You know, on a day like today, when the SCOTUS has handed the power to the fascists, we needed this.

I liked this guy, as you do celebrities that are fun to watch. I had so much respect and appreciation for him when he shared his #metoo moment, then I happened to listen to him on the Anna Faris is Unqualified podcast and I literally fell in love. It was a rollercoaster to listen to him, but he flipped the script with…

Terry crushes toxic masculinity!

Same in NC.  We used to be a pretty solidly purple state until they made the districts such that blue votes count for very little.  Which is how we ended up with a democratic governor and one of the most ridiculous state legislatures in the country. :(

This is a saddening dose of reality. Even if the blue wave sweeps out Trump and the GOP, we’ll still be fucked for years to come because we have a Supreme Court that will gladly rule on the side of sexism, bigotry, and racism.

Picked up Madaddam by Margaret Atwood again this weekend. It’s been the hardest to get through in the series for me, but I immediately thought this game comes straight out of that world.

i really had hope for all these cases. This is so depressing. Dems have to overcome so much to have a shot in Nov.

Right? I was thinking this is some rich-people-in-the-Purge-level shit.

I tried, I tried SO HARD to tell the Berners that the ONLY thing that mattered was the Supreme Court and the seat on it that McConnell was trying to steal from Obama. Hillary being president may have been just soooo awful for the average 3rd party or non-voter to handle, but at least the Supreme Court wouldn’t be…

As a Texan, this aggravates me: the state still holds to a reactionary and aggressive Republican ideal, when the population is steadily (and probably already is) no longer sharing the same party as the majority of the government. This is the sort of thing that’s going to continue to discourage voting, and it’s already…

5-4 along party lines.

And they just did the opposite. Fuck.

They really don’t have to. Turns out that gerrymandering the fuck out of a state is necessary to secure a GOP super majority, and that is because leaving things fair naturally favors Democrats. The whole reason they do this is because they know they truly do not hold a majority’s mandate.

This. I’m old enough to remember that until 1969, the men arrested in police nuisance raids of gay bars would have their names published in the daily newspaper, often resulting in losing jobs. Rogers wasn’t rejecting him - he was looking out for him (and the show). Also worth noting that the marriage-for-appearances…

THIS. This article perfectly encapsulates why I can’t stand Rich’s articles.

I agree that you can’t call this homophobia on Rogers part (imho). He didn’t reject Clemmons, quite the opposite. He did pragmatically admit the reality of the situation. If he kept going out to gay bars, he’d get outed and fired. That was the reality and completely out of Roger’s hands. The ending of the article in…

Yes, this exactly. I don’t see these “cracks”. Especially with this quote from Mr. Rogers about Clemmons, “Many of the wrong people will get the worst idea, and we don’t want them thinking and talking about you like that.” i.e., many folks would call Clemmons a pedophile just because he was gay. It really seems like…

Agreed. Par for the course at that time would have been to fire him. If Rogers were truly homophobic, he would have and no one would have batted an eye.

I have seen a couple of sites trying to make a fuss out of this and say that homophobia was some sort of skeleton in Fred Rogers’ closet. But that is really judging people of half a century ago by the morality of today. It is amazing that Clemmons wasn’t fired. Gay people (especially men) around children was regarded…

But still, it illustrates the finite nature of Mr. Rogers’s ideals. “I like you just the way you are,” he often said, but in the case of Clemmons there was a caveat: “...I just need you to show less of the way you are.” This information through the lens of contemporary culture, in which an employer legislating what…