Fern Fairchild 🇵🇸 🏳️‍⚧️

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Leftist, harm reductionist,

former Executive Director of @ktpcoalitionCT

Tweets and views are my own

[Fern Fairchild 🇵🇸 🏳️‍⚧️ @fernuprooted]

A treatment modality doesn't stand to be harmed, disempowered or permanently disabled by stigma. People do.

[Fern Fairchild 🇵🇸 🏳️‍⚧️ @fernuprooted]

You know whats more stigmatizing than calling ECT shock therapy? Calling people with lived experience severely mentally ill, telling them that they're unable to make decisions about their own lives, and violating their bodily autonomy with forced treatment. I hate days like today

[Nathan J Robinson @NathanJRobinson]

NYT has a peculiar definition of working class

[onion person @CantEverDie]

two pieces of voting info that lays out exactly went wrong in the 2024 democratic election strategy

[Moshik Temkin @moshik_temkin]

FDR, 1936: "Government by organized money is just as dangerous as government by organized mob. Never before in our history have these forces been so united against one candidate as they are today. They are unanimous in their hate-and I welcome their hatred!"

The voters:

[Fern Fairchild 🇵🇸 🏳️‍⚧️ @fernuprooted]

No, I won't vote for any Democrat that isn't actively supportive of trans people.

[Fern Fairchild 🇵🇸 🏳️‍⚧️ @fernuprooted]

And there it is. After a whole campaign of refusing to defend trans people, liberals are now abandoning us. What does this say about how they would have governed?

[NewsWire @NewsWire_US]

Rep. Tom Suozzi (D-N.Y.) says Democrats “have to stop pandering to the far left”

He adds: “I don’t want to discriminate against anybody, but I don’t think biological boys should be playing in girls’ sports.”

[☀️👀 @zei_squirrel]

Democrats hid that Genocide Joe is senile and blocked a primary, then anointed the person who dropped out in 2020 before a single vote was cast because she's so despised, shouted down anyone asking for a contested convention, and called it brat summer.

Welcome to brat winter.

[Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com on Bsky @ErinInTheMorn]

I just don't think that Dems dropping progressive policy is the way forward. Harris continually pulled from the right on Israel, the border wall, immigration, crime, the military.

The electorate didn't want "Trump lite," and providing that failed to sell the Democratic vision.

[Fern Fairchild 🇵🇸 🏳️‍⚧️ @fernuprooted]

@robwipond @ConnConnection @KTPCoalitionCT What I do remember from the Courant article is that the Public Defender she was assigned made statements agreeing with the judge that she thought the defendant did not understand what she was being charged with, which I think is ridiculous when you look at Ms. Doe's statements.

[Fern Fairchild 🇵🇸 🏳️‍⚧️ @fernuprooted]

@robwipond @ConnConnection @KTPCoalitionCT Yes I believe that's correct, since this was not yet at the stage of her being considered a DMHAS client and she was still being charged, but @ConnConnection would know more about how this works.

[Mac n Cheese 🧀 @stealyoredbull]

When Ana Navarro says she “fled communism,” she means her dad was a member of the Contras—fascist death squads in Latin America who killed priests and r*ped nuns. Reagan was criminally indicted by the World Court for funnelling money to them. #DNC2024

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

The Democratic Party should be investigating which delegate just hit a veiled Muslim woman over the head with a pole. FFS. How is this okay??

The normalization of liberal Islamophobia:

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Pretty sure insulting/dismissing voters - even if they’re annoying you, disrupting you, protesting you - in a key swing state isn’t the best way to win that state. Assuming that they *have* to vote for you, otherwise Trump will win, doesn’t work. Just ask Hillary Clinton 🤷🏽‍♂️🤦🏽‍♂️

[Chase Woodruff @dcwoodruff]

Walz getting coded as a progressive simply for following through on mainstream Democratic policies reveals a lot about the operating assumptions of American politics, even among Democrats themselves.

[Hamid Bendaas 🇩🇿🇵🇸 @HBendaas]

The entire machine of the Democratic Party conspired to block the first Jewish nominee for president four years ago and these people didn’t bat an eye, and in fact were part of that effort.

[Miqdaad Versi @miqdaad]

Despicable from @Telegraph

Far-right mobs attack mosques & Muslims across the country

This is how the paper covers it. Disgusting.

[Nina Turner @ninaturner]

Being against the killing of 40,000+ Palestinians is not extreme and it’s absolutely not antisemitic.