Yeah, my husband was about to receive a job offer from a government agency during the Ted Cruz shut down. He had other job offers that expired during the shut down so he had to take one of those. I am not complaining. My husband has a job and we are fine, but thousands of lives are disrupted during the shut down. I…

Not popular enough to shut down the government over:

But Alabama was not won because Doung Jones was an energizing force of the democratic base. Alabama was won because Roy Moore is a pedophile. So no lesson to be learned here really.

Same. I told my mom (who didn’t vote in 2016) that I’m taking her to the polls with me, and she said she will go and vote Dem. She’s a registered Republican. But all that said, I am 0% confident we’ll see a “blue wave.”

Yup. The shutdown is a shit sandwich for Democrats - it’s not in line with their political ideology (like it is the Republicans who like it when everything doesn’t work), and it disproportionately fucks up the lives of Democratic supporters and vulnerable people (who either have to live without paychecks or services).

The problem is their base rewards that, and the Democratic base doesn’t. They can’t use the same blue print because they’re appealing to two completely different sets of people.

I mean honestly, even if they did shut down the government, the BEST case scenario even then is just to get a bill on the floor to debate. But even if the bill does miraculously pass both the House and the Senate, Trump would still need to sign it; and he’s said over and over he won’t, and he welcomes a shut down…

No, it’s Trump’s fault. He was the one who rescinded Obama’s protections. He was the one to reject every compromise negotiated in the Senate. Not Democrats. There’s only so much they can do being in the minority in Congress and not occupying the White House.

There is definitely bias towards older women. Jezebel purports to be a “feminist” site and yet they don’t seem to realize that shitting on older women is part and parcel of misogyny.

It depends. Will it work? Will the GOP now cooperate with democrats to pass a clean DACA bill? I don’t trust republicans to do that. I think democrats would even be willing to pass a DACA bill with funding for border security to get it passed, but the Toddler-in-Chief is insisting that it be tied to a complicated…

Honestly the fact that there’s not a stand-alone story really seals the deal that GMG is mostly just full of Cool Kids fighting over who can be the biggest THE DEMS ARE JUST AS BAD BURN IT ALL DOWN nihilist. Which is totes fine for them because when you’re a white gurl transplanted to NYC from Ohio State I guess it’s…

It’s weird how much she looks like Melania in the header.

GAVE a 6hr speech? Nancy is still going. TBH this deserves its own story.

We have to change the way we raise them and how we define masculinity and strength. We have to have better intervention programs for kids who grow up in abusive homes and may find themselves repeating the behaviors that they witnessed.

Gotta make room for all those non white offenders caught with an eighth of an ounce of something.

This happens multiple times very week. It needs to have a special circumstance (bail issue, multiple arrests, etc.) for it to be news. Men kill their partners every single day and we never hear about it. Toxic masculinity kills, but it seems to do so mostly in silence.

I don’t understand why a violent offender was given the option of bail at all.

72% of all murder-suicides involve an intimate partner, and 94% of the victims in these cases are women. 55 percent of women killed in the United States die in an incident related to intimate partner violence; nearly three women are killed every day in America by intimate partners.

God damn it. That poor woman. Her poor kids.