I so hope people are camping out to vote for Beto! I know the polls show Cruz in the lead, but I did phone bank calling for Beto’s campaign this weekend, and was very happily surprised at 1) the very high percentage of people I talked to who are Beto supporters and planned to vote and 2) I only talked directly to one…

The physical wounds healed quickly. I was (as were the doctors) so very worried that I was pregnant. THAT didn’t happen. I would’ve torn that fetus from my womb as soon as I possibly could if that had been the case and had to discuss that possibility and what we would do with my parents. My dad thought I was still a…

Thanks. I can’t even tell you how terrifying it was. I thought he was going to strangle me to death with that telephone cord. I still can’t handle anyone touching my neck. I try to present a very calm cool and collected I’ve-got-my-shit together demeanor at all times, but watching Dr. Ford testify in front of those…

Yeah but he is a walking caricature of this country, down to the way he dresses, his personality, insecurity, narcissism, disdain for truth and knowledge, mannerisms (or lack thereof), faux pas, blatant inability to relate to any single individual human, everything.

‘Working within the system’ isnt working, as you might have noticed, so yeah, more radical options should be weighed. In the mathematical limit, the Electoral College allows 21% of the population to pick a winner. Constitutional Amendment can be blocked by <10% of the population. And the Senate filibuster allows 10%…

California is vastly underpowered relative to its population in the federal government thanks to the Senate, the Amendment process, and the electoral college.   These structural problems are difficult to change working within an undemocratic system, perhaps the threat of losing a huge tax base would be enough to…

When I feel this way, I think about:

I guess that clears space in his calendar then.

‘The Trump administration has sued California for restoring net neutrality after the FCC struck it down last year.’

Oh God, I comforted mine so carefully the next morning so many times. The whole relationship was me trying to convince him he was good and him trying to convince me I was bad. He succeeded.

#metoo needs to start pushing for proper education around consent. This shit starts in childhood and is where the fight needs to start. The province of Ontario recently updated its sexual education curriculum to start educating children about consent starting in the first grade. It could probably go farther but I feel…

If the Dems are not prepared to grill Kavanaugh on Whelan’s batshit twitter thread, they all need to be catapulted into the sun.

YES, 100% THIS. I lost over one hundred pounds in my early 20s. I went from my opinion not mattering to actually being a person of importance. Steadily gained the weight back until I was tipping the scales at nearly 300 pounds in 2012. A visit to a doctor (for an unrelated illness) was a wakeup call, and I spend the…

Much more appropriate to have Dan Quayle get thrown under that thing.

Also consider the time period when this took place (Mid 1980s).

Love is a verb before it's a noun sometimes. You're doing everything right. 

Nonsense, Donnie! That’s just Marlon Bundo!

Chris Cuomo: “Mr. Guiliani, do you indeed wear diapers?”

I am shocked we don’t have more violent, destructive riots and I think that is going to change in the not so distant future. There is a large segment of young people from many different backgrounds who all have legitimate concerns with modern corporate/capitalist labor tactics. Concerns that are less nebulous than…

This notion that rioting and destruction are then go-to tactics of the anti-fascist protesters is being perpetrated by the right. I’m not trying to be a dick but it’s the same kind of talk used to shut down support for Black Lives Matter. They point to broken windows and freeways being blocked and say this movement…