I thought Sessions hadn’t been voted on yet?

The refugees who are being turned away themselves might not. If they’ve made it to this stage they’re generally families with kids, often have health problems and just want out. But you can be damn sure this will make it into some pro-ISIS propaganda and radicalize some dejected young people who will see it as…

I am so crushed by this. A refugee family who have been in a camp since 2014 were denied entry. A family of six who’ve likely been telling their kids that things are finally going to be ok, and now they’re back in a damn camp. People with green cards! Those screenings (while not quite as comprehensive as what refugees…

Particularly kids with special needs, after BDV’s disgraceful fumbling of those questions.

Disappointing. I expect a certain amount of common sense and common ground, with someone who has dedicated their life to the education of small children. OTOH I expect none at all with someone whose spouse calls her “mother”, so...

Someone on another thread suggested trying a local office if the DC lines are all full / unreachable. Worth a shot.

Maybe! It also just occurred to me whether any of the Republican Senators are former educators or (perhaps more likely) married to educators.

Or to see just how far the POTUS could take his Cabinet of Deplorable Billionaires? Hard to say.

Well, thank your preferred deity for that. Now let’s hope they hold the line AND identify a couple of Republicans with some sense and some backbone.

That is my current fear. Between the gag rule and a freeze on accepting refugees, many of the “problems” the Trump administration feels it’s tackling are being shifted to some extent onto Europe. I’m very worried this (and their excitement over Brexit and Trump) will empower isolationists, neo-nazis, the alt-right,…

The US contributes a huge amount in dollars because of the sheer size of its economy, but in terms of proportion of GDP it actually ranks 20th. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_development_aid_country_donors

The assholes who are rolling their eyes and calling me a snowflake and tsking at the Women’s March and telling me to get over it already - invited me to a Facebook group back in November 2008 that was called “We, the People” and tearfully vowed to “take back our country we barely recognize any more”. So there’s that.

For real. My husband feels the ADA was a sort of pinnacle, so seeing it threatened even indirectly through scrubbing all references to disability from the White House website makes him deeply nervous. I feel that the legalization of same-sex marriage and the incomplete but hopeful trends toward protections for trans…

So true. I’m white and documented and I’ll go to as many of these as I possibly can, but I actually had a moment at the women’s march when I felt like I’d been punched in the stomach - there was a family of women marching with a sign identifying them as undocumented. So brave but so potentially risky if things…

I can’t even imagine. My primary fear growing up in the 80s/90s was acid rain. Still a horrible man-made issue, but nothing like the scale of what those who remember the Cold War had to deal with.

That seems about right. Excuse me, must go breathe into a paper bag.

Hahahaha we’re all gonna die but at least it will be because of decisions made by people with no experience #draintheswamp

I met a woman who grew up interacting with him (her parents were friends with the Elder Bushes). She claimed he was razor sharp and had an amazing memory. I gave her the most intense side-eye I could muster because I truly find it hard to believe, but it planted the seed of doubt in my mind. Maybe he actually did put…

AGREED.