Danielle Muscato (she/her)

Danielle Muscato (she/her) @DanielleMuscato

@neutronsoup @Beesafree Check out the book The End of Policing by Alex Vitale https://t.co/Med5zfUUgt — PolitiTweet.org

Danielle Muscato (she/her) @DanielleMuscato

@neutronsoup @Beesafree When people's needs are met, when people have fulfilling work that pays well available to them, when people have access to healthcare and education, study after study shows they don't do criminal things like that. People turn to crime when they have no other choice. — PolitiTweet.org

Danielle Muscato (she/her) @DanielleMuscato

@neutronsoup @Beesafree In other words, the same things rich people already have & provide for their kids. The communities that are the safest are NOT those with the most police. Police never "patrol" (harass) rich neighborhoods. The communities that are the safest are those with the most *resources.* — PolitiTweet.org

Danielle Muscato (she/her) @DanielleMuscato

@neutronsoup @Beesafree @neutronsoup is correct—#DefundThePolice means instead of riot gear, chemical weapons, prisons, and just WAY too many cops, we free up public funding for programs like social workers, therapists, after-school tutoring, sports, tuition free trade schools & higher ed, etc. 1/2 — PolitiTweet.org

Danielle Muscato (she/her) @DanielleMuscato

RT @AOC: Imagine being a public official and having a *standing weekly check-in call* with ANY corporate lobbyist, let alone Exxon. — PolitiTweet.org

Danielle Muscato (she/her) @DanielleMuscato

RT @sleepisocialist: NYC sending a text to residents to turn down the AC while leaving Times Square lit up is a great example of how the “i… — PolitiTweet.org

Danielle Muscato (she/her) @DanielleMuscato

Follow @CoriBush - she gets it — PolitiTweet.org

Danielle Muscato (she/her) @DanielleMuscato

@ohnoitskelley I appreciate the hell out of you Kelley!!! You're one of my heroes I hope you know that — PolitiTweet.org

Danielle Muscato (she/her) @DanielleMuscato

RT @TimAPeacock: This is why folks say #ACAB and #DefundThePolice. This is outrageous treatment at every step of the process. It's not a "… — PolitiTweet.org

Danielle Muscato (she/her) @DanielleMuscato

Thank you so much for sharing everyone. I appreciate your support. — PolitiTweet.org

Danielle Muscato (she/her) @DanielleMuscato

Here is the direct link to the GoFundMe: https://t.co/c1lO4k98TJ — PolitiTweet.org

Danielle Muscato (she/her) @DanielleMuscato

I hope you're having a great #PrideMonth ✊ Please, if you can, help support an abused trans woman facing a possible 15-year sentence in a men's prison in rural Tennessee on trumped up charges (me) by pledging to my Patreon https://t.co/7uz1EUez7g & cashapp/Venmo daniellemuscato — PolitiTweet.org

Danielle Muscato (she/her) @DanielleMuscato

omg my friend kissed me softly on the lips 3 times in a row and I literally just now realized they were trying to tell me something Fuuuck that was like 1.5 years ago — PolitiTweet.org

Danielle Muscato (she/her) @DanielleMuscato

@gtorges stop watching Fox news. If you got your history from historians instead of colonialist evangelical school board local parents who push revisionist white supremacist versions of how our government works, you wouldn't be saying such nonsense. The USA is—infamously—an oligarchy. — PolitiTweet.org

Danielle Muscato (she/her) @DanielleMuscato

@gtorges America isn't a democracy. It's a constitutional republic and an oligarchy. You're getting your information from propaganda sources. The 1% write the laws through lobbyists and the politicians they own. Is this really news to you? — PolitiTweet.org

Danielle Muscato (she/her) @DanielleMuscato

@gtorges America isn't a democracy. It's a constitutional republic. — PolitiTweet.org

Danielle Muscato (she/her) @DanielleMuscato

@stevendkrause you're a cis, straight, white, well-to-do boomer, of course you think so. Police don't harass and brutalize you. — PolitiTweet.org

Danielle Muscato (she/her) @DanielleMuscato

@gtorges General public has zero say & WOW is that an ignorant, privileged take. Rich cis straight white elderly men write the laws, & they write them to benefit themselves & their own bank accounts. They don't hide it. The purpose of police is social control & protection of property. — PolitiTweet.org

Danielle Muscato (she/her) @DanielleMuscato

@gtorges General public has zero say in it and WOW is that an ignorant, privileged take. Rich cis straight white elderly men write the laws, and they write them to benefit themselves at their bank accounts. They don't even pretend to hide it. — PolitiTweet.org

Danielle Muscato (she/her) @DanielleMuscato

@elbandito2016 @JonBej22 @13THFilm @ava My pleasure. It's important information that I wish everyone considering a career in LE would educate themselves about first (there would be a LOT fewer applicants). Even Derek Chauvin doesn't think he's one of the "bad ones." NO cop does. That's the point. If not him, then who? — PolitiTweet.org

Danielle Muscato (she/her) @DanielleMuscato

@elbandito2016 @JonBej22 @13THFilm @ava For what it's worth: I have successfully persuaded multiple cops to quit their jobs. One is now a girl's basketball coach. One is a municipal civil rights liaison, etc etc. There are a lot of ways to help people that don't include abducting marginalized people at gunpoint. — PolitiTweet.org

Danielle Muscato (she/her) @DanielleMuscato

@elbandito2016 @JonBej22 Happily. https://t.co/0GEvSJNVFj I also recommend The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander (actually maybe start with that one) & the EXCELLENT documentary @13THFilm from @ava DuVernay — PolitiTweet.org

Danielle Muscato (she/her) @DanielleMuscato

@elbandito2016 @JonBej22 If you actively, for pay, willingly, voluntarily participate in a system you openly admit is racist & harmful to queer people, when there are a million alternatives? You need compassion, that's why I'm responding w/book recommendations. What you choose to do for a living is evil — PolitiTweet.org

Danielle Muscato (she/her) @DanielleMuscato

@elbandito2016 @JonBej22 If you actively, for pay, willingly, voluntarily participate in a system you openly admit is racist and harmful to queer people, when there are a million alternatives? You need compassion, that's why I'm responding with book recommendations. What you do for a living is evil. — PolitiTweet.org

Danielle Muscato (she/her) @DanielleMuscato

@elbandito2016 @JonBej22 Therapy. Compassion. Rehabilitation. Hospitalization if needed. "When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself, & his suffering is spilling over. He does not need punishment; he needs help. That's the message he is sending" as I said before — PolitiTweet.org

Danielle Muscato (she/her) @DanielleMuscato

@elbandito2016 @JonBej22 Therapy. Compassion. Hospitalization is needed. "When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself, and his suffering is spilling over. He does not need punishment; he needs help. That's the message he is sending" as I said before. — PolitiTweet.org

Danielle Muscato (she/her) @DanielleMuscato

@elbandito2016 @JonBej22 That's a loaded question. Chauvin's sentence is not accountability, see my tweets from the other day. Accountability means dismantling the systems causing this to happen over & over. Chauvin is being punished, not held accountable. They're not synonyms. https://t.co/LSRw24zGys — PolitiTweet.org

Danielle Muscato (she/her) @DanielleMuscato

@elbandito2016 @JonBej22 I really recommend you read the books I recommended above. If you're a working cop and want to think of yourself as "enlightened" and a good person, you owe it to yourself to understand why activists are coming for your job & funding. Policing is *systemically* harmful. — PolitiTweet.org

Danielle Muscato (she/her) @DanielleMuscato

@elbandito2016 @JonBej22 "he got what he deserved" - that's sadistic and spiteful, by definition. And you think you're one of the "good ones"!! This is why we say ACAB. Spite! All cops think they're "one of the good ones." It's delusional, dangerous, and self-serving. — PolitiTweet.org

Danielle Muscato (she/her) @DanielleMuscato

@elbandito2016 @JonBej22 Therapy. Compassion. Hospitalization if needed. Rehabilitation. "When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself, & his suffering is spilling over. He does not need punishment; he needs help. That's the message he is sending."–Thich Nhat Hanh — PolitiTweet.org