it’s tempting to believe we don’t have agency in this new world but this man spent the last year camped out a bus stop talking to workers and now he’s in the senate chamber across from lindsey graham because he was a catalyst for collective action, which always threatens power

expand your imagination beyond legislative & carceral solutions. i'm not talking about violence. we all have, and have always had, the power of soft consequences. if a senator's wife is too anxious about public humiliation to go to her country club luncheon, that's good, actually

this is so fucking funny

"pRotEsTinG aT pEopLe'S hoUSeS iS wROnG." Well, the French throw kitchen sinks through their president's window when they raise the price of gas 10 cents, and they also have free healthcare, so I'm going to beg to differ.

literally abolish the senate

There it is: a gallon of gas costs more than the federal minimum wage

I’m thinking about how a mom ran in and got her own kid, even after being handcuffed. I’m thinking about how the subway shooter was found by ordinary people. I’m thinking about how every dollar we give cops takes money from communities and gives it to guys who don’t protect us.

this is rad. I wanna know every time something in my life was made possible by a union

it is simply an observable fact that the police don’t solve crimes, and that cities are devoting huge sums of cash to what are essentially make-work jobs and overtime scams prospect.org/justice/why-ar…

Sorry but if your kids are swayed to become non-binary because of Pizza Hut it just means heterosexuality is failing in the marketplace of ideas

They're f*cking rehabilitating Mike Pence now. As if Reagan, Bush, and Cheney weren't enough. Republican criminals have no better friends than establishment Dems.

Me: “let me see if Patagonia has a waterproof fanny pack” Patagonia homepage: “Viva la revolution motherfuckers”

If you want to understand how the Supreme Court rules on politics rather than the law look no further than the arena of Federal Indian Law. Today #SCOTUS changed who has criminal jurisdiction on over 300 reservations not based on precedent or even the facts on the ground…

do y’all even know how quickly I ran out to get @AngelinaMLo’s new book??

Therapy isn’t enough I need to meet The Muppets

I am simply asking for less-direct metaphors at this point

haven't been on twitter in months and now feels as good a time as any to deactivate this account I've had since 2009. if you wanna keep up with me and my work, check out my substack instead. goodbye forever, you miserable cesspool of a site✌️ emilyedwards.substack.com