Mallorie Evans
@malbeckford.bsky.social
Doctoral student, educator, union activist
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People need to realize the filibuster wasn’t meant to have a practical effect but to be a symbol and a rally point. Beating Thurmond’s record isn’t a hollow victory at all.
People keep saying Senator Booker's filibuster was meaningless and people who were moved by it are naive and gullible but I lived and organized in a south where this record stood and slavery and Jim Crow cast a long shadow and I tell you Booker taking that record means something.
In his 1957 filibuster, Strom Thurmond said "Negroes ... are not so well qualified to vote as are the white people.”
A Black senator just broke the record Thurmond set with that speech.
talkingpointsmemo.com/news/cory-bo...
A Black senator just broke the record Thurmond set with that speech.
talkingpointsmemo.com/news/cory-bo...
April 2, 2025 at 3:05 AM
People need to realize the filibuster wasn’t meant to have a practical effect but to be a symbol and a rally point. Beating Thurmond’s record isn’t a hollow victory at all.
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Thank you Senator Cory Booker. This guy truly cares about the people he represents.
"I don't want a Disney vacation of our history! I don't a whitewashed history, I don't want a homogenized history. Tell me the wretched truth about America, because that speaks to our greatness" -- 20 hours into his speech, Cory Booker is spitting absolute 🔥
April 1, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Thank you Senator Cory Booker. This guy truly cares about the people he represents.
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Look, I know it's probably annoying to keep linking to my own shit, but the TLDR is, for this to work, we so need the performative. It can't be the only thing, but it has to be part of it. buttondown.com/signs+wonder...
Lessons from the Serbian Resistance
The beginner's guide to 21st-century revolution
buttondown.com
April 2, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Look, I know it's probably annoying to keep linking to my own shit, but the TLDR is, for this to work, we so need the performative. It can't be the only thing, but it has to be part of it. buttondown.com/signs+wonder...
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The second (and last) free sample... I mean "excerpt" of my book is live on the excellent Contraband Camp.
What, you thought I wrote a whole book about Bad Laws and didn't go down to Florida?
www.contrabandcamp.com/p/book-excer...
What, you thought I wrote a whole book about Bad Laws and didn't go down to Florida?
www.contrabandcamp.com/p/book-excer...
Book Excerpt: Why Do We Give White Guys a License to Kill Black People?
In his new book, “Bad Law: Ten Popular Laws That Are Ruining America,” Elie Mystal explains how the distortion of the Castle Doctrine led to Florida's deadly "stand your ground" law.
www.contrabandcamp.com
March 28, 2025 at 6:18 PM
The second (and last) free sample... I mean "excerpt" of my book is live on the excellent Contraband Camp.
What, you thought I wrote a whole book about Bad Laws and didn't go down to Florida?
www.contrabandcamp.com/p/book-excer...
What, you thought I wrote a whole book about Bad Laws and didn't go down to Florida?
www.contrabandcamp.com/p/book-excer...
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“Attempts to legislate the erasure of a nation’s past are characteristics of fascist regimes…leaders appeal to history to replace the actual historical record with a glorious mythic replacement that…can serve their political ends and their ultimate goal of replacing facts with power.” —Jason Stanley
March 28, 2025 at 7:45 PM
“Attempts to legislate the erasure of a nation’s past are characteristics of fascist regimes…leaders appeal to history to replace the actual historical record with a glorious mythic replacement that…can serve their political ends and their ultimate goal of replacing facts with power.” —Jason Stanley
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Okay but these reporters at NBC actually did a good job explaining exactly this fact in the subhead and throughout the article.
February 4, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Okay but these reporters at NBC actually did a good job explaining exactly this fact in the subhead and throughout the article.
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We need to talk about performative inclusion in special education.
January 15, 2025 at 5:42 PM
We need to talk about performative inclusion in special education.
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I'm gonna start using the term Austerity Ableist--a person who says they're against services because they're being "fiscally responsible," but actually that's just a neat little hat for their bigotry.
January 17, 2025 at 1:51 AM
I'm gonna start using the term Austerity Ableist--a person who says they're against services because they're being "fiscally responsible," but actually that's just a neat little hat for their bigotry.
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If you want historical context on how this happens. I've got a primer teed up for you here
#DefendtheADA
buttondown.com/signs+wonder...
#DefendtheADA
buttondown.com/signs+wonder...
Disability rights are your (yes, you!) rights
Pandemics, eugenics, and why you (yes, you!) should care, ForRealThisTimev.2finalfinal
buttondown.com
January 12, 2025 at 8:21 PM
If you want historical context on how this happens. I've got a primer teed up for you here
#DefendtheADA
buttondown.com/signs+wonder...
#DefendtheADA
buttondown.com/signs+wonder...
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Yet still no repair for the living victims or the descendants. True, there are no living individuals who participated, but this was systemic, state-sponsored violence and the state remains. What is the purpose an investigation that tells us what we already know but doesn’t attempt to fix the harm?
More than 100 years after its initial review that blamed Black men, the Dept. of Justice just released its report on the 1921 Tulsa race massacre
The report says the attack “was so systematic and coordinated that it transcended mere mob violence”
The report says the attack “was so systematic and coordinated that it transcended mere mob violence”
DoJ releases its Tulsa race massacre report over 100 years after initial review
DoJ report acknowledges attack ‘was so systematic and coordinated that it transcended mere mob violence’
www.theguardian.com
January 11, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Yet still no repair for the living victims or the descendants. True, there are no living individuals who participated, but this was systemic, state-sponsored violence and the state remains. What is the purpose an investigation that tells us what we already know but doesn’t attempt to fix the harm?
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I wrote and have been adjuncting a deaf studies course for about six years, and recently the uni where I teach (taught?) slashed their humanities budget by 15%. My colleagues and I discussed cutting my class out for the spring to allow for more ASL courses to run. 🧵
January 11, 2025 at 11:59 PM
I wrote and have been adjuncting a deaf studies course for about six years, and recently the uni where I teach (taught?) slashed their humanities budget by 15%. My colleagues and I discussed cutting my class out for the spring to allow for more ASL courses to run. 🧵
Critical thread…
"Posting a snippet of a newsletter I wrote a while back. The larger piece was about gene therapy eugenics against deaf folks. But given *waves hands* the state of things, maybe there's some solace for others in it, too:
December 23, 2024 at 6:24 PM
Critical thread…
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Look, I personally am against (gun) violence of any and all kinds, but to pretend that killing for political purpose is, "not how we do things here" is cuckoo bananas. Killing for political reasons is pretty much this country's defining characteristic.
December 11, 2024 at 6:16 PM
Look, I personally am against (gun) violence of any and all kinds, but to pretend that killing for political purpose is, "not how we do things here" is cuckoo bananas. Killing for political reasons is pretty much this country's defining characteristic.
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Template for writing your reps, how to find your reps, bill explainer in ASL, Senator press release, and full text of bull available here. open.substack.com/pub/novicnew...
November 25, 2024 at 9:41 PM
Template for writing your reps, how to find your reps, bill explainer in ASL, Senator press release, and full text of bull available here. open.substack.com/pub/novicnew...
Hey, just got here! Let’s go! #AddBlackSky
November 25, 2024 at 1:03 AM
Hey, just got here! Let’s go! #AddBlackSky