Adele M. Stan
@AddieStan
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Writer on lots of things, longtime chronicler of the right wing of U.S. politics. Winner of Hillman Prize for essays. Also plays the ukulele. She/hers.
Washington, D.C.
Joined July 2008
Hey, @OptimumHelp, your requirement that the only way to cancel your service is over the phone, coupled with your refusal to pick up the calls waiting on hold is punitive. I thought I'd be signing up with you after my next move, but definitely not now. 30 mins on hold & counting.
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@gtconway3d Thanks, George. Have returned to Twitter to share: https://t.co/etYAZcwHcc
Hi everyone. Reactivating twitter to share this I was denied entry, detained, and deported from the USA at the end of last week because of my reporting on the Columbia student protests I arrived back in Melbourne on Sat 6am and had my phone handed back to me upon landing
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They're looking for a pretext to invoke the Insurrection Act and/or declaration martial law.
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For those of us who’ve spend the last 6 months discussing how the Trump would use deportations to create chaos is the Blue states and then use that chaos as an excuse to declare a national emergency and seize total power, things are right on schedule
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The only thing sad about Simone Biles standing up for trans athletes is the fact that, with just two tweets, she’s shown more integrity and leadership on this issue than most House Democrats.
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🚨 BREAKING: Gavin Newsom confirms Donald Trump has seized command of the California National Guard, deploying 2,000 federalized troops to Los Angeles.
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talked to an immigrant cobbler at my local shoe repair shop who told me he found out a customer supported deportations so he put a tiny pebble in his insole on purpose
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Not sure how I missed that Bill Pulte, who spent years doing a shady marketing ploy on this platform, has a federal director job now. His shtick was promising random cash payouts to people if they follow him and give him their data. Wrote about it in 2019 https://t.co/BvLpyRewyS
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🚨 US Federal Housing Finance Agency Director @pulte has referred NY AG Letitia James to the DOJ for alleged mortgage fraud.
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https://t.co/IJJR2ukaqA “The funders and institution-builders of the right have been working at their projects for decades, building movements and communities and political power, some outside the party structure, and some within,” @AddieStan writes in @JoDemocracy review of
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They’re a lot like the old fascists, but with a little more polish—and a lot more money.
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@Amtrak I would also like to say that I travel @Amtrak at least twice per month, and I have received many kindnesses from their employees. But that doesn't excuse the mistreatment I received for no reason other than what I represent to somebody. /FIN #disability #sexism #ageism
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@Amtrak 🧵(see above) I told him I thought I had been in the Priority Boarding (signage was confusing) and that I'm a disabled senior (check my profile, Amtrak), and he began yelling, "You have to follow the rules," and then let 40 people on ahead of me.3/
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Because I thought I was in the Priority Boarding line (I was the only one in the line when I showed up), I stepped forward when the guy charged with opening the gate called for Priority boarding. He told me, loudly, if I moved 1 step closer, I wouldn't be allowed on the train 2/
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Hey, @Amtrak, whoever you had managing the line for train 86 at Union Station should never be allowed to manage customers, especially disabled women. I stood for 20 minutes—not easy for me—at the front of what I thought was the Priority Boarding. 1/
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We’re joined by @AddieStan looking into the extent to which the 76 million Americans who voted for Trump don't want a functioning government and prefer to be entertained by a reality TV star and his sorry collection of right wing talk show hosts.
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