“Consider every moment, since the dawn of woman, when a female aspired but to no avail. She asked to attend school but was denied. She raised her hand but wasn’t called on. She applied but wasn’t hired. She enlisted but wasn’t deployed. She created but wasn’t credited. She ran but wasn’t elected.

Imagine the sadness and frustration of every such instance as a spark, their combined energy the size of many suns. That is the measure of grief and fury I felt rise inside me as I watched Elizabeth Warren’s bid for the Democratic nomination wane.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/06/opinion/elizabeth-warren-women-president.html

“If Warren was a man, this would be over by now,” is a statement so painfully true that it became a cliché the moment it was first uttered. And yet it somehow failed to capture the scope of the unfairness that greeted Warren on the campaign trail — the way she was held to impossibly high standards, met them, and still saw male competitors who met much lower standards keep scaling past her in the polls. 

[…]

Americans apparently couldn’t see that she is a once-in-a-generation talent and reward her for it with the presidency. That is a shameful blight on us. She wrecked Bloomberg in the debate and, in the process, may well have spared us from seeing a presidential election purchased by a billionaire. We responded as we so often do for women who go above the call of duty: We thanked her for her service and promoted less qualified men above her. 

This feels personal to women, and it should. The same forces that pushed Warren out of the race — such as asking her to do the work of figuring out how to finance Bernie Sanders’ Medicare for All plan, and then criticizing her for it while he skated by on generalities — offer a microcosm of how we treat women generally, and the reasons why women work so hard both at home and on the job yet make less money.”

https://www.salon.com/2020/03/06/lets-face-it-america-we-didnt-deserve-elizabeth-warren-though-she-tried-to-help-us-anyway/

Speak, brother, speak!

“Only a white man can keep a job for three decades with absolutely no results and then expect a promotion. Only a white man would blame black people’s stupidity when his supposedly “diverse coalition of new voters” didn’t bother to show up to vote.

Maybe those “moderates” actually want a revolutionary. More than anyone, they know that revolutionaries get shit done. That’s because old black voters have actually been revolutionaries. They actually lived through revolutions. Simply surviving to become an old black person in the South is a revolutionary act in itself.”

Read the whole thing.

https://www.theroot.com/an-open-letter-to-white-liberals-blaming-low-informatio-1842100419

We’re fucked and getting fucked-er:

“The disappearance of Arctic ice; the collapse of insect populations and mass extinctions of land and sea fauna in general; the warming and acidification of the oceans and the disruption of fragile ecological chains worldwide; the dramatic spike in extreme weather events displacing and affecting millions of often the most vulnerable communities around the world. The capitalist climate catastrophe is very much already here, yet what the world has seen so far is but a meagre tip of the iceberg compared to what is soon to come. We have at most a decade left to comprehensively put in alternative energy systems and cut emissions in such a way so as to stave off the worst case projections for the century—projections that paint a picture of such compelling doom that they might be straight out of a science fiction novel.”

https://www.pajiba.com/politics/thanks-to-climate-change-the-amazon-rainforest-could-soon-turn-into-a-source-of-co2.php

It will be hard to get over what happened to Elizabeth Warren.

“It’s enough to make me feel, well, despairing: that we had the candidate of a lifetime — someone with the energy, vision, and follow-through to lead the country out of our nightmarish era — and that the media and voters basically outright erased and ignored her.”

https://gen.medium.com/it-will-be-hard-to-get-over-what-happened-to-elizabeth-warren-4b2e11b71a4b