Share this page!

Enter URL or ID to Unroll

You can paste full URL like: https://x.com/threadreaderapp/status/1644127596119195649
or just the ID like: 1644127596119195649

How to get URL link on X (Twitter) App

  1. On the Twitter thread, click on or icon on the bottom
  2. Click again on or Share Via icon
  3. Click on Copy Link to Tweet
  4. Paste it above and click "Unroll Thread"!
  5. More info at Twitter Help
Ady Barkan Profile picture
@AdyBarkan
Dec 30, 2017 • 12 tweets • 6 min read • Read on X
Yesterday, I linked to @CharlesPPierce's piece arguing that @realDonaldTrump is exhibiting serious cognitive decline. I said he has dementia. I invited you to share your stories of loved ones with similar problems, & hundreds of you did, movingly.
But some of you also pushed back, arguing that it was irresponsible of me to make that armchair diagnosis, because it stigmatizes people with mental illness. It's an important critique, on a crucial question in American politics, so let's talk about it now. #CripTheVote

• • •

Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to force a refresh
　

Keep Current with Ady Barkan

Ady Barkan Profile picture

Stay in touch and get notified when new unrolls are available from this author!

Read all threads

This Thread may be Removed Anytime!

PDF

Twitter may remove this content at anytime! Save it as PDF for later use!

Try unrolling a thread yourself!

how to unroll video
  1. Follow @ThreadReaderApp to mention us!

  2. From a Twitter thread mention us with a keyword "unroll"
@threadreaderapp unroll

Practice here first or read more on our help page!

More from @AdyBarkan

Ady Barkan Profile picture
Oct 7, 2018
2 years ago today, @rachael_scar and I walked into the neurologist's office. She was carrying 4-month-old Baby Carl on her chest.

We walked out an hour later with my death sentence. ALS would paralyze and then kill me, and there wasn't anything we could to stop it.
How would we persevere? What we do with the short time I had left? How could we find hope in the dark?

These were our personal challenges. But they became questions for the nation a month later when Donald Trump was elected president.
Over the past 24 months, I lost the ability to run, and then even to walk; the ability to cut food, and then even to feed myself; the ability to speak quickly, and soon even to speak at all.

And yet, this journey has been better than I feared. On most days, I am happy.

How?
Read 6 tweets
Ady Barkan Profile picture
Oct 3, 2018
Do you want Brett Kavanaugh impacting your life for the next 30 years? If not, you have three days to #CancelKavanaugh.

Here are 5 things you can do. I promise you will be glad you did.

(Please RT to help save our democracy.)
1. Show up at a vigil Wednesday evening.

There are vigils happening all around the country. Find one near you, bring some friends with you, alert your local TV station, and tweet out some photos.

moveon.org/scotus
2. Come to Washington DC on Thurs/Friday.

We all saw what a huge impact @AnaMariaArchil2 had, simply by showing up to the Senate and telling her story. She wants you to join her. 9 am in the Hart Senate Office Building.

There are buses from major cities. bit.ly/WECANWIN
Read 6 tweets
Ady Barkan Profile picture
Apr 7, 2018
.@WorkingFamilies comms director @joedinkin has a better answer than these data wonks:

Reject issue by issue silos & instead go for meta themes.

70: Trump is enriching the rich and powerful at the aexpense of ordinary Americas. (Trumpcare, tax scam, gov corruption all fit here)
30: Trump is dividing Americans from eachother & we can't let him do it. (Attacks on immigrants&muslims fit here, so do voting rights, mass incarceration, civil rights, lgbtq, metoo. This is actually all a pretty dopy way of framing things but the polling suggests it works.
“These are of course both framed in the negative but I'd also split these to be framed in the positive at least 60% of the time. I think people's feelings abt trump are pretty well baked so actually i'd say these should be mostly framed in the positive with the contrast assumed.”
Read 5 tweets
Ady Barkan Profile picture
Jan 29, 2018
Like usual, @realDonaldTrump is attacking smart black people who disagree with him. Today's installment? Saying that Jay Z and @VanJones68 should be grateful to him for low black unemployment rates.

@shawnsebastian has a full rebuttal here. I'll give you the abridged version.
First, Donald Trump gets zero credit for the strong economy. Take a look at these 2 charts. The recovery started 8 years ago (under a Black president).

And it was propelled forward until now because Janet Yellen insisted on pursuing true full employment.

Trump fired Yellen.
Yellen was most successful Fed chair in history. She pushed unemployment down & kept inflation low. But Trump replaced her with a less qualified man because he wanted to make his mark on the Fed.

So, his taking credit for this economy is really rich.

politico.com/magazine/story…
Read 10 tweets
Ady Barkan Profile picture
Jan 13, 2018
Wow look! Full employment makes "unemployable" people very employable. And it has tremendous ability to combat racial inequality.

*This* is why we launched Fed Up. Full employment is the most powerful public policy that exists for improving lives.

mobile.nytimes.com/2018/01/13/bus…
By empowering workers to quit if they want, full employment:
Raises wages,
reduces inequality,
combats racial discrimination,
promotes gender equity,
reduces sexual assaults/harassment,
stabilizes schedules,
facilities unionization,
reduces depression&suicide
Enhances skills.
I know there's no such thing as a panacea, but I think that's a pretty unparalleled list of benefits that come as a result of one policy intervention!

#FullEmploymentIsAwesome
Read 16 tweets
Ady Barkan Profile picture
Dec 31, 2017
Some end-of-year thoughts about this moment, this movement, power, race, money, and what we need to do together over the coming 10 months. Please read it and retweet it if it strikes a chord with you. And, white people, *please* open your wallets before midnight tomorrow.
This year has been exhausting. For all of us. The racism & xenophobia has been out of control. To me, as a white person, it has been offensive & shocking. But you know what? Those feelings are negligible compared to what it's felt like to be on the receiving end of the hatred.
One example is the disparity between how @lsarsour and I get treated on Twitter. I have received overwhelming positive support. Linda receives daily waves of hatred, racism, and sexism. And death threats. She needs a security detail to get around her beloved Brooklyn.
Read 15 tweets

Did Thread Reader help you today?

Support us! We are indie developers!

This site is made by just two indie developers on a laptop doing marketing, support and development! Read more about the story.

Become a Premium Member ($3/month or $30/year) and get exclusive features!

Become Premium

Don't want to be a Premium member but still want to support us?

Make a small donation by buying us coffee ($5) or help with server cost ($10)

Donate via Paypal

Or Donate anonymously using crypto!

Ethereum

0xfe58350B80634f60Fa6Dc149a72b4DFbc17D341E copy

Bitcoin

3ATGMxNzCUFzxpMCHL5sWSt4DVtS8UqXpi copy

Thank you for your support!

Follow Us!

Send Email!

Become Premium to read this thread!

Read all the old archives from Twitter by becoming our Premium member for only $3/month! Read more »

Become Premium

Already a Premium member? Login to access this thread

:(