We decided that, too. Twins. Two in infant care was more than one of our salaries, but we’ll never get jobs this good again if either of us leave the workforce. For us, it’s just survive till free public school kicks in, try to recover financially later.

How did people even know your wife was pregnant without a weekly picture of her bump standing next to a whimsical chalkboard telling the world how many weeks along she was and comparing the fetus to food items for size, huh?

This this this. He will squander it all on drugs and booze and a Maserati that he can take selfies in front of.

If they were able to do so behind the scenes without this, then this is hardly going to help them. Being able to not be fined obviously didn’t undermine their ability to consolidate and/or hold power.

Damn I could use an idea like this thanks, now i just gotta find something she’ll like.

The Republicans in Wisconsin — and elsewhere — are *reaping* the crops of hate. That’s what has propelled them into power and is keeping them there.

I know right? With the chaos of the election the fact that senate republicans hijacked the judicial branch has been completely lost in the shuffle. I really want to know why Obama or congressional democracts didn’t make more of a fuss about this!

This. It’s Obama’s pick to make, and McConnell pulled his reasoning for blocking it directly out of his asshole. They need to get it done.

I’m holding out hope that Biden will take advantage of the ten-minute Democratic majority in the senate (between when the new session starts and when the new senators finish being sworn in) to call a vote to appoint Garland.

The problem with that assessment is that it assumes that they CAN be voted out at some point, but if you look at the history of fascist regimes one of the very first orders of business after achieving legislative power is to crush the mechanisms for democracy. The republicans have been engaged in voter suppression…

At the very least, Mitch McConnell should have to stand there and admit that the only reason they obstructed the President from the first day to the last andcut off their own citizens’ noses to spite him was because he is a black man. They’re a bunch of corrupt racist confederate shits who care more about sabotaging…

Well said.

In fairness, I have one, too. On both of them.

Our vulnerable parents will be assimilated. Resistance is futile!

She looks so bad because she is 35 headed for 50 and the process of not heeding Coco Chanel’s warming is underway:

There were five federal investigations into the Clintons when he was president, to the tune of about $80 million. In their exhaustive research, they discovered he lied about getting a blow job, for which he was impeached. (The official charges were perjury and obstruction of justice.) EIGHT investigations into…

This is so baffling to me. I was in school in Cambridge at the time, and we had a lockdown when the Watertown shooting happened. It was so scary. And there’s news and video footage of all of this.

I’m also short and claustrophobic. Several years ago I asked my doctor what I could do, and he gave me a prescription for Ativan. I was able to fly from Chicago to Vancouver in the middle seat without panic.

Trump really was the worst case scenario for everyone that isn’t a straight white person, that believes in the “right” version of a particular god and doesn’t believe in women’s reproductive rights.

...and that same president-elect has absolutely no rightful clue how to actually govern this country and may be violating multiple federal laws as we speak.