“the reason I used a very little bit is...you cannot get shoe polish off.”

So his defence is genuinely “that’s not me in Blackface, because I was wearing it in a different event altogether.”

I don’t know what you could tell them, other than that it’s just wrong.

Yes. It was always awful and clashing and hideous, but sold as FASHION. 

Bottom half = Like a Virgin

Well said! I hope that you and your teenager sister go forward and continue to treat people as people, to really live by the golden rule of “life’s hard , don’t be a dick”

“opposed to the Church’s teachings on the dignity and respect of the human person”

On behalf of my fellow white teenagers, I would like to apologize, and mention that I (And my teenage sister) both shed tears watching Mr. Phillips’ reaction to those assholes.

...a woman at the march counted between 50 and 70 people in the pro-Trump group...

The face of that little shit is the face of the alt-right. It is the troll face made manifest. It is the face of a psychopath, the face of a nihilist with no values.

That kids gonna be in the Senate some day if he keeps that shit up

I work in DC and, for the last two years or so, I can confirm that MAGA hats in this city are almost exclusively worn by middle and high school boys on field trips. They seem to be the only ones stupid and bold enough to not realize that it’s basically a sign that says, “I’m a racist asshole. “

These douchebags were already on a school sponsored trip to join a protest intended to show their ignorant, evangelical and hate-driven support for anti-reproductive health, anti-woman health policies. Why are their politics or behavior regarding anyone other than themselves any fucking surprise in any fucking way?

Being humiliated implies that these people are capable of feeling shame.

Backpay is not guaranteed once the furlough ends, although it has been paid in the past.

Am I too cynical to think that some Republicans “like” the shutdown? It literally hollows out the govt. (which many hate, yet they work for) when these unpaid employees get pressured to quit and work elsewhere. Causing govt. to collaps within, allowing them to “drown it in that bathtub” they relish over. 

FAA employees, like all federal employees, are public servants. While their position is inherently ‘political’ in some ways, partisan political activity is explicitly prohibited by the Hatch Act when connected to on duty activity or their public position. You can do most things (except run for partisan political…

Under the Hatch Act, federal employees while on duty/on federal property cannot engage in partisan political activity (among other restrictions). Generally speaking, you can’t say anything for or against someone running for office. However, you can speak for or against a specific issue. So in broadest terms, while at…

In general federal employees are allowed to engage in political activity but, they aren’t allowed to do so while at work or under the guise of their employment unless they’re an official spokesperson. However, this email does seem to be a bit overbearing and whoever wrote it probably should have worded that better if…

Yeah, it is. I think the thing that is responsible is the Hatch act, which makes federal employees unable to engage in “political activity” while on their job. What that political activity includes is kinda vague and Googling it didn’t give me anything really conclusive, but yeah, basically the FAA can do that.