Raina Lipsitz

@RainaLips

Writer, feminist, fried food enthusiast

Brooklyn
Joined July 2011
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  1. Retweeted
    Oct 13

    Someday I will tell you the story about how I spent the year after my baby died-- how much lonelier, more devastating, more exhausting, more financially ruinous it was made by the 'pro-life' laws of Indiana and the fecklessness of my private insurance. The idea that Amy Barrett's

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  2. Jul 29

    Hey, I’m writing a book on the new American left! Very grateful to everyone who helped make this happen!

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  3. Jul 12

    Thirty people have died in Erie County (NY) jails. NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo should remove Erie County Sheriff Tim Howard from office.

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  4. Jun 22

    Here’s a congressional race worth watching in Western New York. I wrote about it for The Nation six months ago. Nate McMurray is running on single payer health care in one of the reddest districts in New York State:

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  5. Jun 20

    Me, opening my Notes app to jot down an idea: aha! I am a GENIUS!! Me, reading that note 3 hours later: Oh, no—I am a moron! 😞

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  6. Jun 11

    I wrote about how the U.S. once had universal child care (and could again) !

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  7. May 20

    Loved writing about these DSA candidates for Congress and statewide office --a great antidote to despair is getting involved with candidates and campaigns who are trying to meet people's needs.

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  8. Apr 24

    Me, a person who works from home, writing on what the pandemic is teaching us about working from home (hint: it’s going well for management):

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  9. Apr 21

    I wrote a short & sweet personal essay about waxing and I have never felt more independent, Jewish, or frankly feminist!

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  10. Apr 16

    The global pandemic shows that cities can afford to make public transport free of charge | The Conversationalist

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  11. Apr 10

    My thoughts on life in an epicenter --thanks to my fellow Buffalo expats who were so generous with their time and to for the incredible photo!

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  12. Mar 24

    2009 reactionary lunatics: “We can’t pass Obamacare because government-run death panels will murder old people and babies with Down syndrome.” 2020 reactionary lunatics: “We have to murder old people, anyone who can’t work from home, and poor children to save the stock market.”

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  13. Jan 31

    Excited to have written about organizers fighting back against racist GOP voter suppression tactics !

    Grassroots movements are organizing to challenge and circumvent the Republican Party's voter suppression tactics. This is activism. This is hope.
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  14. Jan 17

    Incarcerated people continue to die on Erie County Sheriff Timothy Howard’s watch:

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  15. Jan 16

    Thanks to for publishing this follow-up story on Erie County Sheriff Tim Howard, who still oversees Erie County jails despite a shocking number of inmate deaths, beatings, and lawsuits:

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  16. Jan 16

    Important story on the dire conditions in Erie County jails, which are still being overseen by Erie County Sheriff Tim Howard, despite multiple deaths and lawsuits:

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  17. 4 Dec 2019

    Why Democrats have a shot in the special election in NY’s deep-red District 27 (hint: health care’s still a top concern): Nate McMurray Wants To Un-Trump Upstate New York via

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  18. 25 Sep 2019

    Here's an article I wrote on Rep. Carolyn Maloney of NY District 12 & the four (!!!) primary challenges she's facing from the left. Definitely a race to watch!

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  19. Retweeted
    9 Aug 2019

    should be alive today. I’m thankful to for taking a public stand on this issue that’s an important one in black & brown communities. and his team have been doing this work for years; I met on the ground during the uprising.

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    Michael Brown should be alive today. Five years after his death, we must finally end police violence against people of color.
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  20. 13 Aug 2019

    Great talking to for this profile: "It’s our responsibility as a nation to make sure that we are meeting the needs of every woman, man and child in this country. And if we’re not doing that, then we are running an unjust nation.”

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