Clara Jeffery
@ClaraJeffery
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Editor-in-Chief of Mother Jones. ASME board. Mom. Upzoning, street tree, and rescue dog enthusiast. Mostly on the vastly superior Bluesky now.
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Joined May 2009
Women leaving notes in bathrooms to each other has a long tradition of warning others about rapists and abusers.
Campaigns that message in the shitter…are in the shitter.
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I think Trump has seen the "your vote is your secret" ads targeting women living with Trumper men.
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This homecare initiative that Harris has laid out is so huge to so many families--pretty much all families, eventually. And yet the major papers have barely touched it.
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If women over the age of 65 are voting for Harris in eye-popping numbers, it is because they remember what it was like before Roe, before mifi. A gripping, gutting memoir of the way it was:
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Watching Sarah Longwell saying that she thinks (and has thought) that older white women have been underweighted throughout and that her focus groups find that they care more about Dobbs than even young women (@ 6:30):
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I want everybody to know that I will spend my dotage reminding generations yet unborn what horrible monsters Jared and @IvankaTrump are.
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If you pay anyone on the regular that you won’t be/shouldn’t be seeing—therapist, babysitter, dog walker, house cleaner, kids’ music teacher, etc—pay them anyway if you possibly can.
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Erin Grau of the NYT has the best out-of-office reply ever:
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This is, flat out, because the *work* of caring for elderly parents and small kids is primarily bourne by women. But it is also because the networks and biggest papers are insufficiently grounded in everyday concerns. (Even if many reporters are.).
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It will not stop with the undocumented. It will not stop at trans kids. It will not stop at abortion limits in states. It will not stop with abortion.
On 60 Minutes, Tom Homan said “families can be deported together.” That would require removing US citizens too. You read that right.
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And, on a media front and a broader pundit front, this work, and the worry is sopped up by the caregivers in every family/extended family. Often unequally, financially and emotionally. And those caregivers are primarily women. And they are not reflected enough in media.
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In fact, this method of communications is now being used in airports to alert, in many languages, women who are being trafficked how they can get help
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So yeah, leaving notes warning women about what Donald Trump would mean for their lives, their literal lives, is tapping into a long long tradition.
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The first story I ever wrote—for City Pages— was prompted by a list at my college, which led to a story of four women who'd been raped by fellow students. Time picked up the story, put on cover. Others followed. Issue became huge. It was 1990-91— the #metoo of the time.
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The insane thing is that on a domestic front the record was good! Better recovery from Covid inflation than any other rich country. Huge investments in infrastructure and tech and jobs and decarbonization.
The overall story, so far: Nothing here looks like a story of various campaign decisions or a VP choice or big set piece speeches. It's an electorate mad at the incumbent WH's record and expressing it pretty uniformly everywhere, blue and red states alike.
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So yeah, there's some organized efforts at leaving post-its in bathrooms. But also probably just individual women, with a pad and a sharpie, using the underground comms we always have used
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I've been thinking about how all the young men interviewed—be they pro Trump or pro Harris, pro-life or pro-choice—seemed to think that abortion rights didn't concern them. Young men might be shocked to discover that a simple paternity test will compel child support for 18 years.
This episode of @TheRunUpNYT on g voters in WI is by turns depressing and hopeful, your politics depending, but don’t miss when the MAGA bros ask @AsteadWH to tell NYT Games to make Connections easier 😹 (at least they are playing!)
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Insufferable take.
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1/ In the last few days I've watched videos of ordinary women of all ages and races: sobbing talking about voting, driving 10 hrs/flying across country when their absentee ballot didn't arrive, bragging on husbands they didn't have to cancel vote of. .
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You really need to watch this @abughazalehkat video on how Polymarket "whales" are helping to lay the groundwork for the Big Lie 2.0
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Anyway you can see in comments to the first tweet that people thought "the list" was at their college. But that's not the one I went to. The lists were everywhere.
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1/ There is so much to unpack in the election results and what is to come. A big factor is the rise of disinformation and the diminishment of media. Hundreds of thousands of reporting jobs gone. Much of the great media that remains is sequestered behind paywalls.
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It's been clear who he is since 2015 and a lot longer if you've been paying attention. And who his fans are.
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My mom just got a call where someone pretended to be my lawyer, with a hysterical "me," also on call. I'd supposedly hit a pregnant woman w/ my car, needed $15k for bail. it wasn't a deep fake. But pretty sophisticated. They didn't *quite* bite, but. warn your parents.
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2/Piece cost $350,000. Online ads brought in $5K. Why this is indicative of journalism's crisis & and the fix to it
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Today is #ClearTheShelters day. Adopting this guy was one of the best pieces of self-care I’ve ever done. And he seems pretty happy.
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3/anyway I could go on and on and on. And sure, my algos have their biases, and annecdata is not data. But combined with the 7+ point early vote gender spread, the Seltzer poll. this was always going to come down to women. and it sure looks like women are showing up.
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1/ “Women are walking around, suspicious and guarded and apoplectic, knowing that some in our families or neighborhoods voted us back into second-class status, and wondering what else they’re ready to go along with.” . By me.
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So much truth in this random old postcard I just found cleaning up
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Honestly thought people knew this but yes it is OUTRAGEOUS.
Elon Musk: Former undocumented worker. Great reporting from my great Washington Post colleagues, @mariasacchetti, @faizsays and @NickMiroff
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Almost no one who was ever in Trump's cabinet or served in top military ranks under him supports him. If you're making a last minute plea to relatives and friends, maybe just ask them why that is.
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I am a KK skeptic but by god if she can use her mysterious powers over the American populace for good. http://t.co/yOKbyLyyYx.
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A family of real estate disaster capitalists in league with Bibi, what could go wrong.
just can’t stand the smugness of people who think they achieved some.kind of victory that will help the Palestinians.
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Break from fundraising for schools to say that if you want to protest the horrors that went on today at the border and generally with Trump's immigration policies you should donate to the @ACLU and @RAICESTEXAS, among others.
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“The Trump campaign knew that men were his ticket back to power, and it targeted them with a sophisticated campaign of grievance and disinformation. And in that, they were massively aided by the manosphere and its billionaire mascot: Elon Musk.”
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"You're good enough, you're smart enough, and doggone it, people like you."
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And, just spent Labor Day with a few random friends, all of whom, as am I, dealing with critical/end of life parents. Sandwich generation is real, guys.
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Reminder that no state abortion rights provision would mean a damn if a national ban is passed, or the GOP revives the Comstock act (which would prohibit shipping—and therefore selling—contraception, mifi, Plan B), both of which party leaders have repeatedly said they want to do.
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Proposed Q from Senate Dems to Dersh:. "If a 70-something man goes to the house of a convicted sex offender to get a massage from a teenage girl, would the founders consider that a crime? Or merely an abuse of power.".
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Trump taking credit for more women serving in Congress than ever before, which actually
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This gender gap is going to have profound effects on dating and marriage for a generation. And possibly divorce.
NEW @CBSNewsPoll data. At 21 points, gender gap in presidential race is as large as we've seen all year. Women: Harris +12.Men: Trump +9. Reflects differing attitudes about larger social issues, such as gender equality in the U.S. Read more:
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Look who's trying shed her fascist handmaiden rep to rebrand herself as wikipedia master of philosophy.
This past week, I turned 43!. Reflecting on life’s lessons, here are some truths I’ve learned along the way:
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Musk is overshadowing Trump and pushing him toward open endorsement of Nazis. So, either Trump's powerful self-preservation instincts will kick in or he is down with openly endorsing Nazis.
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We on the West Coast thank you.
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Would just like to point out that when Trump/MAGA talks about Dobbs "returning abortion to the states" this is an intentional echo to the "states rights" movement that undergirded slavery and then Jim Crow once slavery had been defeated at the cost of ~700,000 lives.
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The reflexive need to present dueling scandals just warps all news judgement.
This is truly wild. The Washington Post and New York Times both have the Biden gaffe as their top stories (the NYT has *two* stories about it on their home page) and not a single mention of Johnson saying they’ll repeal the ACA or a Trump official saying they’ll pull vaccines.
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Trump’s hateful rhetoric is getting more extreme with every single appearance. Truly terrifying to imagine what his election would usher in.
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2/. saying they didn't have to cancel out their husband's vote, they just wouldn't remind him to do it (❤️🔥); breaking up with boyfriends and cancelling engagements to men who said they'd vote for Trump ; canvassing for weeks straight. .
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Green party leaders throughout Europe tell Jill Stein she should stand aside for the good of the world.
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California has the 4th largest economy in the world. It grows much of our food. The entertainment center of the world. Americans have grown accustomed to static national borders, and the trauma of the Civil War endures (clearly). And yet, when in the course of human events. .
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Trump’s troupe of racist idiots managed to prompt condemnation from Bad Bunny, who is hugely influential not only amongst the Puerto Rican population/diaspora but Latinos broadly
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Being racists to Puerto Ricans in NYC is a choice. .
“There’s a lot going on. I don’t know if you know this but there’s literally a floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean right now. I think it’s called Puerto Rico”
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Say what you will about Gawker, but this shit's masterful:
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ditto Trump and RFK, which probably will happen even sooner.
Prediction: Trump and Elon will have a significant falling out before the 4-year term is over. There can only be one main character at a time.
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This is a really horrific moment.
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The author of that memoir ^^ Elanor Cooney, also recently wrote an incredible piece on the history of Anthony Comstock, and plans to revive his Act and effectively ban abortion pill/contraception. JD Vance is fan of this plan!
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@RManabala @RBReich are you really lecturing a former labor secretary and a Berkeley econ professor on the how the stock market works?.
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If the nation survives, just glad that Elon will be seen for what he always as been.
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The internal debate over whether/when/why NYT has gotten more direct in spelling out danger of Trump (which yes it has) is fascinating. But the last paragraph, where masthead talks of what another term would mean for journalism…that’s the one to clock
In a frank internal meeting, The New York Times wrestled with its political role - @maxwelltani
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Andy Kim will be a US Senator. And young progressives sick of the machine helped fuel his campaign:
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I was hoping to catch the nightly raccoon promenade but look what I got instead!
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CNN sooooo desperately trying to pretend the Biden garbage gaffe is remotely on the same scale as Trump’s MSG racism fest.
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Workers say Elon’s GOTV subcontractor tricked them, drove them around in unsafe conditions, threatened to strand them in a new state…. Just a bonkers story
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Dr Phil here channeling the men that become aggrieved when women—the VP/candidate—don't give them pride of place.
Dr. Phil tells Piers Morgan he gave speech at Trump’s rally as an “act of rebellion” because Kamala Harris snubbed him:. “That was an act of rebellion on my part. I requested 25-plus times to speak to Kamala Harris, I offered to give the identical speech at a Harris rally.”
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I am seriously baffled by why the Senate Democrats, or CNN, for that matter, think that anyone is going to be persuaded by James Carville.
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The Dems could have put her in leadership but instead decided to go with the ~80 yo that nobody has ever heard of.
How about the House add campaign finance reform to the CR so Republicans and Democrats alike can stop being so scared about what a billionaire man-child thinks before they vote on anything around here.
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Jeff Bezos spews a bunch of double talk to cover for his terrible decision. "It was made internally" is a classic non-denial denial. A phrase that Washington Post reporters (or at least the actor playing them) made famous re Watergate:
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Male pundits: Could you *please* stop referring women as minority or marginalized voting block? We're 51% of population & decided election.
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I need a hype team to psyche me up to deep clean this apartment.
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It's true, my family might take Halloween a bit too seriously
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Account from Ohio man told to build stage only to find out it was for Romney to fire entire company from is brutal: http://t.co/2TaCdaeR.
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America may simply be too vast, to diverse in all kinds of ways to peaceably cohere. Not alarmist to say that maybe we need to start considering this.
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Do the men out there realize how their takes—even the solid ones—are hitting?.
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1/ Three things about Jill Stein. A) Green leaders in Europe called on her to drop out: B) Her 2016 "recount" scam and the missing millions. and. .
Trump: "I love the Green Party. Jill Stein. I've never met her but she may be one of my favorite politicians."
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Reminder: All this post-election analysis is mostly based on exit polls in 10 states. Really good data that answers the questions that are most burning will not come for *months*, when Pew and others release data that's far more elaborate.
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2/ Which is to say that good information is scarce, and bad information runs wild. The people who could most benefit from honest reporting about their communities, politicians, predacious corporations and oligarchs can't access it even if they try.
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Rick Steves giving his endorsement to Harris/Dems from France. and who knows what if any celeb endorsements make a difference but to college educated white seniors. he is an old and trusted guide.
I miss the Grand Old Party (GOP) and long for the day when we can return to healthy and principled partisan debates. (We idealistic hippies sometimes need to be reined in by practical conservatism.) But this election is different… and much deeper than D versus R and left versus
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Terri Garr was such a comic genius. Her roles in Tootsie and Mr Mom are just a perfect, hilarious, poignant portrayals of what it meant (and means) to be a woman operative within—and against—the patriarchy. Really sad to see this:
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.@JoeNeguse is also masterful. The gap in the lawyering is almost as vast as the gap in the underlying facts of the case.
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