“My one son is buried on top of the hill,” she says evenly. “Nobody’s going to put a pipeline next to my son’s grave.”

This is an amazing piece, Anna. Thank you!

Slightly off-topic: IS anybody other than me finding it a little creepy that his daughter Ivanka, seems to be preparing to fulfill the FLOTUS role? It seems that Melania has little or no interest in being FLOTUS. In fact, her attitude this entire time has been more along the lines of “I did not sign up for this.”

Given that Gov. Snyder spent $3 million in taxpayer funds defending himself from Flint water crisis lawsuits, as a Michigan taxpayer I really don’t want to hear any whining from Republicans about how much it’s going to cost. A cost, by the way, which they have been grossly inflating, probably by including the costs of…

One of the most insane things about this? Trump screamed about a rigged system, lost the popular vote by nearly 3M, and the right-wingers are saying “everything is fine, recounts are dumb.” If the situation was reversed, you bet your sweet ass they would be threatening armed rebellion if there wasn’t a recount going…

Jill Stein has raised over 7.5 million dollars in private donations for the recounts. Most of the costs are coming out of that fund. It’s only “taxpayer money” in the sense that the people who voluntarily donated it are probably also taxpayers.

In case anyone out there was confused about how the voting/enfranchisement system was rigged, here it is. Jill Stein filed for a recount. She paid the required fees. And now, suddenly, she is not “aggrieved” enough to demand a recount. Any registered voter should be entitled to demand a recount if they can pay the…

Sorry, but he’s an adult. He has responsibility for his actions. He’s not a child suicide bomber. (Key word here: CHILD) And the fact that he can’t even say, “Oh crap, I did the stupidz the other day. I can’t believe I fell for this shit” says a LOT to me.

One other positive: My brother is transgender, and terribly, painfully shy. The internet allowed him to meet others, feel normal, and bond with other members of the LGBTQ community to navigate the long, hard process of first coming out as a lesbian, meeting his long-term partner who lived 1,000 miles away, then…

The only reason I would disagree is that it has allowed people living in repressive regimes to disseminate their stories. Countries often ban foreign journalists from reporting — or simply ban visas — but now if one has a digital camera and Internet access, one can upload evidence of atrocities in one’s backyard.

‘because y’all are raping our women and y’all are taking over our world.’

I don’t think he’s literally blaming ISIS for pizzagate. I think he’s pointing out that reactionary right wing zealots are using the internet to contact and radicalize stupid, disaffected men the way ISIS encourages sad scared Muslim men to attack others. The on,y difference is that ISIS claims credit for any attack…

I’m fucking with you. I’m just done. I can’t even believe how fucking stupid, racist, sexist, and just generally stupid a great deal of our population is.

From the NY Times:

Yeah, as frustrating as these people are, they’re really sad, too. The real monsters are the people knowingly posting fake news online, knowing stupid people will believe it. Maddison definitely needs some consequences for his storm-the-pizza-place-with-an-assault-rifle tactics, but he’s also obviously incredibly…

I absolutely detest that Alex Jones gained enough traction that I now know who he is. Anything he doesn’t want to believe is “fake”. NYMag had a heartbreaking piece today about a former Alex Jones listener whose son was killed in Newtown. And as a grieving parent has been trying to convince Jones and other hoax-ers…

False-flag operation, natch. Team Sane sends a crazy guy out to do a crazy thing claiming he’s working for Team Crazy, thus making Team Crazy look crazy to those who somehow weren’t clued in by all the crazy in Team Crazy’s brochure.

Yeah, the claim among the true believers is that it was a false flag attack to discredit the accusations by making them look like crazy, violent idiots.

can you imagine what that’s like? Going online, making friends with all the other conspiracy nuts? Now all of his friends think he’s part of a false flag operation? That’s gotta hurt.

Apparently Alex Jones is now saying that this was some sort of fake event staged by Hillary’s people.