And they’ve said things like that before. Then they capitulate when they get the right offer.

Yeah if the Dems don’t refuse to seat anyone using the same argument the Republicans did then they don’t deserve to be in power. No high road bullshit this time. 

I am just going to say this but she should have retired in 2014 when the Dems still held the Senate and she knew she had end stage pancreatic cancer. She was an icon but that doesn’t mean she didn’t fuck us totally by not stepping down. 

Merrick Garland

“When trees fall down, after a short period of time, about 18 months, they become very dry, they become really like a matchstick. And they get up, you know, there’s no more water pouring through, and they become very very, they just explode. They can explode.”

I’ve got my coffee table soaking in the bathtub just in case....

Two days ago here in Oregon, we had fog mixed in with the smoke. It’s still here, because the sun can’t get through the smoke to burn it off.

basically the whole country

Every. Single. Day.

I realize that Wesley Snipe’s tax issues were far more complicated, but he still got three years.

has been sentenced to nine months of community service after being found guilty of evading almost $10 million in taxes

Chris Evans has been really open about his struggles with anxiety and I just honestly felt bad for him. It was a fuck-up anyone could have made, and I found it genuinely sweet that so many people started flooding Twitter with pictures of him and his dog to drown out the earlier tweets.

I mean, if she was worth her salt, she’d be parting them out for that sweet, sweet, Planned Parenthood fetus money. 

Um. Even those states nurses don’t just toss fetuses (chrome doesn’t auto-select fetuses btw) into an inicerator.

Which is frightening, considering kids are living things too! ;)

Why do they think we’ll fall for the sealed-envelope-isn’t-about-you nonsense?! Incredible! 

My dad read a study that said kids who take up a musical instrument are better at math. So he signed me up for violin. He never told me so when I failed to show up, the orchestra teacher, a strange man I’d never met, got me out of class and told me to come with him. I was terrified.

I love how I just refer to my mom right off the bat as “she” like she’s always on my mind (she is) (help me, Freud). 

Thank you for this post. I really needed a pick me up after reading the latest fascist BS from donald. Love you, Jezebel.