There were audible gasps in the church when the vicar read his fantastical eulogy for my granddad before the cremation. Everyone knew it was bullshit, but the service had been booked and planned by my aunt, so there it was. My mum left the building fuming (as did my granddad, come to think of it), and it took years to…

“Then he closed with ‘Sometimes our loved ones leave us, or are taken from us, even when they seem to stand before our very eyes. Mental illness is as implacable as cancer, as cruel as MS, as alienating as leprosy. Go in peace.’”

My granfanda’s husband (who biologically, technically was my grandfather), was a complete and utter monster. When he died we couldn’t have his funeral at the Catholic Church because he’d been excommunicated for assaulting a nun in the late 70's. We couldn’t have his funeral at the Baptist Church because he divorced my…

Definitely ask her what she needs! Maybe watching the kids for a day depending on how old they are so she can breathe and grieve. Or consider bringing her some meals to put in the freezer a few weeks from now! People tend to send food in the days after but it kind of peters out after a while and needing to cook for a…

You missed the woman’s AWESOME follow up. Bravo!

Could you maybe, I don’t know, tell us what he said?

She was in labor for five days. That seems like a lot more notice that a baby is coming than the woman who gives birth in a taxi gets.

She has no business being in jail for that kind of offence. Christ.

Another thing lost in this whole shit sandwich story is the $10K bail for driving on a suspended license. Granted, I do not know all circumstances, but in what world is this an appropriate amount?

And such a violent criminal, driving on a suspended license while poor. Monster!

“Again, do I like to have babies born in our jail? No,” Wickersham said.

you cannot guard a man who exists in the silvery slipspace between the waking world and the dream world

Or he’s just lying like all of Trump’s other nominees so he can get approved.

Yeah pays $450 billion and gets $350 billion. The rest probably goes to red states. I would like to see Donnie Moscow defund California and f**k himself out of the WH pronto.

I don’t agree. I think he’s deeply passionate about it, as he was passionate about using all his political capital as a new electee to strong-arm marriage equality through the legislature (with a little help from his friend Bloomberg). I don’t think he’s a particularly good faker, and it’s hard to fake that kind of…

I know he’s doing it because he wants to be president and is actually a totally amoral monster, but as my friends and I were saying the other day, at least he’s OUR amoral monster. At this point, I’ll take “doing the right thing for the wrong reason.”

Let’s not forget that Trump’s home town hates him with an intense passion. His home island went for Clinton 9-1. We’ve known him the longest—it’s why we hate him the most. The NY AG has his work cut out for him, but fucking with Trump seems to be his favorite thing. The last little shreds of hope I have hinge on the…

Our governor in New York, whatever you think of him, has been resolute on this front. No surrender. All are welcome. We’ll find our own money.

Governor Brown here in Oregon made moves to basically be a sanctuary state and many cities already declared as much. Municipalities would go broke trying to hold folks just for immigration status. Texas apparently wants to bankrupt their police force dollars.