I’m trying to get my family out to blue country! I don’t want to put them in assisted living and I don’t want to move back to the midwestern tundra.

I’m not actually in Arkansas, I just looked up when these walking tire fires were going to be up for reelection. You bet your ass that I’ll be making donations to their challengers.

I convinced at least two undecided extended family members in battleground states to vote for her. Sadly, there were a few lost causes, like one person in my family with ties to the FBI. Per his FBI friends, she was the worst crook to walk the planet and he “couldn’t bring himself” to vote for her, even though he has…

Every time I see DJT in his ill-fitting schmatta, I think of this...

I’m curious on the over and under for just how many press secretaries they’ll go through in the first year...

Agreed. I don’t know how to get out of this terrible paradigm.

I’m number one!

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I’ve been trying to convince my folks to move out west from the midwest and move in with me so I can take care of them. And then I remember that would remove two blue votes from the state and I feel conflicted...

Seriously. I tried to help get Grassley voted the fuck out. Nothing ever worked. He and Branstad have been like the goddamn Terminator.

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Solid analysis

I was disappointed to see this vote. I’ve worked with Sheldon Whitehouse on climate issues and I’ve found him to be a straight shooter.

Unless there’s a strong contender for the same party, I would caution throwing these guys out because you risk losing the seat altogether and we are hanging on by our fingernails here.

That’s a great resource.

Again, I have never said I was a victim or considered myself one. That’s the conclusion you choose to leap to because it fits whatever anger narrative you’re working through. You just said you’ve been called worse and I believe you. So have I. I make no assumption that your admission means you consider yourself a…

This is what’s called moving the goal posts. The primary season was in full swing, so I’m not sure how materials from April 2016 are no longer relevant. You suggest that these terrible Bernie supporters were a bunch of cry asses who only wanted sweet, sweet acknowledgement. I suggest that were was some shitty stuff on…

Seriously. I chose a field where I make shit money by focusing on issues of environment and equity - enough to pay off my loans, afford my very parsimonious existence, and then send the rest to my parents - just so that I could one day cash in on that sweet, sweet paid protestor money.

I get that you’re angry and as I said, I’m angry too. But I would also suggest that it’s possible to come from a perspective that is also tired of the bullshit. My work as focused on social justice and equity - stopping point source emissions in neighborhoods where everyone is poor, working to get more support on…

Interestingly enough, it took me all of two minutes this morning to find an instance of someone accusing me of internalized misogyny. Look, some ugly shit got said around these parts and I’ve got pretty tough skin, but I admit I get pretty goddamn salty when people tell me I’m making shit up.