Jessica Chiarella

“elegantly written, disturbing” - @nytimes on THE LOST GIRLS, out now from Putnam! Also wrote AND AGAIN. Quoter of Seinfeld. (she/her/hers)

[Sherrod Brown @SherrodBrown]

On my lapel I wear a pin depicting a canary in a birdcage, given to me decades ago by a steelworker at a Workers’ Memorial Day rally in Lorain.

At the turn of the last century, coal miners took the canary down into the mines with them to warn them of poisonous gasses, because in those days, they didn’t have a union strong enough or a government that cared enough to look out for them.

When I first came to the Senate, I wore the official Senate pin for a couple of days, but it didn’t feel right. So I took it off and I put my canary pin back on. I’ve worn it every day since, and I’m not taking it off.

I will always believe that when you love this country, you fight for the people who make it work. I will never give up that fight.

[tré easton @treeaston]

Due respect, I’m oh so very tired of being lectured by a socialist whose only electoral purchase is in Vermont.

I’ll be the first to admit that there are problems in the Democratic Party.

But if you’ve had a decade and two failed attempts at convincing even the most nominally sympathetic audience of your arguments, perhaps you, too, are part of the problem and not the solution.

[Dave Wasserman @Redistrict]

Latest numbers: across the seven battleground states, the '20-'24 swing towards Trump was ~3.1 pts. Across the other 43 states (+DC), it was ~6.7 pts.

Bottom line: the Harris campaign swam impressively against some very strong underlying currents.

[Basel Musharbash @musharbash_b]

I am shocked that this remains a befuddling thing for DC democrats and pundits. For fuck’s sake, in the last two years of the Biden administration, we took away expansions of the child tax credit, Medicaid, and unemployment insurance; we let the Fed raise interest rates on everything from cars, to homes, to credit cards; and then (!) we largely stood by while dominant firms raised the cost of rent, groceries, and everything else. Why would voters think the economy is anything BUT “not so good/poor”?!?

[Chicago Party Aunt @ChiPartyAunt]

Keep my beers name out your fucking mouth, couch fucker.

[J. Ann Selzer @jaselzer]

Iowa Poll: Kamala Harris leapfrogs Donald Trump to take lead near Election Day. Here's how https://t.co/4767zdTjyL via @DMRegister

[Taniel @Taniel]

Here's the final Ann Selzer/DMR poll of Iowa:

Harris is up 47% to 44%. 
(Not a typo. Last DMR poll had Trump up 47/43 in September.)

[Stephen Neukam @stephen_neukam]

One week, our sweet prince

[Moira Donegan @MoiraDonegan]

I mean, if you want the Democrats to lose because you have a profound cultural distaste for liberals and want to see them
suffer and be punished, there is a candidate for exactly that.

[chriscjackson on Bluesky @ChrisCJackson]

A good rule of thumb for politics (and life): the person Indiana Jones is punching is the bad guy.

[Jessica Chiarella @jess_chiarella]

@adamm0rgan @OneSignalPub @AtriaBooks 🔥🔥🔥

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

The horrors unfolding in northern Gaza are the result of a completely unrestrained Netanyahu gov, fully armed by the Biden admin while food aid is blocked and patients are bombed in hospitals.

This is a genocide of Palestinians. The US must stop enabling it. Arms embargo now.

[kyle r seibel @kylerseibel]

Me reading House of Leaves

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

How is this legal? Does Lebanon have no sovereignty? Does Israel just have a free pass to do anything to any country in the region?

[Stacy Cay @stacycay]

People on twitter will really be like "you believe in voting? that pales in effectiveness to my strategy, doing political organizing at a local level" and then not organize politically at a local level

[Nerd Girl Says @Rachael_Conrad]

Will Ferrell deciding to educate himself and others as well as supporting and loving Harper unconditionally when she came out to him really puts some other comedians to shame, huh.

[Jill Hopkins @Jillhopkins]

The DNC is just Coachella for Poli-Sci majors

[Jon Favreau @jonfavs]

Truly impossible to be more Walz-pilled than I am right now

[Tommy Vietor @TVietor08]

I am hopelessly biased but Barack and Michelle Obama are generational talents and those two speeches nearly tore the roof off the United Center. Hell of a night for the Harris/Walz campaign.