If you ever need a substitute mom, I’m here for you to remind you to floss, pick up your things and eat more fruit. Big love to you!!!

Agreed.  I get a lot of hope from my daughter’s generation - she has friends who are gay, who are bi, one who just announced their pronoun as they/them, etc  - and all of them are out at school and from what I understand it’s all pretty okay?  I mean, I’m sure there’s some bullying because kids are still assholes, but…

Hard same. I came out two years ago this week and the immediate validation from most of my friends was incredible. I *still* cry about it.

Family of origin was another story, but queer folks lean on chosen family for a reason

I’m glad we live in an age where a teen celebrity coming out is met with this much fanfare, as…

Awwww...that’s so sweet!!!*

As the dad of an out-and-proud 14 year-old, it sure does rule to live in the first era of human history where a gay kid can be themselves with less fear of reprisals than ever before (yes, I know it’s still dangerous and yes I’ve made her aware of that, but I’m still happy for her).

“The reason that I’m not ready to say this answer is because I don’t know this answer,” she said. “[I want to] keep things in my life private until they are ready to be shared with the public.”

Once I came out to a few friends and they accepted me, I wanted to go to the highest mountaintop and scream at the whole wide world.

New Zealand doesn’t currently produce enough controversy domestically so it has to import.  

I cried from about 9:30 am on. When Kamala got sworn in( I wore my pearls!), it escalated. I finally just held a box of kleenex for the rest of the ceremony. I had my husband’s urn on my lap, so he could watch with me. He would have been so happy. Hell, I even stood up for the anthem, all by myself, right here in my…

Yeah, I don’t envy Biden at all. This is like being the clean-up crew after a weekend long NASCAR event.

I heard on NPR’s coverage earlier today that he has 17 EOs to sign this afternoon, undoing a ton of the shit that 45* left behind.

This is exactly how I felt watching her swear in, Tracy. The waterworks for me unexpectedly started during Gaga’s anthem. It literally feels like a weight has been lifted.

It took over 200 years, but fifty percent of the U.S. population finally has representation in the White House.

Years. 

That you lovingly nurtured, Mitchell. 

McConnell is very much like Trump in many ways - loves power, probably a sociopath, lies at will, transactional, and what’s in it for me.  But he is smarter than Trump (obviously) and calculates the risk/reward at every turn. He is patient and calculates the long game. Just as evil but in a tortoise vs the hare sort…

“The mob was fed lies,”

It’s too late for Fox. The Trump bootlickers and Qanon psychos have already abandoned ship for OANN and Newsmax. Fox will never be able to out-crazy those full fledged propaganda machines and Trump himself seems to be done with Fox and he was their biggest draw.

guess some of the “smarter” Republicans are getting a head start on the whole “who me? I NEVER liked Trump, but I felt compelled to be the adult in the room” bullshit revisionist history exercise we’re going to have to deal with for the next few decades.

Every story about Ivanka should have a link to this: