one thing that holds so many well-intentioned people back from real, meaningful allyship is that they absolutely cannot deal with the idea of having their good intentions questioned. ever.
— Nicole Chung (@nicolesjchung) June 28, 2020
me: i am done being productive. i would like to read a book or play a game
— Margaret Killjoy (@magpiekilljoy) June 27, 2020
work ethic: be productive more
me: i cannot. book or game pls
work ethic: productive.
me: no
work ethic: then stare into the void of social media. no book or game. you do not deserve book or game.
me: okay
🚨 #BREAKING: The Mississippi House votes 85-34 to remove the Confederate emblem from the state flag
— Niles Edward Francis (@NilesGApol) June 27, 2020
Decency is rented, and rent is due daily.
— The Goosecast (@TheGoosecast) June 26, 2020
parent: if all your friends jumped off a cliff, would you do it too?
— Ben Bartlett (@bencbartlett) June 26, 2020
machine learning model: yes
Wear a mask. That is, unless you want to be intubated by a gynecology intern July 1st who did her last semester of med school via Zoom.
— Dr. Emily Porter, M.D. (@dremilyportermd) June 26, 2020
Don't be embarrassed that you did not know something you were never taught. Be proud that you are now willing to learn.
— MLDwrites (@MichelleDuster) June 20, 2020
Google should have a box that reads “Are you searching this term instead of asking someone on Twitter to explain it to you?” And if you check it, you get a $20 Starbucks gift card.
— Myke Cole (@MykeCole) June 20, 2020
Guys, you know what? Fuck your old racist statue. Also, learn the difference between history, and monuments. We can remember our sometimes shameful history without raising monuments to it. Casting down the monuments does not erase history, but it helps end the mythologizing.
— James S.A. Corey (@JamesSACorey) June 20, 2020
Superman isn’t boring. People who say Superman is boring are.
— Gary Whitta (@garywhitta) June 14, 2020
Writers deserve to be paid for our labor. We can choose to waive that, or partially waive it, by offering up our work for free when we want to.
— Annalee (@LeeFlower) June 13, 2020
Making that decision for us and asking people to pay YOU for our work instead isn't revolutionary. It's just, you know, stealing.
My apologies. Here is where @ESPNMcGee gets really cooking and here is his article for anyone who hasn’t seen it: https://t.co/AjfLR76N1k https://t.co/mfZyvqNvnk pic.twitter.com/ppPcBjJpXZ
— Parakeet A. Cortes (@Ryan_Cortes) June 11, 2020
Don't worry about those Confederate statues being torn down. They're getting what they always wanted: out of America.
— Stephen Colbert (@StephenAtHome) June 11, 2020
"The Obama administration lasted twice as long as the confederacy" is a line I shall file away for later use.
— Kameron Hurley (@KameronHurley) June 11, 2020
Meaningful police reform isn’t more coffee-with-cop photo ops. It’s not more attendance at the bi-monthly neighborhood watch meeting. It’s not school assemblies. It’s not.
— Patrick Skinner (@SkinnerPm) June 9, 2020
Reform is imagining the end of a war, this war on our neighbors. And then changing. Changing it all.
Statues of bad people are disinformation, not education.
— Scott Westerfeld (@ScottWesterfeld) June 7, 2020
Policing is not preventative. We can’t expect police to prevent violence. We can’t expect them to be mental health professionals. We can’t expect them to be social workers or addiction counselors. We can’t defund everything else and expect them to fill in the blanks.
— josie duffy rice (@jduffyrice) June 6, 2020
I never want to get the note “No one would fall for that con” ever again.
— John Rogers (@jonrog1) June 4, 2020
I think there are people who don't see Trump as fascist largely because he's a buffoon, and fascists are supposed to at least be good at what they do. But, a guy who can't tie his shoes can still put his boot on your neck.
— Zach Weinersmith (@ZachWeiner) June 3, 2020
Historian here. A head of state using a standing army to occupy an American city, compel citizens off the street, stifle free expression and assembly—using paramilitary forces to smoke clergy out of their churches at the head of state’s whim—is pretty much the founders’ nightmare
— Joshua Zeitz (@JoshuaMZeitz) June 3, 2020
For anyone worried about talking to their white children right now—worried that their kid is too young for these conversations—I was 5 or 6 when my Dad told me “no matter what you do, some people will always hate you.” Black children don’t get to not understand racism.
— Tawny Newsome (@TrondyNewman) June 2, 2020
There's a reason you separate military and the police. One fights the enemies of the state, the other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people. Admiral William Adama
— Edward James Olmos (@edwardjolmos) June 2, 2020
A new lesson for 2020: as soon as the cops murder a person someone who isn't evil must immediately buy that persons's domain name. https://t.co/eWtWu0kZpj
— Michelle Jones (@michellej) June 1, 2020
A message to my fellow white people about this weekend & our responsibility in this moment. pic.twitter.com/wfS3cFIPCk
— nick wright (@getnickwright) June 1, 2020
