I had a similar experience learning about it in public schools. I grew up in Los Angeles, and several of my teachers had been on their union’s annual pilgrimage to Manzanar. They were able to tell us things about the camp that never made it into books.

Interestingly, in 1979 there was a decree stating that LAPD officers can’t stop people due to suspicions about immigration status. It’s still in effect.  They’re on pretty solid legal ground in refusing to turn over inmates at DHS’s informal requests, too. For all Trump’s bluster about sanctuary cities, “Come back…

I’m choosing to ignore that part. I need all the inspiration I can get.

Whelp, that “having civil rights” thing was fun while it lasted.

Like Obama, I hope that Trump does right by the country.

It’s almost like. we trust people to decide what’s best for themselves or something.

That person’s father is one of the 60 million-odd people who declared that some Americans are less American than others, and are getting in the way of America being “great.” The candidate he supported picked a homophobic religious zealot as his running mate, and is welcoming white supremacists into the White House.

Since I’m not in any group that regularly talks about all this, I’d file the following under anecdata...

Even though I haven’t had kids, insertion was much easier the second time around. Uncomfortable, but not painful.

I live in a historically Japanese-American part of Los Angeles. You can still the scars internment left in the neighborhood. Just because something happened doesn’t mean it should happen again.

I sometimes record the show and just watch the roundtable portion. He can be a decent moderator when he feels like it, and most panels include at least one person who’s quick to call him out on his shit.

Only about 18% of the country’s population lives in LA and NYC combined. All told, about 20% of the country’s population lives in rural areas - but because of the electoral college setup, their votes run roughshod over people in LA and NYC. A national popular vote could mean those two groups cancel each other out.

I got my first Mirena while I was waiting to have surgery to remove a huge, growing fibroid. My doctor suggested it as a way to control the symptoms - which were the same problems I’d had every month since I was 12, just more so. It worked well enough that I asked for a new one at my post-op appointment.

And also discovering that the car tastes like that one dog food flavor he hates - and that it’s all he gets to eat for the next four years.

He really seems to think it’s something he can delegate out, like appointing company VPs. Nope, turns out it’s a 24/7 job. His youngest son looks pissed, his wife doesn’t seem wild about being away from New York, and he’s about to have a rude awakening about the limits of presidential powers.

Every bit of information on his White House team backs that up. It’s like he’s just going through his phone and randomly handing out positions.

I’m convinced he never actually wanted to be President.

We’ll do what we always do in an aftermath: We will get together in huge meetings or Facebook groups, throw out a million things we want to work on (seriously, I’m looking at notes from a several hundred-person ad hoc meeting this weekend, and the “things we want to protect” list alone has over 70 items) and how we…

It’s despair o’clock somewhere.

But I thought racism was supposed to be over forever because we elected a black president!