Ashton Pittman

@ashtonpittman

Jackson Free Press State Reporter. Photojournalist. Receipt-Keeper. Founder . Bylines include Guardian & New York Times. Retweets ≠ endorsements.

Hattiesburg, MS
Joined June 2009

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  1. Pinned Tweet
    28 Dec 2018

    With GOP control of congress ending in days, Mississippi Rep. (D) can check Trump’s border policies—including those affecting refugee children & families seeking asylum—when he becomes chair of the committee with DHS oversight powers.

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  2. 48 minutes ago

    When Hillary Clinton was running in 2016, pundits lamented that Dems had not chosen a more likable woman for the historic moment—a woman like, say, Elizabeth Warren. Now she's running, and Warren, too, is getting pegged by some in the media as "unlikable."

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  3. 1 hour ago

    “It isn’t sexist to call Elizabeth Warren a bossy, know-it-all, schoolmarm who needs to deepen her voice & soften her hair, because I, too, have this opinion of her & can confirm its accuracy,” dude in my inbox says. “Also that describes Hillary too.” Guess he really told me.

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  4. Retweeted
    2 hours ago

    Proud of our state reporter . His deep understanding of the treatment of women is so refreshing.

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  5. Retweeted

    Important to call this out whether it comes from Trump, a Democrat, or anyone else: I enjoy when politicians use profanity. It improves our political discourse by stripping it of its pretense and makes them more relatable to everyday Americans.

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    “I’m gonna get me a beer” is typical of the speech of those who grew up where Elizabeth Warren did. So why has she been so mocked for saying it? writes:

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  7. 2 hours ago

    Fact Check: On Wednesday, House Dems + a few Repubs passed a bill to reopen the gov’t that’s the same as the funding bill all Senate Ds & Rs unanimously passed in December. In turn, President Trump said he‘d keep the gov’t shut down for years if they don’t give him a wall.

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  8. Retweeted

    Warren asked how she will win red states: “I come from a pretty red state. Oklahoma. Born and raised.”

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  9. Retweeted
    2 hours ago

    It is possible but not really relevant. Respectability politics is a method of denying better treatment to marginalized and oppressed populations. While people believe people who hold high office should show more decorum, what’s more important than language used is the /1

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  10. 2 hours ago

    “Payne’s screed could be mistaken for a satire of misogynistic garbage...What he was really criticizing was Elizabeth Warren’s tone—a metric for measuring likability that women are uniquely subjected to.” I back this assertion up with research.👇🏻

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  11. 2 hours ago

    When she was first a US Senate candidate, a male Dem analyst criticized Elizabeth Warren for “her hectoring, know-it-all style,” said her “finger wagging” adds to a “strict schoolmarm appearance & bossy manner,” & said to “lose the granny glasses,” & “deepen” her “grating” voice.

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  12. 2 hours ago

    In 2016 when she wasn’t running & posed no threat, Elizabeth Warren was often described as a warmer, “likable” alternative to Hillary Clinton. Now that she’s actually running, Politico and others describe as “cold” or “unlikable.” Our views change when women seek power.

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  13. 2 hours ago

    Carl Cannon wrote in 2016 that Elizabeth Warren would be more likable than Clinton, pointing to a FB anecdote about how she‘d bake her mother a “heart shaped cake” as a child. He contrasted it with Clinton’s sarcastic “I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies.”

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  14. 2 hours ago

    In a study, participants who saw women seeking power felt “moral outrage” (contempt, anger, disgust) and saw them as ”less supportive or caring.” When they saw men seeking power, though, they viewed them as “strong,” “assertive,” “competent” leaders.

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  15. 3 hours ago

    Excellent thread on how tariffs actually work. When Trump body’s that the US is “bringing in many billions” from tariffs on Chinese goods, it isn’t China that’s paying those billions in taxes; it’s US importers.

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  16. Retweeted
    Jan 3

    The IMPORTER pays the tariff, not the foreign supplier. US tariffs don't tax Chinese steel companies in China. We're taxing AMERICAN companies who USE Chinese steel in AMERICA. That is what a tariff is. 11/

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  17. Retweeted
    Jan 3

    "Where did he get that from?": reviews moments when President Trump appeared to parrot reports on international affairs.

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  18. Retweeted
    Jan 4

    A vital book, btw, to understand roots and heritage of racist schools. We must understand, interrogate seg academies’ role in a divided US.

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  19. Retweeted
    8 hours ago

    The meeting apparently got so heated Trump yelled expletives & later apologized to Nancy. Trump reportedly said "f*ck" during the meeting at least 3 times & sought to reframe the shutdown, which is affecting 800K federal employees, as a worker "strike."

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  20. Retweeted
    3 hours ago

    I’m that spouse that wants to shout from the rooftops every time my significant other is in any form of spotlight. In that vein, here’s a piece my husband, , wrote for NBC. 🤗🤗

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  21. 3 hours ago

    First time I’ve been published in ⁦⁩! My thoughts on ⁦⁩‘s transformation from the “likable” alternative to Hillary Clinton in 2016 to now also being “unlikable” now that she’s the one running (With research, so dig in):

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