In Miami. They caught him visiting Jackson Memorial Hospital. He came home to teach a class at FIU tonight, instead of going to the townhall in Tampa.

as another commenter said, there’s a difference between reimbursing someone after the fact for their child care or just giving a subsidy up front to pay for it

Brave Sir Rubio ran away.
(“No!”)
Bravely ran away away.
(“I didn’t!”)
When danger reared it’s ugly head,
He bravely turned his tail and fled.
(“I never!”)
Yes, brave Sir Rubio turned about
And gallantly he chickened out.
(“You’re lying!”)
Swiftly taking to his feet,
He beat a very brave retreat.
Bravest of the brave,…

Cotton changed the venue five times in three days in order to confuse his constituents to try and make sure they wouldn’t show up (or that only his most diehard fans/supporters showed up). Thankfully the media was on it and people found out the right place to go.

The statement + the cute squeaky voice + the slight bedhead = I’m dying in the best way possible.

“Donald Trump makes Mexicans not important to people who are in Arkansas who like Mexicans, like me and my grandma and all my family,” Toby Smith, age 7, told Cotton to loud cheers from the packed auditorium. “And he’s deleting all the parks and PBS kids just to make a wall. He shouldn’t do that. He shouldn’t.”

Well, maybe they told the cops that their father was a hamster and their mother smelt of elderberries.

Talk about privilege. One of its official definitions should be “feeling free to critique and not participate because others do it for me, than freaking out when what was warned about happens.”

This woman reminds me of St. John Rivers in Jane Eyre.

Seriously. It’s insane. I got married. I wore a white dress and a veil in a Catholic ceremony, and I took my husband’s last name. I also had both of my parents walk me down the aisle, chose only readings that didn’t reference gender, and still rock my maiden name Ruth Bader Ginsburg/Hillary Rodham Clinton style. I…

Just pointing out that the White Dress didn’t really become a thing until Queen Victoria got married. White dresses were ridiculously hard to clean back in the day so most times they could only be wore once....so only rich people could afford it. Same for white wedding cakes as white sugar was stupid expensive.

You make a good point and of course you are a feminist. The problem is that sometimes destroying everything isn’t really the best answer for everyone in every situation. I think you could find a few million Mandarin Chinese who will tell you that subverting from within is a powerful form of keeping your culture and…

I’m getting married too. I like him. I want to marry him. Is marriage an old institution that was used to enslave women? Sure. Is it that way anymore? It doesn’t have to be. Am I an attention whore who wants everyone to watch me walk down the aisle in a pretty dress? I sure am. Will I let my father hand me…

My therapist once told me that everything I did didn’t have to be for the cause. She was a smart woman and all of her advice served me well, so I’m gonna go with her on that one.

I think I’m just in a really bad mood today but this interview pissed me off. “Oh no, feminism is too mainstream so I need to call myself something else! People who call themselves feminists who don’t work to solve every single problem in the fucking world and also overthrow capitalism every minute of their lives…

There are a lot of good points but I struggle with the idea that partnership/marriage are inherently anti-feminist. This argument came up a lot about the fight for marriage equality; that advocating for it was against progressive values because it reinforces patriarchal and capitalist structures.

I have no time for anyone who’s going to put down our decision to tie the knot. You choose to not get married, good for you. That’s your choice. I can do without you attacking mine.

I’ve never considered myself an incendiary feminist. I’m not loud and in your face, I’m married and decided that children were not for me. I was the bread winner in my marriage for several years. I wanted to forge my own path in work and life that worked for me.

I use it reluctanctly too.  It begins to feel like to be a feminist you must be the perfect feminist, with the “right” opinions. The number of times even Jezebel has built someone up (i.e. Tina Fey, Mindy Kaling) and then tears them down because they don’t do the “feminist thing”. It’s fucking exhausting. Women are…

It must be nice to be the only person doing feminism right.