I have a childhood neighbor who worked for Homeland Security at one point. She got wrapped up in drug smuggling somehow. I think the connectedness and power are hard for some people to resist.

Trend seems to be that any job that would require a high degree of education is highly suspicious, but anything that is basically thuggish and “patriotic” is all good.

I used to work for USDA, and we had a lot of training with CBP. I understand why people take CBP jobs-”good gubmint job with benefits” looks pretty good to a lot of people. But

This is true. A former friend of mine came to a party of mine a few years ago and, in spite of the fact that she lives in a town near my hometown, which is tiny, in upstate NY close to the Canadian border, and has never been any great shakes economically, she went on at some length (at my birthday, no less, thanks…

People find it confusing that a female person has a “happy trail” of hair running down from the belly button, but it’s a real thing. Welcome to Semite Lyfe.

Seems like these pro-life feminists who were talking about how they were not sufficiently included in the women’s march. They were deluding themselves, but this person is clearly trolling.

And definitely not just on the eyes. (depillates butt)

I have no idea obvs but I would imagine that having a baby at 50 is probably very, very planned. And I’m sure people had lots of theories about it because of her age, b/c people always do...ugh.

I saw this today and thought hey, maybe if this sort of thing had been done en mass 5 years ago... https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20170404-spain-737m-of-assads-family-assets-seized/#.WOdsLP2Cmbm.twitter I’m here for it now too though. Better than embroiling ourselves in this proxy garbage fire in a physical way.

In watching a former friend who became a raging shit heel immediately after getting together with her husband (who is from a prominent Democratic family btw, so in that case it was also a personal backlash I guess), it seems like some women feel like they will win the patriarchy if they just ally themselves with it…

It would be divine if the opposition actually learned from it. Given that we weathered the Bush years...for what? I don’t even know.

Yeah, whatever issues she might’ve had, she’s super hardcore to be going out and talking in public after going through something like that. It shows what kind of stamina she would’ve had...

I hate them. Just the amount of cognitive dissonance required to support trump should be causing seizures.

I wonder how a Gillibrand vs. Trump type deal would go.

I maintain that Tiffany is going to go Commandante Marcos on our asses any day now.

As a native of Kentucky, NY, I assure you it is real. Our necks are just as red.

The NY politics machine will rip him 5 new ones. I mean, it’s corrupt and gross as all hell, but it isn’t going to tolerate this particular level of idiocy.

Oh geezus that guy

This article is very good and Anna is always thorough but I would still be much more surprised than this if anyone in the administration was remotely qualified.

I live in SW Europe and my first job here was teaching English. My students always had a lot of breathless questions about Y Is America Like That.