Mel In ATX

Feminist, writer, knitter, mom (not a complete list)

[Mel In ATX @mel_atx]

@Marina_Sirtis Please delete this false information-there are many Democrats in the TX lege and have been since 1994. Progressives in TX are working hard to flip the state and we are making real progress. Tweets like the ones you’re making actively hurt our efforts.

[Mel In ATX @mel_atx]

@gk_armstrong For fucking serious.

[Mel In ATX @mel_atx]

@gk_armstrong, in case you missed it, nice obituary of Howard Cruse in WaPo: https://t.co/m0fUBvUD9v

[Mel In ATX @mel_atx]

@fmmiyakawa Mine too! <3

[Mel In ATX @mel_atx]

The creativity of the resistance is so inspiring! https://t.co/w7wWw1mHiQ

[Mel In ATX @mel_atx]

@gk_armstrong *dying*

[Harold Pollack @haroldpollack]

This would have been a great Onion headline a few years ago.

[Mel In ATX @mel_atx]

This is exactly right

[Mx. Amadi Lovelace Has Left This Place @amaditalks]

We have an “opioid crisis“ in this country but not a “pain crisis” even though the CDC says that the number of people who live with chronic pain is around five times the number of people who have opioid use disorder.

[Andrea Junker @Strandjunker]

I’m sure I have now heard more about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s dress choices than I have heard about who paid off Brett Kavanaugh’s $92,000 country club fees plus his $200,000 credit card debt plus his $1.2 million mortgage, and purchased themselves a SCOTUS seat.

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

He can stay, he can go. He can be impeached, or voted out in 2020.

But removing Trump will not remove the infrastructure of an entire party that embraced him; the dark money that funded him; the online radicalization that drummed his army; nor the racism he amplified+reanimated.

[BYP100 @byp100]

When you read about Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman, remember Tonya McDowell, a Black mom from Connecticut who spent 2012-2017 in jail for lying about her address to send her kindergartener to a better school. The whole damn system is guilty.

#CollegeCheatingScandal

[emily @emilyst]

You know those Americans who go to England and say, "Gosh, you have such a charming accent! I wish *I* had an accent!"

Well, that's what men who believe they lead completely apolitical lives sound like to the rest of us. You do have an accent. You do have politics.

[The Onion @TheOnion]

Area Man Considers Self Ally To Women Unless They Threaten His Status In Literally Any Way https://t.co/g0GD3xUQEr

[feminist next door @emrazz]

The only reason that we, as a society, can’t seem to meaningfully identify and address the correlation between domestic violence and mass violence is because we think of a man who beats his wife or girlfriend as something other than a terrorist when in reality he is not.

[Peter Alexander @PeterAlexander]

Trump, responding to my question, concedes there’s no national emergency to justify building his wall: “I didn’t need to do this... I just want to do it faster.”
That answer will complicate his legal case.

[Jackie Speier @RepSpeier]

PSA: @usedgov will reopen the #TitleIX comment period for 24 hrs TODAY. @BetsyDeVosED's proposed rule will inhibit survivors from coming forward to seek justice. DeVos needs to work with survivors & advocates to improve #TitleIX, not undermine it! https://t.co/EzQp0PhZEF

[Kristi Colleen @KristiColleen]

Look, if men don’t want to all be lumped together as terrible, then they need to have a meeting and tell all the terrible men among them to stop ruining their brand. Until then, let’s not make any more men famous. We have enough.

[Hillary Clinton @HillaryClinton]

Now copy my plan on health care, a fairer tax system, and voting rights. https://t.co/AGyA6ZHl1R

[Spectrum News SA @SpecNewsSA]

There is a new #TxStatePark reservation system! You can now book specific campsites and buy an optional "Save the Day" pass for busy times on the @TPWDparks website: https://t.co/z65Jy29kJR