HA. I went to see him speak once with the Alabaman I was dating and a friend from Mississippi. My boyfriend started snort-laughing as soon as he opened his mouth and my friend was like ‘now now, he can’t help how he talks’.

Hopefully, they’re eating themselves already.

Which is why we need to un-suppress the vote, man.

Call ‘em up, keep cajoling them. Make it uncomfortable for them to not represent your interests. Keep up the pressure, you can do it. We can all do it.

Got to rush into that vacuum of power as fast as they can. Everybody pay the eff attention and keep your reps on speed dial, please. All kinds of bushwa is going to come from all these sleazes.

It is a crazy machine, regardless of what you call it. How NY still manages to be good at a lot of things IDK. Good job, New Yorkers, I guess.

This is a consistent problem with us progs, yo. Vote sometime outside of the prez race, plz. Day-to-day politicking may be kinda boring sometimes, but we need to do more to build up the lower levels and I mean, voter rights/voter rights/automatic voter registration/say it again can I say it again...

Yeah, it’s weird. I’m from upstate NY but don’t live there anymore, and the unchanging craziness of the state machine is always impressive. I mean, today there was an announcement about free college for in-staters who make under 125K (no mention as to how it will be funded...but even just pledging to make it…

I can think of a lot of “what made you a feminist” instances from my youth like that, when I was gobsmacked by how some guy could be a relentless dickhead without consequence, but the rules were always strictly applied to me. That I see this over and over again in how women (and minorities) are treated sure does make…

He has long been a garbage fire who should’ve been put out (of public office). I guess being nationally embarrassing rather than just regionally embarrassing in a climate in which this retrograde shit has come back in style forced the issue. Too bad it didn’t happen before.

I suppose it was good, in a way, to find out early.

I remember being a kid of around 9 and my brother hitting and punching me and not letting up and I finally kicked him in the balls and was told never to kick him in “the family jewels”. I mean, it’s reasonable to tell your kid what kind of damage she can do, but it also told me about my worth to them, and it wasn’t…

Yes, it absolutely is. I’m from upstate NY and people like to act like they’re out there subsisting on the bear they caught with their bare hands, but if it weren’t for heavy, heavy subsidies of energy costs, 95% of the population would just have to leave (and there are like, 95 people up there as it is). People don’t…

I used to live in Santa Cruz. It is drowning in the convergence of a ton of Silicon Valley money and a totally different recent history of people making their living by much more modest means, and it’s so expensive. I also found it to be full of scary, unpredictable and violent weirdness. I am artsy fartsy and I hated…

Unfortunately, so much of the U.S. is indoctrinated to believe that the government is incapable of any competency (and given that people keep electing officials who...hate the government and want to choke it...there is a self-fulfilling prophesy) and so it’s politically really hard to sell it (ok not possible). I…

Ugh, I feel that. I have one sib, a brother. When we were young, my mom gave us a small allowance (a few dollars a week) that was theoretically contingent on our completion of our chores. My chores were not only more extensive (which ok, I am 4 years older) but my brother always wheedled his allowance out of her…

And Why Does He Hate America

Yeah, it really depends on where you are. If you want to live in a place with less than no opportunities, no culture, and soul-killing winters, you can live in my hometown and buy a house with a yard for practically nothing. Strangely, not everyone finds that appealing...

Yeah. And get back voting rights protections! I mean holy shit did we drop the motherfuckin ball on that!

Yeah, you’re not wrong to worry about this. I used to work at a non-profit (food bank) as a grant writer. We spent a lot of time publicizing private donations, especially from all the wunderful (people who could’ve done a lot more and people who should’ve been taxed more but instead got a tax write-off and free media…