Well a swamp provides ecological benefits and has a reason to exist.

Further: LOTS of states with major HS wrestling programs don’t segregate by gender, and it’s honestly not really an issue. You weigh in, you wrestle the person across the mat from you, and the person who wins is the person who’s better. This shouldn’t be complicated.

Yeah, there’s no point even discussing this if your core stance is to reject the right of trans people to exist in the first place. This society makes reasonable accommodations for a huge variety of choices humans make that they don’t “need” to survive, because part of a working civil society is not being complete…

The sad reality is that most people are dumb and disappointing, and we will ultimately die because of it.

No bees, no food. It’s really simple. This is a list of all the food pollinated by bees.

things they apparently don’t need: access to healthcare, treatment for std’s, reproductive education, cancer screening, contraceptives, advocates and allies.

It’s the best bromance there ever or ever will be. I can help but giggle every time I see them together. It could only have been better if Patrick had been there holding up and Ian poster.

Tangentially related but how cute is Ian mckellen’s sign for the women’s march?

We have a yuge entitlement problem in education right now. NCLB and charters ruined functioning schools in areas of poverty, and widened gap of service. Public schools pulled their weight, even with massive cuts in funding, but the vilification of schools in poverty areas has done irreparable damage.

Punching Nazis shouldn’t be illegal. It’s a goddamn American pastime, ffs.

If the guy who punched him gets arrested I will gladly donate to a fund to pay his bail. That guy is the hero we need right now.

Elizabeth Warren CRUSHED IT in the education hearing. I was in awe.

tim kaine, al franken, murphy, bernie, bennet, elizabeth warren...

There’s something mesmerizing about his combination of righteous anger, intellectual precision, and unflappable self-respect. He was of his time, but also ahead of his time, because nobody answered the questions he raised, and still haven’t.

Government agencies communicate in cutesy memes and emotes. The president elect of the US tweets like a 12 year old that just discovered social media and whose parents aren’t monitoring internet time.

The Bundys and their ilk aren’t patriots. They hate the USA. They are patriots like the DPRK is democratic, popular, or a republic.

When you sit in a court of law day in and day out, it’s easy to forget that your litigants are human beings with lives outside of the justice system. Good on Judge Wolf for not forgetting and for not being afraid to sometimes let common sense prevail over the black letter law. She is a credit to the bar.

the GOP let the horse out of the barn a long time ago but only now is closing the doors. Except it wasn’t really a horse, but a mangy goat covered in rotten marmalade who thinks he’s a unicorn.

That’s true, patriarchy hurts men too. I think the boys who are not Chosen or whatever are pretty marginalized if not exiled from the community.

It continues to amuse/irritate me to no end that these people - white, conservative, religious - are the real face of welfare fraud. Not saying that other people don’t cheat the system but the FLDS have turned welfare fraud into an art form. Yet somehow when some people use the term ‘welfare queen’ you just know the…