Kate Lonsdale

19th c. scholar without portfolio. Writing my way out of the academic basement.

[Kate Lonsdale @KateWritesStuff]

@ask_aubry So it was bad when Mexico was supposedly sending us their rapists, but it’s OK if Romania does? 🤬

[Kate Lonsdale @KateWritesStuff]

@ask_aubry American phone number but British slang and spelling. Shady. Run fast, run far. ☹���

[Kate Lonsdale @KateWritesStuff]

@jabo_vancouver As an Angeleno, I say “thank you, Canada!”🇨🇦

[Kate Lonsdale @KateWritesStuff]

@TomJoudrey This has many of the markers of AI-generated writing, especially the non-committal statement of fact where a thesis should be.

[Kate Lonsdale @KateWritesStuff]

@ask_aubry This is a load of bullshit, of course, but what’s really interesting is that he can get as far as believing our legal system is based on “male centric punishment” but can’t get to “our entire country is male centric.”

[Kate Lonsdale @KateWritesStuff]

@JibberttheBib @ask_aubry When you are so dysfunctional and creepy you spend hours trolling complete strangers to convince them that calling another complete stranger a “retarded ass feminist” isn’t anger….🤡

[Kate Lonsdale @KateWritesStuff]

@lucedes04 @adybpt But after the 60s, it was Boomers who voted for Reagan (& Trump!), ran up the debt, waged trillion-dollar wars, defunded public education, and destroyed unions and infrastructure funding. They inherited the greatest economy in history and chose to pull the ladder up behind them.

[Kate Lonsdale @KateWritesStuff]

@OrthodoxTao @adybpt OP didn’t say things were perfect, just getting a bit better. I absolutely believe we were better off without Citizens United, and with Roe, Miranda, 4th Amendment rights, the Voting Rights Act, stronger unions and more investment in science, public education and infrastructure.

[Kate Lonsdale @KateWritesStuff]

@ask_aubry The Germans have a word for it: Backpfeifengesicht, a face in need of a slap
or punch. When you Google it, you sometimes get pictures of Ted Cruz. 😁

[Kate Lonsdale @KateWritesStuff]

@ask_aubry Your insecurities. Your problem.

Your rape fantasies. Your choice.

There must be more!

[Susie Dent @susie_dent]

Word of the day is ‘recrudescence’ (17th century): the return of something terrible after a time of reprieve.

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

Langston Hughes

[Kate Lonsdale @KateWritesStuff]

@HallieRubenhold Anecdotes are not evidence.

[Kate Lonsdale @KateWritesStuff]

@snowball1926 @nyanah_ini @Russell99695573 How would his response change her right to have an abortion in any way? A woman’s rights don’t go away because someone else says he wants to be a dad. It would be like saying your right to free speech goes away if I don’t want you to say what you want to say. Not how it works.

[Kate Lonsdale @KateWritesStuff]

@ask_aubry As someone who lived in downtown Los Angeles during the Rodney King riots, I can testify that people cared very much about race in the 1990s.

[Kate Lonsdale @KateWritesStuff]

I’m so tired of the “but what about the draft?” argument. Here’s the perfect rebuttal.

[Charlotte Clymer 🇺🇦 @cmclymer]

Okay, let's talk about this ridiculous talking point that some conservative men love to use, subsequently betraying their complete ignorance on our military draft.

Claiming the draft is to men like abortion is to women is ludicrous for three big reasons.

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[Kate Lonsdale @KateWritesStuff]

@MarchandSurgery So, you’re so naive you can’t tell the difference between what the law says and what happens in real life? Have you watched the news lately? Every other day there’s a story of a woman going into septic shock in a hospital parking lot because they won’t admit her. Do better.

[Kate Lonsdale @KateWritesStuff]

@EmilyVanHolman @ask_aubry That’s what I was thinking—he’s so close to understanding how patriarchy works. But he’s so invested in being a victim, he can’t see how he benefits from this system.

[Seth Abramson @SethAbramson]

Historically accurate (assuming we’re speaking of Reagan’s second term).

As a historian, I have no notes.

[Kate Lonsdale @KateWritesStuff]

@AlexDobbs232585 @PernellMeier @contranymic1 @ask_aubry Hey Mr. High Value Christian Alpha Man! You do know what the Bible says about extramarital sex and rich men getting into heaven, right? Lust and greed are literally two of the Deadly Sins. 🤡