Getting my note paper out now!! Thank goodness I bought stamps the other day, I want to send these senator actual paper thatnk yous they can hold.

More people need to know Van de Putte was late today because she was busy BURYING HER FATHER! She wasn't expected to be there at all. Not only was she there, she was the one who stood up with those amazing words (that need to be stitched on a sampler or something!)

I cannot wait to watch the Wendy Davis biopic starring Connie Britton that I'm writing in my head right now.

That was a very close one. A little too close, what with all the GOP shenanigans.

This came across on Twitter via Kristen Bell aka Veronica Mars. 'Wendy of the House Davis'.

These other Senators need more recognition.
West, Ellis, Watson, Zaffirini, Whitmire, and Van De Putte.

I spent something like 15 hours in the Senate gallery today. I was part of the first crowd in the room and one of the very last few people out of it. I'm surprised I have a voice at the end of that—I screamed more in 13 minutes than I ever did during any Mardi Gras. I scraped skin off my pinkie finger from my ring…

I was there. It was amazing. The noise leading up to midnight was deafening. No riots from where I was and I left about 2am central time and it was really quiet. So let's keep up the noise on social media! Tweet! FB! Flood tx senators pages with support and your disapproval!

I'm not from Texas either, but it's a worthy cause. :-)

Send her a note of support at this link, and pass it along!

In a straightforward world, she was absolutely "discriminated against" - she had the qualifications to get into the school and she was denied, but people who had the same or lesser qualifications got in because their race earned them extra points.

I agree that we need more class-based affirmative action - but in addition to, not instead of, race-based affirmative action. Until people of color are no longer impacted by institutional disadvantages, this is a necessary system.

Justice and equality are not and should not be dictated exclusively by the opposition's comfort levels.

Would you guys be okay with a dude sharing a gym locker room with your 6 year old?

Relevant:

The 2-8% number has been called unreliable for a long time now, because it conflates false reports with baseless reports. This article calls for no longer using the FBI stat, and instead relying on Lisak's much more solid 5%.

We're now at the stage of this discussion where I have to ask you to actually look up the statistics. The percentage of rapes that are perpetrated by a stranger is so much smaller than acquaintance rape, that even with the amount of rapes that go unreported (and the stranger vs acquaintance rape #s are only on…

I think what she means is that we don't react the same way to victims of other violent crimes, like assaults and muggings, even if the victim is having trouble remembering what happened correctly. It's mostly just sex crimes that are called into question. We've been able to move beyond that doubt for others, why not…

I got pregnant while dating a man who was physically, emotionally and sexually controlling. My birth control failed, but I had no real say in whether or not I had sex. He threatened my life regularly. Did you know that for women, pregnancy is an amazingly dangerous time in their lives? That THE leading cause of death…

I loved that "wonderful children" part too - why are we assuming all children will be wonderful, again? I know some fucking terrible people who were probably fucking terrible children too. I'm not wishing they were aborted or anything, but let's not pretend everyone on earth is a fucking ray of sunshine at whose…