I’m assuming the irony of your response passed right over you.

My co-worker who commutes from Maryland was also confused about the lack of salt trucks. And there was no hint of it in the city this morning. It’s not like this is a surprise. Instead DC thought, “People will be fine. They’ll just figure it out, right?”

I was just talking about how great the CWG is. They’re solid.

I’ll take the modest win. This has been put on the backburner going on 3 years now. And is the tip of the iceberg of what’s needed.

There are things the feds can do, most notably reinforce the parts of the Voting Rights Act that were gutted. There was a push for it in 2014. Even when limited to regulating certain states, the VRA still set the standard and signaled to states the voter suppression tactics that weren’t worth the fight. I believe…

I think there are a lot of ways to be an advocate as well as an ally. Not everyone will have the tools to do the things we might think will be most effective. So they should use what they have to at least move the needle forward in some way and contribute. I’m not gonna give it a cookie, but I’m not gonna be mad at…

We shouldn’t neglect that the response to them has been overwhelmingly positive, including my own response. But honestly, I expect people to do the right thing and not be overly concerned about whether they get criticized or praised either way.

One explanation for being so hard on white women is that there is a sense of betrayal because they should know better having experienced a form of oppression themselves. Thus, when they choose whiteness, it feels like an abandonment rather than with white men who were never potentially with is on anything in the first…

I will always push back on this sentiment. If you’re doing something because it’s the right thing to do, it won’t matter whether there’s a strain of criticism amidst overwhelming support. We need to stop enabling white fragility and validating that the right thing to do must be “appreciated” to be valid and useful. If…

One of my cats is the most friendly little dude ever UNLESS you pet it at the base of it’s tail Boy does she hate that. 

Again, I side-eye any Alamo enthusiast as a potential psychopath.

FWIW, I went to Texas schools from K-12 and I don’t remember inappropriate Jesus-y stuff getting through. Other dumb pro-Texas stuff sure, but they kept Jesus to a minimum. So fingers crossed for more teachers with some good sense.

In this entire block of spew, there is exactly one thing that is true: voter ID is, in fact, very important.

I agree 100%. That’s the formula I expect going forward unless inspiration strikes. He’ll always have an audience.

Oh wow! What a force she’s been all these years. It sounds like a really wonderful transition for her tenure of service. Such a powerhouse—that entire family is full of amazing public servants.

I still really don’t get what this piece is supposed to be. Is it purely feel-good liberal fanfic? Fine, that’s interesting enough.

It says in the text that they’re using Dolester Miles’ recipe. I see this as a teachable moment of the right and true superiority of sweet potato pie.

They’ve done that on Great British Bakeoff too. I couldn’t wrap my head around it even though it kinds makes sense.

Even though I think they mostly taste the same, I still prefer sweet potato. It makes a difference that pumpkin so often comes from the can while sweet potato is fresher. And the consistency is more interesting. I might just make one this weekend, yum...

I don’t think I even saw a pumpkin pie up close until I was in my mid-20s when I went to Thanksgiving dinner with a friend in West Virginia.