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These are the proactive steps states need to be taking right now. Another thing: every Democratic governor needs to have a sit-down now with the state adjutant general to carefully review that person's understanding of their responsibilities to their state, its citizens and the federal constitution.

submitted 52 days ago • 91 comments

I'm just glad one of these men has the nuclear codes and the other has all our personal data.

submitted 7 days ago • 1698 comments

Congratulations to Doug! Many called it including yours truly but I’m declaring you today’s Timing Winner. Please collect your door prize

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments

Carrie Bradshaw’s trad-wife honnet (hat-bonnet) is … Well, it exists.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

I know of a conservative woman (locally) who routinely uses the expression “FAFO” in completely random situations. Stuff like this: “You want to ignore me? Well, FAFO!”

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

Truly, the idea that we should coddle intolerance is … wild.

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

I do have a very strong belief that everything started going to hell when we began to outlaw shame, a societal tool that has worked well since the beginning of society. Some people should be shamed and not all beliefs are valid or to be respected

submitted 15 days ago • 11 comments

So hot and humid in Kentucky right now that I’m going to step outside and turn into a Roquefort cheese.

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

Hope the rest of the matchbook is okay.

submitted 28 days ago • 57 comments

500K Mexican-Americans served in the U.S. armed forces in WWII, as did millions of 1st and 2nd-gen immigrants, and 109K noncitizens. Mexican immigrant Macario Garcia won the Medal of Honor in Normandy. When he returned to the US, he was was arrested for trying to eat at a segregated restaurant.

submitted 28 days ago • 1938 comments

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Same. The other day, I was thinking about how a bunch of people who (quite possibly) have the same attitude/social graces/performative tendencies as Die Antwoord are claiming refugee status for … For what? Being ridiculed? Absolutely fragile.

submitted 31 days ago • 2 comments

Listen, there are bigger, more directly destructive cases of this government’s spiral into a satire but shipping in white South Africans — the apotheosis of modern white supremacy — to underscore that this is a white nationalist empire…pushes my buttons in a very specific way.

submitted 31 days ago • 19 comments

Happy Mother's Day! The US has no federally mandated parental leave, which means we're the only nation among 40 of the world's richest countries that doesn't mandate paid leave for new mothers. Our nation runs on the backs of working class mothers and we owe them a colossal debt.

submitted 33 days ago • 22 comments

@npr.org EXCLUSIVE: The Department of Agriculture is demanding states hand over personal data of food assistance recipients — including Social Security numbers, addresses and, in at least one state, citizenship status, according to emails shared with NPR.

submitted 35 days ago • 53 comments

Newark Mayor Ras Baraka was arrested Friday at an ICE Detention Center where he was protesting its opening.

submitted 35 days ago • 41 comments

I want it to be known that I did, in fact, laugh at the phrase “white Afrikaner refugees.” What are they seeking refuge from?! What could it be?!?!?!???

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Wish I had a boyfriend right now, because I would ask him to go pick up jian dui sesame balls and bring them to me while I’m at work.

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

BREAKING: Judge Richard Leon, a George W. Bush appointee, issues a TRO blocking the Trump administration from "dissolv[ing]" the Institute of Museum and Library Services, placing any more employees on administrative leave, or terminating any grants in the coming days.

submitted 42 days ago • 50 comments

For a couple of weeks now, the phrase “they want beef with the big jefa” has been kicking around inside my brain. (I searched online to see if it was a line from a song, but it seems like it’s just a stray thought I latched onto.)

submitted 47 days ago • 1 comment

I’m not writing a memoir right now, but I was just thinking about this: In the age of AI, writing about our own experiences — our memories, our perceptions, and our failures — is something that we can’t be “beaten at” by something like ChatGPT.

submitted 47 days ago • 1 comment

It happened to my buddy ERIC. :( www.governing.com/policy/major...

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

Started knitting a scarf on Friday. Looking forward to sharing my progress with y’all!

submitted 52 days ago • 0 comments

What I cooked up over the weekend:

submitted 53 days ago • 1 comment

As a cis woman who’s nearly six feet tall, I’m afraid of the day that someone tries to attack me for walking into the “correct” bathroom.

submitted 55 days ago • 1 comment

Said this before, but every time the "biological woman" circus kicks off I think of the millions of women, including myself, with conditions like PCOS who struggle with "masculine" features like facial hair, and how the only women I'd be afraid to meet in a bathroom are gender-policing creeps.

submitted 55 days ago • 42 comments

I think a lot abt how marginalized people are expected to be perfect just to be treated w/ basic dignity, just to access legal protection. But democracy can’t mean rights for the respectable few. It has to mean fair and just treatment even for those seen as least deserving. That’s the real test.

submitted 56 days ago • 3 comments

For those unfamiliar with the trucking industry: 80 blank sailings means, give or take, about 1,000,000 cargo containers that had been scheduled and booked for delivery which just disappeared.

submitted 56 days ago • 84 comments

Students in schools run by the Department of Defense are suing the agency, accusing them of violating the First Amendment rights of students by restricting lessons and library books related to race, gender and sexuality.

submitted 58 days ago • 1 comment