It’s important to note that this is state-by-state.

It’s important to remember that the women who strike today are women of privilege. The loss of women’s work that would be felt most keenly is done by women who can’t afford to strike.

To every woman who can boycott tomorrow... offer child care to the women who can’t... offer wages to the women who can’t take off. Babysit the kids of a working mom left without child care for the canceled school day.

As somebody that lives in an area of the country affectionately referred to as “Hurricane Alley”, I find this news disturbing. Especially disturbing, actually, since the USCG Gulf Strike Team is located here in town and I selfishly find their presence comforting because I know how badass they are. Most people have…

It’s a security blanket. The same way the travel ban is. And the promise of tariffs and the deregulation of coal production. Really fucking expensive (in more ways than monetarily) security blankets.

I’m a counselor at an abortion clinic in Houston. I’ll be at work helping women access abortion care while they still are able to exercise that right!

I will be working since my boss quit about 3 weeks ago and I inherited her work, and we are in the middle of a project and I am in the middle of all the paperwork of getting a promotion, title change, switched over to salary and a huge raise. I’m not throwing all that way for some nebulous strike. I’ve spent 5 years…

You’re not wrong, but you’re missing my point. Let’s say you DO get one of these “better jobs.” The “bad job” you were doing before still has to be done by someone — and that someone will need resources that the “bad job” just can’t provide. Saying the solution to poverty is moving up the food chain ignores the fact…

It’s only a trend if it’s accepted by the mainstream ON mainstream people.

And spend more than the equivalent of 1% tracking down that fraud! It doesn’t matter if it doesn’t save money, what matters is that we fuck over as many poor people as possible!

I was a single mom for about 4 years, and in order to keep my job I had to get a government subsidy to cover the costs of childcare. I worked, I paid taxes, I just couldn’t afford the ridiculous costs of daycare (and I worked as a preschool teacher, I know why those costs are so high.)

Quoth my father: The government has a bad habit of spending one hundred dollars to make sure it does not “waste” one dollar.

Yeah, you know, I wish they were at least consistent with their ideologies about wasting taxpayer dollars. For example, my organization just got a federal grant for renovations to one of our buildings. We are looking into asbestos abatement and decided to pay for it ourselves instead of getting reimbursed by the…

It’s the Welfare Queen thing all over again, really. If a system is not 100% perfect in using taxpayer money and there are non-virtuous individuals using government programs, the programs themselves are clearly not worth it and should be scrapped. I mean, who cares if a program is 99% successful; if that 1% is wasting …

I wonder when the GOP voters and Trump supporters that won’t be benefitted by a tax credit will realize that this will fuck them over. They’ll probably hear “tax credit” and say “hey, free money!” Until reality hits later on...

It is so maddening that a tax credit is supposed to help pay for things. I make so little a tax credit will do zero to help me. It’s such a privileged political ploy.

I’ve said this before, but I don’t understand why the left is always expected to cede ground to the right. Both politically (which is another issue altogether) and in terms of tone. This is a person whose job it is to defend someone who’s perpetrating bald racism, sexual assault, nationalism, and the systematic…

The real question is: what does Kellyanne Conway owe to Feminism? Before first-wave feminism women weren’t allowed into universities and law schools. Before second-wave feminism her chances of being let into those schools would still have the been slim. Once out, she wouldn’t have gotten anywhere NEAR the White House…

He’s actually a very sweet, sensitive guy. But they’re an easy target, and he’s a bully. It’s not just women — it’s everyone, and he can get away with it.

“You are a girl, you have to compete with the girls!”

“How dare you compete with the girls!”