There should be no such thing as a private prison. I would love to see them all shut down. Of course, like everything evil, they will only expand under trump.

Just a reminder that people who are being held in immigration detention centers are not being punished for crimes, but these centers are nonetheless run very much like prisons. I think the operators may not always understand the Constitutional significance of the fact that these people are not criminal prisoners.

Anybody who has not seen the John Sayles movie Matewan should immediately go and and watch it - it’s available to stream online. The cast is amazing - Chris Cooper, Kevin Tighe, and James Earl Jones (“They calls me Few Clothes”). If you can watch that movie and not become a union supporter, you weren’t paying…

I’m going to go out on a limb here: there’s not a woman who will read this post who doesn’t already do this.

The Catholics, for all their foibles, are at least pro-science for the most part. I am glad that you had a nuanced education, luckily I was only stuck in that school for three years during middle school (or Jr. high as we called it back then)

Yeah, from the description this didn’t sound like any Catholic schools my friends went to growing up. That being said, I’m from California, not Florida, and I’m most familiar with Jesuit education which is its own brand of Catholicism.

Nope, protestant. Mine was a Baptist school. The Catholics are on the bus with science, American protestants... depends... but not so much.

See, the irony is that ACA was originally a GOP plan that was put into effect in Massachusetts by.... Mitt Romney.

I think there may be some mental illness, so that’s why I think everyone should just leave her alone now. I was as horrified as the next person when she was first outed, but I recently saw an interview with her and, oh lord. We should all just leave her alone.

Yup. Before the election, I was talking to a coworker about Nazis and how there are far more around us than he realizes and he didn’t believe me. This is one thing that I don’t like proven right about.

Those little shits kicking over headstones are messing with some bad juju.

I agree beaucoup, I mean I can’t imagine her motivations for doing what she did, but I’m guessing she’s got some deep seated issues. Despite my weird Homer Av I’m interracial (which is labeled as black in my part of the south) and am a lot less racially conscious than I probably should be, but I was never upset by…

I’d really love to stop talking about how the President is perceived (and how he perceives himself) and keep the focus on the bigger issues. Can we please hone in on the fact that the president’s VOICE program is one of the most frightening things we’ve seen come from a President who is already hell bent on crushing…

This how bullies work. They beat you down so far you just want it to end. So that when they show any whisper of a hint of relenting or improving their behavior you are so grateful. But they don’t stop. They’ll never stop.

It is hard for us Black ladies out here- however we don’t call ourselves White and point to how our blonde hair was better than Jessica Simpson’s.

Don’t tell other they can’t? This is a representative for a state in the United States? Jesus wept.

It’s almost like politicians shouldn’t be writing legislation about medical practices they know nothing about. I mean, I don’t show up at circuses and tell lion tamers how to do their jobs, anymore than I want them stopping by my classroom with tips on pedagogy.

Same here! (New Orleans). Luckily one of my senators is holding a town hall tomorrow so I’m going, armed with my teacher’s ID and a binder full of printouts of why Betsy Devos is terrible and I’m damn sure going to to demand an explanation of his “yes” vote for her.

I don’t even know what to say about this. There are so many layers of BS. 1) what the fuck does someone else’s religion have to do with you? 2) what in the ever loving fuck are you accomplishing by knocking over headstones? 3) how the hell did so many people not learn to treat others the way they want to be treated?…

I <3 Malcom Nance.