Jessica Fontenot

book hoarder and nocturnal letterer. also, i love pickles.

[Kolleen @littlewhitty]

In Texas, Lake Highlands High School valedictorian, Paxton Smith, switched out her approved speech to talk about abortion rights.

[Sylvia Plath's Food Diary @whatsylviaate]

God, must I lose it in cooking scrambled eggs for a man? 1951

[Tiffany Flowers @MsFlowersTweets]

Imagine being less than 24 hours out from losing your loved one(s) and hearing law enforcement defend their murderer by saying “He was fed up, at the end of his rope...yesterday was a really bad day for him and this is what he did.” That feels like an additional hate crime.

[Dan Rather @DanRather]

I will not apologize for getting emotional and a little misty in the eye on reflecting on this moment and the story of our nation.

[alex medina @mrmedina]

"We’ve seen a force that would shatter our nation rather than share it,

Would destroy our country if it meant delaying democracy.

And this effort very nearly succeeded.

But while democracy can be periodically delayed,

It can never be permanently defeated."

— Amanda Gorman

[Nora Dominick @noradominick]

Feeling a little like Leslie Knope in this pic today:

[Ellam 🫶🏽 @KohkoBoo]

Michelle's stylist sitting at home after doing God's work and seeing Laid trending.

[Jonathan Slavin (he, him, they, them) @slavin_jonathan]

Hard not to remember that a violin vigil for Elijah McClain got tear gassed.

[ᴇʀɴ 🇵🇸 @heyernold]

Your state already has its own Stacey Abrams. Every state does.

Find them. Listen to them. Trust them. Invest in them. Follow their lead.

[Astead @AsteadWH]

if you have to say "america is so much better than this" every two weeks, maybe were not?

[Don’t Boo…Revolt! @BreeNewsome]

🧵Gotta remember: majority of white America supports Trump & efforts to prevent multiracial democracy, & majority of our institutions from corporations to gov’t to news outlets continue to be white-dominated. That will shape how events are analyzed/reacted to in dominant media.

[GOOD @good]

Truth. (via https://t.co/ZEv5GUbIkw)

[Public Citizen @Public_Citizen]

For reference, there were 14,000+ arrests at the George Floyd protests.

[Lulu NYT @LuluGNavarro]

NPR guidance: we won’t be calling the people who stormed the Capitol ‘protestors’ - they are ‘pro-Trump extremists’ and what they are doing is ‘insurrection’.

[Ed Stern is on BlueSky @EdStern]

Well that escalated steadily for four years.

[Molly Ball @mollyesque]

People who mock the prissy insistence on norms and guardrails and institutions: this is the alternative.

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

Facebook, Twitter, Fox News, and rightwing talk radio have enabled this. And the mainstream media has retreated behind the shield of "both sides" and false equivalence. This must end. We are dealing with domestic terrorism, a clear and present danger to democracy.

[Keri Blakinger @keribla]

They protected Confederate statues better than the actual Capitol.

[Don’t Boo…Revolt! @BreeNewsome]

At one point they had three tasers trained on me just to protect the confederate flag 🥴

[Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine]

Remember boys and girls: if it looks like a fascist, swims like a fascist, and quacks like a fascist, it's been a fascist all along.