California is red in the countryside, just like Texas. It’s blue in the cities, just like Texas. Trump got 52% of the vote in Texas. That means nearly half the people here did not vote GOP. The only difference is that CA has bigger cities. Texas will be purple the next two elections. If the Dems had run someone other…

The thing is, this shit will spread to other states. Also Texas is not a crazy place. It is simply in control of crazy people. Look at the blue and red areas. Just like everywhere else in the country, Texas is blue in all the cities and red in the countryside. Unlike other states, Texas is also a minority-majority…

THIS. One of the things that really annoyed me about all the focus on the bathroom bans is that trans people (a tiny percentage of the population btw) were being discriminated against and then suddenly famous musicians and businesses decided to boycott the entire state in solidarity. Great. I think it’s great when…

Men who want the worlds of medicine and biology to be neat and easy so that they will not have to undergo the personal discomfort of reconsidering their opinions of women. It’s classic cognitive dissonance.

I’m sure it’s totally understandable that you did not know since you were not taught otherwise, but it’s hard to really see that from the other side. So I have to ask- how did you think that worked, medically? I mean, did you think the sperm hit the egg and then just spontaneously formed a baby? Like, how did you…

I think we should start a campaign to get women who have had early term abortions (95% are in the first four months) to take pictures of the remains so that we can fucking take back control of what this actually looks like instead of letting the cultural idea of abortion be influenced by those protestors with signs of…

This is what they do with pets. I’m sure it’s possible with medical waste.

I wonder actually if the registry would be counter productive to their aims. Since around a quarter to a third of all women have had an abortion, plenty of them are “good” women- Republicans and Christians and grandmas. It might do the country some good to come to terms with the fact that this is a very common medical…

Chilling. And you are correct. I’d add also the cultural affect of linking the abortion with a funeral for a child which is intended to shame women and add an unnecessary emotional/moral burden to the medical procedure.

See there! All said way better than I could say it. Of course those are just excerpts but I think issues of belonging, purpose and identity are not enough (though super important). We actually need to address the economic issues and work/community/school issues that lead to this alienation in what is otherwise a free…

Our library doubles as a homeless shelter, lol.

Yes! Me too! Any library in a decent sized city will have all of them. They are all pretty major names. But if you are a reader, it’s worth getting familiar with the used books options on Amazon. I got Binder’s “After the Music Stopped” and Baker’s “Rigged” for under five dollars. Just about everything Chomsky has…

I’m not particularly smart myself. I just read smart people. If you are interested in this stuff, then some people writing about this include Yanis Varoufakis, David Harvey, Alan Binder, Noam Chomsky and Dean Baker.

I think the first step would be a firewall between public institutions and private institutions and a complete overturning of the neoliberal market actions beginning mostly in the early 80s and continuing until today that created the giant wealth divide. Right now we are looking at a system in which the public funds…

Yup. I read that NYTimes round table interview with him a few days ago. They ask him some questions, he gives bullshit answers, and really there is nowhere to go from there. He clearly doesn’t know what he’s talking about and doesn’t care if it makes sense, so it’s hard to really hold his feet to the fire since he…

You forgot the win of rugged individualism over sissified PC nanny state tree huggers.

It’s a waste of time and money that could be spent organizing a progressive movement against Trump (imagine the number of people we could bus to DC to protest his policies at the inauguration and then network with activists from across the country). It’s also a short-sighted goal instead of long-term election reform…

The quality of nachos is directly proportional to the number of alcoholic beverages consumed.

I disagree (about what we teach kids). I think we need to radically restructure society so that it offers more to average people than service industry jobs, financial/medical insecurity, broken families, alienated communities, and endless war abroad. I agree about ISIS recruitment 100%.

I’m in the minority here, but I think challenging the election is a TERRIBLE idea. I think we need massive election reform in this country- top to bottom. Including the way campaigns are financed, the way voting is conducted, the way oversight is conducted, the way the electors vote, everything needs to be massively…