This a million times. If a woman thinks she’s having a healthy baby, she is looking at a 6-week, unpaid, maternity leave and searching for affordable childcare to watch her infant when she returns to work. Having a seriously sick child who can’t go to a normal daycare means this woman will lose her job because she…
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Absolutely. I fully support daily reminders that he lost the popular vote, that black women were not there for him, that his approval ratings are a historical low for a new president. Because it enrages him, and worries him, and humiliates him.
My parents were loving, open, non judgemental parents who gave reasonable freedoms and consequences. They are the best parents Ive ever seen. I still felt that way. I hid everything. Because they just “wouldn’t understand.” I hid when my best friend tried to murder me bc they wouldn’t get that she was sick, they’d…
Ya the ACLU responded to the vague threat Spicer made in that... display. You can’t even really call it a press conference because he came in, chastised the press, lied 4 times, and stormed off like a goddamned fool. If they think they’re going to keep saying up is down just to show they can, they’re going to be in…
Here’s a great article explaining why she and her husband are so involved in education: http://m.motherjones.com/politics/2017/01/betsy-devos-christian-schools-vouchers-charter-education-secretary
Betsy DeVos reminds me of all the terrible parents my public school teacher father has told me horror stories about. Over his career, he’s experienced parents who have yelled at him, patronized him, asked him how much his salary is, tried to bribe him to give their kids extra time on tests or better grades, people who…
Why I am marching today (See you soon, NYC!):
I had a coworker during the recession who was unemployed for 2 years before getting the job and she was a devout “Christian” who always voted republican. I explained to her that the only reason that she was able to get unemployment benefits for 2 years was because democrats fought for it and that republicans would do…
It’s true. Many of us will be ok. I live in a liberal city in a liberal state with a good job and reasonable health insurance, and while I could always use more money, I’m not in danger of not being able to pay my bills and I’m not at risk for becoming homeless. If I lost my job, I have family who are able to lend me…
A friend at a party this weekend responded to a sarcastic “We’ll be fine!...” with “No, seriously, most of us in this room will be fine. And we need to remember that if things seem bad to us, they’re a thousand times worse for many others.”
Perhaps this is me grasping at straws, but I wonder if part of the inevitability of autocracy and failure of resistence in Gessen’s experience is at all related to the fact that Russians had already lived under an oppressive government for generations before Putin came along.
In my more Pollyanna moments, I hope that…
I’m down with dancing in the streets. It would have the double effect of making Mr. Orange crazy since he can’t take any wine slightly protesting him or his administration in any possible way.
Same!
I really don’t see that happening. Did you not pay attention to her Senate run? They will go all fucking in on the Cherokee thing, plus it will not help that she has only been a Democrat for 15 years. Again, the alt-left bros are already viciously going after her for failing their purity tests (which, surely…
True, but these speeches & questions do reinforce how much easier it is to look good when you’re part of the opposition party and have no real power.
Me too. He’d win, too. Apart from his drug use in the 70s (which he’s never hidden) the right has nothing on him. He’s progressive enough for the Bernie crowd but intersectional enough for the Hillary crowd.
10/10 would vote for Al Franken. ETA also my home state senator Bennett (who I did vote for but have not always been super impressed with) is impressing me today.
I wouldn’t count on her being incompetent, if I were you. Unfortunately.
prediction: he will go on a record-low number of international trips, instead inviting foreign dignitaries to do state visits here (and stay at his hotel).