Socialist with Presbyterian characteristics. Nat’l Co-chair of @demsocialists, proud @redstarcaucus member, and PTA helper-outer. A better world IS possible!!
Aug 9 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Lol what the hell kind of socialists can't be around regular working class people without a college education? As Big Bill Haywood so pointedly put it, "I never read Marx's Capital, but I got the marks of capital all over my body."
Our entire premise is that people -- even people without PhDs -- can and should control their own lives. Not the "ferociously smart men" experts, not a bunch of boardrooms, certainly not the magical market, just people.
Sep 19, 2020 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
It’s pretty close to impossible to talk a Trump supporter out of their belief system at this point. That 30% is not who you go for. You go for the non-voters in your circles (“I’m not into politics”) and get them voting, and you go for the semi-political and get them organizing.
Everyone lean hard left on three. 1... 2...
Jan 2, 2020 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
So Virginia, which went full double-blue with a blue gov as of the election last year, has passed some not-that-exciting gun laws — universal background checks, one gun per month purchase limit, and a red flag law that allows for confiscation.
(Yes, red flag laws can be problematic, but in general, these aren’t overwhelmingly harsh laws, I don’t think)
Oct 5, 2019 • 12 tweets • 2 min read
Abortion is not only good, it is holy.
(This is a subtweet at the asshole supporters of the predatory, racist, violent anti-choice pregnancy “clinic” who screenshot a Facebook conversation and mailed it to my boss in the name of saving babies for Jesus or whatever.)
Sep 22, 2019 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
Hi! I’m a leftist who helped install a water purification system in Cuba & work regularly with a network that has installed upwards of 100 systems there. The reason they don’t have clean water is because the embargo makes it nearly impossible to get the supplies to build systems.
After the tornado in Havana, which tore up some of the municipal pumping structures, the government immediately sent fire trucks filled with water to a couple of our purification stations so they could continue to provide clean water to their surrounding communities.
Apr 19, 2019 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
2 French billionaires snapped their fingers and raised $300,000,000 for the rebuilding of Notre Dame.
38,000 of us pledged what we could, ranging from $1 to $50,000, in order to raise $2,000,000 to rebuild a few black churches.
That’s what wealth inequality looks like.
I am not ungrateful for those rebuilding Notre Dame. I think it’s a priceless piece of architecture. But if it takes 38,000 people to raise 1% of what a couple of billionaires can scrape out of the couch cushions, we’ve got a bigger problem.
Apr 16, 2019 • 18 tweets • 5 min read
My heart is broken over the loss of Notre Dame.
The Catholic Church is also one of the world’s wealthiest entities.
If you are going to donate money to rebuild a church this week, I implore you to make it the black churches in St. Landry Parish.
gofundme.com/church-fires-s…
I realize that there’s weird ownership stuff over the cathedral and whatnot, and I won’t argue that its relative architectural importance is far greater, but these three churches also bear the weight of history and need your help more.
Oct 26, 2018 • 20 tweets • 3 min read
The collapse isn’t going to look like Cormac McCarthy or the American Civil War or Nazi Germany. It’s going to look like Nicaragua or El Salvador. The government won’t disappear, but it’ll become ineffective against the gang/militias that run regional commerce.
City governments are already widely variable in terms of how much control they have over anything, and they are largely stymied by incompetence. You think your city’s gov is going to be able to take on a pair of warring syndicates? NY maybe can. Maybe SF and LA. But not mine.
Oct 16, 2018 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
I don’t want Joe Biden to run for President (for a bunch of political and personal reasons, most of which are probs obvious) but I do want him to have a TV show where he just goes around the country talking to people about their lives and (gently) how they relate to policy.
Like, a legit cross-section of people, from different places, different demographics, different existences as Americans, no celebs, just people, and peel back some of the mystery as to what actual issues face us and what policy connects to that.
