For letter #1 it seems like their sex life *could* be better but her boyfriend has refused to do his part to actually make it better. We don’t really know if him not being dominant enough is actually the issue here (ie she pointed out that he doesn’t do foreplay).

I’m not 100% clear on what the piece means when it discusses the mainstreaming of Afropunk.

I might be very wrong on this but I got the feeling that Grantland wasn’t shut down because it was unpopular but because it became less of a priority for ESPN for reasons unrelated to its business performance. Personally I don’t believe that Grantland’s demise had anything to do with its lack of viability as a…

Thank you so, so, SO much for the kind words. Your comment made my day :) It’s low key been a personal struggle for me to make these calls in between baseless fear and the pull of pulling up Netflix rather than my Rep’s office number. But I’m realizing that people are actually working overtime to ruin the world so the…

Thank you sharing about the young woman who won the Republican seat. That is such a good example of what the future of the Democratic party could look like in 2018 if we start now.

I can’t tell you how happy I am to hear that you and your friends are talking about being intimidated to make phone calls. I honestly thought that I was the only person who was afraid to make these calls and not because I think people will be rude to me but because the whole experience of reaching out to a…

I agree about the civics issue. I had just one civics class in 9th grade and never again. I honestly think civics should be required every year of high school and underscored by yearly visits to the state capitol and your state’s senator & rep’s local offices. I also think that there’s a lot of specialized education…

I think you’re right on the money. Lack of engagement and defeatist attitudes are what got us into this mess in the first place.

Emily, if a phonecall is the most effective way for a constituent to reach out to their representative, are multiple phone calls from the same person effective?

The country doesn’t need anymore Trump. I’ve been reading about people saying how the mood in their towns are depressed and I have little doubt its because of how low he’s taken this election process. Even young children are afraid of him and what he could mean for their futures. In the event that he isn’t elected, we…

I didn’t consider that the Trump campaign’s meltdown is also bringing the terrible character of his surrogates to the forefront as well. For whatever reason (likely the promise of power in an authoritarian-like regime) these people have chosen to defend the indefensible and now that their backs are against the wall…

Oh how I love watching these Trump surrogates crumble on live television. 

We have multiple 24 hour news stations yet the country is populated with some of the most uninformed, ignorant voters in the world. What a fucking joke.

The media did a terrible job covering this election. They did not unpack or rigorously report on salient subjects surrounding Donald Trump in the same that they typically would report on other candidates. Their coverage of Clinton’s “deplorables” comment is a prime example of this. They focused on the response to the…

I just want to say that the one thing I’ve learned this election is how fragile democracy and how powerful we are as individual citizens. It may sound sappy but I felt so powerless this past February when it dawned on me that a Trump Presidency (gag!) was a possibility. I resolved to participate more in the political…

Ummm, I hate to break it to you but Trump is a phenomenon that has been ushered in by white men on a number of levels. There are other factors like the press’s refusal to cover him rigorously that are at play here (but who runs the American press and makes editorial decisions in most newsrooms?) but he is an inept and…

The encouraging thing for me was and is Trump’s mishaps in early August. While he may be better at reading a teleprompter now that transition from primaries to General Election really showed that the beast that is his inept, white supremacist, unbelievably dishonest campaign has feet of clay.

Can I just say that I love this version of IDGAF Obama?

Attitudes like this contribute to thepolitical environment we have now. One has to exhaust their options before they can say everything is futile. I used to think that progressive ppl needed an out of this world political strategy in order to affect change and now I’m not so sure.

It’s enough white people to potentially destablize American democracy by voting for Donald Drumpf. So...