Quite a few years ago I was out hiking, and I felt a bug fly into my ear. Reacted to it, but thought nothing more. Than I felt the digging. And the screeching pain in my brain. Well, I was with my parents so I ran back to our campsite, and looked at it in a mirror, and saw nothing. But still, felt the crawling going…

I’m tired of the overuse of the word “political” to avoid contentious issues, and I’m done avoiding tough topics. If a friend of mine says something dumb I’m gonna respond, social awkwardness be damned. Chuckling off bigotry and indifference is how we got here in the first place.

I once had dinner with a state senator, whose daughter I was dating. I hated the guy, but he said something that stuck with me. “If I get 10 people calling me about an issue, I know it’s serious”. I thought for sure he was mistaken about the number, but he told me that the volume of non-crazy calls he gets is very…

I did for the first time when Congress started its session this year. It’s easy. I do it pretty much everyday on my lunch break right now, and I mostly get through (unfortunately that means people in my state aren’t calling enough to clog all the phone lines, but we’re Louisiana so HEY, any little bit counts).

Canadians can also donate to the ACLU.

Try to forget Trump for a moment (Jesus Christ...), and pop quiz: who are your state level legislators? I don’t mean US Congress in Washington, I mean the people representing you in Albany, Sacramento, Raleigh, Harrisburg, St. Paul, Austin, etc.

That’s what I’m sure a lot of Republicans are counting on. Let Trump stay until he does something too outrageous to ignore, impeach him or get him to resign and act like they’ve liberated the country from a monster.

For all of my many, many fellow lawyers burning billables on Deadspin: the ACLU may have raised $24 million this weekend, but they still accomplish most of their victories with the help of volunteer lawyers all across the country. Sign up with your local organization today.

A fear I have is that Trump is impeached, Pence takes power, and continues on the civil rights rampage - but nobody cares anymore because he seems ‘polite’.

The number of people I talk to who don’t know that “Obamacare” and “The Affordable Care Act” are the same thing makes me want to scream.

Amen. Pace yourself, seriously. Don’t give yourself a rage stroke with every single Trump story. Whether it’s an intentional strategy or simply the result of a constant flow sheer dumbfuckery and evil, there’s a real danger that we’re all going to get burnt out before this motherfucker’s been in office for a month.

FYI, there will be a protest at the Supreme Court today at 6:00PM Eastern. Many members of Congress, including several members of the Democratic leadership, will be in attendance.

Probably whining about protesters not having jobs or some other nonsense.

Not really the same for countries that we’re allies with, or have neutral diplomatic relations with, versus a country we’re actively sanctioning and which is generally seen as our opposite in the global power balance

Good. They can make his orange ass co-President of Russia, then, since they love him so goddamn much. They can keep his traitorous ass if they like.

I’ve said it here before, but I’m starting to look seriously into the possibility of buying a gun. I’ve never before in my life even contemplated such a thing and as recently as September I couldn’t even imagine a circumstance in which I would ever want to own, let alone carry, a gun. But everything has changed since…

Fuck that feels accurate

More proof that Trumpkins aren’t only found in trailer parks. There are a lot of sleazy, greedy, educated white men who support this ass. 60% of white college educated men voted for the self-proclaimed pussy grabber. Are we really shocked to see some of his fans emulate their idol? They’re feeling so emboldened…

High school students. Of course they’re not making contact, but it does frustrate me that this is what they’re emulating.