Perhaps it is important not to sanitize the struggle? It may also give us notice that we may have to endure our own dark times in protecting democracy.

Eight years ago I was sitting in a bar on the North Side of Chicago, drunk and watching television and celebrating something I thought I’d never see in my life. Eight years and two different cities later I’m sitting in a chair on the East Coast and tearing up a little.

Moonlight winning was fucking awesome. I literally stood up and cheered when it was announced. I’m already preparing to be pissed off when it inevitably loses to La La Land in the Oscars.

This man needs to be working non-stop. Moonlight was just so...affecting. It was beautiful. He was beautiful. Such a nuanced performance, from him and the kids who played the younger versions of Chiron. I would definitely like to see Moonlight again. And I’m not into seeing movies twice, for the most part.

I think you mean the “Exxon-Mobil Red Bull Why America is Awesome” textbooks of the future.

Not just quietly, secretly. Unannounced, behind closed doors, with no roll call or record of votes, on a national holiday, under the wire so there was no time to fight against it. A secret vote to give them explicit control over investigations into their own misdeeds. A decision that keeps them from being accused of…

Right. I sort of don’t like casting Trump supporters as naive. You had to be willfully ignorant to not get the agenda Trump and Co. were pushing. You had to cling to your stupidity with tenacity, basically putting your hands over your ears and screaming “nah nah nah, I can’t hear you” while the rest of us desperately…

I need Wayne to get out this contract and Birdman needs pimp slapping. He’s so gross. Why Toni Braxton is doing that to herself is beyond me. Girl no. Ew Birdman.

My favorite part was her accepting the award from the Final Five looking like Bey’Glinda the Good Witch of the Durty South lording over her little Olympic munchkins, and Laurie freaking-the-hell out.

The fact that Trump gave Ted Cruz a chance to address the convention is just more evidence that his campaign is completely incompetent. I mean, he went after the guy’s wife and father and mocked him relentlessly at the end of the campaign; how could Trump have thought that Cruz’s speech would be supportive?

We had the most infuriating conversation about that in my law school property class. There were people who tried to argue that the Rondo neighborhood only got demolished because that made 94 a straight shot. Right. That’s definitely it. Certainly no other reason.

No, you actually aren’t wrong. Just because they were off-duty doesn’t mean they weren’t on the job. Cops still retain their power when off-duty and therefore also have to obey their oath when off-duty. I mean yeah, working private security means they can walk off the job at whim and not face professional…

Once again confirming that I, a person whose ancestors were brought to U.S. shores 200+ years ago—long before the immigrant ancestors of many a white person—am still not a “Real American” with the rights of full citizenship. Thanks, Joe Walsh, for reminding me.

This has been flooding my timeline, but I won’t watch it. I can’t watch people die anymore. Cameras do nothing. Laws are being reinforced to protect police from prosecution and to give them even more leeway to kill black people without consequence.

the bae-est.

YASSS. I love this Beyoncé. I finally connect with her as an artist. Lemonade did it for me. Fucking badass. She makes me feel like a natural woman.

Please keep in mind that Omar Mateen has been on FBI radars since 2013 for possible connections to ISIS terrorist activity: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/…