Adele M. Stan

Writer on lots of things, longtime chronicler of the right wing of U.S. politics. Winner of Hillman Prize for essays. Also plays the ukulele. She/hers.

[John Harwood @JohnJHarwood]

is this comedy?

[Adele M. Stan @AddieStan]

Hey, @OptimumHelp, your requirement that the only way to cancel your service is over the phone, coupled with your refusal to pick up the calls waiting on hold is punitive. I thought I'd be signing up with you after my next move, but definitely not now. 30 mins on hold & counting.

[Alistair Kitchen @alistairkitchen]

@gtconway3d Thanks, George. Have returned to Twitter to share:

https://t.co/etYAZcwHcc

[Geoff @GeoffBrown82]

They're looking for a pretext to invoke the Insurrection Act and/or declaration martial law.

[Adele M. Stan @AddieStan]

@Strandjunker Been saying this for a while. And Bannon's saying it out loud.

[Rachel Bitecofer 🗽🦆 @RachelBitecofer]

For those of us who’ve spend the last 6 months discussing how the Trump would use deportations to create chaos is the Blue states and then use that chaos as an excuse to declare a national emergency and seize total power, things are right on schedule

[Charlotte Clymer 🇺🇦 @cmclymer]

The only thing sad about Simone Biles standing up for trans athletes is the fact that, with just two tweets, she’s shown more integrity and leadership on this issue than most House Democrats.

[Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath]

The more illegitimate the regime, the greater the state violence toward the people.

That’s what we’ve seen play out in many other countries. Now it’s about to play out here in the United States.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

🚨 BREAKING: Gavin Newsom confirms Donald Trump has seized command of the California National Guard, deploying 2,000 federalized troops to Los Angeles.

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

talked to an immigrant cobbler at my local shoe repair shop who told me he found out a customer supported deportations so he put a tiny pebble in his insole on purpose

[Lakota Man @LakotaMan1]

Who here agrees? 🤚🏾

[Jared Holt @jaredlholt]

Not sure how I missed that Bill Pulte, who spent years doing a shady marketing ploy on this platform, has a federal director job now. His shtick was promising random cash payouts to people if they follow him and give him their data. Wrote about it in 2019

https://t.co/BvLpyRewyS

[The Giving Review @GivingReview]

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“The funders and institution-builders of the right have been working at their projects for decades, building movements and communities and political power, some outside the party structure, and some within,” @AddieStan writes in @JoDemocracy review of @kathsstewart’s Money, Lies, and God. “But tech bros are hungrily eyeing the landscape; billionaires Elon Musk and Peter Thiel, with misplaced confidence in their own genius, are likely pondering ways to reshape the model to their own liking.

“Meanwhile, the American left and center-left haven’t built much by way of institutions. Their separate interest groups do not intersect to the same extent as do those on the right. Rather than create their own institutions, the left and the center-left have stuck with the institutional party structure, which is designed to win elections, not build the kinds of training centers and think tanks that have been cranking out right-wing policy and activists over the course of generations.”

[Adele M. Stan @AddieStan]

@Amtrak I would also like to say that I travel @Amtrak at least twice per month, and I have received many kindnesses from their employees. But that doesn't excuse the mistreatment I received for no reason other than what I represent to somebody. /FIN #disability #sexism #ageism

[Adele M. Stan @AddieStan]

Hey, @Amtrak, whoever you had managing the line for train 86 at Union Station should never be allowed to manage customers, especially disabled women. I stood for 20 minutes—not easy for me—at the front of what I thought was the Priority Boarding. 1/

[Adele M. Stan @AddieStan]

@Amtrak @Amtrak 🧵 And keep that gate agent -- train 86, WDC Union Station, April 16, 2025 -- away from old women, because he's clearly got a problem with us.

[Adele M. Stan @AddieStan]

@Amtrak @Amtrak 🧵Your gate agent was clearly all about shaming me. Shouting at an old, disabled woman in a mask who is mistakenly standing a the front of the wrong line can mean only that. I guess it made him feel powerful. So, Amtrak, make it right. 4/