I’m down in Oregon. Voting by mail is the BEST. I’m definitely fully committed to holding my nose and voting for Clinton, even in a very blue state (Jill Stein and her bs can take a flying leap), I just wish the prospect of our first female president didn’t go hand in hand with increased militarism and corporate…

Yeah, I’ve been checking fivethirtyeight compulsively over the last few weeks and I know the numbers, but I also remember the unfathomableness of the 2000 elections and just can’t shake the dread. And truth be told I will be relieved by a Clinton win, but not happy. She is a massive war hawk whose foreign policy…

Well that led me down a Wikipedia hole to the Night of Terror and now I’m going to go hug my kitty and shake in anger and existential dread. Oy.

Same. My stress level is back up to the level it was in the days after the 2000 elections. My birthday is on Election Day this year, and I’m not much of a drinker, but either way I think I’m going to be sobbing into some gin toddies from the nauseating angst of it all.

My doc once told me my cervix looks like a Shar Pei. I’m pretty proud about that.

One of the things about this that I find the most galling is all these chickenshits’ insistence that it is wrong to talk about their wives, daughters, mothers, sisters like this. As if women only have value in their relations to men. I am not anybody’s wife or mother or sister or daughter (parents are dead), and I…

Touché. Though it’s becoming clear in the eastern part of the state we do have at least one right wing nutjob of a sheriff who almost rivals Joe Arpaio in his ignorance. Smdh.

Christ on a crutch. *This* is the kind of thing that makes me ashamed to tell people that I live in Portland.

Ah, got it. Thanks!

I am familiar with TERFs... what’s a SWERF?

All the stars for John Waters and Pecker.

If you’re in the Portland area, I’m pretty sure there’s a chapter hq at Albina and Ainsworth right by the PCC Cascade campus.

Support Bree here: http://act.colorofchange.org/sign/DropTheFl…

I came here to say the same. For those who don’t know about the BDS movement, it stands for Boycott, Divest and Sanction and is based on a call for support by Palestinian civil society in opposition to the Israeli apartheid state in occupied Palestinian land. BDS targets Israeli economic, academic and cultural…

It's Alan Turing, not Turin. :)

As Jew, I would like to take this moment to say FUCK the Jewish Federation and all their racist buddies. The bigotry spouting from the Zionist nut jobs in this country, Israel, and all over the world is horrifying. People should know about this ugliness and understand that calling it out or criticizing Israel's…

Hmmmm... apparently you didn't read the link I posted. I don't think it is a crime, but the way we talk about things shapes the we as a culture perceive and deal with them. The first definition of commit according to Oxford is: "Carry out or perpetrate (a mistake, crime, or immoral act)." http://www.oxforddictionar…

I am sorry you struggle with mental illness. But as someone who also struggles, and has in the past had to get over the shame of suffering from depression, anxiety, etc. that stood in the way of my treatment, I know that changing the way we think about these illnesses does indeed have an impact. I have had the fortune…

I'm sorry- No, not "Ugh, semantics." This is something that people in the field of mental health have been advocating for a while in order to destigmatize illnesses like severe depression, making it easier for folks like Robin Williams to GET HELP. The whole point of changing the way we talk about this is to reframe…

It may seem nitpicky, but please- Robin Williams died OF suicide, he didn't "commit" suicide. "Commit" implies a crime; it implies malicious intent. People who die from suicide are not criminals. They are people who have succumbed to a horrible and agonizing illness. http://www.suicide.org/stop-saying-co…