Seriously I want to slap those rural white voters and yell at them that no, just because Trump is president doesn’t mean an unskilled high school dropout will magically get a $25 per hour factory job in the middle of cow pastures and soybean fields. Yes your benefits and food stamps will get cut some more like what…

They need to start gearing up and taking over federal property, since we know after Oregon that it’s legal and will result in no criminal sanctions.

I’m hopeful that he’s not actually racist, that he’s just used racist rhetoric to court voters

I think something like a ‘small actions’ calendar could be helpful for some folks. Like, okay, not everyone can drop their business and protest at random times, but if you make a commitment to do one thing every 2 weeks or every month, like, “Every other sunday I will write a congressman, or donate, or go to a talk,…

A belief in a massive competent conspiracy of shadowy humans isn’t that big of a leap from a belief in god. Both provide a comforting security blanket from the bleak terrifying possibility that humans are both stupid and alone.

The ’60s were a time of American prosperity not seen since, and that prosperity had social ripples that enabled suburban kids to grow up like Mike Lanza. Today, roaming free in a safe place is an enormous privilege for most American kids. Helicopter parents are a symptom of outrageous income inequality, not maternal…

I mean, the immediate effects of Brexit are a sharpish uptick in xenophobic violence and hate crimes and the recipients are decidedly not marble-mouthed, public educated, fully “assimilated,” fifteenth-generation folk of western European extraction who perform bland music in a plaintive, otherwise unremarkable wail.…