And after identifying herself as unqualified to write about race in the NYT in 2016 because she is white.

As a fair skinned Puerto Rican, how am I supposed to act then? Am I playing when I identify with my culture? Sure I look white but when anyone sees my last name I’m just another “Hispanic”. Growing up in the Bronx I was never brown enough for the Afro Latinos, or white enough for the actual white people. This is an…

I’m Latin American and pasty white. Should I return my passport and forget I speak Spanish? This isn’t about race and there isn’t a right or wrong way to be Latino. Be critical of people on the actual substance of what they’re saying, not their identity.

How does any sort of Puerto Rican heritage qualify her to write about Mexican immigrants?  

Everyone tends to forget that! Hillary won 65,853,514 votes! People didn’t balk at voting for a woman! It’s galactically infortunate fluke of geography that she isn’t our president now. The majority of Americans who voted voted for her.  

If Biden gets the nom he needs to ask Warren, if Bernie gets the nom, he needs to ask Klobuchar. We need a ticket with both a moderate /and/ a progressive, if we want both the moderate /and/ the progressive wings of the party to turn out the vote. Otherwise we /will/ get a second term of trump, regardless who gets the…

This is the same thing I told my husband and my mother. And what else, I’d like to say... I love Warren. If Bernie gets the nom, he needs to ask Klobuchar to be his VP though, so that it is a Moderate and a Progressive, same as if Biden gets the nom, he should ask Warren, for the same reasons. The only way we are…

I agree. Al Gore lost (well, the Supreme Court tipped that one), John Kerry lost and I’m very afraid Biden will also lose.

You are so right.

odious galoot

Four years ago, a woman garnered millions more votes in this country.

Our first woman president will be a VP who steps into office because one of these old white men kick off. It’s really depressing that’s where we need to start, but I’m beginning to think there’s no other way.

Yes thank you thank you thank you! The fighting about whether or not someone would beat him is fucking useless! He’ll be beat if we all come together and validate that truly anyone is better and if those Sanders fuckers don’t get on board they are not true progressives.  They are high-minded idealists who refuse to…

Yeah, in retrospect, one of the things that the Sanders and Warren campaigns really should have hammered home, relentlessly and even before the campaigns officially started, is that we need to be less afraid of Donald Trump, and more afraid of Mitch McConnell.

Our daycare costs exactly as much as our rent and the inclusion of it into our budget has pushed us so close to the red that I have a panic attack roughly 1x/week trying to deal with it. And it seems like I can’t talk to anyone about it because everyone’s advice is ‘cut back on your expenses’ - like that’s some sort…

My mom was a single mother in the early 90s with three small girls. She worked two jobs, drove us to school when she could and put us on the bus when she couldn’t. We started feeding ourselves when we were very small and doing laundry early too because my mom literally couldn’t do everything. We too learned to be…

I just don’t think anyone who hasn’t had an infant to 4 year old in the last 15 years has any clue how much even a crappy daycare costs. And guess what, those of us who have are just trying to get through the day and not able to make this issue known.

I have a 1 y/o and a 4.5 y/o who is heading to kindergarten in August. I'm ridiculously excited to only be paying $14k in childcare over the next year, instead of $27k.

Your mom sounds like a hero. This hits so close to home. My husband and I have two kids (2.5 and 3 months) and this year daycare will cost us $29,000. We don’t live in a high income area, and these are the average prices. This is just what it costs. We are both currently working 2 jobs to pay for it while we both look…

I watched it and really liked it. One thing not mentioned in your essay was the aspect of his suicidal Twitter posts. Do we blame Arianna? No. But as it was reported, she was frantically searching for him so it appeared that she felt some sort of responsibility. So to go on and do that Vogue story she knew would hurt…