Jesse Mechanic
@JMechanic
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Writer. Artist. | @InTheseTimesMag | @MotherJones | @Truthout | @huffpost | @CSPAN | @AJEnglish Soon, some books. Newsletter: https://t.co/j7dLrktXJs
Joined July 2010
A lot of y’all are like: I care deeply for human rights and believe every life is precious and needs to be protected. The indiscriminate murder of civilians hurts my soul. I wish for peace and equality for everyone.*. *Except for Palestinians.
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This Supreme Court killed Roe v. Wade, Affirmative Action, the separation of church and state, the Clean Air Act, Miranda rights, made it legal for businesses to discriminate against LGBTQ+ people, and blocked student loan cancellation. Fuck that undemocratic clown car.
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Henry Kissinger is 100 years old. Another unfortunate reminder that karma doesn’t exist.
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Saw a man strolling through the heavy haze in Manhattan today smoking a cigarette. Heard his lungs screaming as I passed him but a part of me couldn’t help but respect the double-down.
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This is how those in power choose to organize things. They don’t want to solve healthcare or homelessness, they just want people suffering out of their sight lines.
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Instead of compassion we turn to punishment and violence. We turn to the carceral system. We turn to things that only exacerbate these problems.
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Jordan Neely needed help. He needed care. He needed food and shelter, not violence. Solving homelessness and making sure people receive the medical care they need is not some insurmountable task, but we treat it as such.
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On the second day of Mental Health Awareness Month a man having a mental health crisis was choked to death on the subway as people watched and cheered.
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RT @ShabazzStuart: Jordan Neely was a New Yorker. He was a person. When he began to suffer from mental illness the city’s social safety….
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Very funny to see all the people who paid for blue checks complaining that they still can't get anyone to like their tweets. Folks out here like: "What the hell, I paid so you would lower the hoop to 8 feet and I still can't dunk!".
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52 year old man buys three racks of Bud Light and shoots them from 10 feet away because they have rainbows on them.
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Some of y’all are so damn soft. Soft and racist. A white girl talks trash and it’s fun and fiery. A black girl talks trash and it’s classless. Same old race-based, pearl-clutching nonsense.
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RT @JStein_WaPo: Pretty remarkable that America temporarily constructed a safety net during Covid — including major health care coverage, f….
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But…but this opens the door to all prior presidents being prosecuted for their crimes. Don’t threaten me with a good time, pal.
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RT @JMechanic: They won’t even entertain the idea that maybe fewer guns means fewer people using those guns for mass murder. They say it’s….
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So some of you really think this will all end with Trump in an orange jumpsuit wasting away in prison?. This is America, friends. Trump is a rich, connected, white man. He'll get a fine, claim victory, and act like even more of a martyr.
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Imagine coming from nowhere to write one of the most successful and beloved series of books in human history and then choosing to have “she was a hateful shithead to trans people” be your legacy instead. Truly a wild move.
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RT @prem_thakker: Hochul:.–Disinvited a union leader from her State of the State for criticizing her.–Brought in Hakeem Jeffries to endorse….
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The committee voted not to advance the nomination of Hector LaSalle, setting up a likely legal fight between the New York governor and state Democrats.
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“As long as there is poverty in this world, no man can be totally rich even if he has a billion dollars.”.MLK- 1961.
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