NK is a situation where policy isn’t drastically different between the GOP and the Dems - all normal avenues of diplomacy have been attempted, but they don’t work well when the government doesn’t care if the people starve to death or about their standing in the global community. But Trump has tried to lift sanctions…

In D.C., it’s a nice reminder we are not the literal center of the universe.

They can’t control their own party - Sens Graham and Cassidy introduced their own version minutes before McConnell. Thankfully they can’t, I should say.

Their office is well over 15 employees now. Business is booming!

Oh. My. God.

Thank you for this, especially the explanations at the end! So helpful for those of us still just trying not to drown in our own country’s bullshit.

The Gore campaign did not take that meeting; they alerted the FBI. This is not that hard - you don’t meet with foreign nationals promising information to help you influence an election.

The response to North Korea’s first successful ICBM being a tweet insulting Kim Jong Un is not boilerplate GOP.

We can be disgusted with both and still prefer the one less likely to declare WWIII on Twitter at 3 am because someone called him fat.

It’s getting that persistence applied to activism rather than getting something off the counter that’s one of the real challenges.

I’m even willing to give this cesspool a little credit, since DJT did have significant help from Russia that we just keep learning more and more about.

Seriously. Failing to work a poncho or giving speech about American carnage - compare on Inauguration Day.

I’m even okay with colleagues saying, “You look nice tonight,” when it’s something where people are dressed up - it can be said right back and it’s not necessarily creepy, although I’m sure you can make it creepy. But I would never then turn to their spouse and say it ABOUT them, in front of them, like they’re a…

Cookie Monster is not living right and now expects healthy people to pay for his health care!

92-98% of rape accusations are true, according to the police. While gun violence is more prevalent in the US than in other developed countries, the fraction of people who go on shooting sprees is still well under 0.001%. Personal judgment is not a criminal court. Make a legitimate comparison.

You come from quality people.

Keep going - I hope you found it helpful. Even if it’s not at first, it gets helpful eventually. You’re not alone and I’m so sorry this happened to you. Know that there not being a knife doesn’t make it any less nonconsenual or mean that it was ambiguous in any way. You have love and support - hopefully from people…

Given the rate of false accusations, immediately presuming innocence makes you a fool. If parents wanted to believe the best of their children, if that was the crux of this issue, then parents wouldn’t ask their daughters who tell them they’ve been raped what they were wearing or if they were drinking. Being a good…

I can’t imagine how miserable life must be if you remember every slight against you, hold on to that, and let it fester.

Perhaps I was unclear- more indefensible only than in the very early days. The history of HIV/AIDS is somewhat unique in the rapidity with which it has gone from a disease that was completely unknown to a manageable chronic illness in 40 years. There were certainly years of destructive refusals to treat and study the…