Cassandra Adjacent | The halcyon days are now Profile picture
Writer, copy editor, Nazi hunter, parallel parking expert. Build community and strap in for t. Pronouns: she/her/hers. All opinions mine.
Oct 1, 2018 6 tweets 3 min read
Many on the left are calling this a “sham investigation” and I can’t help but think of @sarahkendzior and @AndreaChalupa’s convo on #GaslitNation about the 2016 election...could the left/Dems be backed into a corner again in the exact same way? 1/ During the 2016 election, as Kendzior and Chalupa pointed out, Trump kept pointing to a rigged election. The Dems pushes back hard that our elections were secure, leaving themselves no room in the end to point to the actual rigging. 2/
Jun 18, 2018 17 tweets 3 min read
As an adoptive parent, I am a beneficiary and perpetrator of a system build on the separation of children from their parents. I can attest that the trauma of such separation—even under the *very best* of circumstances—is deep, complicated, and lifelong. 1/ Separation of children from parents should only ever be done as a last resort. What is happening at our southern border is barbaric, inhumane, amoral, and despicable. It is also, at it's core, racist. 2/