Danielle Muscato (she/her)

Danielle Muscato (she/her) @DanielleMuscato

@CZEdwards @KEBrightbill I don't have hard data for this handy, but my guess is that wage theft happens much more on the level of restaurant managers, farm workers, etc vs office buildings where workers are on salary. The corporate officers of restaurant companies are in on it too, though. — PolitiTweet.org

Danielle Muscato (she/her) @DanielleMuscato

My dear friends, I know you're waiting patiently for an update from me about my BS arrest. I want you to know I'm working on it—I'm traumatized & in overwhelming physical pain. I'm making a video for you. I wrote out what I want to say, I just need to edit & record it. Very soon! — PolitiTweet.org

Danielle Muscato (she/her) @DanielleMuscato

@odetteroulette @KeeangaYamahtta No one is suggesting he be allowed to simply walk free after murdering someone. Transformative justice doesn't mean you just let murderers off the hook. It means you rehabilitate them, with therapy and compassion, in a hospital/institution, until they can be trusted to be free. — PolitiTweet.org

Danielle Muscato (she/her) @DanielleMuscato

RT @KeeangaYamahtta: Unpopular post...Only in America could anyone think that a prison sentence for more than twenty years is not harsh eno… — PolitiTweet.org

Danielle Muscato (she/her) @DanielleMuscato

@Cranberry43 @KeeangaYamahtta @chris_g_pino Carceral punishment is spiteful and inhumane. We should attempt to rehabilitate him with intensive therapy and compassion. He cannot be trusted to be free in public, obviously, but that means hospitalization/institutionalization, not a cage. Transformative justice ≠ retribution. — PolitiTweet.org

Danielle Muscato (she/her) @DanielleMuscato

evil is a relay sport when the one who's burned turns to pass the torch - fiona apple — PolitiTweet.org

Danielle Muscato (she/her) @DanielleMuscato

@hopeful10_6 Another option is simply to #AbolishThePolice 😘 — PolitiTweet.org

Danielle Muscato (she/her) @DanielleMuscato

He was prosecuted & convicted. That's the first step. Accountability is not a synonym for punishment. Accountability means dismantling the system that caused #GeorgeFloyd to die before his time, so it can't happen again. Torturing a single murderous cop doesn't accomplish that. — PolitiTweet.org

Danielle Muscato (she/her) @DanielleMuscato

NO ONE deserves to be locked in a cage. It is traumatizing. It ruins your mental health. It's wrong ethically. We must remember who we are & why we care. People deserve to be treated humanely. Even murderers. I don't know if therapy can help him. But we have a moral duty to try. — PolitiTweet.org

Danielle Muscato (she/her) @DanielleMuscato

We must never, ever forget our humanity. That is exactly why we are so angry at #DerekChauvin's actions & the other cops who didn't stop him. We are angry at the disparity in sentences between white convicts & BIPOC, queer people & cis/straight people—THAT is what we should fix. — PolitiTweet.org

Danielle Muscato (she/her) @DanielleMuscato

I don't know if #DerekChauvin can ever be rehabilitated. I'm highly doubtful he will ever become peaceful & kind, no matter how much compassion and therapy and healing we offer him. Career cops are basically sadistic by definition. But in that case, he should be hospitalized. — PolitiTweet.org

Danielle Muscato (she/her) @DanielleMuscato

*it makes the capitalist government contractors and their investors ABSURDLY rich. The whole setup is designed from the ground up for the purpose of funneling taxpayer money to the 1% under the guise of "public safety." — PolitiTweet.org

Danielle Muscato (she/her) @DanielleMuscato

22 years is 22 years too long for anyone to be locked in a cage. Prison does not help anyone* — it doesn't bring #GeorgeFloyd back to life, it won't make #DerekChauvin a better person, it won't stop police killings. It is sadistic, inhumane, punitive, & spiteful. #AbolishPrisons — PolitiTweet.org

Danielle Muscato (she/her) @DanielleMuscato

@WaynesWhirled It's public record: https://t.co/6Jx6jQivDQ — PolitiTweet.org

Danielle Muscato (she/her) @DanielleMuscato

I'm buying some thank-you cards to send to people who donated, and I just started crying in the middle of the store. You all really have no idea what you did for me 💘 — PolitiTweet.org

Danielle Muscato (she/her) @DanielleMuscato

RT @bexklaver: Just found out that my poem "Walking After Midnight or 9 P.M." was reprinted in the 25th anniversary issue of Notre Dame Rev… — PolitiTweet.org

Danielle Muscato (she/her) @DanielleMuscato

👇👇👇 Read the whole thread — PolitiTweet.org

Danielle Muscato (she/her) @DanielleMuscato

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Danielle Muscato (she/her) @DanielleMuscato

@hulder_dewicht I didn't, and I'm not even being charged for that. You literally made that up. Not even the cops are claiming that. Please stop lying about me, I am traumatized enough. — PolitiTweet.org

Danielle Muscato (she/her) @DanielleMuscato

@NerdocratLife Thank you Dan. It's just a waking nightmare. It's going to take years to fight this, and years to recover psychologically and physically. What a mess. I appreciate your support 💕 — PolitiTweet.org

Danielle Muscato (she/her) @DanielleMuscato

RT @nebulouswonder: Please read this and contribute. — PolitiTweet.org

Danielle Muscato (she/her) @DanielleMuscato

RT @bellafortunate: My friend Danielle @DanielleMuscato suffered a tremendous number of nightmarish legal and ethical injustices by law enf… — PolitiTweet.org

Danielle Muscato (she/her) @DanielleMuscato

@aerique In my experience a lot of people in jail are there because they are poor/queer/BIPOC and not really any other reason — PolitiTweet.org

Danielle Muscato (she/her) @DanielleMuscato

RT @aerique: How fucked up are you as police when the inmates are the most compassionate? — PolitiTweet.org

Danielle Muscato (she/her) @DanielleMuscato

@carazelaya Thank you, Cara. Let's catch up soon ❤️ This is going to be a long, messy legal fight. It's such bullshit, and I'm just so traumatized and in so much physical pain that I can't even really be my own spokesperson or advocate right now. What a disaster. Ugh... I miss you! — PolitiTweet.org

Danielle Muscato (she/her) @DanielleMuscato

RT @carazelaya: My friend Danielle was targeted by the police. Read this 🧵 — PolitiTweet.org

Danielle Muscato (she/her) @DanielleMuscato

@tyrhannasaurus Only if you can afford to help!! Spreading the word is great too. I appreciate your support so much. — PolitiTweet.org

Danielle Muscato (she/her) @DanielleMuscato

@tyrhannasaurus Well I didn't HAVE to go through it! They just did this to me. I hope that no one else ever has to, but it's going to take a long, expensive fight for that. This is a systemic issue — PolitiTweet.org

Danielle Muscato (she/her) @DanielleMuscato

@JLE_JD Thank you ❤️ — PolitiTweet.org

Danielle Muscato (she/her) @DanielleMuscato

RT @TheBaddest_Girl: 🤬😡😔 Why can’t we just let people be who they are? — PolitiTweet.org