DACA recipient on @CNN few mins ago: “This is not a long-term solution. Trump could choose to rescind this program tomorrow. He knows how to do it. The Supreme Court is telling him. So we are not safe. So I’m going to celebrate today, but I am going to fight tomorrow.”
“She was yelling at me, saying, ‘Why are you whispering? You don’t have to whisper,’ and I was telling her, ‘Ma’am, he’s still in the store. He’s shooting. I’m scared for my life. I don’t want him to hear me. She got mad at me, hung up in my face.”
“Children as young as 7 and 8, many of them wearing clothes caked with snot and tears, are caring for infants they’ve just met.Toddlers without diapers are relieving themselves in their pants. Teenage mothers are wearing clothes stained with breast milk.”
My husband has been reporting in Uvalde since Wednesday and, based on our phone calls, I just want to urge everyone to check on your journalist friends/family/colleagues covering this horrific tragedy.
Also, I’m still trying to figure out how @nhannahjones put together an amazing tenure portfolio while juggling multiple books and related projects, a full-time job, motherhood and friendship duties that included literally making sure my kids ate while I was grieving.
Husband called from our neighborhood Popeyes — where I thought maybe things had calmed down and we’d be able to get a sandwich — and reported that it resembled a scene out of “Bird Box,” something about a fight and a car stuck in grass, and then hung up.
“Mr. Trump has essentially become a bystander as school superintendents, sports commissioners, college presidents, governors and business owners across the country take it upon themselves to shut down much of American life...”