If Roma Downey didn’t throw a punch and then yell, “You just got touched by an angel bitch!” she really missed a golden opportunity.

Helen Keller, as she was presented in the history books of my day, really wasn’t a “historical figure.” It was a feel-good story of a blind/deaf girl learning to communicate. Keller’s later activism wasn’t even mentioned. It seemed meant to help instill the patriotic propaganda: You can do anything! See? This…

chores? Seriously, did you even read that part? It is both the statements of Moses and Soon-Yi that Mia treated her adopted children like slaves that she trotted out in order to give her a White Savior image in magazines. 

Their entire “love story” is a textbook case of grooming. If her claims of abuse by Mia are true, far from discrediting the idea that he groomed Soon-Yi, it would have made her a more likely target. Abusers will often pose as “saviors” to get troubled children to trust them. He’s scum.

She helped co-found the ACLU. She’s kind of like Martin Luther King; she get’s really inconvenient when you learn what she stood for besides disability rights.

I agree, but a big problem is that many (all? most?) states follow Texas’s lead in textbook purchasing. Because they’re so big—it some economy of scale thing. I am not explaining well, but let me look for a source:

Fun fact. Hellen Keller was uber socalist.

It’s infuriating how sex workers are targeted and how their portrayal in the media of how they are targeted is treated as flippant and insignificant. Even the AP tried it by changing their tweet from “women” to “prostitutes” about this event.

Avenatti asked Carlson why he didn’t refer to Trump as a “creepy porn president” when Trump was the one screwing a porn star without a condom while his wife had just given birth.

I voted for Bernie in the last primary, I like him and I like his platform. He has absolutely no business running for president again. There's a lot of negative baggage he'd be carrying from the Bros and what turned into a pretty ugly in-fight and oh yeah HE'S TOO FECKIN OLD. Sit back and let someone else have a go.

Or maybe we dont need another fuckin’ actor running the government.

Maybe people should run for lower offices before they consider running for major offices like governor or president. Or even have some political experience. Haven’t we learned from the Trump shitshow that you want someone who knows what s/he’s doing running things?

So much this.

Another read could be, a person with experience beats a person without experience after a state saw on a national stage what happens when you put someone with no experience but lots of promises in power. That or a persons campaign lost which was focused on a city when running for a statewide role. Both of these could…

That’s what I wanted. I didn’t want to vote for Cuomo, but I also didn’t want to vote for an actress with no political experience for governor.

Democrats continue to get steamrolled by Republicans with this line of thinking. They don’t have to move to the center. Dems lose because they try to win over unwinnable portions of the electorate while alienating their base with this nonsense logic. 

Bad Man Politician Wins Primary Against Actress. Amateur Hour Over.

“if Cuomo actually follows through on half of them”

Bitch bye.

While I would have voted for Nixon were I a New Yorker, it’s unfortunate that left leaning Democrats couldn’t get a more experienced candidate to face Cuomo.  I think Nixon could make a fine politician, and I hope she runs for some other offices.  Maybe after accumulating more political experience, she could become…