There is nothing more difficult than standing in front of a group of people and letting silence be. (I know this from my teaching career...). It’s interesting to see the audience reaction - silence makes people so uncomfortable! Some feel the need to fill it - cheering, chanting etc - until the silence sinks in. …

After 3 weeks in Austin, a community in a state of terror over the actions of a “home-schooled” Christian young man with “challenges” in the big, bad world...I am sick and fucking tired of every violent, privileged, white male asshole being treated like he’s something other than a terrorist just because he’s not…

I saw that, but I didn’t know he got banned for it! This is some straight-up horseshit.

I was sure it was sorting out: he starred a comment of mine yesterday. Fuck.

Uh-oh! McMaster is out, Bolton in as Nat’l Security Advisor. This is bad. This is we’re going to war bad.

Hi, dears.

This ain’t good. Any sort of moderating voice just went out the door. Bolton wants to basically kill anyone who is not American. He is a big proponent of using military force to solve any problem. War with N.K. may have just gotten a little closer. Yet another Fox News nutter added to the administration.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg would stomp a mud hole in Donnie like Yoda on crack.

YUP!!!! I was sold by Kate McKinnon, and while I don’t know how well Heughan will translate out of period work, I am soooo ready.

So, apropos of nothing, and for some levity: I was on the “employment opportunities” part of whitehouse.gov, and at the very bottom of the page where you can submit a resume, there was this beautiful question:

Trump famously refused to sell his businesses upon taking office, opting for a blind trust

Obligatory:

YOUR PRESIDENT CAN’T EVEN STAY FAITHFUL TO ONE, TWO, OR THREE DIFFERENT WIVES AND YOU WANT YOUNG AMERICANS TO PRACTICE ABSTINENCE? Someone interview these people and tell them to just eff off already!

As for the requirement that unlicensed facilities disclose that information to clients, crisis clinics argued that such a disclosure is an excessive burden.

They forced a shutdown over this and the American people blamed them for putting brown foreign kids over “real Americans.” I know it’s fun to blame Democrats, but the problem is that most Americans are incredibly racist and even the woke ones are unwilling to give up even an iota of their own comfort for DACA…

C’mon Bundo, you know what to do....

Flake and Gowdy are retiring and have nothing to lose in saying anything and nobody except TV hosts takes Lindsay Graham seriously. Until a big, well-known Republican (especially Ryan or McConnell) issues a declarative statement and one with teeth, you should assume that if Trump gets rid of Mueller, they will do…

How many red lines has he crossed already? Honestly he can clearly do whatever the hell he wants to, and unless Republicans pass legislation protecting Mueller and making him fully independent, we’re always going to have this hanging over our heads. They managed to kill the Congressional investigation, it’s just a…

I’m having a physical reaction to this that I can only describe as rage vomiting.

Terry is not going to backdown from violent backlash. Terry is fighting the good fight. Terry is a fucking national treasure. NINE NINE!