I’ve only seen her once since the election (Christmas day) and I almost had an aneurysm because she cornered me while I was cooking in the kitchen and started telling me to give Trump a chance and that I’m “too young to know any better.” I have not visited her since and have told her that if she loses health…

I’ve just never understood that argument. These lazy immigrants are living off of us honest tax-paying citizens...but they’re taking our jobs! Huh??? I guess you just pick whichever one you’re suits your argument at the moment...

One of my eighth graders came up to me today and said, “Mr. P., I saw Trump at the wax museum.”
Me: “Oh?”
Eighth grader: “Yeah. <leaning in closer, whispering conspiratorially> His hands really are that small.”

“We don’t know how much of a factor race plays in the sudden reversal of public opinion...”

I don’t know, but, honestly, I don’t think so. Women’s prisons are simply considered as an afterthought is that which I understood.

Male privilege often trumps caring about women of color.

This is so infuriating. A friend of mine who works in prison reform describes exactly the same dynamic in prisons: resources, libraries, classes, etc. — the vast, vast majority of funds go to male prisons whereas the women are left totally dry. I do not understand one iota how this is acceptable nor how we countenance…

“I think the Democratic Party has room for many people who are currently Republicans”
No. 

After Trump goes to prison

Disagree. After Trump goes to prison, ex-Republican politicians are going to be flocking to us in droves. We need to be selective. Fuck these off-brand turds.

The theatrical release of The China Syndrome and the Three Mile Island meltdown literally happened at the same time.

So, I read A Handmaid’s Tale at a time in my life when I was just beginning to question my fundamentalist evangelical beliefs. Many of the horrifying misogynistic religious aspects of the characters and setting read to me, at that time, as neutral or even positive. I didn’t really get what Atwood was trying to do with…

This will give me nightmares, like the book did. I would rather die than be in this situation, that’s what I always come back to. And I don’t think we’re far away from the possibility.

It’s going to be like watching The China Syndrome while Three Mile Island melts down.

Barack Obama is the last President of the United States. Like, ever.

The cult does not tell its members to molest children; it does tell them that women are supposed to obey their husbands in all ways at all times.

It’s not consistent, because the brainwashing is completely different for boys and girls. The girls are not to have any sense of self. They’re supposed to be 100% submissive and completely dependent on first their fathers, and then their husbands. The boys are raised to be somewhat obedient, but are still supposed to…