I highly, highly recommend everyone read The Black Jacobins, which is generally considered the best book about the Haitian Revolution. And I would also recommend the Revolutions podcast part on the Haitian Revolution. Not nearly enough people understand the fascinating and historical history of it and how the US…

Good one. Coolgirling?

SAME. I am a candidate running for office in the midwest. I love Duckworth. But this mealy-mouthed, tepid, timid approach of other Dem candidates and of Dems in power, are driving me to DRINK. I want to go BOLD! But this free-floating fear is real and believe me when I tell you it is not limited to republican men! The…

“I think that you can’t win the White House without the Midwest and I don’t think you can go too far to the left and still win the Midwest,” Duckworth told Jake Tapper.

My age. They must be precisely my age and then they can be considered sensible.

Democrats are so out of touch they don’t even realize that there is no legislative or judicial or executive path out of this for the foreseeable. There’s a zero percent chance (it is in fact mathematically impossible) of winning a supermajority in the senate for impeachment, so Trump is staying his full term. The…

Maxine Waters was not saying “beat up people from the administration,” she was saying when you see people from the administration, don’t wait to fully organize an action — make your voice heard in that moment. Don’t make life convenient and peaceful for them, give them the same respect they give to immigrants, asylum…

Borrowing this from another thread because it’s just so appropriate:

Personally, I think it is VERY important that kids see racism, sexism etc in action so they can understand what it looks like and why it’s wrong. I wouldn’t let a kid read these books totally unsupervised, but I wouldn’t rule them out entirely. I got a lot of my love of the outdoors and desire to do things like cook,…

Nope. You can’t only be an advocate for disenfranchised people one day a year. That’s not good enough, not while children are separated from their parents, not while Holocaust memorials are vandalized, not while people are beaten for being gay or trans, not while unarmed black and brown people are shot dead by police,…

This is a critical point. My husband’s father is a Trump voter. He cannot ever admit fault about anything. And when challenged he immediately doubles down on his position. This is, of course, a major character flaw and comes from the fact that he comes from an emotionally abusive family and has zero sense of…

Preemptively posting a giant FUCK YOU to anyone who criticizes this action.

My problem with these books, and “badass” girl culture in general, is that it still puts the onus on women and girls to beat society at its own game, instead of on society (i.e. men and boys) to change.

The irony of her dining at a “Mexican” restaurant is mind-blowing.

I have just written a post about this.

I remember reading Solnit’s book, Men Explain Things to Me, and being blown away by one part in particular, a true story. I don’t remember it perfectly , but it went something like this.

Which is why those presenting themselves at the border, asking for asylum, are arrested and separated from their children. Apparently that’s illegal if you’re brown. Norwegians are welcome though.

These tent camps are unlicensed. They don’t have to give appropriate care with caregivers who have background checks and are trained to be with children. They have contracted ARMED Guards to work there. In 105 degrees these children are going to die.

Setting aside the obvious fallaciousness of correlating shark attacks to bleeding limbs (hint: most people aren’t bleeding when they get attacked), going into the ocean with a bloody foot would be both unusual and easily avoidable. However, you are comparing being a woman in public with a bloody foot, implicitly…