I really dislike people talking about misogyny and racism as opposing, even competing forces. Even if it wasn’t overly simplistic, it implies that misogyny and racism are two discrete, non intersecting forces of oppression, and that misogyny therefore only happens to white women. Women of color (like Holtzclaw’s…

With all my intuitive, witchy powers I tell you I have long believed Kanye to be bipolar. Love him, feel for him, he’s a blowhard but brilliant. Let’s try a little compassion- when it comes to mental illness, celebs are really just like us- except sometimes the fishbowl exacerbates the delusions and makes it harder…

“No title of nobility shall be granted by the United States: and no person holding any office of profit or trust under them, shall, without the consent of the Congress, accept of any present, emolument, office, or title, of any kind whatever, from any king, prince, or foreign state.”

He’s still talking about Hamilton, not the fact that Trump is filling his cabinet with fascists, or Trump’s unprecedented settlement for fraud, or his essentially selling presidential favor to foreign dignitaries crawling over each other to give his family money and stay at his hotel in the hope of currying favor.…

And just like that - POOF! - all mentions of $25 million dollar fraud-settlement, business meetings with Indian business partners, Ivanka sitting in on the meeting with Japanese leader - gone. Scrubbed, completely, from our collective memory. Hey, at least it’s tidy! 

We need to stop using the term “family values.” There’s got to be something more accurate, like “retrograde hatred values.”

This is a nightmare for those who are worried about immigration. Jeff Sessions is extremely dangerous because he actually knows quite a lot about how the immigration system works, in minute details. He’s not a dumb man either. He knows exactly where to stick the knife.

I’m afraid that may be the plan. I mean, Bangladeshi garment workers died in the hundreds in factory fires within the last five years, and they were employed by American companies. That’s just the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire all over again, perpetrated by the same capitalists except in a different location. …

Trump’s idea of “doing well” means taking rights away from a lot of people. So no, I don’t hope he does well.

The best part of these letters is that, for the most part, they serve to show how deeply our public servants care about the cause for which they serve. These people are speaking anonymously and thus have little reason to lie, and what I get from reading these pieces is the terror that Trump will undo the work they’ve…

Can we start a foundation for women who have to travel for abortions that pays for the cost of transport, accommodation, medical costs, child care, and lost wages? Because I want to do that!

Yep. If you’re a billionaire (or whatever Donald is), going to another state for an abortion is trivial. For many people, it’s an insurmountable obstacle.

This man is a hero, and a very prescient one. In Jia’s interview, he said he knew it wasn’t going to get any better for reproductive freedom in this country. At the time, I thought he was a bit of a cynic. I know all too well what he means now.

You can bet your ass if the wife or daughter of any of these fuckwads investigating Dr. Hern needed an abortion, late term or otherwise, they’d have nine million excuses why it was okay for them, just not the rest of us.

We will not be ok, but we will survive.

I really wish that Oprah had never brought Dr.’s Phil & Oz out of the grays.

Can anyone explain to me why dumb people think people who aren’t in the country legally can get on welfare? It’s already too hard for people who have never even left the country to get government assistance.

America will. There are vulnerable people here who might not.

As a black man who talks white enough to fit in to white suburbia well I am surrounded by coded racism constantly. I couldnt be less surprised by this if I tried. 8 years later there are still allegedly intelligent and credible people who believe Obama is the secret leader of ISIS because hes black and his fucking…

I am part German, and for as long as I can remember, Americans have asked me how on earth Hitler could have been elected in such an advanced and wealthy nation. Perhaps they will no longer have to ask.