Oh yeah. I get this a LOT from relatives and friends, particularly now that my mother is getting older and developing some health issues. Will I be sad when my mother dies? Sure. I’m guessing I’ll also be relieved, angry, frustrated, and a whole raft of other emotions. This shit isn’t simple. However, I’m positive…

It took therapy for me to cut ties off completely with my father - my brothers sometimes hint that I should give him a chance, but fuck that. Therapy has also helped me not to mind my mother so much (I still see her but very very little). In “short”, a couple years in therapy have been the answer for me, and also a…

Reading that was cathartic and I empathize with the daughter. I was abused as a kid and I’m currently trying to negotiate and grapple with both loving my parents and being angry with them. They pretty much refuse to acknowledge the damage and hurt they inflicted and just deflect and guilt trip. It is not helpful when…

Yeah, I’ve heard the whole “blood is thicker than water” argument and I’m always like, um, no? Just because you are related to someone does not give that person the right to abuse you, nor should it be tolerated as acceptable behavior.

This woman is my hero.

Damnit now I want a fucking cookie.

The Germans have a word: “Backpfiefengesicht”

um.....Lock Her Up?

So it never occurred to anyone to ask the White House staff how to turn on the lights?

The courts are packed with judges who put right-wing ideology ahead of the law. At this point, we should take absolutely nothing for granted. Cheetolini has been in violation of the constitution from the moment he was sworn in. The republicans have done squat.

Pretty sure that’s Hitler in the second row.

Ugh. They’re so vile. What the hell are they going to do with the money they raise?

McNelly, the DeVos aide, went on, “In fact, she has received more letters of support to the Senate HELP committee than all U.S. Secretaries of Education combined.”

Democrats should make this a thing. Remind everyone, night and day, that Steve Bannon is a white supremacist. Remind everyone exactly what the implications of that are. Don’t sugar-coat it, don’t sex it up or couch in polite terms, just remind everyone what it was like for non-white people during the 1950s when you…

If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck...

Fun fact: In the United States there have been more armed attacks by right-wing extremists in the 15 years since 9/11 than there have been by Muslims.

I, too, am torn. So this is how I work it. I focus on politics in the morning, catching up on news, etc. Then, at lunch time, I put together or modify my plan for the week (I have a goal of doing one thing a week to promote my political views—it might include a donation, attending a protest, subscribing to a source of…

I think people write speeches for him but he always goes off-script. He’s known for it. At the Black History Month breakfast, he had notes in front of him - that’s where he seems to have gotten Frederick Douglass’s name; he obviously didn’t know who Douglass was at all, so it didn’t come out of his head! - but he was…