Author of novels, Finding Bonita, and Love, Sex, and Understanding the Universe. Eureka Springs JP, @HarrieFarrow4JP #ReadCaribbean#USVI#LiteraryFiction
I know it’s become pretty cliche and cringey to talk about at this point but if you’re under like 25 I cannot stress enough how one time Obama wore a tan suit and people spent a week arguing over whether or not it was demeaning to the Oval Office and they were serious about it.
I live a quiet life in a small tourist town. Within the last 3 weeks: a friend was violently assaulted by her boyfriend, a psychotic man entered my car outside a library at 11 am and came at me with a knife, and an acquaintance was caught spiking the drinks of 3 women.
Women: I want to go for a run.
Society: You can't go alone. You'll get raped.
Women: I want to walk to my car in the parking garage.
Society: Alone? You better get someone to escort you, or you'll get raped.
Women: I want to live alone.
Society: You need a gun, an alarm system, a dog and probably a gun for the dog too.
Women: What about going to the park?
Society: Dangerous.
Women: Okay, I'll just go out for a drink then.
Society: Don't take your eyes off your drink. Watch out for predators spiking your drinks. Stay alert at all times.
Women: I was raped.
Society: Are you sure? That just seems impossible.
To the Republican majority of the Supreme Court:
You have shown yourself willing to IGNORE precedent, even while the ink was still drying on YOUR decision insisting YOUR unprecedented intervention in an election didn’t affect that precedent.
You’ve blessed willful DEFIANCE of a valid injunction by a lower court — that YOU upheld on appeal — irreparably undermining the rule of law.
And you DIDN'T EVEN BOTHER engaging with the facts found by the lower court — IGNORING the applicable standard of review.
And YOU did it all, seemingly, to advance a partisan agenda to cement YOUR ideological goals.
But that was BEFORE votes were cast.
Can we count on you not to torch the Constitution to advance those same interests and goals if the party in power repudiates the will of the voters? What assurance are you making to instill trust in your institution?
History is watching and will judge your actions.
Fighting my wrongful termination by the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk killing.
I made posts on social media reflecting the truth about racial double standard when we discuss political violence.
We head to arbitration tomorrow.
Let’s goooooo.
REP. DEAN TO BLANCHE: "The president lied about being on Epstein's plane, and the unredacted files prove it. It's all covered up. The 🇺🇸 people are not stupid.”
(H/T @atrupar)
BREAKING: Rep. Pat Ryan just got the House Armed Services Committee UNANIMOUSLY to force Pete Hegseth to explain every senior military firing within the next 5 days. Hegseth has fired 24+ officers without cause or explanation. Even Republicans want answers.
Happy Pride Month! 🏳️🌈 As a proud member of the @EqualityCaucus, and a representative of the city of brotherly love and sisterly affection, I'm working every day in Congress to defend the rights of our LGBTQIA+ community.
There’s been a lot of talk in this race about what makes a "real man."
A man does what’s right when no one is watching. He upholds his commitments to his family and neighbors. He doesn’t lie, cheat, & steal his way through life.
Real men serve others. Weak men serve themselves.
A billion dollar ballroom.
A UFC arena.
Trump is turning the White House into his personal playground while he does nothing to address rising health care costs, soaring energy bills, or deliver on any of the promises he made to get himself elected.
WAKE UP, AMERICA.
The Supreme Court majority just admitted it’s a PARTISAN operator willing to TORCH the rule of law to advance its ideological agenda.
In an unprecedented move with a brief UNSIGNED order, it: 1) IGNORED the central basis of the lower court’s decision, 2) DISREGARDED its own precedent (that it had assured just weeks ago remained good law), and 3) REWARDED Alabama's defiance of a federal court order.
All to help Republicans squeeze out one more seat in the midterms. And on Election Day for millions of Americans no less!
This is sick.
“Power, not reason, is the new currency of this Court's decisionmaking.” — Thurgood Marshall
During the 2 World Wars, women in Europe used knitting for spying, including encoding messages with combinations of knits/purls...find out more in #UnravellingWomensArt the 1st @womensart1 book, along with many more wonderful and sometimes weird textile art facts....!
Sen. @JeffMerkley to Rubio: You have expressed that no one died as a result of the shutdown of USAID. I want to note that it's estimated that over 500,000 children have died from that shutdown. I hope you ponder that as we strive to rebuild programs related to malaria, tuberculosis, AIDS, HIV, nutrition, and Ebola.
We have secured the release of a brilliant and caring 18-year old teenage girl held in ICE custody for months.
She is now back on track to graduate from High School.
Despite being under Republican control, the House just defied President Trump on the Iran war.
No amount of lying or bullying by the White House can make Americans forget we're paying for a senseless war.
Now even some GOP Members of Congress are recognizing they ultimately answer to us - not him.
Keep up the pressure.