iβm promoting it as much as I can)
I donβt think Pete Davidson has actually dated all these women. I think that this is some elaborate performance art and in 30 years thereβs gonna be some cast reunion that reveals everything and blows our minds
@EStreachailt
And fucking Graham Linehan cheering it on as protecting gender non-conforming kids. He really is thick as pigshit isn't he? And these Republicans are utterly fascistic. It's terrifying
@elle_hunt
I did wonder if it was a comment on class and regional identity but then, heβs not working class. Itβs the best explanation Iβve seen though, so thanks for sharing!
Reading the Ronan Farrow report on Elon Musk and holy shit this caused me to gasp. No unelected person should have this much influence over the government. Our Founding Fathers are spinning in their graves
The reality is that most mainstream country artists today are perfectly fine with a descent into authoritarianism so long as it doesnβt affect ticket sales
Some, like Jason Aldean, actively cheer it on
Before this morning I had never heard of Samantha Hudson. I wish it had remained that way. There's a lot to unpack here but mostly I'm just fucking exhausted by this kind of thing. Like... who hires these people without vetting old tweets at this point???
#BoycottDoritos
@JenWoodruff79
@tedreednc
@YesHunter
It absolutely does on a topic I report on professionally and am pursuing a masters in. If I said "I'm a journalist covering Appalachia, let me tell you about nuclear fusion" you might have a point. But this is something of an expertise of mine; that is germane to the conversation
βTelling women how to avoid rapeβ has been the primary deterrent to rape for decades. Centuries. Millennia.
Spoiler alert: it hasnβt worked.
Perhaps because the problem isnβt women. Itβs men
Victim-blaming is terrible. Rapists are solely responsible for what they do. But telling women how better to defend themselves from dangerous men isnβt always victim-blaming.
I canβt believe Iβm writing this.
A new FL bill will tell courts to SEIZE TRANS CHILDREN AWAY from their supportive parents if those parents provide or are βat riskβ of providing them life-saving care.
Parents would be charged with felonies + thrown in prison.
This is fascist.
Lauren Boebertβs 17-year-old son impregnating a 15-year-old girl is the future Republicans want. The GOP is the party of child marriage and teen pregnancy
One thing about the
#TennesseeThree
that I haven't seen mentioned is that this all started because the children of evangelicals were slaughtered. Democrats are fighting for the lives of the children of Republicans while Republicans themselves try to expel them for it
@JonBontempe
@JDVance1
Mother Emanuel AME. I used the names of the cities as a literary device to drive home my point that right-wing violence occurs across this country in many venues. "South Charleston church" was thus used just as "Pittsburgh synagogue" - instead of saying Tree of Life Synogague.