I woke up to a flurry of texts and am still in shock. I live about 20 miles away but grew up in the area. Borderline is almost a rite of passage in the area, it’s been open for years. My little sister has been to this college night. A coworker was a bouncer there. My friend who just moved away is texting me from…

I completely forgot Parkland was this year, wasn’t Pittsburgh last week? It feels like time is crawling these days.

Yes, it’s important for progressives as a whole to let go of our fixation on lost-cause pseudo-allies and focus on empowering the base. But on a personal basis, for those of us who are in positions of privilege, that doesn’t mean we should stop confronting our peers with hard truths – especially those who are close to…

But then what would be the point of having Democrats? Human rights for half the people is pretty big deal.

THIS. Every white woman who is trying to behave decently needs to lose any and all fear of calling out other white people on their shit. 

I’m so ashamed of us.

Most of my family has at least decided it’s just brown people in cities that are bad. The ones they know aren’t bad. The famous ones aren’t bad. It’s those gangsters in Sanctuary Cities! And immigrants that are simultaneously taking all the jobs while also lazily not working and collecting welfare, or whatever…

Have the hard conversations because ignoring them has gotten us here? I am the director of a nonprofit though, so this sort of thing is what I do every day. I have to have hope that things will change, otherwise I wouldn’t do this work. Never know who/when you’ll reach someone.

That’s what I was talking about with my husband last night. He’s from Wisconsin and was like, I feel like there is no way to get through to people who vote entirely on 1) abortion and 2) immigration. No amount of facts, science, real talk etc is going to get someone who believes 1) abortion is murder and 2) brown…

Cuban-Americans also mostly identify as white, and mostly vote GOP. So the Democrats need to register more non-Cuban Latinix in Florida and other states to invalidate the Cuban GOP vote.

That’s the brutal math of roughly 65% of the national electorate identifying as white. If the Democratic Party writes off white women entirely (and thus our even small percentage of white men) we won’t be able to win anything meaningful for another generation.

My in-laws are out there, and if you can figure out a way to get through to them, let me know. I wouldn’t have believed it before, but direct contact leads me to understand that their cultural opinions don’t have jack to do with jobs and “economic insecurity” and eeeeverything to do with racism, xenophobia and…

Right, which is why I pegged any real change as at least a generation away. Someone else in the comments posted that white voters 30-44 voted Dem-Rep on a 49-48 ratio. If all white older people voted that way, Democrats would win constantly. And 20 years from now, Millenials will be in their mid 30s to mid 50s.

And they don’t even seem to be that set on being equal to white men, as long as nobody else gets to be.

“The rage of white women won’t change the fate of America, nor will it change the fate of the Democratic party. Rather than believing the myth that the loyalties of polite, suburban white women can be won, or at least swayed by the crass hostilities of Trump, Democrats would be wise to empower and build the upon the…

I’m with you; Dems need to accept Republican-voting white people are a lost cause. White people of conscience don’t need to be wooed, they’ll do what’s right anyway. And those who do need to be wooed will just vote Republican anyway.

WTF is the point of living in modern times if a person doesn’t avail herself of some of its luxuries, like a freaking pre-natal appointment to a midwife or something? Yet she will chatter on FB about the “primal instinct” that takes over. Guess what? Birthing can be pretty deadly, just look at history. But no, the…

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