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@AngryBlackLady
Three dogs. Two kitchens. Zero chill. | Lawyer. | Editor-at-Large, @RewireNewsGroup | co-host #BoomLawyered podcast | “Queen of fucking Twitter or something.”
Oct 5, 2018 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
I know people don’t find value in voting—especially given the two party system and rampant injustice in this country—but honest to god, the lurching rightward of the courts has concerned me for years.

And now it’s happening. And it really makes me feel sick. And voting is the only way to stop it. It just is.

Part of the reason @Hegemommy and I started this #TeamLegal business is to explain how the law impacts people.

I think a lot of people are put off by all the jargon and so they don’t pay much attention to the courts.
Sep 6, 2018 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
One of these days, I'm going to go off about diversity and affirmative action and how it's all bullshit because this white supremacist country can't admit that perhaps 400 years of slavery had an affect on achievement gaps between Black folks and everybody else. In my view, this diversity shit is nonsense. I am for quotas. Fuck it. This country owes Black people. The government wont give Black folks reparations and after like 30 years of affirmative action, the government is like, "y'all are good."
Aug 14, 2018 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Thread. And I want to point out that I am not one to hold a grudge when it comes to defeating trump. I would happily accept an apology from Amy and then we can move forward.

But how can you be trusted if you won’t be honest about who you were and how you became the person you are now?
Aug 14, 2018 • 9 tweets • 4 min read
Are you seriously doing this Amy?

You could‘ve explained your crap tweets but instead you try to turn the tables on me.

You could have messaged me and said, my politics have changed. My tweet about BLM was inappropriate.

But no. You screeched at me. As I said, your tweets speak for themselves, @Amy_Siskind.

And rather than explain why you spent 8 years trashing obama, wanted Palin to primary him, disavowed BLM because you you don’t like solidarity with Palestinians.

Instead you’re straight up lying.
Jul 26, 2018 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
people gotta stop conflating white working class voters with working class voters. If you mean white working class voters, then say so.

Working class voters haven’t abandoned democrats. White working class voters did.

And to be fair—and brutally unironic—not all white working class voters did.

So at this point, you’re just chasing trump voters.

Why tho
Jul 24, 2018 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
I truly don’t need rich white people explaining identity politics to me.

The end. The notion that some rich white girl from Brooklyn is gonna lecture me about identity politics is alternatively hilarious and infuriating.

Have a seat, ma’am.
Jul 23, 2018 • 13 tweets • 3 min read
It is truly mind boggling that Bernie stans think the playbook that didn’t work in 2016 is going to work in 2020.

Like how fucking stupid are you? You’ve had two goddamn years to figure out how to talk to Black people. To figure out that you can’t gatekeep progressivism for your select group of primarily white leftists.

But you haven’t done it. You’re repeating the same fucking patterns.

HOW?!
Jul 1, 2018 • 14 tweets • 2 min read
I saw someone say that Democrats should increase the number of justices from 9 to 13.

How.

How is that supposed to happen? By retaking all 3 branches of government in 2020?

HA. And how is that supposed to fix the decimation of repro rights that is going to occur in the next 18 months?
Jun 4, 2018 • 15 tweets • 3 min read
TFW when you find out a researcher has part of your grandparents’ FBI files.

I didn’t know they had fbi files. I figured they did. But this man emailed and said “The FBI had enormous files on your grandparents” and I just burst into tears. As I’ve mentioned before, my grandpa refused to name names, lost his job, and it sank my grandparents into poverty.

I… it was just a shock to my system.
May 23, 2018 • 13 tweets • 4 min read
Please read this. And then vote like the make up of the federal judiciary depends on it, BECAUSE IT DOES. #TeamLegal | The Latest Big Win in Gavin Grimm’s Case Shows Why Judicial Diversity Matters rewirenews.link/2khY32C i did a little research on the diversity of the federal judiciary.

Reagan’s appointees were 90% white, of those, 86% were men.

H.W. Bush’s appointees were 90% white and of those, 73% were male.
Apr 27, 2018 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
I'm updating our legislation tracker and check this shit out. | Missouri 'Parody Marriages' Resolution (SCR 54) - Rewire.News rewire.news/legislative-tr… #TeamLegal The Missouri legislature has introduced a resolution that states that any form of marriage that does not involve one man and one woman is a “parody marriage.”

PARODY MARRIAGE.
Apr 27, 2018 • 15 tweets • 4 min read
I like how the new theory is that Joy Reid is lying to the FBI.

That shit will land her in jail. You really think she’s LYING TO THE FBI?!?! I know I’m going to get dinged for this—you’re making it about race—but a lot of the folks who are casually claiming Joy Reid is lying to the FBI are white.

A lot of the folks casually claiming she’s lying about being hacked are white. [bear with me]
Apr 25, 2018 • 18 tweets • 5 min read
When @ggreenwald tweeted that I would *defend President Obama if he raped a nun on live television*, @JoyAnnReid was one of two people to come to my defense. (Still waiting for that apology, Glenn.)

This effort to destroy her career is as transparent as it is sad. I used to read Joy’s blog back in the day. I do not recall any sort of homophobic or anti-semitic content similar to what she’s accused of writing.

The writing doesn’t even sound like her.
Apr 21, 2018 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Y’all “abortion is black genocide” folk are fooling exactly no one with your feigned concern for black babies. When they become adults—12 years old in Black years—and get gunned down by police, you’ll be on here talking about what how they were thugs who deserved it.

Please. Literal lol that these MAGA racists expect me to believe they give a fuck about Black babies.

This ain’t my first rodeo.
Apr 18, 2018 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
This is excellent excellent news. I wrote about Black hair discrimination and Chastity Jones’ case almost a year ago to the day! It’s one of my better pieces if I do say so myself which I totally just did. #TeamLegal

Black Hair Discrimination Is Real—But Is It Against the Law? rewirenews.link/2Fgq5br
Apr 16, 2018 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
If you take away one point, let it be this. 1/ Earlier, someone earnestly asked me what they, as a white person, could to to show support and empathy.

it was in response to my tweet about white folks needing to quit apologizing to me for being white.
Feb 12, 2018 • 21 tweets • 4 min read
My latest. | Pennsylvania Supreme Court Could Decide Whether Using Drugs While Pregnant Is Child Abuse rewire.link/2Ejpcud Yesterday I published this piece about how laws not intended to ensnare pregnant people are being used to punish pregnant people.
Dec 26, 2017 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
I was just having a conversation with a friend about depression and how it’s an asshole that lies to you.

It lies and tells you you’re worthless.

It lies and tells you that happiness is impossible.

It lies and tells you death is a better option.

It lies and lies and lies. It lies and tells you that going to therapy and talking to someone about it won’t help.

It lies and tells you that needing to talk about it is weakness.

It lies and tells you anyone you talk to about it will see you as a burden.

It lies and lies and lies.
Nov 29, 2017 • 13 tweets • 2 min read
I just hate everything right now.

I really do.

We are fucked for A GENERATION. The courts are lurching so far rightward that it honestly stresses me the hell out. Like, I don’t think people fully grasp just how fucked we are when it comes to the courts.
Oct 24, 2017 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
I really like how the judge said it's not the state's fault that there's a scarcity of abortion providers in Missouri.

PLEASE. #TEAMLEGAL Repubs in Missouri introduce 30 pieces of anti-choice legislation a year, all aimed at regulating Missouri's last clinic out of existence...
Oct 18, 2017 • 25 tweets • 4 min read
My latest is about that horrible case in Michigan where the judge gave custody of a woman’s son to her rapist. rewire.link/2yqclXq That order was quickly stayed—the woman’s attorney says she thinks the judge was blindsided by the prosecutor—but there’s more at issue.