Yeah, my district is basically a contain all the POC + newcomers district. the gerrymander is so strong and so blatant. The most competitive districts in the state are in the Rio grande valley, where there just aren’t enough people to effectively isolate democrats, they have to draw reasonably shaped polygons.…

I’m in houston too, but living in a democratic congressional district, the one that looks like a crab waving its claws. The smallest margin of victory for a congressional rep in 2016 was 10 points across the entire Houston metro area. 11 of 32 Texas representatives won with a greater than 25 point margin. This is how…

For fucks sake, doesn’t Paxton have something better to do? Like prepare his defense for the three federal charges he’s facing for securities fraud? Trial starts May 5th! I can’t wait!

Chao is probably competent. Pruitt is far too competent at fucking up environmental protection, I’d like some incompetence from that monster.

Good lord. It is a truly ugly portrait of America. I’m ashamed as a citizen of our nation, and angry that these vicious, self centered people are calling themselves patriots.

I man, are there no billionaires left? Those guys know how to get the job done!

I think of high ranking military officers as masters of sneaky office politics, so perhaps good training for Trump’s Borgia court?

I think it went fine with Powell, and I wonder if CNN is overstating it, I heard it reported elsewhere that he could go back to an administrative position if he no longer wanted to serve as nsc director. He has strong ties to Mattis, which could be a strong alliance. So much better than Flynn and his weird connection…

One disturbing part of his answer was the way he brushed off needing to respond to attacks and threats to Jewish organizations by claiming the attacks were from “not his people”, basically that the left is attacking Jewish institutions to try to embarrass Trump. Total nonsense, but should it fucking matter who is…

I think there are probably kids who had sex at thirteen who essentially got away with it, no pregnancy, no stds, no terrible bullying or slut shaming. But they got away lucky, and we’re in o with a young prepared for all the shit that go wrong. I would hope as adults they would look back and thank the lord that…

It’s the part that bothered me the most. Trump’s administration is turning the U.S. into liars like himself by revoking valid visas without any apparent cause other than it was totes convenient that the Obama administration put those countries on a list. making sure no one is caught in midair when it goes into effect…

Violence in the last thirty years, to take your arbitrary timeline of relevance, is not limited to Islamic nations or groups. A quick list of conflicts that come to mind include: the Rwandan genocide, FARC in Columbia, Charles Taylor’s rise to power in Liberia, ethnic cleansing in the Balkans (there were Muslims…

ITS kind of amazing to think he could actually put together an hour talk, isn’t it? It seems to me his shtick would wear thin about fifteen minutes in.

So, the chat segment that was in the online version of this Maher episode iluded an exchange between Larry Willmore and MY that both showcased Milo’s awfulness (and Bill’s) and also pointed out Yiannopolis’s totally shallow rhetoric. The second he faces an actual opponent that isn’t distracted by trying to be chummy,…

Agreed, his befuddlement makes you momentarily forget that he is launching terrible policies that set back social progress by decades.

Do you enjoy watching the office? Or are you like me, and have to leave the room when someone is embarrassed on a sitcom? Trump doesn’t deserve to be president, but he is, and the cringeworthy moments are only going to grow. If he were an evil genius who seemed to be in control of the show (e.g. Steve Bannon), I…

Oh, im pretty sure it’s on there, even if it is not visible to the naked eye. Sally Yates took what would be routine turnover in a very important, but under the radar, position and through public action became a national news figure. If she isn’t running for senate or governor in two years in whatever state she’s…

I’m strangely starting to feel bad for him, he is becoming a pathetic figure. If only we weren’t all trapped in his nightmare...

Both sides of this drive me crazy. Of course people who have dropped out of school can learn as adults and have sophisticated political views. Kid Rock’s lack of formal education would not make him unqualified if he can show through his work experience, advocacy experience, or something that he has a message for the…

Trump’s team has done that to Tillerson and Mattis as well. I think it is an effort to divert power from traditional, profession branches of public service that ultimately answer to congress to a shadow foreign policy shop run without oversight through the Whitehouse.