While surely there are voters that would rather vote for a man over a woman, I think Hillary was a unique case. She’s basically been the subject of a 30-year right-wing hit campaign (a lot of which is steeped in sexism, going back to her time as First Lady). She’s still the favorite punching bag on the right, 2+ years…

I’m just gonna assume all of the male “standard bearers” are actually the worst offenders at this point, like how the most virulent anti-gay politicians are secretly on Grindr or tap-dancing in a men’s restroom at the airport

The Republicans don’t have majority support, so they have to restrict voting access in order to continue to win. Ditto gerrymandering (just look at the clusterfuck in WI right now, where we’re starting to see a whole new brand of GOP fuckery). Democrats do better when everyone is allowed to vote. Democrats won the…

But we can’t make Election Day a national holiday because it would be too disruptive...? smdh

The cash bail system is a horrible problem, and absolutely punishes people for being poor. Studies also show that you are better able to prepare for your trial/defense if you’re allowed to await your court date at home. At least here in California, it also costs $100 a day to keep someone in jail while they await…

I agree, I don’t think they should be able to do that. It just would have been awful if Trump&Co used that to avoid responsibility, but I trust that Mueller has planned for all of these potential outcomes.

Yeah, there is a SCOTUS case that could impact the ability for someone to be charged at both the state and federal level for the same crimes. As far as I can tell, it hasn’t been resolved yet but please correct me if i’m wrong.

He should get his blank-ass row on the graphic, he earned that row by having one of the most scandal-free administrations in history. Carter is also missing from the list, and that angel of a man did not sell his peanut farm to not get his blank-ass row too

I’m beginning to suspect they don’t really care about protecting women from rapists, domestic violence, or other sex abusers. Just look at that horrific new report from the Miami Herald about Jeffrey Epstein. The prosecutor who buried the case of serial child abuse is now even the Sec. of Labor under Trump. I wonder…

White privilege + internalized misogyny is a hell of a drug.

Yup https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance

It’s almost like she should be Speaker with that skill set.

Same in the Bay Area too, where they basically invaded one day

Whenever I read about visiting Ohio, it always reminds me of this video:

Maybe it’s the laws in each country, and the ones in the US grant these Catholic hospitals more leeway in restricting the activities of the doctors they employ/the services offered? I really don’t know, but it’s interesting that it is different in Canada when (presumably) Catholics are the same here as they are there.

Because it doesn’t raise to Holocaust-levels of brutality (though I’d say indiscriminately gassing innocent women & children for no reason other than their nationality and immigration status is closer to the Holocaust than I’m sure he’d like to admit), it means not only should we not care about these refugees, anyone…

The way she was treated by Senate Republicans is a disgrace through and through, but that aspect of it really pissed me off. Fuck you Susan Collins, women know who they were assaulted by. It was so condescending and shitty.

There is no $110b arms deal either. This is all about himself and keeping the $ flowing to his hotels (in case that wasn’t already obvious). He doesn’t give two shits about the long-term damage he is doing to this country and the fact that we are all less safe because he’s the Peak Narcissist.

I’ve accidentally done this, with a friend I was meeting up with at the time. Nothing makes you want a hole to open up and swallow you hole more than sending a screenshot of a conversation to the person you were talking about. It wasn’t even anything particularly bad, just so cringey

What is the saying in Spanish?