The nominee for surgeon general — Dr. Jerome Adams — seems pretty good too. He got Pence to allow needle exchanges to help stop an outbreak of AIDS/HIV (which Pence caused due to some asinine policy).

I will miss you and Shade Court — which has been key to my survival of the Orange Cheeto apocalypse. That being said, good luck with the Black-ish spinoff. Blackish is a big favorite in my household.

My parents were/are like that (not surprising my sister developed an ED). I was a competitive swimmer and, as a result, I was never overweight but I wasn’t skinny either. When I was 15, my mom grabbed my butt and told me I needed to lose 10 pounds. This contributed to an almost 10-year stint of somewhat disordered…

It seems that all the police need to say is that they felt threatened and they are free to shoot whatever African-American man they would like. My heart breaks. The officer was so clearly out of control. What kind of training do they receive that they can’t even have a civil conversation for more than 2 minutes before…

My sister is a long-term anorexic (35 years). The disease will probably kill her, but, more sadly, at this point she has just become the disease. There’s almost nothing left of herself — she’s been reduced to food hoarding, calorie counting, exercising, etc. I have no relationship with her. The last time I saw her,…

This reminded me of my Catholic school experience, where all the altar boys talked about staying away from one particular priest. I was a “good girl” and chosen to straighten the missals in church on Mondays. One day, the rectory had me swap out all the old missals for the new ones. It took me several hours. My…

So she won me during this interview where she defended her love of cats.

Barron deserves privacy. I just find the plan to gut education, especially money for kids with special needs, supremely hypocritical when, most likely, Barron has autism but they can afford expensive private schools to meet his needs — unlike most families with special needs kids.

I love her so much, but I’m poor.

She signed up to have sex with this asshole for the money. I have zero sympathy.

And I say this as a mom who had to retrieve her son from summer camp after 90 minutes because it was too new/stimulating/anxiety-producing etc. for my son to handle. Fuck DeVos and the GOP who are so uncaring for kids with special needs.

I think it is our business since DeVos is busy trying to gut education spending for special needs kids.

I’ve always like Julia Stiles. That’s all I wanted to say.

Do they not realize that shade court is how I am surviving the Trump era?

I strongly suspect he has autism (as a mom with a son on the spectrum).

My 12 year old is about 3 inches taller than me now, and hugging, etc. is weird. Plus she’s in that stage where she doesn’t want to be hugged or kissed or have her picture taken.

Thanks. I thought made some great points. Your family dinners sound like ours. My kids are African American, and I’m a historian, so we are often talking about political and social issues. My 12 year old daughter either roles her eyes at me or offers some interesting insights.

My specialty is US women’s history (my dissertation was on how California women lobbied for and then used the vote in the 1910s), but I c0ver a lot of black history in my classes. I’m a cross between a political and social historian in that I’m interested in how regular people experienced and participated in political…

Dear women,

I have a few thoughts about this as a historian (I’m definitely not an artist):