I’ve been putting thought into how we can encourage people to run—for school board, for city council, for whatever. My small idea is to encourage people to tag friends/family on social media they think would make good candidates. I’m trying to think of hashtags to go along with it. Kinja, let me know what you think of…

Oh, it’s stupid. I just like being able to call out hypocrites.

Hey, look what I found! https://www.facebook.com/trumpgolfcounter.us/

Yup, I think that’s exactly it. Followed by “Police make vague statement about deploying police ‘to ensure protesters’ safety’ when asked to justify.”

Thanks you. I needed this. One headline, one glimmer of hope, that didn’t make me want to throw up or take a baseball bat to something.

Hey, not all of us—oh, who am I kidding. You’re right.

Seconded.

A friend of mine who marched in the Twin Cities wrote a very moving post that basically started with “Yesterday was just a pep talk, we need to keep fighting every day.”

I got through the first paragraph of Siriano’s and then there were too many emotions. These next/last 24 hours are going to be hard.

My mom, who no health insurance company would cover if they had the choice, said yesterday that if she ever loses her coverage, she’d consider doing this, since she’d be dead soon enough anyway. I told her I was not a fan of this idea. Then she said maybe she could shoot the president, and die before they have the…

This man is Trump with less money and more melanin. But just as insecure and petty: http://www.jsonline.com/story/news/investigations/daniel-bice/2017/01/17/bice-man-accuses-clarke-harassment-airport/96639472/

I saw a post that basically said, “Don’t watch. TV ratings are the only thing he understands.”

Amen, from a fellow white woman. Jamelle Bouie had a great piece in Slate about Jesse Jackson’s Rainbow Coalition, and how he tried to weave together both economic and identity issues. I don’t see why it’s so hard for politicians to do that...

Mine is “What’s your line? If you’re okay with voting for a narcissist who continually espouses racist, sexist, xenophobic views because you agree with his economic policy, what line would he have to cross to lose your support?”

I’ve found a very useful way to explain it is “Just because you have white/male/able-bodied/etc. privilege doesn’t mean bad things don’t happen to you. It just means bad things don’t happen to you (or are exacerbated) because you’re white/male/able-bodied/etc.”

The major difference is that most of those believes developed over hundreds of years, before science could tell us there wasn’t actually an angry god in that volcano and that person who came back from the dead was actually just in a coma. They took on meaning, rather than being created out of whole cloth by an…

Are those points redeemable for Seamless discounts and shipping from Powell’s?

Yes, this is what enraged me. I remember thinking, “Don’t use me as your fucking excuse, you fucking pile of garbage.” Then I told my mom if the ‘race war’ ever came, I was gonna sign up to be a race traitor. My mother, saint that she is, just nodded politely.

Just gonna leave this here.

My mother is like a horse whisperer for conservatives. Her mantra is “meet them where they’re at.” She asks a lot of questions. For instance, this is a conversation she had last month with a right-wing houseguest: “Why do you support Trump?” “You liberals think we’re all stupid.” “I don’t think you’re stupid. Why do…