I think they’re informally separated. She basically vanished between the election and now, and every time he touches her in public she looks annoyed. And the thing about her not moving so Barron doesn’t have to change schools is lame. She just doesn’t want to live with him, and who can blame her?

Yeah, I have absolutely no sympathy. You married a horrible trash monster rapist because he’s rich? Have fun watching him slaver over his own daughter and getting pawed at by those tiny, tiny hands.

She married him for his money. I think we all know this - even Trump fans admit this. Hell, she half-joked about it herself on The View. She doesn’t love him. Her end of the marriage deal is to stay attractive and obedient. She probably does know all about his infidelity and doesn’t care, cause it keeps him off her. I’…

I believe the whole White House petition thing was an Obama creation, so don’t expect that to continue.

Fuck you I won’t do what you tell me!

listen, when your content ebbs, people will find a way to find it

I think it’s *possible* that the United States’ deep history of creative, subversive speech and civil disobedience makes *some* sort of difference in how the dismantling of democracy plays out. On the other hand, working against that is the tendency for us to take these rights and institutions for granted (see: not…

Perhaps this is me grasping at straws, but I wonder if part of the inevitability of autocracy and failure of resistence in Gessen’s experience is at all related to the fact that Russians had already lived under an oppressive government for generations before Putin came along.

In my more Pollyanna moments, I hope that…

She and Sarah Kendzior  are two clear-eyed writers I read with increasing fear and loathing.

The thing with fascism is that for the majority of people, it’s really easy to just accept it and go along. Too many of us have good enough lives and won’t want to risk safety or comfort for the sake of those who are being attacked. This is a country where half the voters couldn’t even be bothered to go and vote.…

Masha Gessen’s remarkable composure when she discusses impending doom makes her case all the more terrifying. Her interview with Sam Bee was scary, but her writing is downright paralyzing (and vital):

Autonomy over one’s own body is a right.

I’ve taken Friday off as well. Probably gonna have a hot bath and smoke a blunt as democracy collapses around us.

If someone came to your house and camped in your front yard and screamed all day and night about how bad you are, you would want to correct the record somehow. Right?

Former D1 track runner for a bigtime program. midpack in my squad. every resource imaginable. been through it all.

Considering that we’re about to get a new president who is going to be committing treason on day 1 of his presidency, and the majority of a Congress that is selling this country down the river, yes, Manning’s sentence was excessive.

The UN had ruled that she was being tortured. Her sentence was fucking excessive and it was slowly killing her. The fact you say it was not means you have not read any of the details or you do not care.

I’m a fed in a science-based agency and both of my parents voted for trump. They seriously voted for their own daughter to be fired... something that would directly cause harm to them... rather than vote democrat.

You joke, but this is absolutely correct. “Elitism” to conservatives has always been more about cultural considerations than economic ones.

“We just witnessed a man who ran on a platform of abolishing taxes (on corporations and the rich, mostly) and transfers (like our national health care program) winning large swaths of lower-income middle America in convincing fashion, selling the underlying idea that the government only takes from you, the average…