The income analogy is a good angle. What people also don’t understand is that the military drains so, so much of the budget. Or that they, their kids, their parents, etc. all benefit from public school. And the post office. And the many other things that come from taxes.

This is the part that I always find fascinating and slightly hilarious: voters want so many things (infrastructure, a larger military, more money for prison to keep “those people” in check) and the idiots don’t realize that they don’t get that when they slash the very budgets of the institutions that provide these…

The sheer amount of “news” online that isn’t vetted is so dangerous. And people are capable of vetting the stories themselves, but they just won’t take the initiative. I will tell students not to include made up sources (at least once a year I get a “vaccines cause autism” research paper) and will carefully explain…

It’s mandatory at my university, and some of the high schools near here incorporate it into the curriculum, but it’s sorely needed across all schools. Having to evaluate source’s credibility and authors’ bias is by far superior to having to write to standardized tests’ prompts that in no way prepare them for source…

I also don’t speak to my parents, and they also said something like that to me. Pretty sure that comment is somewhere in a “Estrangement might be the best option” textbook, ironically.

I know!!! But part of me thinks that the reporters understand that he will pivot to another issue (ISIS, his double chin, etc.). On the other hand, journalists so rarely hold politicians’ feet to the fire. Instead, they report it and hold Americans’ accountable to determine whether we can trust Trump. Only, really,…

I teach rhetoric (so, so fun this time of year) in college, and I can tell you that kids of all political ideologies struggle so hard with having to provide evidence. We’ve done so much to decimate our education system and to promote the idea that educated people are elitist snobs. When faced with determining a…

Criticizing an individual who has explicitly tied himself to racist ideology is a hell of a lot different than combining ALL MUSLIMS into one label. That’s the difference. Guess us crazy libtards prefer not to stereotype an entire religion but do like to interrogate a racist, hate-spreading man who will be so close to…

I’m not sure that Romney’s “about face” is any better. Romney campaigned to get him off the primary and then cozied up to him after it was all clear and he wanted a cabinet position. It disgusts me that people crave power so powerfully in this country that they are willing to sell their ideas and back a racist idiot…

Not to mention that Chelsea was poised to be the only kid in history to have BOTH parents be president. So she would have spent 12-16 years under the microscope. At least the media wasn’t as brutal to her this time...you know, they just were when she was a teen. Not at all a tough time for girls. /s

I read on NPR, too, that people completely dependent on life-sustaining meds VOTED TRUMP because they had to drive like one county over for a doctor. They threw the baby out with the bath water. Now they will have no insurance. Why do we all have this idea that programs meant to help a huge array of people of various…

Not to mention that, having been both super poor and without insurance, if I had a tax break, that money would have gone towards necessities. While we should view insurance as a necessity, it’s so, so expensive and if $1200 if a drop in the insurance bucket, might as well spend it on the groceries you need. That’s why…

Tweeting classified info seems like a given. He’s like that shit friend everyone had in elementary school who swore she/he would keep your secret and made it 2 seconds before blurting it out to the playground.

I feel like nearly any one capable of critical thought already hates him and his policies, and I’m not sure that these tweet articles do much to convince his followers that he doesn’t shit rainbows and steel industry jobs. So rather than see yet another ridiculously stupid tweet, at this point, I’d rather see some…

I feel like a major concern here isn’t only that he’s unstable, it’s that he clearly cannot differentiate fake news from real. It’s funny, NPR just had a great article on how our students struggle with this because social media and ads promote fake articles...sounds like he’s no better than a middle school student in…

...when your daughter discovers snapchat filters....as you sit on a private plane. #everyday #commonman #workingclassbillionaire.

I’ve been trying to follow this, but I’m confused. Did he mandate that they all show up? Also, he’s not the president yet, so they wouldn’t have to go, right? Not trolling, just confused by what’s going on in the pic?

As a current NC resident (in a very progressive city—yes, we have some!). I I hope to god he’s out. From jailing protesters, to handing cookies to women furious over abortion rights, to passing the heinous HB2 at night in secret, this guy deserves to go down as a one-term governor. He doesn’t care a flying fuck about…

Honestly, I think it’s super brave for people to explain their experience, and I think we benefit by being honest about mental illness, rape, etc. But my problem is that often the therapists are awful. Outing myself as a reality tv lover here (Teen Mom, ha!), but I’ve seen Dr. Drew give appalling advice to victims of…

It’s crazy though how many teachers might buy into this. I taught middle school back in the day and I had students who were destitute (as in, owned at most, one pair of pants), and they would wear torn clothes. I was supposed to force the child to go home or to dress them in the lost and found clothes. Even though…