Leta McCollough Seletzky, JD 🐳
@LaSeletzky
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@neaarts Fellow | Lapsed litigator | @theatlantic, @nytimes, etc. | THE KNEELING MAN author | @[email protected] | 🐳 @LaSeletzky | bsky @LaSeletzky
Bay Area/Memphis State of Mind
Joined September 2015
I keep thinking about how, during my author event at @NCRMuseum, I learned that I am the first Black woman to author a book about Dr. King’s assassination, as well as the first Black person to solely author such a book. In a way, I’m glad I didn’t know that before, because /1
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In retrospect, the (lack of) coverage of Trump’s ear thing is beginning to make sense.
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Amazing to me that a virus could claim more than 6.3 million lives worldwide in fewer than three years, and we still have people talking about it being overblown.
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Despite our best efforts, my kid has tested positive for covid, and if I say what I really think right now, I’m going to get banned.
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They’re gonna be like, “If your polio symptoms are resolving after 5 days, you can return to work”.
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BREAKING: CDC doubles five-second rule for dropped food.
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I actually think the way Biden is being treated makes him more relatable. Who hasn’t been picked on and picked apart by people you can’t please?.
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PERSPECTIVE | Kamala Harris insists on two-factor authentication. What is she hiding?.
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They’re gonna be like, “If your Ebola symptoms are resolving after five days, you can return to work”.
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So Inauguration Day 2025 is also MLK Day? 🫢. (Someone pointed this out on another platform)
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A woman doesn’t have to allow people to speak over her or shout her down. And she isn’t “threatening” by setting that boundary.
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Apologies for the delayed response to your email. I was coordinating my family’s individualized approach to the apocalypse.
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Apologies for the delayed response to your email. I was coordinating my family’s individualized approach to two pandemics.
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“No one is wearing masks”? Hello, it’s me—I’m “no one” and I wear masks 👀.
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My 14yo and I are sitting out on the deck doing our homework (writers always have homework, I tell him), but I make sure this video *just happens to be playing* when we get started. He overhears it and gets curious. “Is she crying?” he asks. 1/.
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We’re having a cancellation party, and everyone is invited.
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The whispers are growing louder: Are political pundits cognitively fit to do their job?.
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Imagine saying “polio is going to get each and every one of us,”or “measles is going to get each and every one of us,” or “Legionnaires disease is going to get each and every one of us” and realize how this sounds.
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I wish more people understood that saying “Everyone will get COVID” is, among other things, highly ableist. We should not be casting aside the lives and health of medically vulnerable people.
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Just picked up one one of my kids from school—runny nose and abdominal pain. Now he’s resting at home as I wait for rapid test results, arrange for PCR, and most important, do my best to isolate him from his 4yo brother who is too young to be vaccinated. But hey, back to normal.
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Let me just say this: I will never trust the CDC again. Never.
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If they’re treating Biden like this, what do you think they’ll do to a Black woman?. And ask me how I know….
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@jentaub Just thinking about how some of the press is apparently in the bag for Trump to an extent we’re only beginning to understand.
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But his vaxxed older brother went to in-person instruction, which seemed like the reasonable thing to do. Like all the students, he wears an N95, but they have to eat. He got sick. Let me stop before I start crying.
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I just want to live long enough so that when people look back on this time in history and try to soft-pedal it or make excuses, I can say, “No, those mfers knew exactly what they were doing”.
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The saddest store return I’ve ever had to make—light-up sneakers for my kindergartner, because they could reveal a hiding place if there were a school shooter
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The whole thing makes a little more sense if you’ve read SPARE 👀👀.
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PERSPECTIVE | We all probably got dysentery from swimming in an open sewer. Here’s why activities like this should still go on.
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Guess what my oldest kid’s class is doing today (minus my kid)?. THEY’RE ON A RAFTING TRIP.
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CDC recommends for the holidays! Stop living in fear!
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I was once naive enough to think we’d take COVID (all caps) more seriously once we knew more about all the damage it caused. But now a terrible reality has come into view. 1/2.
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In retrospect, not nearly enough fear was mongered.
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Feels like we’re living in Stephen King’s The Mist, but instead of sheltering in place, everybody’s flinging open the doors to the damn supermarket.
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This was the kid that I unenrolled in school (because they took away the remote option without telling anyone) and began homeschooling for the first time ever. Because he’s too young to get vaccinated and I didn’t want to take any chances….
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Correction: HE wears an N95; the others wear masks of various kinds.
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There are so many reasons why I’m not consenting to getting COVID multiple times a year, like wtf.
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“[H]ospitals cannot necessarily avoid liability by arguing that patients consent to unmasked care. Many patients cannot voluntarily consent to this…. Moreover… courts have generally rejected the argument that patients can consent to medical malpractice.”
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“FIFTEEN staff members in the Miami-Dade County Public Schools District have died from COVID-19 in the past TEN days.”. [emphasis mine because I am yelling].
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BREAKING | CDC Announces One-Day Isolation Period for Bubonic Plague.
Oregon officials report bubonic plague in local resident
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I’m suppressing a rant that I feel in my spirit, but let me just say this: It’s wrong for adults to pressure kids into partaking in activities that open them up to COVID infection.
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"’I got called a nigger 15 times today,’ the veteran officer shouted in the rotunda to no one in particular. ‘I cried for about 15 minutes and I just let it out.’”.
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This is my maternal grandfather, Nelson. From the 1940 census:. Occupation: Farmer. House Owned or Rented: Rented. Highest Grade Completed: Elementary school, 4th grade. Class of Worker: Working on own account. Weeks Worked in 1939: 52. Income: 0
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And I’ll tell you something else: I don’t want to hear one more word about that damn debate.
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This is a good time to locate your birth certificates, Social Security cards, passports, and other important documents, making sure all is in order and resolving any potential issues 💯.
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I know I talk about this a lot, but when your mask goes with your outfit 👌🏽✨
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Part of the violence of the COVID pandemic is that we’re experiencing more deaths per week than there were during Hurricane Katrina, but the official word seems to be to “get back to normal” and “do you.”. Not even a pause to acknowledge the gravity of this, or to mourn.
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The WAY some folks will go out of their way to belittle Black women….
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Four weeks ago, when my 5yo started school, he was the only person I saw there—child or adult—wearing a mask. Yesterday, I spotted a girl his age bounding through the gate wearing one. Today, I saw another. My theory: People are more comfortable when they aren’t the only one.
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This push against Biden feels a bit like the US version of Brexit, because what kind of sense does it make 😬.
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I JUST THINK IT’S FUNNY HOW some politicians are subjected to an *unbelievable* level of scrutiny while others can be felons, desecrate a national cemetery, foment violence, etc. with little more than a passing mention 😐.
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The people staying Biden should step aside…. should step aside.
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I wear a mask in public because I don’t like being sick or making other people sick, and also masks are smexy
I wear a mask in public because Covid is NOT mild, it’s a dangerous level 3 pathogen, and we are still in an active pandemic. I want masking in public spaces, especially hospitals, so if you agree, show me your mask in comments, copy this and let’s see who’s out there. #MaskUpC19
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Here’s how I conceptualize my approach to Covid: I avoid it, as I do. •Smoking.•Lead paint.•Radon.•Asbestos.•PCBs.•Bad sunburns.•Salmonella.•Puffer fish toxin.•Rattlesnake bites.
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CDC says they just saved 100% on stress by switching to not giving af.
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If you can see a presidential candidate talk about creating a “unified Reich” and still want to play games with your ballot, I don’t know what else to tell you.
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I’ll say it again: You’ve got to be as careful navigating healthcare as you are navigating prosecutors and police.
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(I trust y’all realize this is sarcasm 👀).
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@TheRickWilson There should be a Venn diagram of “bought the ticket, take the ride,” “fuck around and find out,” and ETTD.
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We’re at the point in this society where fire alarms will be labeled alarmist.
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My 6yo said a big kid at school asked him why he was wearing a mask yesterday. Me: What did you say?. 6yo: To look cool. 😅.
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It always cracks me up when I search the house for the dog and find him like this
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This is one of the worst classroom discussions I’ve ever seen, and if my kid were present, I would be very angry.
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We’re led not to increase our efforts but to decrease our expectations. And along with that, our health, our quality of life, even our life expectancy.
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And THERE it is.
Lauren Witzke, the Delaware GOP's candidate for Senate in 2020, has nothing but praise for Putin and "his Christian nationalist nation": "I identify more with Putin's Christian values than I do with Joe Biden."
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Hey remember that little story from a few months ago about how Border Patrol was training for urban warfare?.
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The fact that “hopescrolling” is a term that people are using now—the Kamala Effect is real.
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I feel like I’m living in this era, but for COVID instead of smoking
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A whole lot of people say “listen to Black women”—until it’s time to listen to Black women 😐.
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Heard some good advice years ago that might help somebody tonight:. When you don’t know what to do, do what you know. I am folding laundry and getting things ready for tomorrow. One foot in front of the other. One day at a time.
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To see him cuffed and remanded into custody was a necessary moment of catharsis.
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Aggressive masking intensifies; stoggles engaged. Condescending glare in progress
@amandalhu I’m annoyed by it, but not much. As long as you don’t wear it aggressively or accompany it with dirty and condescending glares I let it go.
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I tell everyone that @DrEricDing is one of the main reasons our family has been able protect itself during the pandemic.
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If y’all don’t think they’d end constitutional protection for interracial marriage, I’ve got a submersible to sell you. The playbook has been made public.
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When they go low, we go submersible.
JUST NOW: Marjorie Taylor Greene made a derogatory comment about Rep. Jasmine Crockett and "false eyelashes" during a House committee hearing. Personal attacks against other members isn't allowed, so AOC requested a motion and asked for an apology which was blocked. Rep.
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Masks aren’t making a comeback with me because they never went anywhere. (I also think they make any outfit look a little smarter 👀😅)
A familiar pandemic-era safety measure is making a comeback as new COVID-19 variants surface and cases of the disease flare in some parts of the U.S.: Mask mandates.
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“Yes,” I say. “Is she ok?”. I inhale sharply. “She’s persevering.”.
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@heyyitsjanea The only part I’m not sure about is dipping your whole toothbrush head in the jar lol.
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Another amazing prediction.
It's probably foolish to think a NYC mayor will successfully translate into being a national political figure, but I still think Eric Adams would be in my top 5 for "who will be the next Democratic presidential nominee after Joe Biden?".
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Hey let’s play a game called “Guess the Race”
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By the way, mispronouncing VP Kamala Harris’s name is definitely a choice—we see you.
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I’d feel a lot better if communications about Covid weren’t geared toward “comforting” me but just gave me the facts.
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Newsflash: Many, many Black folks are descended from enslavers in the USA, and if you understand history, you know why 😐.
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One of the best decisions I ever made was to divest from the opinions of people who aren’t invested in my well-being.
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Who’s going first for natural immunity to Marburg?.
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I teach people how to mind their business
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