The Kushners, Tomi Lahran, Omarosa, Milo; I want to buy each of them a drink, sit them down, and tell every single one of them, “you’re not special.” When Steve Bannon plots the race war to violently rid the world of the Jewish illuminati, he isn’t thinking to himself, “except the rich, finance guy married to the…

Well, Miss Manners says it’s totally cool for a host to evict a guest who is either there without invitation or who has overstayed their welcome. And as Miss Manners is the ultimate authority on host behavior...

Ehhh, with all the while supremacy and Muslim bans, I think you’re going to need two green checks next to “Persecuted Muggle-borns.”

I’ll see your bet on Born That Way and raise you Poker Face. No way Pence knows that song is about trying to make sure the dude you’re banging doesn’t realize you’re thinking about banging girl the whole time.

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I’m going to assume your response got Kinja’d, either the lack of threading tripped you up or your response was added to the wrong comment. But just in case: I am well aware that martial law is the imposition of military rule over a civilian population (as opposed to Military Law. I was responding to GELLA-LLAP’s…

The Marshall Law we already have is quite sufficient, thank you. Lovely law library.

Clearly the violence is a multifactoral problem. Our police force is in bad shape and public confidence in it is very low. If the federal government wants to help with that, we’ll gladly take it. Ditto for restoring funding to Cure Violence, which has had tremendous success in reducing and calming violence in…

Um... Won’t this basically crater the economy though? Or if not crater send us into a new great recession? (Make Recessions Great Again?)

My husband and I were considering a second child. But last week I told him, Nope. I don’t feel like it’s safe enough for ME in this country to have another child. If something goes wrong, I don’t trust that I will be able to get adequate and timely medical care to save me. When I was pregnant the first time around…

If this goes to the Supreme Court, I wonder if anyone will try to argue it’s unconstitutional based on the 13th Amendment? I’ve never loved the privacy grounds found in RvW. NARAL and PP MUST be looking for other constitutional rationals as part of their strategy for the fight ahead.

As someone noted on an earlier thread, if you put enough cardiac cells together in a petri dish, they’ll beat. I’ve seen it, it’s neat! It does not make the petri dish alive in my opinion.

The text of the bill isn’t available at the link, but does anyone know if there is a health exemption at all? Because pregnancy isn’t risk free. For example;

We got lucky and found an excellent nanny share so for the first 2 years of my daughter’s life we only paid $18,750 a year in child care. Year 2-3 was down to $14,500. Now that she’s 3, we will be paying less for child care each month than we do for rent for the first time in her life but it will still be over…

Yeah, I figured out right-quick that “working from home” with a child actually means, “being a shitty parent AND a shitty employee simultaneously!” pretty quickly the first time I tried it. That’s why I laugh whenever a company tries to tell me they are “family friendly” because they provide telecommuting.

Sorry, not Austin. But you will have an international drag fest in a few months!

This afternoon I took my biracial preschooler to the feminist book store for drag queens story time and bought her a copy of A is for Activist.

We’re trying to do the samr. We adopted a family and I tried to explain to my 3 year old this morning why some families won’t have Christmas in a way she’ll grasp. She doesn’t yet seen to get systemic poverty, but was excited for the chance to be Santa. That was pretty heartening and I’m trying to encourage that…

It’s also 21.7 times less likely than dying due to pregnancy or childbirth related causes. (15.9 maternal deaths per 100,000 in 2012 according to the CDC).

Awww! And now I’m weirdly sad because, I too, pilfered my Grandmother’s romance novels at an early age.