Yeah, I got a call from my father that said “Well, your sister asked me and now she knows, so I guess I have to tell the rest of you.”

I found out my dad married my stepmother (nee his mistress) after I found a Valentine’s day card on their mantle that said “To My Wife” on it. Some adults are emotionally immature narcissists and shouldn’t have had children.

I am a full grown adult and if one of my parents announced that to me over the phone I would also be upset, even if I had the emotional capacity to process it afterward.

My dad married four more times after my mom divorced his drunk, cheating ass and I only found out about each one of them after the deed was done. It kills me to see how poorly people handle their kids (who should come first IMO) when they meet someone and decide to marry.

Yeah, I’d be fucking mad too if my mom FaceTimed me, a 9-year-old child, from a dinner with her boyfriend’s kids, which I wasn’t invited to, and told that those kids are about to be my stepsiblings. What the actual fuck, who announces an engagement over FaceTime to their minor children who live with them?!

Some of the difficulty with collaboration could be that apparently everyone around them is on Johnny's payroll. 

I’m so sorry you experienced something so horrific. It is incredible that despite dealing with that, you’re able to speak up now— and I know that people reading this are going to find something they need in your story, thank you.

All I see on social media is people laughing at her and making her the butt of jokes, calling her a liar, saying she’s making it all up, that she’s a horrible actress on the stand because she’s not believable, that her lies are detrimental to “real” abuse survivors; it’s honestly making me feel crazy, I feel like I am…

I believe Amber Heard, and quite honestly I can understand a lot of her reactions. Disclosure, I was also in a mutually abusive relationship. It started out with him berating me, and verbally/mentally abusing me (what an embarrassment I was to him, even down to my southern accent, etc) but I slapped him first. I left…

Nah, I literally called them allegations, which are by definition unproven. That said, her behavior of recording and photographing regularly seems consistent with someone who was in a really bad situation behind closed doors and knew that no one else was seeing what was really going on. And from my own sexual assault,…

great, insightful article. am I the only one who remembers them chanting “Jews will not replace us” in Charlottesville though? Obviously this doesn’t change the meaning it’s just a more explicit statement of anti-Semitism and makes it even more clear how modern white supremacists still rely on Nazism as the basis of…

Weren’t they chanting “The Jews will not replace us?”

Countries beside the US that enforce capital punishment: Sudan, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Iran, Egypt, Angola, and Afghanistan

NGL, if that’s all you “see,” then you may want to consider how much bigger and more diverse this country is than your Twitter feed tells you.

It’s always telling how y’all do everything in your power to blame the women (Ginsburg, Clinton) or black men (Obama) for your own failure to put others ahead of your own stupid purity.

Alito has never been strong on intellectual honesty and consistency.

One of my favorite YouTuber’s did a video on how gas stoves are not only bad for you, but for the environment as well:

The cruel nostalgia for the good old days of complete disregard for women’s lives is the point. Dude had to reach all the way back to the 17th century Puritanism for support of a ruling designed to affect 21st century lives. When they believed placing the father’s hat on a laboring woman’s belly relieved childbirth…

He’s quite good at picking and choosing the historical sources he intends to use to support whatever outcome he’s chosen. Most sources from that time would not have considered pre-quickening abortion to be a serious crime, but Alito would prefer to find the ones that match the decision he’s already reached.

Great point and important observation. It goes to show, that to the extent that abortion was not historically viewed as a “fundamental” right, it is because historically it was men who got to decide what was “fundamental,” and those men who decided women’s right to bodily autonomy didn’t include abortion also thought…