Here’s hoping Planned Parenthood is still around by the end of next year.

Everything you just said I’ve felt: lack of appetite, didn’t sleep last night, felt like I’ve lost a loved one. I only became political in ‘08 with President Obama’s first run so I’ve never experienced what it feels like to lose something you’ve invested 18 months of your life in. Had she lost to someone like Kasich…

Don’t forgive her if you don’t want to. She’s the one who ruined your friendship and helped ruin this country and she can just deal with the debris.

I am feeling more numb today than I thought I would. I’m still trying to understand how my family voted for this. I feel so disconnected from them. I keep hearing how this election shouldn’t break up families and friendships but this wasn’t about Republicans vs. Democrats. This was about morals, ethics, and basic…

how long did that take, 18 hours? I havent turned on the news or listened to npr, i’ve just had fantasia’s stay up on repeat.

Thank you for the open thread and the amazing coverage.

Bent, but not broken.

Today I registered to volunteer for Planned Parenthood and signed up to make monthly donations to the ACLU.

The White House staff looking on during Pres. Obama’s remarks today:

The Pantsuit Nation has been breaking up into small local chapters. They’re beginning to organize if anyone is interested in looking up a local chapter. They’re interest is that they will offer public support for progressive female candidates and to educate lawmakers on progressive policy. In the main group one woman…

I want to send a pre-emptive piping hot GET FUCKED to all the idiots who are going to come out of the woodwork to say this happened because we weren’t nice enough to the angry white racist/sexist voters, and if only we had coddled them and respected their abhorrent viewpoints we wouldn’t be in this mess.

Staying in a country that elected the son of a Klan member with the support of every antisemitic hate group to be President doesn’t hold a lot of promise.

The world has changed. This morning the KKK made appearance over I-40 not 15 minutes from Chapel Hill and Durham in NC. It’s horrifying.

I remember being horrified and appalled by people in my family saying Obama would get assassinated before taking office and spare the country of his presidency. Now I can’t help but entertain the thought of it happening to Trump. Politics brings out the worst in us.

Literally who are these people. Who saw gay conversion therapy and thought that looked fucking dandy. Fuck them.

I am likely much older than you, and also leaning on the harder fights of the women who came before me, in the first wave. We will never give up, any of us. Heads high!

We half-joked about moving to Israel. We’re not joking any more. I’m a lawyer. My job qualifications are tied to being in America. If I leave, I will have no marketable skills.

Good, because here’s what I wrote over on the “It’s Real” post:

Thank you for this space to talk, and for describing our collective grief.

I blame all of your racist White relatives, including your parents. Those are the kinds of people that got Trump elected. The “silent” majority.