thank you for your story. I do agree that universal childcare would be a tremendous boon to working families I would put universal healthcare as a higher, if not the highest priority for our next President. Just imagine had your situation been further impacted by a severe health issue with either parent or one of your…

Your mom sounds like a hero. This hits so close to home. My husband and I have two kids (2.5 and 3 months) and this year daycare will cost us $29,000. We don’t live in a high income area, and these are the average prices. This is just what it costs. We are both currently working 2 jobs to pay for it while we both look…

If your support for Warren was based on her political stances, I hope you reconsider.

Several comments here seem to imply I’m some sort of Bernie Bro out to convert Warren supporters into abandoning her. I still really like Elizabeth. I understand why she’s still supported and I don’t view her, or anyone who will vote for her, in a remotely negative light. If anything, I’m disappointed in Pete dropping…

Like who? Openly gay politicians in America is not precisely a deep bench. Tammy Baldwin? Barney Frank? (LOLZ) But really, just Tammy Baldwin.

To be fair, I think he was ahead of Biden because he remembered what office he was running for and didn't continually tell people to vote for someone else.

My hot take:  Pete would have had a better shot cruising in the left lane with Sanders and Warren rather than trying to eat some mediocre cake in the middle lane.

My worst birthday (so far!!!) was my 9th. My parents decided that I was ready to help take care of the big dog I’d/they’d always wanted, so as an early gift, they gave me an Old English Sheepdog puppy about 4 weeks before my birthday. I was in puppy heaven for the first couple days until he became  very sick, and was…

In 6th grade, I had a small party with a few friends at a skating rink. It wasn’t like a “party”, we just got dropped off to go skating and none of our parents stayed.

My worst was my 6th. It was my first year in school and so the first one where a bunch of kids were invited. And a lot of kids showed up. Sounds good, right? Problem was my alcoholic mother was in no way equipped to deal with a houseful of little kids and parents she didn’t know. So she was taking frequent trips to…

On the day of my 40th, I signed my mom’s DNR paperwork.

23rd birthday. I was dating a man who was ten years older than me. He told me to ~wear a dress.~ I got to his place (note: he didn’t come to mine, and yes, he did live over an hour away). He said, “I got something for you for your birthday!” It was a liter of coke (because cans are too expensive) and a bottle of rum.…

To be fair to the author, this story does say that as well.

What apparently began as an alcohol-fueled game of “get in the suitcase”

by the time they found him he was just carry on

Shown the video by investigators, Boone agreed that it looked “bad.”

Sometimes I wish we had a thread like deadspin used to have, the up all night ones that were open threads? But we don’t and I guess it’s tangentially related because it’s concerning politics but I’m volunteering at a Sanders rally in Nashville tomorrow and I’m freaking excited!! He’s not going to be there, it will be…

you seem upset?

It’s kind of astonishing to me, after 2016 and all the ways it should have demonstrated that political elites are out of touch with the American electorate, something like 95% of people paid to talk about politics have no idea what they are talking about, and are completely unable to place anything about the current…

Even on the Supreme Court, I have doubts. He’s certainly not going to replace either RBG or Breyer with equally liberal justices. My guess is that he would pick what amounted to a Democratic John Roberts clone for either one. If Thomas goes, then okay, but almost anyone would be better than Thomas anyway.