Dr. Hilarie Ashton @HilarieAshton Twitter profile

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Dr. Hilarie Ashton

6 years

I wrote about my heroes (and my dissertation) for NPR. Starting as a three-year-old, I loved NPR. Robert Seagull (my spelling). Cokie Roberts. Christiane Amanpour. And now, me and Ronnie.

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It's time to recognize The Ronettes as rock and roll pioneers.

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College students organized beautifully and got the shit beat out of them by riot police across the country this spring, but you called that "the performance of activism"

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That nobody has/is/and likely will mount huge sustained protests over SCOTUS indicates something deeply asymmetrical or amiss about organizing culture. This court has gutted the rule of law and the fate of ordinary people on so many levels and...🦗🦗🦗

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Me going through my own notes in my manuscript

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Just thinking about the damage mainstream media has done for decades by referring to human rights issues like abortion care and trans rights as "debates"

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@anniemgc @MikeSliferWX We will not. We will read it like you would read YES

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"I live inside my own heart, Matt Damon" 💜💜💜

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@NatashaTynes @rgay Nobody's canceling anybody. Critique is not cancellation, but it's telling that you think it is.

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@mpellittieri She likes to look back over her shoulder at me

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@christapeterso I mean, it was a VERY little leg

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@1followernodad They sound wonderful (I hope they are for a ceasefire)

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@DwayneDavidPaul He's just the president! In charge of the country! What is he supposed to do but tweet?!?

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@rosemcgowan If you don't want to be called transphobic, don't BE transphobic. You're not being labeled; your behavior is being described.

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@andreagrimes I read "I don't care about her hobby" and gasped so loud, I woke the cat. And it's her inheritance, you weenie!

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@susan_sherlock @mmpadellan You could've googled her in a fraction of the time it took you to write this oddly self-righteous tweet, but instead you wanted to be smug online. Your hammered dulcimer isn't rock n roll, Susan.

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@SiddhantAdlakha I was not familiar with David Ehrlich's game!

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Motivational Thought for the Day: Whatever you have tried and whatever your struggles, you are better at all of your things than Betsy DeVos is at anything relating to education

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@WrrrdNrrrdGrrrl The system is a fiction for white kids. It doesn't work the same way for kids of color. White supremacy makes sure of that.

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@BrandyLJensen I don't understand how this person doesn't understand that people's shoes go on the sidewalk and the street, and your floor, you wash. There is no cleanliness equation in which they are even close, unless this person is a total dirtbag, which I guess is possible

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@EmilyDreyfuss @writtenbyirene That's not why

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It's personal for me: it killed my only parent. Throwing a cure around as a campaign promise, especially when one doesn't believe in Medicare for All, is irresponsible and intensely disrespectful to people who've died from it, who've lived past it, and who are in mourning from it

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There’s plenty to go after Biden about. But his pledge/promise to cure cancer doesn’t strike me as one of them. For starters, it’s obviously personal for him. But, mainly, it was clearly said as aspirational

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@McJesse @IanKarmel Could we try capybaras??

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@OsitaNwanevu "It's like Activist Man" makes me wish I couldn't read

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@SarahHeartsNYC @courtneycgross @bobhardt @NYCMayor What exactly do you think the intrusion of your photos would do

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@keller_lind @NirajAntani @RealSaavedra @Ocasio2018 She corrected herself, sweetheart

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@sapphixy @NurseAbbers @Sorrelish Counterpoint (from a heavily tattooed Jewish person): don't marry a man who's cool with his white supremacist sister

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Living through several layers of societal collapse isn't good for my health either. Light, schmight.

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Sleeping with even a little bit of light isn't good for your health, study shows

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@Grapevi15054498 @OlMumsyJess Like maybe 40% of them. Google "40% of police" to find out more.

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@mannyfidel Adams is just out of frame, doing some members-only partying or running some harm on homeless folks

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@JUNlPER @thehill @SpeakerPelosi My guess is to protect her considerable investments.

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@jrpsaki @thecooper3 @BarackObama @JoeBiden You can't say we should expect more from her and then give credit for her work to a white dude. You have to pick one.

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@rachsyme I drink Earl Grey green tea and I complain 💜

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8 years

TAKE CABS. DELETE YOUR UBER ACCOUNT.

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6 months

Every time this is tested, the result is the same: guaranteed basic income makes people's lives easier. We don't need to keep testing it. We need to do it everywhere.

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Results are out for the guaranteed basic income pilot in Paterson, New Jersey where 110 people got $400/mo for a year. Pilot participants increased their incomes significantly to $24,810 from an average of $16,604. The control group ended up at $19k. While the control group's

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@nathanwpyle I hate it when cis men who will never be pregnant have really terrible opinions about the inalienable right to bodily autonomy of all pregnant people.

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8 years

No. We must teach sons not to grope.

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We must teach daughters to fight back INSTANTLY if groped. No meek silences. Scream, punch, make a scene! Do it, for the sake of all girls.

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Emily is trying in real time to redefine the term "patient zero" as something that's fine to say about a trans person

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@adamjohnsonCHI @MadAboutPaper @RyanMarino And policing is NOT essential: it's violent and racist and protects only the ruling class. Libraries are essential: books (and all their other services!) are for everyone.

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@feederofcats Fellow tuxie and former street kitty Señora has only four teeth, and she is happy as a clam! We hope the same for Peepers!

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@NifMuhammad And they just... recur. Once I have run them, lo, it is time to run them again!

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@caitiedelaney @carolynmichelle I'm not sure if I've ever followed someone so fast

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@WaifuKaizer @DijahSB But none of those things happened here

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@mstharrington Perhaps folks have been occupied with the many other forms of anti-Black racism that mark their daily lives. And you might consider where your lane as a white woman is in this discussion (firmly to the side).

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@brendalyonsart @finchfrii @DeoTasDevil Unfortunately, his sentencing was a while ago. Last year, two of his convictions were overturned and, even worse, he may get a new trial.

Some Convictions Against Former Judge Ciavarella Vacated

LUZERNE COUNTY — Several convictions against disgraced former Luzerne County Judge Mark Ciavarella have been vacated by a federal judge, possibly clearing...

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@Alyssa_Milano @Imani_Barbarin You famously did this with #MeToo as well; I'd think you'd be more careful with your words after that. But then you spent a lot of last week attacking a Black activist for sharing information you'd already made public.

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@skuke_hater @kevincdoyle @DianeKovacs @MikeDrucker @maggieNYT Using her considerable platform to share it without pointing out the problems places it in discourse where it doesn't belong. She know what she's doing; this kind of manipulation is her thing.

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@Anon33Guest @jbouie Defunding the police is good, actually (you're implying that it isn't). She knows that and I wish you did too.

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@pronounced_ing @sarahdessen That "one person" wanted to read a book on racial justice and the carceral state by Bryan Stevenson instead of Sarah's book. Sarah's choice to drag her in front of the whole Internet, especially given that, doesn't seem to me like a great or generous one.

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@Tulipdog @hels Mediocre white women have their own, related set of dangers

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7 years

The Wounded Knee Massacre is still deadlier. Please don’t erase Native people during tragedy. You could have added the qualifier “modern.”

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Attack on Outdoor Music Concert in Las Vegas Becomes the Deadliest Mass Shooting in US History

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@Zillychu @muqingmzhang She spent a week fanning the flames and trying to turn her blatant disregard for another person's right to privacy and safety into a media job. It's disturbing how quick you are give her undeserved credit.

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@KevinHart4real Stop blaming the people you've hurt

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@B_Ehrenreich I'm not a Pelosi person, and I strongly support AOC, but this is a weird observation for you to make, partly because you're perpetuating this fiction that they're on opposite sides of something

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Send us a bill or a check! Don't make us redo (or pay to redo) the math the government already did!

More Perfect Union

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1 year

NEW: Filing your taxes could be free starting this year. The IRS is trying out a direct-file program where you could pay zero dollars to file this year. And soon it might make TurboTax obsolete. But tax prep companies are spending millions to block them.

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Here's what Lorde actually wrote: "Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare." (A Burst of Light, 1988)

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@Guerra_Rb Thanks mate! Trying that "self care" thing Audre Lorde was talking about and that.

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@juliacarriew I would simply never write again if any of this could be said of my work!

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"Lifestyle" is a queerphobic dogwhistle and Chappelle has been openly transphobic in at least his last four specials

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Well said Dave

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@ellle_em @blgtylr Pls read my forthcoming story, Cat Friend

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@franklinleonard Please tell him how grateful we already are!

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@AlanaMassey @fanserviced I would like bats on all my money

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@msdanifernandez @Suavebones I was 11, and I was so lucky to have a mama who has already explained everything! I want all kids with periods to get some version of that. (And kids who won't get periods need to see periods represented, too!)

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@aetherlev I shared with them the plot of the greatest pro-abortion movie ever made, and I attached a photo of Clooney from ER

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@Impy1991Joyce @Roxy080645 @SteveSchmidtSES This is our country. If you think it isn't, you're not thinking about slavery or residential schools for Native children. Or internment camps. We did all those things. Stop pretending that we didn't.

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@businessinsider @jessicaliebman On this website, it didn't spark debate. It sparked pretty unified condemnation of discriminatory hiring practices.

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@hannahmsays Oh buddy, right there with you

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This is not the point of the video, but I love how Trey and Corey are cuddling. Straight men, you gotta cuddle more. With each other. Like women do. It's really nice, very honestly.

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Watching football with @traecrowder and quizzing him. He hates me

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@PublishersWkly @amNewYork This is not even close to inclusion. They should consider, I don't know, actually promoting books by underrepresented authors.

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@DavidTamarkin I'm worried for the person who takes this job if it took public dragging to get you to realize how inhumane it was. How many other jobs are structured this way?

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@HelmanDaniel @CaspianSpatula @tattooed_bug The potential trainee in question is a raging misogynist, Daniel

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@DrLeanaWen Did you write this from the safety of your home, just like you have been doing your tv appearances?

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@Alyssa_Milano @Bizzdave @daveanthony @JoeBiden I think she's smarter than to give you her attention. She probably has a lot of better things to do than to speak with someone who doesn't have a problem interviewing or supporting such a creepy, entitled man.

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@DirkBargen @CarineK @FilmFatale_NYC You're doing identity politics here, Dirk. In favor of whiteness and dudeness, which is a choice you're making in public with your one wild and precious life

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@GraceSpelman I made an accidental cat trap with a washcloth

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@seth410 @alexanderchee @jonrog1 Democrats are in charge, and they just gave the military more money than Biden asked for

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@thevibeswithin @yakistani @thehustla_ Ohhhhhhhh

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@SikoSoft No part of what you wrote is true.

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@AlannaBennett I hate that I understand what this means and I hate that I agree. I don't like 7 AM.

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@verymimi Grateful that Garland, an inventor of singing, never had to hear this

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@MikeSaulters @iJesseWilliams and White privilege (White idiocy) also means not knowing that his boss is Black

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@raesanni Pointing out that cops do harm doesn't put people on the hook to slot in a replacement. But abolitionists actually offer lots of real world solutions! They're not immediate and they require reallocating money and meeting people's needs.

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@lbcubbison @jodicel I'm wondering why you all thought it appropriate to jump into Dr. Gay's mentions and tone-police.

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@PrinceScrapbook @CharleneCac @jilldjones The existence of structural racism pushes back very hard against any unreflective claim of unity.

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"They cannot be Paul Newman without the actual headache of being on Nixon's enemies list" is a brilliant formation

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@Bakari_Sellers This is an odd discursive grenade to throw, when you don't live or work in the communities that fought for their rights and well-being, and without evidence.

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@JoacoMachado @amyalkon @clairlemon That says so much about you, my dude

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@CoryBooker That's so general that it means absolutely nothing.

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Please respect my privacy in this difficult time (Liz Phair revealing that she's a monarchist)

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@keithdorejel A real one, that Marge

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@SpectreProXy He's been stealing the labor and money of Black women for YEARS. Worry about that, and don't police people's tone.

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There is no "gender debate." There is anti-trans and anti-gay white supremacist violence being visited on drag shows.

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I went through such a rollercoaster of emotions reading this

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This is Bear. He hit his head on a cabinet while playing, causing a minor brain bleed. He’s doing better, but still has a head tilt from the resulting vertigo. We’ve paid for the remainder of his care. Please consider getting pet medical insurance. It’s best to be puppared. 13/10

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A man slapped another man. Shoehorning violence against women into situations that don't include it doesn't help dismantle it.

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“Love will make you do crazy things.” Every woman who's ever been hit has heard that one.

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@megelison Blocking Black people for critiquing you is... kind of proving their original point

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@wsbgnl "Don't forget about others.. but make a decision for YOU!!"

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@105percent @JenAshleyWright Rompers and leggings are not violent threats

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@janamonji @sadydoyle You should look up how often pressing charges actually does anything. And it's interesting that you seem to think that rape is the only reason she should take any recourse.

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How many thousands more Palestinians will be dead by November? How many more bombs will America send?

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"There is no mention of Israel and Gaza right now. Do you think that was deliberate?" AOC defending Harris running away from Israel & Gaza: "I'm sure that this discussion will come up, certainly between now & November. But we also have a wide scope of issues as well."

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@RottenInDenmark Aw, he made up a lady

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@katherineschof8 @fakehistoryhunt Are you really trying to claim that holding a napping child is the same as holding a dead one? That's as grotesque a move as trying to limit people's experiences of empathy to having had children at all (and, as hundreds of people are reminding you, the sculptor himself did not)

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