The problem is that’s actually not how IUDs work. Copper IUDs prevent FERTILIZATION by fucking with the way sperm moves and not allowing it to reach an egg. Hormonal IUDs prevent FERTILIZATION by thickening cervical mucus, which acts as a barrier and also fucks with the way sperm moves so it can’t reach an egg. (ETA:…

Here’s the problem. Pro-life people will never support an IUD in they way that they *may* come around to other birth control. They think it’s a form of abortion. By not allowing the uterine lining to build up, you aren’t allowing a fertilized egg to attach (rather than prevent the egg from being fertilized) and thus,…

Ah, actually, I think the fact that national attention *wasn’t* on Parnell helped in his favor because Republicans didn’t focus on rallying against him as hard as they did to Ossoff.

But even if birth control is being used solely as contraception, if your stance is “pro-life,” you should be pro-birth control access. Last year’s abortion rates were the lowest they had ever been since the Roe v. Wade decision in 1973.

To put it another way, Nobody cares about your Bernie.

Thank you. People, especially those outside of GA, don’t seem to get this point. Tom Price won reelection by almost 30 points in November. The 6th district is mainly made up of the rich, white northern Atlanta suburbs. It was always going to heavily swing republican. The fact that Ossoff made a special election…

Seriously, shut the fuck up. No one is running around thrilled that winnable races are lost. The point people are making is that it’s important not to let these things stunt momentum, and it’s helpful to take a look at the larger picture, i.e. these are supposed to be solidly red seats, not competitive ones. What is…

Democrats need to let go of the white male vote. It’s gone and it’s not coming back. We need to work on creating a party as diverse as the voting base that we want to have. This includes fighting gerrymandering, and there have been some really good court cases on this recently, and running candidates that really…

There are probably some other good sources, but try following MIT political science on Twitter. There are a lot of people looking into whether our voting systems can be hacked or manipulated, and plenty of others who are looking at the accuracy of pre-election polling.

I mean, all of my votes will go and have always gone to the party that doesn’t want to kill people... So yeah I always vote Democrat.

Next time, just type “Bernie would’ve won” and save yourself the arrogant, nonsensical claptrap. Like suggesting Dems don’t prioritize working class people. Like suggesting spending money in the GA-06 was a ‘waste’ when they came thisclose to winning. And for fucks sake, stop whining about how people blame you for…

While I think it was a fool’s errand to try and turn G06 blue, running a Bernie type in that area would have been equally futile. I wish we went back to a 50 state strategy instead of some Dems trying to push Sanders types everywhere (that’s never going to happen in fucking West Virginia and it certainly didn’t help…

Yeah I have a republican neighbor who (before I unfriended her) went off on a tangent about how much she hates welfare because of some woman she once knew who was on welfare but drove a nicer, newer car than she did. I was like, girl, you do not know her life or how she got that car. Fuck you. (Seriously, people…

I’ve said it before, but I really wish only Republican voters had to suffer the consequences of Republican policies, and that democrat voters were able to reap the rewards of democrat policies. I know the country doesn’t work like this, but wouldn’t that be lovely? I mean, I’m sure they’d find a reason to stage a…

Two observations:
1) Handel is, even by current standards, a particularly loathsome creature. I think her win underscores the need for Democratic candidates and especially the Party to develop a coherent platform and a national strategy. Ossoff just proved the “I’m a nice white guy and I’m not Donald Trump” plan…

I love Michelle Obama but I will happily roll up my sleeves and fight dirty in the mud with these pieces of shit. Fuck the high road, Mrs. O.

At a certain point when a bully keeps pushing you around, you have to fight back. You can’t just sit there and let them keep hitting you while proclaiming that the rules prohibit…

How about we won’t take away your health care? We won’t interfere with your right to choose and won’t shut down women’s health clinics. We won’t cut funding to public education. We won’t hand over important things like our air traffic control to private industry. We’ll fight to keep net neutrality. I could go on and…

We have lost. The contest that mattered was last year. The one we lost while still shouting at each other about Bernie versus Hillary.

The high road sucks. I know Michelle Obama meant well, but “going high” doesn’t mean squat if you can’t get a seat at the table where major decisions get made for millions of Americans.

As a liberal, we have to stop being completely idealistic, and get out to vote for every single Dem. Time to start unifying and voting as a bloc instead of splintering between centrists, leftists, and every shade in between.