Good at raising hell. I'm also a scholar and filmmaker. Retired. pronouns: she/her
Cottenboro (was Carrboro), NC
Joined January 2013
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Altha Jane Cravey retweeted
blood and soil - for Jews!
like do we hear what we sound like
Altha Jane Cravey retweeted
There is fear in that voice. There is realization the masses are done and rising up against the 1% who have raped the Earth. Whatever it takes for them to wake up, as long as the system is changed to help the many.
Chamath Palihapitiya admits his blind spot on America's broken two-tier economy
PALIHAPITIYA: "I got it totally totally totally wrong. I got it totally wong."
"I'll go through all the ways in which I got it wrong, but I just want to first acknowledge what my blind spot is. Like most people's blind spots, but I can just speak for myself, it is through the lens of my own lived experience and very narrowly what is in my best interests. And I think what we had was a move away from the culture wars that was very much in my best interest, but I think it was in everybody else's best interests as well. I don't think that was on the ballot. But what I don't think I understood clearly enough, and I think that this election has made extremely clear, is that since COVID, we have moved past political ideology. And I want to say this again: I do not think Democrats or Republicans matter. That is my real takeaway after this election. There is a central block of people that vote the prescient issues of our time."
"It was a gargantuan win for Biden, then it was a gargantuan win for Trump, and then it was a gargantuan win for the Democrats in these midterms. What are these people voting for? I think what they are shouting now—they were trying to signal and now they are shouting—is a broad-based belief that the economy has completely decoupled from reality and is broken. The economic reality in America is broken."
"There is a small percentage of people, the four of us on this pod and all of our friends, who are the asset owners of America. And we have benefited in every weather condition. When rates were zero, we benefited because we were able to build our businesses with very cheap capital. When rates were high, we benefited because we had pricing power. And in every condition in between, whether there were tariffs, whether there were not tariffs, whether there were subsidies, whether there were not subsidies, we've all managed to continue to accumulate and grow assets, but we are few and far between."
"And then there's everybody else who are wage earners, and the structural capacity of the American economy to support and grow wage earners is broken. It's clear. Why do I say that? I do not think, and I disagree with Freeberg, I don't think this has anything to do with socialism. I don't think the far left won particularly more than they were expected. I don't think the far right won particularly more than was expected. This is a complete and total repudiation about the state of the economy. The economy is broken. I have a few charts to support my point of view. Number one, if this was ideological and if ideology mattered, money in politics would have had a more direct impact on the election."
Altha Jane Cravey retweeted
Cutting the $1 trillion bloated defense budget and zeroing out aid and weapons to Israel are moral tests for the Democratic Party. We need to be the anti-war party.
.@brhodes: The Democratic Party has to be the anti-war party. The Democratic Party has to be the party that's going to stop spending $1 trillion in defense. And stop bombing other people's children and start investing in our children.
Altha Jane Cravey retweeted
NYTimes today just listed my MediKids bill as one of the 8 big and bold ideas that the new Congress should pass! Let’s make America a country where no child is ever denied care and no parent ever has to worry if they can afford that care.
nytimes.com/interactive/2026…
Altha Jane Cravey retweeted
Israel is committing genocide and anyone who thinks they should be "treated like any other nation" let alone as an ally, is complicit.
Altha Jane Cravey retweeted
66% want Medicare for All
61% want a billionaire wealth tax
57% want a $20/hour minimum wage
63% want a data center moratorium
58% want to end military aid to Israel
73% want to ban super PACs
79% want a 10% credit card interest rate cap
No more excuses. Democrats must deliver.
Altha Jane Cravey retweeted
As the next chair of the Social Security Subcommittee, a top priority will be to expand Social Security benefits by at least $2,400 a year & extend Social Security’s solvency for generations.
How? By scrapping the cap & demanding that the wealthy pay their fair share of taxes.
Altha Jane Cravey retweeted
However she ends up governing, Gina Hinojosa got elected by relentlessly attacking Big Tech’s influence in Texas. Opposing tech monopolies, billionaires, and their freakish products’ unwanted intrusions into our lives is the surest way to win political power in America today.
Altha Jane Cravey retweeted
Millions of 3-year-old phones get replaced every single year because they feel "slow." And the hardware inside them is barely the problem.
Not the processor. Not the RAM. Not the age of the phone. Not the brand, and not the fact that a newer model just launched.
Last month I almost spent $1,100 on a new phone. Mine had started taking forever to open the camera, the keyboard stuttered when I typed, and switching between apps felt like wading through mud. I was convinced it was dying. Then a friend dragged me to see a repair technician who has handled over 3,000 phones in 12 years, mostly for friends, family, and small businesses who walk in saying the exact same sentence: "It just got slow for no reason."
He took my phone, spent about 4 minutes on it, and handed it back feeling like new. Then he said something I haven't stopped thinking about:
"Nobody's phone is actually slow at 3 years. What's slow is everything that's been quietly piling up underneath it since the day you bought it. Background apps, stuffed storage, a tired battery, years of clutter. None of it shows on the screen, so you blame the phone and the phone company happily lets you."
He then walked me through the exact 7 things he checks, in order, every single time. None of them cost money. Most take under 2 minutes. Several of them made me feel genuinely ridiculous for how close I came to buying a new phone.
Here's the full breakdown 🧵
Altha Jane Cravey retweeted
PSAKI: “Your thoughts on @SenSchumer for senate leader?”
@scott_colom: “My concern is too many of our leaders are from the same area of the country.”
NEW: UNC Chapel Hill AAUP statement on the DOJ-UNC 'agreement'. @AAUP
unc-ch-aaup.org/news#2026-11…
Altha Jane Cravey retweeted
AI is engineered to be an essential. It’s being baked into our life & our work. We are going to rely on it with little choice to opt out individually. That’s one of the reasons why AI belongs under public control. Whoever controls the essentials has control over our society and economy. In a democracy that control belongs to the people.
Altha Jane Cravey retweeted
“Across the House, a union ironworker from suburban Cleveland, a Bethlehem firefighter, a Wisconsin waitress, an emergency room nurse, a Montana smoke jumper, a Rochester math teacher, and a former Trader Joe’s worker from Queens are heading to Washington…”
The midterms were very good for working-class Democratic candidates, who unsurprisingly tend to support pro-worker legislative priorities.
These candidates can maximize their leverage by forming a working-class caucus in Congress. jacobin.com/2026/11/midterms…
Altha Jane Cravey retweeted
10 years ago Bernie Sanders refused to take corporate pac money during his first presidential campaign — considered radical at the time.
But now that’s not only more common — politicians who refused to take corporate money changed the outcome of the entire midterm election. 91% of voters polled by NBC said corruption was a crucial or major factor to their vote for congress.
From James Talarico in Texas to Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan, big money tried to buy these elections and failed.
Altha Jane Cravey retweeted
Well before my fingers start to itch firing off hot takes at @AngieNixon’s past and (potentially) future primary opponents, I’m realizing I haven’t posted since Tuesday, so some thank yous are in order.
First, thank you Angie. It’s been an honor working to make history with you.
Altha Jane Cravey retweeted
Back in April, we mapped out the billionaires and tech oligarchs behind the @MajorityDems network, which is now set to host Hakeem Jeffries, Elissa Slotkin, Pete Buttigieg, etc, to “write the next chapter” of the Democratic Party, behind closed doors. Blue wave! 🌊
Earlier this year, @LeverNews reporters @lukewgoldstein & @ktyschwnk published a bombshell series about @MajorityDems billionaire ties and its attempt to tilt Dem primaries. The stories are here:
levernews.com/the-new-democr…
levernews.com/how-a-hedge-fu…
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Altha Jane Cravey retweeted
Daily reminder to the Democrats that if you continue your attack on Angie Nixon you will Fck around and find out what that 64/68 realignment feels like in 2028.
She carried the state while you hacks stayed on the sideline refusing to support her financially.
SHE did that on her own accord and sweat equity.
Mess around and see what 10% loss of the Black vote will do.
Think we wont? Think we cant?
You better think again
Altha Jane Cravey retweeted
With Democrats in power, we need to end family detention. Until then, we need to do everything we can to rein in ICE and stop traumatizing kids and families.
I called ICE this morning to demand they restore video calls at the Dilley Trailer Prison. I’ve seen mothers of babies and young children who haven’t seen their kids' faces in months. It’s wrong.
Altha Jane Cravey retweeted
I walk through the streets here, watching the ground become covered in yellow autumn leaves, and I find myself thinking of Mahmoud Darwish, the Palestinian poet who once wrote: “Our autumn is approaching our doorstep.”
It is as though he could see, from afar, the dark cloud that would one day hang over our heads, foreseeing a darkness that would last longer than our souls could bear.
And in the stillness of these streets, my thoughts wander to Gaza, where it is not leaves that fall, but homes, dreams, and entire lifetimes.
There, where death has become more present than life itself, where we are living through the darkest season in our history and our struggle, even hope has begun to feel like a stranger amid the ruins.
And as I walk over the withered leaves, I wonder: Could this be the final season of our story? Or is there still a spring waiting to be born upon this land? Will the sun, no matter how long it has been gone, one day find its way back to us?
Perhaps the cruelest part of this darkness is that we no longer know whether we are waiting for the dawn or watching the sun set for the very last time.
#SurvivalTestimony
Altha Jane Cravey retweeted
Last week, a café in Nablus hosted a Halloween party. As photos and videos of the event began circulating online, a wave of outrage followed. Many condemned the café for hosting a celebration they considered incompatible with Palestinian traditions and values, and inappropriate for a conservative society whose identity is so deeply rooted in resistance.
The backlash went so far that the governor of Nablus ordered an investigation into the event, claiming that the celebration dishonoured the blood of our martyrs.
But what shocked me most was a public statement issued by a family disowning their own daughter simply because she had attended the party.
It saddens me deeply that we have reached a point where the morality of our actions is measured by how closely we conform to the image we have constructed of ourselves as a conservative society defined by resistance. As though we are expected to live in a permanent state of mourning, proving through every choice we make that we are a people worthy of sympathy and freedom.
The occupation has already imposed more than enough restrictions on our lives. Yet instead of resisting everything that deprives us of our freedom, we have begun imposing further restrictions on ourselves, policing one another in the name of tradition, resistance, and respect for the dead.
We should not have to earn the right to live. We should be free to embrace life in all its fullness, even in the darkest of circumstances, without feeling compelled to embody a particular image of the Palestinian resistance fighter simply to be considered worthy of freedom or the world’s respect.
Everyone has the right to reject Halloween celebrations on religious or cultural grounds. But no one has the right to impose those beliefs on others or to turn a young woman’s attendance at a party into grounds for disowning her. Nor should the blood of our martyrs be invoked to justify policing people’s private lives and restricting their freedoms.
What does it mean to fight for the liberation of our land if we refuse to recognise the freedom of the people who live on it? And what kind of freedom do we hope to achieve tomorrow if we deny ourselves and others the right to exercise it today?
We need liberation not only from occupation, but also from everything that makes us afraid to live our lives as we choose.
Freedom is not something we should postpone until the day we are liberated. If we do not believe in it today, how will we know how to defend it tomorrow?
#Palestine #Nablus