Man, trying to follow a guide to the T has been a nightmare.

The Trump administration did not vet their NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR because he had a top secret security clearance. Over 1 million people have that security clearance, and it is administered by career bureaucrats, not politicians. But for some reason the Trump administration thought this was a fully acceptable…

Bill Clinton and James Patterson are writing a political thriller called The President Is Missing. What will it be about???

I’m now certain the only reason why trump hired Flynn was because bo told him not to.

Maybe because Obama fucking fired him and you rehired him after being warned by multiple people. My god, the deflection.

There was an earlier moment in the Cruz/Yates exchange that really pissed me off and makes Yates’ response so much more delicious. Cruz asks Yates if she was familiar with 8 U.S.C. 1182 and she says “not at the top of my head, no.”

Tangentially related to this, but not quite, is that I need to share that I’m getting my first non-eyebrows (microbladed!) tattoo tonight. It’s the rebel alliance symbol fancied up. This was my inspiration for it:

Ted Cruz has failed upward in the grand tradition of Woodrow Wilson: he is so loathed by his colleagues at every level that they encourage his ambitions to get him away from them.

You guys. You guys.

The yellow flag with the snake on it is the Gadsden flag. It’s from the Revolutionary War and was an early motto flag for the Continental Marines.

Not to minimize this tragedy; but do we know if she was killed because she was trans?

McMaster, being on active duty, did not have the option of declining an order from the president and continuing in his previous role, though. He could put in his papers earlier than he meant to, or he could take a big bite of that... um, bullet. Doesn’t really give us any indication of whether he thought he could…

Jonathan Meadows’ sister Lena Cooper asserted that if he was violent, Brandi should have just left the home

*gasp* An intelligent young man with a white mother and a black father grappled with his racial identity as he moved out into the world during his years in higher education, much of it in a very privileged white environment?

SHOCKED. JUST SHOCKED.

On behalf of white people we would like to take this opportunity to refuse him as well.

This reminds me that “sic” will probably be the most apropos word associated with this presidency.

Omg. But can we talk about those CHEEKS. I die. She’s so adorable.

My local trader Joe’s has a sign that says no short no shoes no racist bullshit

Or another bystander should do the same. I’ve stood up for people before, it’s easy.

On the contrary, there are PLENTY of reasons to make this a race thing. Implicit bias in early childhood teachers is a known, empirically-proven presence in our current system.