I think you’ll find that after this election, the world will never consider Americans trustworthy. This problem will persist long after Trump has left office. People will always know that the voters in this country cannot be trusted not to put someone like him in power.

You’re making my point. This isn’t about feelings and these marches were all feelings. If you don’t have power, actual power where laws are made and deals are struck, all you have are your feelings. The civil rights leaders of the 1960s did not think their protests were cute, fun, thrilling, or whatever. They knew…

I try to remind people on the left who smugly bask in what they describe as “Hillary’s defeat,” that Hillary’s gonna be just fine in ways they won’t. I am certain that she struggles not to think about that sack of urine soaked shit sitting in the seat she deserves to have, but she’ll go on. Unlike them, she won’t want…

How will you resist what is going on right now? How will you resist Rex Tillerson and his oil extravaganza? How will you resist Jeff Sessions when he won’t investigate violations of civil rights? How will you resist the Trump administration’s newly stated policy of removing “harmful restrictions” on drilling, coal…

There is no way for what remains of our representatives to stop him. Liberals decided that purity, showing their anger at the establishment (you know, the people they want to fight for their interests), and disdain for the DNC was the most important thing. Paul Ryan, not Nancy Pelosi, decides if a bill even gets to…

How is this brave? Marching with hundreds of thousands of people who agree with you is not brave. Marching across the Edmund Pettis bridge, freedom riding, sit-ins at segregated lunch counters, boycotts, and facing down the cops in the south, the KKK, and the various bigots who had no compunction about attacking civil…

I won’t march because I’m wondering where the hell were these people before the election and mobilizing voters to stop Trump? Where were these hundreds of thousands of people to help GOTV in their states? Did all of these people vote? Where were they in the 2010 and 2014 elections to vote against Republicans who were…

Can you explain to me why you’re angry and think I am a troll? I’ve been around long enough and you’d be hard pressed to find any trolling (except trolling trolls). You used to star my posts, we’d discuss things, and mock High Sparrow Bernie and his neckbeard Faith Militant. We were always cool with each other and…

First of all, there is no such thing as being proven “innocent” in US law. His not guilty verdict is based on the government’s inability, in the eyes of the jurors, did not rise to the level of a reasonable doubt to convict. That in no way means he didn’t do it. And, as we are private citizens of the United States, we…

I thought it was really classy and appropriate for him to bring his six year old daughter to an interview during which he know would be asked about raping a woman and offering her up to his friends. Was he using her as a human shield thinking the interviewer wouldn’t ask such questions in front of a small child? He’s…

It has happened. Two of his supporters attacked a homeless Latino man. They called him a Mexican, hurled slurs, said Trump is right, and then pissed on him. This was months ago.

You and I have always gotten on. Why are you mad at me? If I did or said something offensive to you, please point it out so that I can offer an explanation and apologize for having said something offensive or hurtful to you. Seriously. We were allies against BernieBros. I’ve never had a beef with you and I want to…

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It would certainly help if police and the DOJ would start classifying crimes committed against women because they are women as hate crimes. Gender and sex are included in hate crimes statutes, but they are rarely invoked. George Sodini’s mass killing was a hate crime directed at women because he was angry with them.…

Women’s prisons are totally uninteresting to the readers here unless it involves a transgender woman wanting to transfer into one. There almost zero coverage of what happens in women’s prisons and, worse still, the people who write here and their readers present women’s prisons as rape-free zones despite inmates…

Not that you care, otherwise you’d know this, but women in prison often don’t have access to pads, tampons, or medication to mitigate menstrual related illnesses. I know that this might get me called transphobic, but I simply have to acknowledge that most women in prison have gynecological needs as they tend to be…

Openly gay men or men perceived to be gay are also at higher risk to be sexually assaulted. Should they and other men a prison designates as particularly vulnerable or likely to be targeted for rape be sent to women’s prisons too? The answer to ending rape in prisons is not sending transgender women to women’s…

The issue of the toothpaste is over stockpiling. Some prisoners stockpile all sorts of things for different purposes, and some think that ingesting lots of toothpaste or other toiletries they are given, is a way to commit suicide. And, seeing as she stockpiled her medication until she felt she had enough to kill…

If you’re going to come for Hillary on issues of race, mass incarceration, and the crime bill, you need to come for Joe Biden first. Joe Biden wrote that law and he campaigned for office as a happy drug warrior. Yes, VAWA was a wonderful and very necessary law, but all of the scorn Hillary gets for supporting the…

I’m talking about how the outside world views and treats us. So long as anti-black racism persists within popular culture, the media, financial institutions, the educational system, and the design of communities, we will be permanent outcasts here. You can all the faith in our community that you want, but not only…