It really was, and I love reading his tweets because I automatically read them in his voice every time.

Is “chest discomfort” the way a political campaign says “chest pain”...?

This affects me personally as I was really counting on watching Larry David send up Sanders for at least the next five and a half years on SNL. Godspeed, Senator

I didn’t have a history of cardiovascular disease until I had a heart attack on my birthday four months ago. Like Bernie, I had a stent surgically inserted via angioplasty in August, and was back on my feet pretty quickly (though the post-op prescription for Plavix takes some getting used to).

Thank you so much for sharing this story, Prachi. This is the most incisive and heartfelt reporting I’ve ever read.

As a middle aged, first generation, Desi guy; this was eye opening. My condolences to you and your family. I am sorry for your loss. I want to write more, but I will refrain. I am going to reread this again as I have nephews, nieces and sons and daughters of friends that feel this sense of alienation.

Wow, Prachi. This is heartbreaking but so good - thank you for sharing. My baby brother has luckily not fallen into the MRA/Red Pill (or white supremacist) bullshit, even though he’s an ideal candidate for recruitment (young, underemployed, white, keeps getting cheated on) - but I’m going to make sure I talk with him…

[heart emoji] My brother went missing (presumed dead) approximately 18 months ago. After he went missing, my mom and I found some google searches on suicide and time spent on conspiracy theory sites. I did not reach out to him enough because he so rarely reciprocated and because he put on a brave face to the rest of…

Thank you. I think anyone that has a sibling that they worry about in any sense can find a connection here.

No, they don’t because the Catholic and Mormon churches are just as bad and a lot of the mainline Protestant ones aren’t much better.

Actually no, fuck him for not recognizing that the votes that got him into his seat in Maine’s new ranked-choice voting system — he was an instant-runoff win by a very slim margin — were not Republicans or conservative Dems but all the third-party Green voters who likely hold positions to the left of the Dem party…

the Christian Right’s official religion is Christianity on Sundays

Bullshit. They can’t even get one GOP member of the House to even support starting an inquiry against Trump.

Or how about a similar tax benefit for renting as there is for homeowning? Why do we credit homeowners but not renters for paying to live somewhere?

Of course, the Dixie suburbanites will then claim it’s their fault for living in these large metropolitan areas. Speaking as a bisexual who lives in a conservative suburb an hour away from Portland, maybe some 9f us who happen to be LGBT+ or a person of color or a religion outside of Christianity move to these large…

“They just claim that they believe in private charity to fix all of society’s ills”

It’s absolutely bizarre to me that min wage isn’t calculated at at least the county level based on cost of living. If websites like Zillow can give ballpark ideas, surely the Federal Government has better tools at their disposal.

Federal workers have received “location pay” for years. This is intended to (partially) compensate them for the higher cost of living in NY, LA, etc. So it’s not like the federal government never heard of the “geographic cost of living,” they just pretend it doesn’t exist in private companies (and that the “free…

She/he used the term “Christian right” which needs no further clarification.

...sure, but maybe we can do that after we solve the problems of food and housing insecurity, joblessness, lack of access to affordable medical care, and rampant inequalities in education and opportunity?