I completely agree with her opinion on sexist male vs female drug/addiction stories. Cat may be one of the only woman (who has written on this level of notoriety) who wrote from within her addiction, most other woman addiction writers have written after they’ve gotten sober. That’s the only perspective on women’s…

I think these people are out for short term gains (money). They figure they can outsource pollution to the poor and can always afford to live in their clean rich areas. They absolutely do not care about anyone else. If they could just let poor people die (after they’ve gotten all the utility they need out of them) I…

Won’t get super specific because it’s impossible to provide context, but when you’re in ethics and the professor regularly says things that make you wonder how many times it took him to pass the MPRE it’s not a good thing.

And those Reagan recessions and that insane taxpayer bailout of the savings and loans, which was caused by *gasp* deregulation of financial institutions. We see over and over again how this shit works out, and we still do it over and over again. This is why we can’t have nice things. Despair here.

I can’t help but think of the Nuremberg trials whenever I hear “I was just following orders.” The folks doing so will never be on the right side of history.

The Reagan years were also the start of a pattern in the EPA where scientists were replaced by policy specialists or managers in positions overseeing or reviewing research. Because why would you want someone with education and experience in a field overseeing/reviewing work in that field when you could have some guy…

As others have previously said, “I was just following orders” is a crap excuse for malfeasance, corruption, or human rights abuses.

Also if you voted your mom or a third party. Enjoy the luxury of “making a statement” and “sending a message.” This is your message. I hope you like it because everyone else is going to pay for it for generations—assuming we ever claw our way back from this at all.

But only if you’re white. Only white people are allowed to bear arms.

You give it too much credit. This is like the Kafka fanfic Aaron Sorkin undoubtedly wrote in college.

Amazing how the very same people who screamed the loudest about upholding the constitution under Obama are the same ones eagerest to take a dump on it under Trump.

Anyone who says this isn’t straight up fascism, is a straight up fascist themselves. Our right to peacefully assemble, which means anything short of actually smashing shit up, is guaranteed by our 1st amendment constitutional rights. Don’t think for a second that this law will not be used by a federal agency at some…

I want so desperately to ask my Stein/Johnson friends how their consciences are treating them in the wake of all this, but they’ve been oddly subdued lately...

THIS! I am so tired of that dumbass trope “wanting him to fail is like wanting us to all go down on a plane.” NOOOOO that’s not what it’s like at all, asshole. I want this man to fail because I do not believe in his policies and I do not believe in his promises and I do not agree with shutting our doors to refugees…

See also: “If Trump is successful we’re all successful.” Successful at what? Ripping immigrant families apart? Dissolving non-hetero marriages and tearing adopted children from one or both of their parents? Disenfranchising people of color and supporting their mass incarceration and murder by law enforcement? Forcing…

I really, really want to believe in Sherrod, but for fuck’s sake - this is what gets democrats in trouble every.single.time. The GOP falls in line and obstructs and blocks and keeps in lockstep in their grinding halt to progress. Democrats shrug and say “well, maybe he’ll do okay.”

Maxine Waters: Queen of the Southland, Mother of Draggin’s.

Opposition to a fascist puppet of foreign oligarchs (who also happens to be a rapist of women and 13 year old girls) isn’t spiteful; it’s a universal moral obligation. Trump has never done one thing in his life for anyone but himself and isn’t worthy of life, let alone respect. People who say “wait and see” would…