How far have we deteriorated as a society if “helping a blind person” is seen as some sort of radical act?

So do high school kids have economic anxiety or are we relegating this one to those wacky kids with their childhood hijinks?

Lol. He is a stud. To later be played in the movies by Matt Damon.

“Asking Blum whether he would commit to similarly limiting his pool of political donors to the district he represents” 

Nope. Give these people a few weeks, I am sure they’ll find a way to convince themselves that the GOP actually totally didn’t mean to do this to them, and they’ll blame this on Democrats in general, Obama specifically, Mexicans, or Muslims.

I think we all just need to take a step back and cowboy the fuck up folks, let the artists work, laugh at yourselves, it’s healthy.

An unseasoned, well done, sirloin in a buffet line. That’s all I can come up with.

But Josh Gordon is gonna have his career ruined because of weed.

Trust black women is pretty much my whole political philosophy. Is there a better expression than “canary in the coal mine”? I’ve been looking for something that makes the same point but doesn’t involve killing animals.

Apparently even (some) white folx can hear us better than “our” own men of color can

I’m like - this man is an Ivy-educated professor and Root and MSNBC contributor, and he was going to “Yes, but ...” his friend - his friend (ProTi: friends don’t drag friends to trash like that) - all the way through all her incredibly cogent deconstructions of that Hotep claptrap after he self-admittedly dragged her…

And how Hamas is so popular in Palestine. Some people will always support the crazy guy who yells really enthusiastically about the stuff they care about, and tune out everything else.

“I dragged a good friend of mine (she’s a Ph.D. in political science) along to serve as a healthy skeptic to my ridiculous enthusiasm.”

When you understand how people like Umar Johnson can have such a hold on Black America, then you’ll understand how such a man like Donald Trump managed to get a hold on White America.

Getting young people excited about local politics will be key. I’ve met liberal, well-meaning, 20-somethings that actually volunteer to work on presidential campaigns that can’t be bothered to vote in non-presidential elections. This is a problem, because local politics directly affects your life exponentially more…

The GOP have taken over at all levels of government. Dems have been focusing on national, forgetting all about state and local. They need to rebuild from the ground up and show people that “socialism” is nothing but “the government doing its job of helping people”. I don’t understand how the GOP managed to turn things…

YES too often people outside (&sometimes even  inside) the family KNOW about abuse & say nothing. We are STILL a society thta treats children as the property of their parents (& to a sligtly lesser degree women the property of battering men) who an be brutalized with impunity. We think of this violence as “a private…

So obviously one of the most upsetting things about child or animal abuse is that the victim never has any say in the situation they’re in. As in, it’s not like they made a bad decision and are suffering the consequences, they’re genuinely blameless and innocent.

I think it’s kind of a cop out to say that progressives didn’t have anything to come out for in the midterms because yeah, maybe there weren’t any candidates for them to get really ginned up about, but the alternative candidates are openly hostile to the basic concept of a progressive society. If the choice is between…