Remember, this money comes out of taxpayers’ pockets. And the cop who drove up and immediately shot a twelve-year-old playing with a toy gun in a public park, gave him no emergency care after shooting him, and had his sister thrown into the police car to watch her brother bleed out on the ground after she ran towards…

crucially, to avoid admitting any liability or formal responsibility for the lives they took.

I find it interesting that rape only seems to exist for these candidates when trying to beat up trans or gay people. You want to be serious about protecting little girls - maybe stop protecting and justifying the Dugars. There is your abuser - not this boy.

RIGHT ON, JAMES! You did an important thing, and I want to thank you. Somewhere out there, a trans kid was inspired by your actions. Visibility is a big deal.

That’s a lot of dignity, eloquence, and integrity, especially for someone at a Republican candidate’s rally.

Van Kuilenburg’s appearance at Cruz’s rally was meant to call attention to the violent impact of such prejudice. He went, he told The Frederick News-Post, “to show Cruz supporters that rhetoric about gay and transgender rights hurts real people like him.”

Funny you should say that, why just the other day deerlady83 and others were discussing this painting by Artemisia Gentileschi.

I just sent this clown an email telling him I think he’s an idiot.

Can the brogressives remind me again how abortion rights are not one of the really important issue in this election?

I bet you those fuckers also have gutted educations money, early childhood development money, food stamps, and anything that helps poor children but they still care about life.

Fantastic. I grew up in a children’s home in the South and this hit me viscerally. What’s that you’re feeling? Oh, nothing much. Just the eternal reverberations of a life without justice.

THIS is the kind of writing there needs to be more of here. Well done, and thanks

“I learned later that the wealthy, Wall Street, the banks—they all get to break the rules. But us, the poor, the people of color—we don’t”

The subject matter breaks my heart as I’ve lived this firsthand. But my goodness, the writing - the writing - I was right there with each word. No waste. You deserve to be heard.

Best thing I’ve read on a Gawker site in quite a while.

This was an incredible article. These are the things I return to this website for, thank you

Women say practical things like “but we have stalls in and I don’t care what goes on in the next one, as long as they don’t pee on the seat.”

It’s a whole lot of warped jealousy about who gets to enter the inner sanctum of the ladies bathroom. I swear all these 50 year old dudes just have never gotten past porky’s/revenge of the nerds and think the pinnacle of life is spying in a bathroom.

Interesting how this ad seems to be targeting mostly heterosexual men (and possibly married lesbians, but I doubt it). Ted Cruz doesn’t care what you think if you’re a woman, because in that case you should probably leave the politics to the men. Don’t worry, we’ll look for you....