While I certainly agree that it’s a good thing to have judges who are sticklers for the law, I want to point out as a lawyer that the debate isn’t about whether or not judges are “sticklers,” but about what the law is in the first place. A lot of what conservatives frame as “judicial activism” is mostly about genuine…

National Park Service employees have gone fully rogue after Prump’s WH banned their tweets. Follow them if you’re interested in science and the environment:

And they came into being in response to egregiously harmful practices by business. Somebody didn’t just go “Hey Let’s create an agency to monitor the environment because we hate business and want to make it difficult for them.” They did it because businesses were dumping their waste into our air and water and it was…

Thanks so much for sharing. I’m sending her a couple of books now.

That sounds really good, thank you!

But but but he hasn’t even done anything yet givehimachancei’mgoingtokillmyself

Industrial crane? More like something from a toy construction set.

Here’s how her campaign would go:

This. Maybe instead of calling Ryan, who will be near-impossible to sway, we should try to figure out who might be willing to break ranks to go against this bullshit. They can’t ALL be committedly anti-woman and pro-cervical cancer.

This seems like an excellent moment to talk about how much I love The Crown. It fills that “lightly-trashy-but-classy costume drama about rich British people” hole that Downton Abbey left in my life.

Without Planned Parenthood, I would not have had access to Plan B after a sexual assault in college. I would not have had access to birth control in my 20s. I would almost certainly have a different life than the one I have chosen.

The Chernobyl Twins

Welp. Here we go. Time to find out if our democracy is really as resistant to demagoguery as we all believed.

The definition of a Republican is someone who campaigns on the premise that government doesn’t work and once elected sets about proving it.

My grandfather actually died at the beginning of this 2016 after a long battle with Parkinson’s and dementia. He made that Nazi comment back in 2014 and was mainly referring to Ted Cruz and the Tea Parties. He had been warning us about neo-Nazi’s and fascism way way back in 2009 when the Obama Birther Truther movement…

That’s a sad, but undoubtedly correct perspective. We could really use Inside Out 2: Cognitive Dissonance.

I usually tell people to ask themselves what the people/articles telling them whatever specious “fact” have to gain by them believing it. Many people who believe this stuff were never taught how to spot obvious cons, which is why Trump’s voter base so neatly fits with people who were swindled by his college/timeshare…

What can be done to combat this kind of thinking? I have immediate family members that just flatly refuse to grapple with facts-- when they’re confronted with them, they just say, “I don’t believe that”. It feels like democracy hangs on us figuring out a way to bring these people back into the realm of reality, but I…

no, that is not doin the most. that’s called learning :)