I’m a former Fetterman staffer and my NDA just expired.
once I walked in while he was sitting on his Senate desk spreading peanut butter on the bottom of one foot and jelly on the bottom of the other and then clapping them together. he called it Mashy Monday (it was Wednesday)
Gloria Steinem’s brand of corporate feminism was always a perfect fit for the Western imperialist project. Bourgeois identity politics that neatly commodified women’s liberation while systematically erasing the only thing that matters to poor women around the globe.
Her CIA ties should be the headline of every obituary because they were the logical extension of a worldview that saw the Global South as a testing ground for social engineering and real blue collar women on the picket line as an embarrassment to her elite friends on the cocktail-party scene.
By reducing patriarchy to a problem of individual advancement and media representation, she provided ideological cover for neoliberal capitalism’s assault on the working class. Her work cheered women into boardrooms, Amazon warehouses, global South sweat shops alike, as long as the real engine of history, the collective power of labour, remained broken the gravy train for the billionaire class could roll on. In death, as in life, her legacy is not sisterhood, but a stern, well-manicured finger wagging in the mirror back at herself for betraying poor working Women across the globe.
This WSJ story on John Fetterman is wild especially on him blowing off a meeting with Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia who were concerned about Medicaid cards: “Behind closed doors, the first-term senator shows little interest in doing the job beyond cultivating relationships with conservative media figures and advocating for Israel.” https://t.co/92MOYMXW2W
Hello, Twitter.
We’re a group of former campaign & Senate staffers for John Fetterman who are disgusted with what he's become.
If you were troubled by yesterday's Wall Street Journal story... trust us, that's just the tip of the iceberg.
It's even worse than you thought.
The U.S. House will be in session only 4 full days from July 24th to November 8th.
That’s 100 paid days off versus 4 full workings days plus 4 travel (half) days.
Meanwhile TRUMP says YOU have too many holidays.
Gloria Steinem got women to tie their gender identity to abortion and the aspiration of corporate success, rather than the low-wage work they were doing (and continue to do).
She successfully got rich women and their daughters to throw working class women under a bus. We could have had a feminism that made sure that working women were unionized and paid.
Instead, Steinem was paid to make sure your daughters wanted to be Sheryl Sandberg.
@NYCMayor@ZohranKMamdani It’s okay, men can take a seat on this one. No reason to show how “feminist” you are by speaking out about the death of a CIA agent tasked with turning public focus away from class consciousness and onto gender issues. She did a lot more harm than good.
Don’t let them re-write history: Gloria Steinem was a CIA asset who was tasked with subverting the feminist movement away from class-based analysis.
She founded the Independent Research Service that was funded by the CIA to spread anti-communist propaganda at youth festivals abroad.
When she was exposed as a CIA operative in 1967, Steinem confirmed her role to The New York Times without apology, claiming the CIA is “liberal, nonviolent, and honorable” and that she would do it again.
The CIA is one of the most violent organizations in history.
@SenSanders Come on, Bernie. She was a CIA agent who was told to move the public consciousness away from the class disparity issue and onto gender issues, and she succeeded. I’m a woman, and she did nothing to further what is most important…class consciousness.
@AbdulElSayed She was a CIA agent who was told to move the public consciousness away from class disparity and onto gender issues. And, she succeeded. Any true socialist would know this about her, but go on with your ridiculous praise to please the liberal establishment.
@StopAntisemites And the education that’s not being funded is literally “criticizing the Zionist state of Israel is not the same thing as criticizing Jews or Judaism.” It’s not antisemitic to criticize Israel, and the whole WORLD is tired of being told it is.