Why are so many people leaving at once?? It’s nuts. Glad to hear Jezebel is hanging around, but it’s weird that there’s such a big, sudden exodus.

If they actually cared about keeping him off the ballot, they would have challenged his signatures. That’s all they had to do, but they didn’t even bother to do that. You can tell how much they care about overt (as opposed to subtle, which has been there a long, long time) white supremacy/nationalism taking over the…

I’m guessing that the conversations they have are productive, and that she feels he’s seeing it and learning from it, and that like any learning process, he’s going to fuck up over time, and it’ll take time to fully internalize. At some point, it may be time to say he’s never going to learn and write him off, but it…

The Federalist Society. The whole list is from them. Samantha Bee did a great piece on it, actually.

I definitely think this is a time for peaceful, nonviolent, rigorous civil disobedience. When officials cloister themselves away and refuse to even make themselves available for public comment, and then commit violations of human rights and defend it with blatant lies, then they leave people no choice but to confront…

Here’s a notable update: “The former director of the Office of Government Ethics said on Saturday that White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders’s decision to tweet about being kicked out of a Virginia restaurant violated ethics laws.” http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/393816-ex-white-house-ethics-chi…

Ohio’s population numbers aren’t that different. https://www.statista.com/statistics/306050/ohio-population-ethnicity-race/

I’m sure I’m not the first one to think of this, but it’s incredible they have almost literally become this cartoon by Dr. Seuss.

Not to mention, her dad said he was proud that his daughter had become the face of what is happening, to bring more awareness and compassion to it. But you know, he’s a brown person so who gives a shit what he says.

Have you been to trumphotels.org yet?

I’m not for protesting outside the schools of their children, because aside from it being bad full stop, if we scare and threaten their kids, their kids are going to hate us and not understand what we are protesting. But mainly, the point is that traumatizing children is bad, no matter whose children it is. Period.

Yeah, and the fact that management stood back and didn’t intervene in the protest at all, and that diners clapped along with and supported the protesters, is kind of beautiful.

Unfortunately, an isolationist and far right nationalist regime typically responds to sanctions by doubling down, passing the pain along to the people while finding ways to skim off the top for themselves.

Given their repeated attempts to cut medical coverage for pregnant women, including labor and delivery, you can’t even really call them pro-birth. They’re anti-choice, not pro-life. They care about a fetus insofar as it’s a political pawn to secure the evangelical vote. That means banning abortion, and ranting about…

Trump wouldn’t need to sign it if there were enough members of the GOP who actually had a conscience and any real sense of morality.

Yep. And it’s irrelevant. I would still defend her right to take a break from an essentially really intense, unpaid job.

None of us has any ideas what their marriage is really like or why they’re together - it’s all speculation. And I don’t really care. He’s a genuinely awful person and she’s not that much better, she was into the birther b.s., too. But regardless of how terrible they are, one shouldn’t have to divorce their spouse over…

I have complex thoughts about this missing Melania thing. Mostly around the fact that the First Lady is unpaid and yet expected to do a huge amount of essentially free labor. I am in no way a fan of the Trumps, but like, I don’t actually care if she’s not been seen in public.

The only reason I’d care if she’s not been…

Exactly. But of course they don’t have to make sense, because they’re not about making sense. They’re about making abortion impossible for the poor and middle class to obtain. And yet they’re also gutting public services to support people who have more kids. It’s the agenda of cruelty that is the GOP.

This.