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Hello. I’m not American. Can someone tell me why America thought it was a good idea to make a functionally illiterate man with severe personality disorders the President of the United States of America?

I think that it’s harder than just walking away or even breaking a contract. I work in partnerships - you invest a ton of time and energy into something, and you get to know the team that you are working with very closely. You see the effort that is put into your project. You build relationships, and that can be hard…

“Michigan has come a long way but that doesn’t mean we get to coast now.”

I am a public school teacher. I am sitting at my desk, which is in a classroom in a public school full of minorities and SpEd students, and I am weeping. I have about 9 minutes left on my lunch break, and I don’t know that I can pull it together in time. I am crushed, absolutely gutted. I am afraid for my students, I…

Third rule in Latino families: leave your wife after she donates her organs to you.

Do the old gimmick of having Trump look in the mirror. Baldwin plays Trump; Rosie O’Donnell plays the reflection.

okay, now we NEED Rosie to play Bannon...

Lee Gelernt is a cool dude and the ACLU’s Immigrants Rights Project is awesome and deserves all of your support (along with all the other orgs that have filed lawsuits this week fighting the executive order, which includes, in alphabetical order, the American Immigration Council, the Legal Aid Justice Center, the Natio…

Let’s be real: does Donald Trump know Frederick Douglas isn’t the peanut butter guy?

No.

Frederick Douglass died in 1895.

Good Morning. Everything is awful:

Do you not read women writers of color?

aw heck.

This right here is the mutha fuckin’song!

There was a really great piece about someone being hit by a bus once. Forget who wrote it, but it was really good!

What say you, cheerleaders?

Uh... you know that diverse groups have diverse opinions and people get to voice them. Progressive people tend to get this. It’s not “infighting” or “eating your own” or whatever else detractors want to call it. Our diverse movement can support and respect multiple opinions at the same time - even ones individuals…