How nice. The NRA wants to tell the FBI how to do its job, and wants to dictate what is and is not due process.

THIS. When I was younger, still living at home with my conservative parents, I took a political science class at the local college. We had weekly debates, and for the reproductive rights debate, I took the anti-abortion side, because that’s what I believed. The professor asked if I thought abortion was murder and…

jia, want to thank you for writing this. i am not a mom, have never been pregnant, but was moved to tears by your words and the way you spoke with elizabeth. this story is so important,and i’m glad you were the one writing this. thank you.

Here’s a link to Dr. Hern’s clinic for anyone interested in offering support directly to the people who work there, and here’s the National Network of Abortion Funds. The George Tiller Memorial Fund specifically goes to late abortions.

fuck off

My heart broke into one thousand pieces for this woman. my god. MY GOD. I CANNOT.

Oh, snap! I'm standing up in my living room cheering right now.

Ok, who is going to tell Pete Sessions that there are people who are both gay and latino?

My favorite part of all that:

I agree with you (hippie dippie New England Unitarian-Universalist here!) that prayer (although I refer to it as meditation) is how I set intentions, quiet my mind, and get in touch with my feelings and motivations. It is enormously therapeutic for me, and it is a necessary part of my spiritual practice and my daily…

This is one of those things where, if it doesn’t apply to you, it’s not about you. If it doesn’t apply to your church, it’s not about your church. Not appreciating ‘thoughts and prayers’ isn’t the same as being anti-religious. So many people all they do is post a facebook picture saying ‘thoughts and prayers’. So many…

James 2:14-17 ESV

Girls wanna be her, boys wanna be her! ( I know you knew this was her theme song, its just an excuse to post this song!)

She’s not mocking prayers, she’s deriding people who offer up prayers and do nothing else. Or, to quote the scripture passage that she referenced: “Thus also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.” (James 2:17)

This isn’t about people like you (who sounds AWESOME btw) it’s about the lawmakers who say that specifically to deflect any sort of accountability or do anything in the wake of these tragedies. I hate that the shorthand is “thoughts and prayers” because we all do this in the wake of tragedy, but this isn’t about your…

Her audacity to be an angry woman on TV routinely floors me. She is very important.

I love Sam Bee. I loved this clip as well, I can hear her voice shaking a little bit because of her barely suppressed rage/sadness, just like mine does whenever I talk about it. I’m so, so, so glad she has this show.

God bless Sam Bee. She really is the rightful heir to the Daily Show—even if she’s doing her own show now. She’s the person who I look to now for her take on news events, who I can count on for catharsis.