Ana Avendaño

I'm on bluesky

[Ana Avendaño @Ana_ExAFLCIO]

"For the master's tools will never dismantle the master's house... And this fact is only threatening to those women who still define the master's house as their only source of support." Audre Lorde

[Ana Avendaño @Ana_ExAFLCIO]

@zackpeter White supremacy at its best

[Ana Avendaño @Ana_ExAFLCIO]

Read this with disgust. Misogyny & sexism remain the status quo in labor. Pls support @ITFWomenC190 & demand better from your unions. Ya basta! https://t.co/Ht7XzMgZxy

[Ana Avendaño @Ana_ExAFLCIO]

I fixed it.

[GBX @GBX_Press]

🚨 JUST IN: The International Court of Justice has declared that it has the jurisdiction to put Israel on trial.

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

It's kind of wild to find out that the Republican in the NYT story that says she had a toxic relationship with Graham Platner is Lyndsey Fifield. Having been in DC for too long, I know a decent number of people who know her quite well. For a long time she was the co-host of a podcast with her best friend Bethany Mandel, called Ladybrains, though she has also worked for multiple super PACs, the Chamber of Commerce, and the Heritage Foundation.

Some background, presented without judgment: In 2014, Fifield began work as digital director for American Action Network, a Republican Super PAC that oversees House races. The next year she became social media manager for the Heritage Foundation, where she stayed for the next seven years.

In 2022, she joined the Super PAC backing Nikki Haley for president, switching to the official campaign side the next year, and staying until the campaign flamed out. She now lists herself as a visiting fellow at the Independent Women’s Forum, a prominent dark money group that is best known for helping usher Brett Kavanaugh on to the Supreme Court and giving Susan Collins the talking points she needed to make her decisive speech in his favor.

The NYT breezed past all this, saying she was "a Virginia conservative who has worked for right-leaning groups and Republican campaigns."

In an interview for a news outlet called Red Alert Politics that named her to a “30 under 30” list back in 2016, she said that she wanted to “emulate the late conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart’s approach to online activism.” Breitbart, known for pushing the boundaries when it came to political combat, is perhaps best remembered for having exposed Anthony Weiner’s penchant for sending nudes to young girls, and for his work elevating James O’Keefe.

That she worked for Independent Women's Forum recently is even wilder since IWF played a critical role in Kavanaugh's confirmation and in persuading Collins to support it.

Heather Higgins, chair of IWF, laid out the group’s role in a talk several years ago. “We wrote a memo. It was used by a lot of members of the Senate and the House, Fox News, and elsewhere. Most important, Susan Collins told me that without that memo, she would not see how to support him,” Higgins said. “And if you look at the speech she gave on the Senate floor, it’s entirely the playing out and architecture of how we said to structure the argument — what to say and how to say it, which is just so gratifying. We’re watching TV and we’re like, ‘That’s ours! That’s ours!’”

Meanwhile, the timeline Fifield gives of their relationship is confusing, because during at least some of that time she was actually dating a different person, her longterm boyfriend who became her fiancee before she called off the wedding in 2018. We all know this because she and Mandel did a podcast episode on it that went mega-viral in Republican circles back then. Apparently this is the kind of thing the NYT thinks is important now, so I guess it requires more reporting. I'll report back.

Here is Heather Higgins celebrating IWF's role in getting Susan Collins to confirm Kavanaugh:

[Ana Avendaño @Ana_ExAFLCIO]

.@nytimes is committed to slimy journalism re Blake Lively. Today's piece reads like BL PR team. No mention that NYT is in litigation with Baldoni et al. Cherry-picks quotes and misrepresents the Judge's order that gutted Lively's case. Shoddy & shady. @BlakeLivelyLies

[Ana Avendaño @Ana_ExAFLCIO]

@Airaasayss 21

[Dean Guzman Wyrzykowski @deanguzmanw]

My bail was set at $10,000 because a court said I’m “dangerous” for saving dogs.

The real danger is not saving dogs. It’s abusing them in the first place.

The district attorney doesn’t understand this.

But a jury will.

And when they do, we’ll save them all.

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

The activists who finally forced Ridglan Farms to release 1,500 beagles from the most wretched conditions, and thus saved them from sadistic experimentation, are some of the bravest and most dedicated people you can meet.

If you don't follow @waynehhsiung, please do.

[Matt Duss @mattduss]

To be clear: they’re not protesting against the sexual torture of Palestinians by Israeli authorities. They’re protesting against the NYT for reporting it.

[Ana Avendaño @Ana_ExAFLCIO]

@legalbytesmedia If the parties has gone to trial, the best outcome defendants could hope for was no liability on the remaining three counts, which means they would have paid her nothing. That’s exactly what they got from this settlement. Sounds like a total victory.

[Rebekah Jones @GeoRebekah]

A sitting member of Congress brutally beat his wife. He threw boiling water at her. He burned her.

In front of their young daughter.

The House of Representatives needs to immediately expel Rep @MaxMillerOH (R-OH).

No man who throws boiling water on his wife in front of their daughter is fit for office.

#ExpelMaxMiller #ExpelMiller

https://t.co/EdtSkcg3VZ

[Ramita Navai @ramitanavai]

Here is my BAFTA speech in full, with the important bit that hasn't been shown.

Also, a heartfelt thank you to everyone who supported us, and to our colleagues who rallied around us. And thank you to @BAFTA and the judges for a great evening and a great honour.

[Jon Favreau @jonfavs]

Yesterday, in a NYT piece titled "I'm a Democrat. My Party Has a Double Standard on Antisemitism," @RepJoshG cited as evidence Democrats who "increasingly excuse, or join, feverish denunciations of Israel, our longstanding, democratic and strategic ally."

[Ana Avendaño @Ana_ExAFLCIO]

@mith_herz @bigtoestink13 @quesadaaa_ Yes, racist. She said that Jamye Heath ran the set like a barbecue.

[Ana Avendaño @Ana_ExAFLCIO]

@hi_gaggy @bigtoestink13 @quesadaaa_ What evidence? Point to the docket number.

[Ana Avendaño @Ana_ExAFLCIO]

@jrzx298 @ShippingManJr @heygurisingh grow up

[Jennifer Bendery @jbendery]

When a congressman is facing allegations of raping a staffer, leaving her bruised and bleeding, and of drugging and raping another woman, the problem is not a horny-ness epidemic. Come on man. https://t.co/9ENMIuufU7

[Ana Avendaño @Ana_ExAFLCIO]

@zackpeter And then issue a pablum statement in the passive voice….

[Ana Avendaño @Ana_ExAFLCIO]

@BLwifey Your point?