The day I finally left my husband, he had me up against a wall, screaming & swearing at me. I looked over his shoulder and saw the terror in the eyes of our 4-yr-old daughter. I walked around him, picked her up,& left. I never went back.
Vance is a fool.
@StevijoPayne
You give me hope! By the way, a friend (who lives in Singapore) posted this picture on Facebook. I replied with “that’s Stevie Joe Payne!” and I told her about how you have been courageously standing up for human rights in a red state. So your message is getting out there.😊
@AmyClukey
I’m going through the same thing. We have a tradition at our school where all incoming students write a short personal essay on the same topic. This year about half of my students AI-ed their personal essay. What a bunch of soulless crap😩
@RickChapterTwo
@Thunderballs2
The thing about living in a blue district in SoCal is at least the Trump voters are properly ashamed of themselves and don’t put signs out so I can pretend there aren’t any.
@kashia
@lacadri34
I am an educator. I read this article in March and it is really sticking with me. Apparently many black students are also hesitant to return to a potentially toxic school environment. We must do better.
@mmpadellan
Who could possibly ever think George W. Bush is a “profile in courage”? His roots go deep in the oligarchy, he is not a patriot, he is just another rich white guy smugly satisfied with his position in the universe, who actually believes he worked hard for everything he has.
@MalcolmNance
Santos is loving every second of his notoriety. He has already had himself measured for his “Dancing With the Stars” costume. It’s all about the grift for him, he will milk this for everything it is worth.
@VodkaMuse
I LIVE with my MAGA dad. I haven’t spoken to him since I came home from work. I don’t even want to look at the man who voted for a serial molester of women even after I shared with him my own story of being molested. And now we are faced with the prospect of an anti-woman court.
@mkraju
We are the part of the resistance coalition that turned Orange County BLUE. We can absolutely primary
@RepJimCosta
in CA-16. This kind of BS will not fly in CA. I looked him up, I know exactly where CA-16 is located. Here is his picture. We will remember-2020 is coming!
@Amy_Siskind
Someone compared the absence of Bill Barr to a snake being loose in your house. You can’t see it but you know it’s there and you live in fear of when the thing will pop out at you.
@yashar
If anyone posts something hateful about Jimmy Carter on the occasion of his death, or on any other occasion for that matter, I will relish blocking them.
“We have to stop acting like Republicans, who step over 200,000 dead bodies to go
to work, are capable of shame.”
@ElieNYC
recommending that
@SenateDems
NOT participate in hearings where the GOP will just cue Barret up to lie.
Delay, then expand the courts when we win!
@SIfill_
And the teenagers in the discord group worshipped that guy. I am a high school teacher, I don’t think most people realize the insidious ways in which our young men are being radicalized online.
@sandibachom
@JoyAnnReid
@RoArquette
So does Fox News. My MAGA dad wants me to stock up on food and get him a gun because Tucker Carlson has convinced him that there is going to be an uprising and white people will be targets. The only way the GOP can hold onto power now is through fear.
@Ironhorse76
I am sending my Texas trumplican sister a Beto yard sign. Just for fun. She will probably trash it but the money goes to an excellent cause! And I give money to liberal causes in my trumplican dad’s name. He wonders why he gets mail from Planned Parenthood and the ACLU😁
@Mikel_Jollett
The other Dems back Senator Booker in his “Spartacus moment” and he is able to get questions about Kavanaugh‘s dubious views on race and torture into the procedure record. Excellent work
@SenBooker
#StopKavanaugh
@PoliticalBrianL
@Toure
That is what struck me the most profoundly, saying if you don’t like it don’t eat here. What will they do next, find a nice vintage “whites only” sign, put it up and say it’s “history”?
@YNB
@jawofsteel2014
@Yelp
Ugh, those men saying racist shit then looking back and forth to make sure their friends approved and then saying more racist shot because NO ONE called them on it. And that woman with fake “Jesus loves you” BS. It’s like 300 years of American history encapsulated right there.
@ResisterForever
If you haven’t seen “Judgement at Nuremberg” yet, there is a point where the the defendant justifies his actions, saying that Hitler promised to “make Germany great again”. Chilling.
@ClimateStacey
You were so brave to leave, I know how hard it is. The verbal abuse chips away at our self confidence leading us to believe we could never make it on our own. Weird that is is in actuality the man who is so insecure that he thinks he needs to control his partner like that😢
@molly_knight
@grrls_sxy_shoes
And incest victims need to show proof as well, right? Like that is going to be possible.
Well, these GOP forced-birth laws will do their job-the disempowerment of women is the end game. They will be coming for our birth control next.
@davidhogg111
Signed up for my local march, and fired up and ready to go. Now we just need to translate this energy into actions we can take to get out the vote! We need to hold the House and take a real majority in the senate. Thanks for your leadership,
@davidhogg111
@angrybooklady
My mom enrolled me in evangelical Christian school when I was 10 years old. My well meaning teacher (like Carrie’s mother was “well meaning”) wasted no time telling me and my brother that we were going to hell because we were Catholic. I was terrified and traumatized.
@StrictlyChristo
@JB4COBUCK
The fact that they are real FBI agents showing up at an elderly woman’s home to hassle her about her Facebook posts seems even more terrifying to me.
Jan 6 was largely a Christian nationalist assault, Pompeo told the committee that he met “with a group of pastors who were in town” on January 6th, and yet
@January6thCmte
asked no follow up questions about that meeting?!
#NAR
#ChristianNationalism
@repraskin
1/
@MikeSington
@TheTNHoller
What I love is, despite the chaos, and Elon’s frantic attempts to destroy Twitter, Twitter just keeps doing what Twitter does. People are still sharing information, laughing together, commiserating, mocking, organizing. The collective voice of so many humans still has power.
@azfamily
@HC_Richardson
If I saw someone dressed like this anywhere in public in my state, including by any voting site, I would immediately call the police. Can you not call the police about this in Arizona?
@matthewjdowd
on MSNBC just now:
“In the end, the only fix to this is Republicans have to lose badly in a series of elections, and I am willing to do whatever I can on any day I can to make sure that happens.”
We are with you, Matthew Dowd!
#SwingLeft
#ForThePeopleAct
@funder
@DruckerPhilip
Remember, DeJoy answers to these guys, the USPS board of governors. They are also complicit, and we need to contact them and remind them of their responsibilities. My guess is they will not relish the attention. 👇
@O_Ostapchuk
@OlgaNYC1211
Many of the children of the Desaparecidos from Argentina retained memories that sent them looking many years later for the families they had lost. At least these Ukrainian children (and their families) will have this video for evidence as they search.
@jennycohn1
Agreed. I keep trying to find news and there is so little coverage. I live in CA where our utility company was allowed to just turn off the power for days at a time to “prevent” fires, but we burned anyway. We are not prepared for these disasters. We are not prepared at all.
The research here is excellent and well-documented.
@AlexPadilla4CA
we tried to talk to you about this while you were Secretary of State. The security issues persist. Please lead the push for
#HandMarkedPaperBallots
@pareising
@pozvibes4u
Agreed, a friend’s SIL had COVID. Very ill. I told my friend she need a pulse oximeter. They got her one, her oxygen was at 82. Rushed her to the hospital, she was in hospital on oxygen for 8 days. Home now, slowly getting better. Luckily they got her to the hospital on time.
@OurShallowState
The line “full of sound and fury signifying nothing” seemed apropos to the MAGA meltdown today, so I looked it up and it is even more appropriate in context. Shakespeare knew….
@billbuc
@UROCKlive1
@tripgabriel
Nobody ever seems to push back against that damned man. He does whatever he pleases and the sycophants and quislings kiss his feet.
@MsKellyMHayes
@b_b_baconator
They also want to make a lot of noise about how willing they are to reopen the economy. Because when the Democratic governors refuse, they can then blame the entire collapse of the US economy on the Democrats. The GOP is already filming the ads.
@PrettiestFrog
High school teacher here. I bought a bunch of these flags last year and passed them out to the teachers who wanted them. It has sparked some meaningful conversations with students. It is important to me that all students feel they have a safe place at our school.
@queerBengali
@JohnRBielski
See, that is how I feel. I really want to like Bernie and I keep begging his followers to tell me what they like about him instead of just putting down everybody else in the race and complaining about it being rigged.
@KCAddison68
Those people have been working wearing masks and potentially getting exposed to the virus both from their fellow employees and possibly from a customer. They are paid very little with no sick days or health insurance. We have been tipping 25%, we are so grateful to them.
@TrueloveJanet
@flowabug
I learned years later in a trauma informed training for my job that it is the youngest kids who suffer the most because they don’t have the tools to process what they are experiencing. My daughter ended up with anxiety years later. Therapy has helped a lot! Sending love💗
@usedtobearepub
@Chica_LeoLatina
@CynBlogger
We were working with small groups of kids in June at my CA charter. Most could not keep masks on, and social distance was pretty much an alien concept.
I love my students but I am really worried about August.
@angelhairparm
@amcnal
Yes, photographs of this profound piece of political art will be in museums all around the world, and showcased in the Smithsonian for posterity. I don’t know what that other illegible piece of crap even stands for.
@thejackhopkins
And that also presumes that God was in control at Sandyhook, at Parkland, at Uvalde. And if that was the case, what kind of god are we talking about here?
@the_ayeminthant
Sending apologies from America. The behavior of our own wanna-be dictator and the near success of our own anti-democratic coup has emboldened dictators everywhere. Please be safe.
@ZackBornstein
@airbagmoments
I got this for a relatively benign reply to a tweet referencing (clearly) TFG. I reviewed (briefly) and then tweeted it anyway. It was weird, though.
I am a high school teacher. Only about 40% of my students are vaccinated. The only thing protecting us right now is the mask mandates. I
#VotedNo
on question
#1
in the
#CaliforniaRecallElection
. Please do the same! Protect California. Protect Democracy!
@HoarseWisperer
So cool
@NikkiHaley
used her status and national platform to dunk all over the popcorn company, despite the fact that it is her party leader who slowed down the postal service. I hope destroying a small business brought her joy.
I don’t care what polls say. If activists only supported what was popular at the time then nothing would’ve ever changed in America. Civil rights weren’t popular. Gay marriage wasn’t popular. Activism is not about fighting for what’s popular. It’s about fighting for what’s right.
@WalshFreedom
@insomniacx29
Many women,survivors of assault and domestic violence and abuse, felt this way. And I suppose we are desperate that this angry vindictive man not be put in charge of deciding what women can do with their own bodies. It is clear that we will not be safe with him in charge.
@tonyschwartz
The fact that nearly half of my fellow Americans wholeheartedly support an autocratic white supremacist for president of the United States leaves me seriously concerned for the future of my country. If nothing else, it makes me realize that activism is a lifetime commitment now.
I am sick at heart today. At trump’s hate-rally tonight, the new MAGA chant is “send her back, send her back”. There is an evil devouring our country from inside. I am begging each of you who takes the time to read this to ask yourself-what will you do to fight back?
@MellyMelly10977
What a traumatic experience, I’m so glad you (and your dog💗) were able to get away, and I hope you have had time to recover emotionally. It does take a while. Sending love!
I actually gave my ex the house so he would let me take my daughter. It was worth it.
Voters still don’t understand the importance of local races. A huge goal of the right is to get their Christi-fascist candidates on our school boards. We must all do what we can locally to get the word out to voters about how dangerous these people are.
@AnnKeenan5
@beegirl_thehive
@Angry_Staffer
@KimSimmons11
Same here. I have to keep reminding myself of all the warriors fighting alongside me, and try not to get dragged down by the sheer numbers of the apathetic. We will be marching in Downtown LA tomorrow!
@RobAnderson2018
@UROCKlive1
@Acyn
An MSNBC anchor actually asked Conor Lamb when the democrats would stop making things difficult for republicans. He just looked at her incredulously and said that he thought republicans were making things difficult for themselves all on their own.
@olgaNYC1211
@MalcolmNance
@RandPaul
He is not the only one. Don’t forget the “Moscow Mules”Sens. Richard C. Shelby (Ala.), Steve Daines (Mont.), John Hoeven (N.D.), John Neely Kennedy (La.), Jerry Moran (Kan.), John Thune (S.D.) and Johnson, plus Rep. Kay Granger (Tex.).
@fawfulfan
@emyryly
I grew up in Los Angeles in the 60s and 70s. Weeks would go by where we couldn’t see the mountains, the smog was so dense. We had smog alerts, and if I tried to play outside anyway I would end up back home gasping for air like a landed fish, my lungs screaming with pain.