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I’m so impressed at how great and put together she looks. How do you suffer such a massive and public disappointment and be okay? I would be wrapped in a blanket guzzling wine like Tami Taylor watching Gilmore Girls for like a month.

It seems I can’t stop. I cried on the phone with my grandma this morning, who told me not to give up, that our time will come. She remembers the coathangers.

Good for her. #imstillwithher

Some days it is hard to stay in the South and keep fighting the bigots. Today and yesterday have been those days.

There has never been a time in my life where I hope and wish to God that the fucking aliens would just land on the White House lawn and say, “All y’alls are FUCKED UP, Jesus ain’t coming back, we’re your fucking Jesus now.”

Just anything... ANYTHING to make them SHUT THE FUCK UP ABOUT THEIR ASS BACKWARDS FAIRY TALE…

My undocumented brother was crushed by this last night. I’m in a real panic. I’ve been emailing several immigration advocacy groups since trying to get their help to get in touch with my Congressman (Castro). I need his help.

Oppose him at every goddamn turn. Make our voices heard. Remember: his opponent earned more votes than him. He is a narcissist who feeds off of adulation. If he we starve him, make him beg for our approval, then he’ll cave. He desires people’s approval. He can be beaten.

I keep wanting to send shit like this to well-intentioned friends who are trying to convince me, and themselves by extension, that things probably won’t be as bad as we’re thinking since the Republicans will reel Trump in. The only thing keeping me from doing it is that I know that they are suffering and while I’m…

I work with people who talk about term limits like they’d be a good thing. And my response is always “if no one doing the job has been there for more than 4 years, no one is going to know what they’re doing. Instead of 30 year congressmen, you’ll have a majority leader’s chief of staff or a party boss who hangs…

Well, hey. Trump may have a blank check to destroy this county for everyone who isn’t wealthy, white and male, but we can all take comfort in the fact that Mitch McConnell will push back against congressional term limits. He’s truly the hero we deserve.

This is modern day Nazi Germany in it’s infancy. We need to stamp it out before it gets too powerful.

I opened a fortune cookie (wallowing in Chinese and ice cream treats) and the slip of paper said, “Faithless is he who quits when the road darkens.”

This needs to be stressed more. The Democrats don’t have a deep bench in many states. The Repubs started decades ago at local government levels and worked their way up through the state to then national levels. Democrats haven’t done that.

Spent most of this morning alternating between numb shock and crying so hard I started dry heaving. Many in my office were openly weeping as well. I feel like the country I love so much has rejected me and everything I stand for. Contemplated moving away. Threw myself into my work, and avoided all news media the same…

I already had an unavoidable call with my MIL today. She immediately went for the erasure of LGBT rights. She told me she was happy to get them ‘out of her face’. She said she admires Pence and thinks Trump is pretty Democratic. She hates Muslims, and can’t even identify Sikhs. She thinks BLM is a joke.

I was holding it together pretty well, and then my five year old daughter woke up and excitingly asked me if a girl was going to be president. And I had to tell her no.

Bent, but not broken.

The White House staff looking on during Pres. Obama’s remarks today: