A lot of my “not being productive” is due to disability and illness. I’m v leftist but fuck putting productivity on a pedestal which I think communism does way too much. Needless to say, I can’t afford a domestic worker to help me clean etc. but it would be super useful and helpful to me on days that I’m very ill. 

The gig economy is ruining things, gonna say it.

Everything Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says in her platform is true. The status of working people in the United States has been in a free fall since Reagan. That free fall has to stop and we need to join the civilized world in getting health care, education and protection from corporate criminals for our tax dollars.

I just need to vent about this idiotic idea of arming teachers as a solution. While I have tremendous sympathy to those victims and their families who might see this as at least giving them a fighting chance to survive, it’s wrongheaded in so many ways. A military style assault weapon, like the AR-15 is a designed to…

I get where you’re going with this, and I don’t disagree, but I know plenty of decent men who grew up watching porn and managed to also see women as their equals.

This couldn’t be more Hunger Games if the billionaires were throwing up macaroons. President Yellow Snow has found his Katniss though cause Emma is coming for him.

Splinter is an unfortunate shit-show. The writing generally isn’t great (which is unfortunate, because some of their longer-form pieces are interesting conceptually), they love to gratuitously shit on the Dems to prove how edgy and progressive they are, and the commenting base is not good, to put it mildly (a mix of…

Imagining the fawning over Warren doing this same thing is gross.

Fuck them.

I noticed little activity in my FB feed yesterday as this was occurring along with some predictable ageist and sexist comments, but in an alternate universe a certain Senator performed the same actions as a filibuster (sans 4-inch heels) and everyone wept with admiration.

The democrats major problem is that they have no faith in their base. The DNC needs to realize, and I truly hope the Alabama election showed that, their problem isn’t that people are getting turned off by an idea being too radical... it’s that people aren’t getting excited by candidates, and on top of that, the…

I can’t wait to vote in 2018.

I’m torn because this seems like a cheap political stunt which will accomplish almost nothing, but on the other hand it’s not like House Democrats have any leverage. 2018 elections can’t come soon enough.

Not only that, but the photo accompanying the headline that Dems are selling out is Pelosi, who is actually fighting for DACA, instead of Schumer, who pushed through the spending bill that does nothing about DACA.

Me too. Instead we have hot takes on Splinter that the Dems have caved.

Exactly. I ranted somewhat less coherently about some of these same points upthread.

You know, there was just something about her I didn’t like.<coughvaginacough> She just didn’t have a smile I could trust. Plus, both parties are the same.

That news about Kennedy is really disappointing. Hopefully he sees that no matter how ready for retirement he may be, having Trump appoint his replacement would be an absolute travesty, and that is enough to fuel him for three more years.

Hollywood v. Georgia? Turmp’s projecting again. This guy wants to be loved by the rich and famous SO BAD. It kills him that the only love he gets is from his nobody supporters; he has nothing but contempt for them, but you gotta dance with what brung ya.

Also can we include on here that the big story in the cable TV news world today was NOT that Bill O’Reilly, known racist misogynist abuser, got fired, but that FOX lied to their shareholders by covering up the 13M in payments, and as a publicly traded company, will face legal scrutiny? Literally there should be jail…