This.  People are sooo mad at her for growing up in a Republican household, and then later in life realizing it’s not something she agreed with and changing parties.  And then she didn’t even enter politics until over a decade later!  They act like the fact that she changed her mind is some long game by the GOP...it’s…

She didn’t just do well because she bodied Bloomberg. She also came with detailed itemized plans of who she will tax, how she will pay for her plans and she is the only who consistently tied economic and social/racial inequality to health care, education, climate change, child care, immigration etc. The only minus was…

IDK I thought the “sweeping reform candidate with ACTUAL FUCKING STEP-BY-STEP PLANS” was a pretty great niche but what do I know

I was hanging with friends this weekend and we got on to politics. More than one in the group said they really love Warren but now that’s she’s done, they are looking at someone else. When I said “she’s not done, you can still vote for her” they were like, “Oh...right. I can still vote for her.”

Strange to hear since their child is trans and Applegate was always super supportive - have they separated?

I transcribed some quotes while rereading that stick out:

I met Katherine Applegate at my old bookstore and she’s just the best. Serious Cool Aunt vibes. She was there for The One and Only Ivan (also great) and while I was helping with the signing we talked about Animorphs and she directed me to a site where I could pirate it because it’s out of print so who cares.

Applegate never shied away from just fucking these kids all the way up. I have to wonder how much they’ll have to scale back the gristle in an illustrated format.

assuming this is the exclusive you were hinting at on Twitter yesterday: AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH is all I can say rn

You thought this shit was cute enough to spam everyone in this thread, troll. And finally, some other slugs showed you some attention and got your ass out of the greys.

I’m not the least bit scared, and for those of you who are, you need to get over that fear. Period. Bernie’s supporters aren’t worried about a 70-something socialist from Vermont by way of Brooklyn. They aren’t worried about whether a Jewish persosn can become president in a nation beset by Nazi violence.  Y’all need…

And, no, this is not something where we’re going to “both sides” it or try and split the difference. This is not a “yes and no,” or some kind of grand distinction with a difference. No.

I find it more frustrating that Bernie would deny saying it than that he said it in the first place. If he’d just come out and said that he doesn’t remember but was clearly feeling pessimistic at the time and that he’d love to see a female president, I’d have no issue. Denying it is the same playbook dudes use…

Nailed it. Of all the candidates, Warren is probably my #1. I’m also terrified that America is still just too sexist to elect a woman to the presidency.

Across the internet, this sentiment has quickly warped into the twinned shrieks of “Bernie Sanders said a woman shouldn’t be president!” and “Elizabeth Warren is a liar!” The former is intentionally misconstruing a statement to fuel righteous indignation.

I believe Warren. You’d have to believe she’d risk a bold-faced lie like this, and also that you couldn’t believe Bernie would say something like this. I can totally see Bernie saying something like this, least among them is because millions of Americans have made the exact same argument out loud without much shame.

Progressives get angry about injustice. Right-wingers get angry when they’re prevented from committing injustices.

If it’s not self-evident to you the degree to which the entire promise of her candidacy is premised on a willful suspension of disbelief, I don’t know what to tell you.

when you’re [sic] candidacy is based around the idea that all things are achievable through engagement and hard work—even things that everybody knows are not achievable

I spent the morning sitting in an ER waiting room (fortunately everything’s fine now), and there was a TV playing CNBC right above me. Everybody kept going back to Warren and (to a lesser extent) Sanders and the “War on Wealth.”