Agreed. I truly believe that celebs can have some platform for social issues: for instance, being open about a particular issue usually lets teens and adults feel more comfortable with themselves. But asking celebs about political views/political ideas: this is what put Trump in office. Just because you’re famous,…

I could care less whether T Swift or any other pop star calls out Trump. I would like journalists, Congressmen, and Governors to call him out, though. Too much to ask?

I’m shocked by how no one was bothered or angered over how often the coaches pushed us to change grades. One of my students was 18 and illiterate: he couldn’t even spell his own name. He also missed 56 days of high school, and his mother wasn’t even bothered because “he already had a full ride to University of…

I was in a really, really bad school district too. Sharing my room was confusing when I first started ( I replaced another teacher halfway through the year who just couldn’t anymore) and I felt so awful for the teachers who had all their teaching materials: tests, books, papers, and even purse and lunch on a cart that…

Also, too, my public school was so bad that I didn’t have access to my room to plan because the “floating’ teachers who had no rooms took my room during that hour, so I had to wait it out in the lounge, which didn’t even have wifi or space to plan. So it was really just a time for me to try to catch up on grading 120…

I’ve taught school in all kinds of capacities since 2008: Middle school, high school, adjuncting at private colleges, and teaching full-time(ish) at public schools in the south. The lack of respect for teachers by parents, students, admins, and our culture at large is infuriating and baffling. I have no clue why…

I grew up in a landlocked state with a father in the CG (he specialized in a kind of lake tower system). It was awful. They viewed us as outsiders, complained that we lived in their town and that the CG had a “base” there (it was literally 5 houses on the same street), wouldn’t let their kids play with us because my…

Yes, being accessible at all time is no joke. I teach college classes, and we are expected to get back to students’ emails pretty much immediately 8-10pm, at my college, and then you have to put in a clause explaining why you don’t check email at night! This means that even on my honeymoon/on weekends, I carry the…

They really are and have been for some time. Years ago, I didn’t have the cash for an iphone (I literally didn’t have a family to get a plan with in 2011), and I went to a work conference. Because I couch surfed in a friend’s apartment, and didn’t have a cell phone, I missed where the panel head asked us all for…

I fucking hate CNN. Why the fuck don’t these people just immediately call them out on their bullshit. Maybe ask: How much do you think the average iphone costs per month? How much do you think insurance costs per person without a job? With a job, how much do you think a visit for a physical costs per visit? Do you…

Oh, I agree. We so unabashedly admire the wealthy and assume they are our best representatives. Meanwhile, they show us again and again that they are willing to exploit us, but that never matters somehow, because we hope one day we can exploit others as well.

I don’t get having public assistance and voting Republican. They are literally voting against their self-interest. Sometimes I think that the hatred for the poor runs so deep in this country that unless you are wealthy, you believe you are owed nothing, even to the point that people will have their own health…

Ha, I’m poor too. I live below the poverty line. But when the news talks about the “plight of the white lower class” they aren’t talking about you and me. They aren’t talking about the left. They are talking about those who willingly voted Trump and turned a blind eye to his racism, his misogyny, his stupidity,…

Yeah, I don’t get why people aren’t bothered by it. Trump’s own stupidity and distrust of intelligence is what led to her husband’s death and then he exploited her grief by pretending to know what her husband would think about all this, even though military experts agreed that this was a huge fuck up. I have such…

My sorrow for the “plight of the white lower class” is nearly zero, and I’m both white and liberal. I’ve seen the poorest parts of my family consistently vote for people who don’t want to raise minimum wage, who take health care away from them, who exploit them, and who justify all of it by arguing that illegals are…

They also brought guns, and claimed they were worried about their own friends’ safety....you know, the friends who went out of their way to intimidate others and scare them. THOSE were the ones needing protection.

He also was furious when one of his SC Justices ended up more liberal on the bench than he imagined and wasn’t much of a proponent for anti-segregation beliefs, so I really have no clue what this chart is claiming.

She’s also ignoring how many feminist women came before her who paved the way for women to even just vote. Not to mention, I’m sure she has no clue that the very base she panders to is the same one uncomfortable with women in power, and she’s probably not exempt from that.

This is perfect.

I just was just about to post this. These assholes will go so far to justify how they are exempt from the same things they revile: they fear shootings, but the rest of us don’t get gun protection; they all have health care that we subsidize, but we better not give it to the poor. And their dumbass constituents EAT…