A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women 🧵

I’ve been thinking about this, and I feel like Sherrill’s win is more seismic than we may think. We’re in the Philly metro area and my teen watches A LOT of sports. The ratio of Ciatarelli to Sherrill ads had to be 3:1 during every single game for the past two months.

I thought about this movie when I saw the Matt Walsh tweet about Mamdani being the product of immigrants taking over NYC. My grandmother grew up on Long Island and her parents were both immigrants.

Every time I see something like this I think about how my old MOC clearly wasn’t up on the Republican talking points when he told a reporter he didn’t think his February 2017 town hall was packed with outside agitators b/c he knew most of the people there.

So while we’re talking about 2011 in Mississippi, that’s also the year that voters defeated an abortion ban even in the midst of a Republican blowout. IDK, it’s like having access to abortion is something people want, despite what some Democratic pundits seem to think.

This morning I’m thinking of the NYT reporter who just the other day promoted her story on Hispanic women voting for Ciatarelli.

Also broke up the GOP supermajority in *checks notes* Mississippi!!

I sincerely hope Democrats pay attention to tonight’s results across the country. They won’t learn anything but still. Maybe. People are excited by change and original campaigns and bold ideas and candidates under the age of 50!

Wow it turns out the entire country is not permanently reactionary because Trump won an election by 1.5%

Anytime I see anything by Chris Cillizza I remember how he told people who were worried about Trump in 2015 that they were ridiculous. Really has his finger on the pulse.

Let’s gooooo (Medicaid funding for abortion)

Let’s gooooo (Medicaid funding for abortion)

Fellow bitter southerners, North Carolina, Kentucky, and Virginia all elected Democratic Governors. Georgia in 2020 wasn’t a fluke. South Carolina, Florida, Texas, All y’all of the y’allternative persuasion. Keep being loud. Keep getting into good trouble. Protect black folks and trans people. Vote

I would just like to say how happy I am that the Ciattarelli ads will not be on tv after tonight.

I made my husband watch A House of Dynamite with me (my 3rd viewing) and learned he’s inexplicably *not* now obsessed with nuclear policy.

My godfather was a DEA agent who worked undercover, so…

So I want to get this straight. Ezra wrote a book on political polarization but his idea is to moderate positions to appeal to people who are only voting based on polarization and thus will not vote for you no matter your policy positions? With the added bonus of alienating people who would?

My husband, who is forever traumatized by Malcolm Mitchell’s season ending injury while celebrating a TD, is yelling “don’t drop Gunner! Don’t drop him!”

Omg I remember being at the Tech game in 2010 when we scored and gave them the ball back and this is hilarious.

Why does it always seem like the commentators are actively rooting against us

What is the refusal to implement gun legislation if not a continued sacrifice to the god of guns?

It is always wild to hear the Christian demanding human sacrifice in the form of killing queer people with poverty and violence pretend they stopped human sacrifice.

Look at this ridiculous primitive country, casting out its sex pests rather than making them Presidents or Mayors or Supreme Court justices

A thought I never expected to have: House of Windsor currently beating the US government on transparency and accountability.

Republicans: Stop eating processed foods. Make healthy choices: eat more fresh food. Also Republicans: You're irresponsible if you don't have a month's food supply on hand to live on when we can't keep the government open. More context: Avg. SNAP benefit is $6.20/person/day. Not enough to live.

I love this because it makes my naming system of FINAL or USE THIS VERSION seem more normal.

It’s interesting to me that this is where he’s going and I’m not sure it’s a feeling shared by a lot of MAGA voters. The ones I know, for instance, have neighbors whose first language is not English and they love interacting with them.

Fun(?) fact: we were at Windsor Castle and the docent in the room where this painting is was very weirdly obsessed with pointing out where all the dead children in the painting were. Just to me. Like came up to me and started talking about it.

What I like about this Lilith Fair playlist I selected on Apple Music is that once the Apple algorithm takes over every other song is plays is by a man. 🙃

This movie didn’t end well for Patrick Dempsey

My take on this communication manifesto written by policy wonks is that policy wonks think people vote on policy. If 2024 taught us anything it should be that they absolutely do not.

The depth of the shame of a country this wealthy and abundant allowing its people to go hungry is impossible to measure. The fact that a handful of people could fix this by paying their fair share of taxes while still remaining obscenely wealthy makes it even worse.

Strongly recommend pairing Nuclear War: A Scenario (book) www.amazon.com/Nuclear-War-... with A House of Dynamite (Netflix) www.metacritic.com/movie/a-hous...

Shocking coming from the party that celebrates the Confederacy

Via Maya Homan and Georgia Recorder: Planned Parenthood Southeast is hiring a law firm to investigate allegations of mismanagement that reproductive health advocates say threatens to undermine the organization’s mission and has alienated donors and partner organizations. https://ow.ly/IMUG50Xf0ec

OH MY GOD it would be so nice for once if white researchers and pundits acknowledged that many, many Black people live in rural America and they are not falling for the propaganda the way white people are and maybe study that instead of always telling us we need to understand rural white voters.

I love that we’re all unanimously like “listen that building is not sacred to me and it has a bloody history and if it came down ethically I probably wouldn’t shed a tear, but watching this man smash a wrecking ball into the side of it from sheer selfish malice has unexpectedly fucked me up”

Something like this is always my biggest fear when I’m standing in the half mile long lines at Hartsfield Jackson. My husband was in the TSA line when someone’s gun went off in 2021 and it was absolute pandemonium. I’m so glad they caught this guy.

The paid protestors thing always makes me laugh b/c it was what they went with in 2017 after ppl started flooding town halls. My MOC at the time had a standing room only town hall and was asked if there were people there who seemed like outside agitators or who’d been paid.

It’s so funny that for the past week republicans have all been like “the only people out there are gonna be Hamas.” Everyone in this crowd is signed up for Kohl’s rewards points.

It was a great crowd and lots and lots of supporters on the street.

I don't think folks have any conception of how radicalized a lot of moms are becoming as they go through shit like "will my babysitter get kidnapped" and "will my child be able to get the measles vaccine"

There was a T-Rex at mine and they had a sign with a printout of an asteroid xed out and under it wrote “no asteroids” and I heard a kid say to the T-Rex, “that looks like a meteorite, not an asteroid!” 🤣

I call mine “posters were easier when my artistic daughter made them”

A few weeks ago my husband was asked to preach at a chapel service at the boarding school near us. We have teens, so his goal was to get a 6-7 reference in his sermon. When he did, I watched as the ripple started across the kids as they heard it. The best part was they didn’t know it was deliberate.

This Lilith Fair documentary is doing an amazing job reinforcing my adoration for artists like Sarah MacLachlan, Jewel, Tracy Chapman, and The Indigo Girls.

But a Trump voter I know said that the money being used for USAID could be better served going to the people in NC after Helene

*whispers* paging Harry Enten