It’s always the quiet ones that you have to watch out for. ;)

Get pissed. Raise an unholy ruckus. Band together with your peers and take to the streets. Write your representatives in Congress and call their offices. Do it daily if necessary until they listen and agree to help, even if just so you’ll shut up. In the meantime, talk to the provider who writes your prescriptions…

I feel like someone has died. I spent most of my workday yesterday stress eating everything in sight and bursting into tears every time anyone so much as looked at me.

My apologies! I admit that although I am an Old, I am not old enough to remember first-hand. I should have looked it up, though. Thank you for correcting me.

My daughter came home from school yesterday, hugged me so tight it took my breath away, and then looked at me with tears in her eyes. “Will [her best friend’s] parents have to go back to Pakistan? Will she have to go with them?” I had to tell her that I really don’t know (I know her friend was born here, but I have no…

Trump was not the choice of the majority of American voters

Actually, both, but I’m way less concerned about sexual acts between consenting adults (no matter how depraved I might personally find them to be) than I am about the figurative rape of our democracy.

Lived through it and didn’t forget. The first vote I ever cast in a presidential election was for Bill Clinton.

My mother will lose her insurance as well, and won’t qualify for Medicare for another 3 years. She has chronic lung disease from a lifetime of smoking and takes multiple medications that she can’t afford. She still thinks Obama is the devil and voted for Trump. She refuses to believe that the ACA is the only reason…

I should note that her politics is just the last straw in a lifetime of abusive behavior, so this had been brewing for many, many years before this election cycle pushed her completely over the cliffs of insanity. I haven’t spoken to her since Thanksgiving day last year, and I have no intention of doing so ever again.…

The thought of that orange man-baby defiling the oval office makes me physically sick to my stomach.

Me too. I called them out mercilessly until my own mother blocked me on FB and my daughter told her she didn’t want to spend time with her anymore because listening to the things she had to say was too upsetting to her. I was dis-invited to a family reunion because so many of my aunts and uncles and cousins were…

My BFF is Mexican and a naturalized citizen, but she doesn’t “look” Mexican. Her last name is not Lopez, Hernandez, or anything else that would be immediately recognized as Mexican, and when she got married she didn’t change it. However, she has recently decided that she is going to take her husband’s…

My wife and I were just talking about this last night. We are both nurses, and have been in and around the healthcare system for a looooong time. As such, we both believe that access to healthcare is a human right, and as much as we would both prefer a universal system, we have seen first-hand the enormous benefits…

Exactly! Right! Unfortunately, there will also be a lot of collateral damage in the process. When the people who put this nightmare into office find themselves totally and completely fucked over by him, it’s gonna get reallllly ugly really fast.

Good luck with all of that, dude.

Well, this white woman certainly does, as do all of the other white women and men I surround myself with. Unfortunately, here in true-blue Massachusetts, that doesn’t hold a whole lot of weight on a national level.

Roe v. Wade, Obergefell, Brown v. Board of Education, Shelley v. Kraemer, a Muslim version of Korematsu, Gideon v. Wainwright, Heart of Atlanta, Jones v. Mayer, Griggs v. Duke Power, Romer v. Evans, Shaw v. Reno, King v. Burwell, Roper v. Simmons... the list goes on and on.

My undergrad. degree is in sociology. My mentor and academic adviser was a sociologist, a Holocaust survivor, and the director of my college’s center for Holocaust studies.

What I remember of MSNBC’s coverage last night: