My sister lives in Baltimore and says people are already selling these. pic.twitter.com/fDvvycym0V
— Julia Ioffe (@juliaioffe) July 28, 2019
One of the many advantages of a vibrant urban area is that its residents learn to defend themselves, regardless of the power & weight of the attacker…
I lived in Baltimore while working for the U.S. Atty’s Office there in law school. It boasts Camden Yards, the Inner Harbor, and Johns Hopkins, one of the top colleges and research hospitals (where I was born!) in the country. Nat’l anthem born there, too. This is a trashy tweet. pic.twitter.com/4uaVtfwnhU
— Asha Rangappa (@AshaRangappa_) July 27, 2019
Btw, for those who say that Trump’s racist rhetoric “won’t matter” tomorrow, you’re wrong. Those of us whose dignity is attacked by this President & who are endangered by his licensing of racism are seeing who stands up & who doesn’t. The test is not for Trump, it is for you.
— Sherrilyn Ifill (@Sifill_LDF) July 27, 2019
There is a #WeAreBaltimore hashtag, not because of a national disaster or an act of domestic terror, but instead because the President chose to perpetuate a racist attack against it. Let’s all think on that for a second.
— Bishop Garrison (@BishopGarrison) July 28, 2019
Low-key most revealing thing about Trump’s Cummings tweets is how he sees crime in Baltimore as Cummings’s problem, not his own
— Allahpundit (@allahpundit) July 27, 2019
Baltimore has a lot of problems but also a lot of cool stuff in it.
Call me crazy but I would like to see policymakers and concerned citizens try to help solve those problems rather than dunk on hundreds of thousands of people. https://t.co/f3iuabFsOz
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) July 27, 2019
Racists coming out of the woodwork to blame a black congressman for Baltimore don't have shit to say about white people leading the entire fucking Midwest's decades of decline under white Republicans. https://t.co/DXjuClUAFY
— Dreadful E (@EvilCEOE) July 27, 2019
Speaking of TRASHY PEOPLE…
Trump's attack on Rep. Cummings is a straight recitation of a Fox segment. "Living conditions at the border are better than most areas in his district, the city lined with abandoned building and trash on the streets."
Left, Fox & Friends, 6:18 a.m.
Right, Trump, 7:14 a.m. pic.twitter.com/w5OniqHgW6— Matthew Gertz (@MattGertz) July 27, 2019
Reminder that Trump's restaurants are rodent infested, and unlike Cummings and Baltimore, Trump owns and has responsibility for that.https://t.co/2B4JrTqGN3
— emptywheel (@emptywheel) July 28, 2019
And since this all started with a Fox segment, let us recall that Sean Hannity is a secret slum emperor with an absolutely sickening record for raising rent and evicting tenants over the slightest of infractions. https://t.co/Qe7IHADveb https://t.co/c8fQhjshEv
— Zeddy (@Zeddary) July 28, 2019
blorp https://t.co/iGHOMqVVvc pic.twitter.com/JDNQbdPJMU
— Matt Pearce ?? (@mattdpearce) July 28, 2019
Not that it really matters but Cummings' district has above-average college education rates and home prices, along with a pretty good mix of urban and suburban areas (even some rural), and well-off, working-class and middle-class areas. https://t.co/33mH7JreHw https://t.co/8VWBWVkRRD
— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) July 27, 2019
I think this is because new restaurants cause both white people and rats, rather than white people causing rats per se.
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) July 27, 2019
Try to imagine a Democratic campaign manager snarking about the high opioid death rate in some rural area that votes Republican. You can’t. Your brain will explode. pic.twitter.com/t4R4DMqwpB
— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) July 27, 2019
The attack on Baltimore isn't really about Baltimore (which is an excellent city, btw, damn fun), but about making Red state white people living with poor educational, poverty, unemployment, meth and opioid epidemics feel like they're still better off than black people.
— Dreadful E (@EvilCEOE) July 28, 2019