Piper Kerman

She/Her. Author of #1 @NYTimes bestseller Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison 💖💜💙 IG: @PiperKerman

[Piper Kerman @Piper]

#Thread

Millions of you have watched the final season of @OITNB and I hope you can’t stop thinking about the characters and their stories.

The last 10 years since my memoir was published have been crazy and instructive, and I want to offer a few reflections.

#FreeHer #OITNB

[Piper Kerman @Piper]

In other news @dreamhampton will premiere “It Was All A Dream” @tribecafilmfest this June ❤️‍🔥https://t.co/US6n4k2HcL

[Jessica Valenti @JessicaValenti]

I am doing my best not to absolutely lose my shit, but how in the fuck do you publish a profile of the leader of Students for Life and not once mention that they want to make birth control illegal?

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[Piper Kerman @Piper]

Reminder that solitary confinement is torture. #StopSolitary #CloseRikers @CHWlawfirm https://t.co/dMM0veJO5t

[Piper Kerman @Piper]

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[Joo-Hyun @JooHyun_Kang]

As a long-time queer I wanna remind folks that safety of trans/queer folks is abt more than "state-sponsored discrimination". It's also state violence like NYPD murder of Kawaski Trawick, a Black gay man cooking at home when he was killed.

Eric Adams should #FireThompsonAndDavis

[philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_]

"Missouri House Republicans voted to defund all of the state’s public libraries, in a proposed $45.6 billion state budget that will soon move to a vote in the GOP-controlled state Senate"

https://t.co/1KyEcpKZgC

[Eric Umansky @ericuman]

And here is what an expert said:

“Thomas was hiding a financial relationship with Crow.”

[Eric Umansky @ericuman]

Thomas did not respond to our detailed questions. 

Crow did. 

The sale involved Thomas' childhood home, and Crow wrote:  

“My intention is to one day create a public museum at the Thomas home dedicated to telling the story of our nation’s second black Supreme Court Justice.”

[Eric Umansky @ericuman]

NEW:

Harlan Crow paid Thomas for property.

The law explicitly requires disclosure of property sales.

Thomas didn't disclose anything.

Here's Thomas' signature on the undisclosed deal.

https://t.co/zC7JGm1l10

By @JustinElliott @js_kaplan & @Amierjeski

[Radley Balko @radleybalko]

Not a question we should need to ask. Yet here we are. My guess is that SCOTUS will decline to hear this case.

Note that Dunn's innocence isn't in doubt. The question is whether the Constitution permits Missouri to keep him in prison anyway.

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[Piper Kerman @Piper]

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[Piper Kerman @Piper]

#BayArea! Excited for this event @KQED w/ @lisquart @maiasz @shannonkleiber @oneheart1city @TTBOOK @eaXLR this Thursday!

[Economic Hardship Reporting Project @econhardship]

San Francisco! On 4/13, come to @prx Podcast Garage at @kqed for a conversation about reporting stories with care, moderated by @eaXLR and featuring the team behind our audio series Going for Broke: @TTBOOK @lisquart @maiasz @oneheart1city @shannonkleiber: https://t.co/8AYRS80TCq

[Economic Hardship Reporting Project @econhardship]

“The art of dependence means accepting aid with magnanimousness, and crucially, recognizing the importance of others. It takes dignity to lean on friends, loved ones, colleagues, and even on the state.”

Listen to @lisquart on @NextBigIdeaClub!
https://t.co/smyP7Qw9MI

[Ernesto Aguilar @eaXLR]

I'm moderating a session for @KQED's #PodcastGarage 4/13 with the @TTBOOK team about the Going for Broke series. Attend in person by registering here: https://t.co/ODYqH1oHra #journalism #BayArea #pubmedia

[Alissa Quart @lisquart]

Hi! Please come to this @econhardship event for our show with @TTBOOK Bay Area friends-- there will also be copies of my new book Bootstrapped on hand, I will sign, discuss & chat! @Piper @KALW @roseaguilar @monica_campbell @ronpurser @irvine_awards @EmCollective @amyjlow

[Jessica Pishko @JessPish]

Much like the sheriffs who "don't enforce laws" -- this is not a "separation of powers" problem. This is about ensuring racist hierarchies. It also reflects the problem of tweaking a system that tbqh required major reform.

[Walter Katz @w_katz1]

I’ve been talking for a while now about preemption efforts by legislators that target democratically elected prosecutors, mayors and cities. They are often Black officials minority-majority cities and the efforts are meant to shame and diminish.

[Dyjuan Tatro @DyjuanTatro]

This is how cops in Uvalde, who stood around while 19 kids were killed, treats one of the victim’s mother. They’ve done more to brutalize parents than to stop an active shooter. They’ll attack a mother with a sign but hide from killer with an AR-15.