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May 7, 2018 12 tweets 3 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
I just wasted over an hour of my life trying to explain the #MuslimBan and The Wall to Trump supporters who claim Trump loves Muslims and Mexicans.

They told me I was racist for claiming Trump was racist and said I was a "pathetic excuse for a journalist" and "Fake News."
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I don't know how we fight this entrenched distrust of reality. I just never witnessed anything like it before. Folks joke about Trump supporters not being well-educated, but it's something much deeper.

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The Mexicans and Muslims for Trump rode into my mentions on the tails of an attack on Michelle Obama.

I'm not going to ignore those attacks. MO was one of the two most important FLOTUSes in my lifetime. She helped change the discourse on WOC on this country by her presence.
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But Republicans are still calling her "Michael," still claiming she's a man, still saying she accomplished nothing.
I won't let that stand.
Michelle Obama is still opening discourse about misogyny and racism that must be heard.
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What caught me off-guard was POC, especially WOC, on the Trump train.

I tried to just be welcoming when I was asked "how's the Resistance?" and proffer an invitation.

But it escalated quickly because Trump supporters are cultists. No matter what the objective facts are.
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This is so worrying for this country. They honestly have a Trump narrative that refutes all objective reality.

This one person told me "All [his] relatives voted Trump"--and said Trump loves Mexicans.Even though we have tape of Trump calling Mexicans rapists and drug dealers.
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Somalia is on Trump's #MuslimBan list, but the Somali woman called me a racist for saying Trump wanted to keep Somalis out.

And then the Mexican for Trump guy said I was lying about Trump and he has never said anything about Mexicans.

How do we fight this?
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How do we fight such deeply embraced lies?

Last weekend in Michigan Trump literally led a chant about getting Hispanics out and MSM was so obsessed with SHS's smoky eye they ignored this alarming incident.
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It seems like the more great journalism some of us write, the more entrenched Trump's followers get in their alternative facts.

Saturday night I watched Judge Jeanine on Fox News. I had never seen her before & had only vaguely heard of her.

She ginned people up for an hour.
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The entire tone of her hour was pure hysteria. Talk of Deep State and witch hunts and fake news: it's a whole different world. I felt as if I were in a foreign country where I didn't speak the language, yet Hillary Clinton was still the main topic.

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People are not leaving the cult. They have their own network and this coterie of people with massive followers who feed them stories of Deep State and invented Hillary crimes and teens who are "crisis actors" and it would be surreal if it weren't happening on TV every night.
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We REALLY need to win back the House.
We need to turn this Trump train around.
We need to register new voters.
We need to take OUR country back where immigrants really are welcomed and where families like mine aren't terrorized and where no one is building a wall.
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Oct 9, 2018
I don't think men really understand how different it is to be a woman out in the world and how quickly things can turn dangerous.
When I was living in New Orleans, I was walking home from work one night. It was fall--dark early & foggy.
A man came out of the fog toward me.
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He said hi, I said hi.
As he started to pass me, he asked me if I had the time.
I looked at my watch, looked up, he had a gun pointed at me.
He hit me so fast I wasn't able to steel myself.
I fell to the ground.
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The whole thing was maybe ten minutes, start to finish.
I was shaking so hard I could hardly get up.
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The majority of the working class in America is women and POC.
And white men as a group haven't voted majority Democrat since 1964--they stopped after LBJ signed the the #VRA.
Flip the narrative and start listening to the ACTUAL working class--the rest of us.
Stop centering white men for everything.
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The relentlessness of passing over superb women with strong credentials & election histories in favor of whatever man is a headline at a moment is exhausting.

Two months ago it was Avenatti. Now it's O'Rourke.

Bypassing the majority of Americans--women--is a national disgrace.
O'Rourke is fine. He is not, Harris, Gillibrand or Klobuchar.

▪Gillibrand is Congress' leader on women's rights & sexual assault victims.
▪Harris set NN2018 on fire with her speeches reclaiming identity politics.
▪ Klobuchar highlighted #Kavanaugh's unfitness for SCOTUS.
Americans MUST stop looking past women to find some man, any man to supplant them.

It took THIRTY YEARS of incredibly hard work for @HillaryClinton to get to run for POTUS. The rules for women are so different. No one sees a woman give a single speech and says "president!"
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I lived in NOLA right after college.
I drank most every day, as did everyone I knew.
We were all in the domestic Peace Corps, all in our early 20s, all hardworking activists with stressful work.
We drank too much at Mardi Gras, New Year's.
It's absurd to claim #Kavanaugh didn't.
Those of us who've had alcoholics in our lives--like Klobuchar--tend to be careful about alcohol because we've been damaged by the drunks in our lives. I'm a control freak, so never liked being drunk, but lots of my friends did. What IS true, is most 20somethings drink to excess.
This new tack from the #GOP to dismiss #Kavanaugh's alcoholic drinking--& I am not saying he was/is an alcoholic, but he certainly drank like one--is just wrong. It undermines their own credibility and ignores reality: statistically the vast majority of teens/20s get drunk OFTEN.
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Let's talk about sex, #Kavanaugh & Venn diagram overlap of male entitlement.

I've written a lot about sex in various contexts. In the late 80s/early 90s I also gave safe sex workshops back when folks my age were dying 24/7 from #AIDS. My 1st book was on juvenile prostitution.
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Most of us know consensual and non-consensual sex differ. The entirety of #Kavanaugh's defense and his defenders' outrage is predicated on the presumption that no teenaged boy knows what consent is.

THEY. KNOW.

Some, like their adult counterparts, don't care.

This is key.
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Since #MeToo we've seen egregious serial rapists like #BillCosby and #HarveyWeinstein exposed & attempts made to prosecute them.

But there are "lesser" sexual assaults we've given a lighter hand to: Matt Lauer, Charlie Rose, Mark Halperin, Louis CK--too many to list.
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I gotta tell you, folks, I have been so sick for the past 2wks, I have really been scared.

Sept 22 House GOP passed their new cuts to Social Security Medicaid and Medicare out of committee. $1.2T in cuts.

That's the safety net.

I've always hoped I could fall there. No more.
I had to call my bestie today to have her come up and stay with me while The Wife is teaching.

Even with the oxygen, hard to breathe.

I had to cancel interviews for tomorrow, a radio appearance for Friday.

Chronic illness like #cancer is incapacitating at times.
We need to do better for sick and #disabled Americans.

It is so hard to work and be sick.

Never getting better sick.
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