My high school special ed remedial reading students are doing a persuasive writing project on free college tuition (a topic they chose), and I had them read Elizabeth Warren’s essay from Monday. Next week they have to create a petition for a proposed new Constitutional amendment, and I’m going to have them post the…

I think she’s impressed a lot of people in the last few weeks. It’s still early on, and polls this early tend to favor name recognition, so there’s still a chance for her to keep earning people’s votes. And it looks like she’s working for them.

She is going ALL IN and I am here for it. 

No other candidate has worked as hard to earn my vote, and she’s not slowing down.

Any candidate can beat Trump. Any single candidate that’s declared so far can beat Trump and it’s defeatist thinking to believe otherwise. Trump has a fervent base, true, but it’s not large. He’s not magic. As long as Democrats don’t cannibalize themselves in the primary and shame people who supported candidates other…

All the women, at least, Buttigieg, Sanders, O’Rourke, etc. aren’t hurting for attention elsewhere. 

We know how politics works. The best plans wind up watered down for a hundred different reasons, usually bullshit ones.

Agreed! Warren is amazing and my current #1, and Harris is my favorite of the candidates who is courting big donors (pretty much everyone who isn’t Bernie or Warren). I wanted so much to like Gillibrand because of paid family leave and her work related to sexual assault, but she’s feeling flat for me (I still want her…

Agreed! I supported Sanders in 2016 initially, but I think Warren takes the best parts of Clinton and Sanders and makes this amazing person. I guess the problem with Warren is since she only really has one piece of baggage, it just makes it that much more noticeable. Still, I hope people don't write her off, and she…

If you like this woman, DONATE TO HER CAMPAIGN! Even if she isn’t your top choice or you aren’t “100% sold” on her, DONATE TO HER CAMPAIGN. Regardless of how she does in the primary, her policies are the best ones out there and can be used as a road map by whomever goes up against Trump.

I can’t vote for her, but I would if I could. I agree with her policy goals, and how she intends to reach them.

If a woman isn’t on the 2020 ticket in some way, shape or form I’mma lost my SHIT. People get really irrational with me when I make this demand, this craaaazy idea that 1 of 46 presidents should be a woman. The only women running I’m not excited about are Gabbard and Klobuchar. 

Her focus on policy is one of the reasons she’s my top pick right now. I have a really hard time imagining much of this being enacted, but I love that she’s putting them out there, and wish the media would give more attention to this than to the horse race stuff they usually focus on (not you all).

Okay this comment section is NUTS.

really unfortunate if we got rid of everybody who’s just an affectionate kind of person

Fair, and maybe he’s even more familiar than I thought but I have a hard time imagining him touching noses with Obama, smelling his hair, or kissing the back of his head before giving a speech. And hey, if that is their relationship, cool! But, it would still be inappropriate to behave that way at work, which is where …

Who gives a fuck who she supports? Biden needs to keep his hands off women. Period. It doesn’t matter why she brought it up.

Fuck off. If you think Flores is lying, just say so. But I’m guessing you don’t, because nothing in Lucy Flores’s account isn’t 100% in line with hundreds of pictures of Biden getting way too close to women from the past 40 years.  Having supported Sanders doesn’t disqualify her from sharing her experience, or for…

Have people completely fucking forgotten kindergarten? You do not get in someone’s personal space or touch them UNLESS THEY AGREE TO IT. This is especially true if you don’t know someone or are OH I DON’T KNOW, a powerful politician.

“...the larger culture that values a man’s perceived good intentions over a woman’s actual discomfort.” —This, yes!! A thousand times yes! This is what has us not react when someone comes in too close for an “affectionate” gesture. Or worse, when the gesture is not affectionate. We second guess ourselves, asking what…