Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Nothing worth doing is easy.

This isn’t Democrats spending madly. This is government catching up.

He imagines himself as The Big Bad, Who Is Universally Feared… instead of The Big Jagoff, Who Is Universally Mocked.

Following reporting rules is only for the little people, apparently.

Sadly, media malpractice has become standard practice.

Putin dreamed of ending NATO, and now it’s Finnish-ed.

Let me eat cake. The rest of you could stand to lose some weight, frankly.

Historically it was a little unusual for the president to be an incoherent babbling moron.

Republicans don’t want a speaker to lead them; they want a hostage.

Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.

If you are still in the gop, you are either an extremist yourself, or in bed with those who are.

Good lord, these people are nuts.

People really shouldn’t expect the government to help after they watched the GOP drown it in a bathtub.

Fight for a just cause, love your fellow man, live a good life.

Hot air and ill-informed banter

Shallow, uninformed, and lacking identity

Jesus, Mary, & Joseph how is that election even close?

No offense, but this thread hasn’t been about you for quite a while.

… pundit janitors mopping up after the gop

The Supreme Court is corrupt. Democrats must win in November and force court reform.

If you thought you’d already seen people saying the stupidest things possible on the internet, prepare yourselves.

It’s not hopeless, and we’re not helpless.

Democrats have delivered the Square Deal, the New Deal, the Fair Deal, and now… the Big Joe Biden Deal.

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  2. 2.

    donnah

    The best costume I saw last year was a little girl dressed as Eleven from Stranger Things. She had the pink dress and wig and a little drizzle of blood under one nostril. It was perfect! (I gave her extra candy bars).

  3. 3.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    Okay, open thread so I’m not OT
    this seems to me to merit a “wow”

    Jeffrey Cook @ JeffreyCook
    Stacey Abrams’ campaign manager says they’ve learned that Kemp is backing out of the final Georgia governor’s race debate… the same day that Trump is scheduled to come to Macon to stump for the GOP candidate.

    Is he sulking because of Oprah?

  4. 4.

    Sister Golden Bear

    This is for the people who just don’t seem to get what’s going on here with the various anti-LGBT actions being taken by our state and federal governments — and especially the anti-trans actions within the last two weeks:*

    Sister Golden Bear doesn’t deserve equal protection under the law.

    Sister Golden Bear doesn’t deserve proper healthcare.

    Sister Golden Bear doesn’t know how science** works.

    If Sister Golden Bear needs to use the bathroom in public, Sister Golden Bear should just hold it and go home.

    Sister Golden Bear shouldn’t be allowed to get married.

    If Sister Golden Bear gets married, that’s the same thing as letting people marry animals.

    Sister Golden Bear is incapable of being a good parent.

    People like Sister Golden Bear can’t really understand love.

    100 years ago, we would have shot people like Sister Golden Bear in the street.

    Sister Golden Bear can’t be allowed to continue to exist because I think Sister Golden Bear’s very existence keeps me from practicing my religion.

    Every time you see these sorts of arguments about LGBTQ people and all the things wrong with us, I want you to stick my name in there. Make it matter to you, if I matter to you. Better yet, put your own name in there. See how it feels. See what it’s like to be me.

    Feel free to share this elsewhere. Keep my name or change it to yours. Humanize the argument, don’t let them dehumanize me and people like me.

    This is the time for cisgender allies to get angry at the treatment of us.

    And if you know any trans people, please check in with them. Many of them, including myself, are more than a bit freaked out by what’s happening right now.

    *A week ago Sunday, there was a leak that the administration wants to define gender as being that which was assigned at birth and cannot ever be changed. This is design to both out trans people, and gut anti-discrimination protections for trans people.

    A week ago Monday, the administration was arguing in court that employers should be legally allowed to discriminate against trans employees.

    Also last week, Maryland cut off funding for all trans-related healthcare.

    **Or more aptly “science,” since the “science” haters point to is anything but scientific.

    #WontBeErased

  5. 5.

    Roger Moore

    I saw somebody with a fairly decent Batman costume (closer to Adam West version than Christian Bale version) at the train station on my way to work today.

  6. 6.

    Steeplejack (phone)

    Funny! But that kid’s going to have trouble staying in character and carrying his treat bag at the same time.

    I’m about to put on my tactical gear (pants) and go over to Sighthound Hall to assist in the festivities there. It’s a kid-infested neighborhood, including the two resident kids, so there will be a lot of action.

    Dinner and adult beverages have been promised for after.

  8. 8.

    Mandarama

    @Dorothy A. Winsor: I was listening to that very song in the car this morning! When I get self-pitying, I hum to myself, “Look at where you are / Look at where you started.”

  9. 9.

    TenguPhule

    As a journalist, as someone who has been threatened with male violence, as the daughter of an immigrant, as a transgender American, as a person who believes that a president should tell the truth, I can tell you I am not cheering or laughing or smiling.

    Donald Trump has harmed me more than any specter. He has transformed the country I love into a place of fear and roiling hatred. I honestly do not know if my family and I can survive him.

    Once, I told my children that monsters were not real and that I could keep them safe. I was wrong.

    When Nightmares Are Real

  10. 10.

    Marcopolo

    That is an awesome costume.

    From the great state of Misery:

    Out-of-state political consultants helped direct Josh Hawley’s Missouri AG office

    Josh Hawley pledged to Missouri voters in 2016 that he was not the kind of career politician who would use “one office to get to another.”

    But within weeks of Hawley’s swearing in as the state’s top law enforcement official, the high-powered political team that would go on to run his U.S. Senate campaign had stepped in to help direct the office of the Missouri attorney general — and raise his national profile.

    Hawley’s out-of-state political consultants gave direct guidance and tasks to his taxpayer-funded staff, and followed up to ensure the tasks were completed, according to emails, text messages and other records obtained by The Kansas City Star.

    Apologies for not block quoting but I am not agile enough to get select text to work over three paragraphs on a small touchscreen.

    Let’s hope that if this story gets disseminated widely enough it will help push McCaskill over the top. Oh, and of course this is who Josh Hawley is.

  11. 11.

    Haroldo

    I just got off the phone with a volunteer from the Cort VanOstran campaign (MO – 2nd District). Apparently, the money we’ve been donating through our Omnibus ActBlue efforts has been helping him to turn that Red district Blue. I told the (very enthusiastic and personable) volunteer that I’d spread the word. And so I am. I believe there are a number of St. Louis area jackals who might find this good news.

  13. 13.

    trollhattan

    @donnah:
    This dad is utterly failing at picking up on recent cultural references (i.e., everything from the last 15+ years). This morning the kid presents in an unusual outfit that has mom asking her “why?”

    Kid: “I’m Kim Possible.”
    Mom: “Oh my god, that’s perfect!”
    Dad: “Who? Oh, that was a show you watched, right?”
    Too late. Then mom begins to pick apart details, beginning with the hair so it was time to leave.

  16. 16.

    delk

    I voted today!

    I was going to vote Monday but I tripped and fell trying to catch the bus. Didn’t catch the bus but did end up with a broken nose, fractured neck vertebrae, and fractured wrist. Having surgery on the wrist this Monday.
    BOO!
    Happy Halloween!

  22. 22.

    WaterGirl

    @delk: Oh, no! I’m so very sorry to hear that. Not one thing, but three, and two of them fractures. And surgery. Yikes.

  24. 24.

    R-Jud

    The Bean is a scary cat this year. She’s proud that she did the face paint herself. She’s out with her dad tonight as I have to work, sadly. It’s about 40F here and clear, and there were masses of kids out! Makes a big change from when I first moved to the U.K. and someone told me, “Oh, Halloween. The Scottish like it, I suppose.”

  25. 25.

    Comrade Colette Collaboratrice

    Just finished our office costume contest, which is a Very Big Deal around here. One of the managers dressed as Ruth Vader Ginsburg, complete with lacy collar, gavel and light saber. If only.

  28. 28.

    JPL

    @WaterGirl: Oprah is campaigning with Stacey tomorrow. Although the word is Kemp dropped out because of Trump, it wouldn’t surprise me if he dropped out just because Stacey is better on the issues.

  29. 29.

    ByRookorbyCrook

    He arrived by train rather than Bat Vehicle, so I’m not buying it.

    The recession was hard on everyone. Wayne had to liquidate some of his assets to keep the Batcave from being foreclosed. Now he simply designates whatever vehicle he is on is a bat-vehicle. So Bat-train, Bat-bus, the Bat-rideshare.

  33. 33.

    R-Jud

    @Sister Golden Bear: Thank you for continuing to be loud and vocal. I’ve sent your post to a cousin who just announced her transition this summer in case she wants to use it (or give me permission to share on SM). Xxx

  35. 35.

    tobie

    @JPL: wouldn’t it be poetic justice if CNN aired an hour-long conversation with Stacey live and ignored the Trump rally in GA?

  38. 38.

    delk

    In my best Paul Harvey voice: and here is the rest of the story…

    I was leaving my doctor’s office when I fell. I was at the doctors for a check up on the surgery I had October 5th.

  39. 39.

    Sister Golden Bear

    @TenguPhule: Part of all these anti-trans moves are to get under our skin, and into our heads. Unfortunately, it’s working.

    Doesn’t mean we won’t fight — older trans folks like me have been through Bad Times before — but, we are facing a higher level of thread than the old days, when to a certain degree we were off the radar.

    Aside from the actions themselves, it’s the signaling that it’s open season on us. From the day I first stepped outside the door as myself I expected to be hassled, and even threatened for being who I am (and I have been, and narrowly escaped being hate bash more than once) since I’m “visibly trans.” The difference is now I feel like there’s a real risk some random wingnut may decide to take trans erasure into his own hands up close and personal. Self-defense classes don’t do much if someone shoots me in the back of the head while I’m grocery shopping.

    #WontBeErased #StillFuckingHere

  40. 40.

    Major Major Major Major

    @delk: every time Paul Harvey comes to mind I remember a throwaway joke from The Simpsons. It cuts to the retirement home where they’re listening to the radio.

    Harvey: “And that little boy, who nobody liked, grew up to be… Roy Cohn.”
    Assembled listeners: “Ohhh.”

  44. 44.

    Sister Golden Bear

    But it can’t happen here. Right? Right?

    https://www.joemygod.com/2018/10/tanzania-governor-launches-hunt-for-lgbt-people-give-me-their-names-and-my-team-will-get-them/

    The governor of Tanzania’s economic capital Dar es Salaam on Monday launched an anti-gay crackdown, threatening to arrest people suspected of being homosexuals.

    “I have information about the presence of many homosexuals in our province,” Paul Makonda told reporters on Monday, calling on citizens to begin reporting homosexuals for round-ups to begin next week. “Give me their names,” he demanded. “My ad hoc team will begin to get their hands on them next Monday.”

    Under British colonial-era laws homosexuality is illegal in Tanzania, with same-sex acts between men punishable by a maximum life sentence.

    American Talibaptists have been busy pushing anti-LGBT hatred and LGHT persecution overseas in recent years because they were stymied at home. What happens when they’re no longer stymied?

    #WontBeErased

  46. 46.

    Mnemosyne

    @Sister Golden Bear:

    I’m only aware of one transgendered person that I know IRL, who is a coworker of G’s who started his transition after G started working with him, but since this is Los Angeles, I’m assuming there are other people I’m acquainted with IRL that I’m not aware of because they transitioned before I met them, so I’ve only ever known them as their current gender. ?

  48. 48.

    hueyplong

    If that number is correct, I’m not sure about the “optics” of a couple hundred hungry and tired mothers and children facing 15,000 troops of the world’s superpower.

    No doubt 27% of the electorate will watch it on a loop for 4 hours and then need to call their doctors.

  49. 49.

    Jager

    Mrs J left this morning in costume. She wore my Red Sox Jersey over a long sleeved red t shirt, white pants and red and white Adidas sneakers She topped it off with a Red Sox ball cap and eye black. She texted me and said the hard core Dodger fans in the warehouse gave her a standing O. And I was worried they’d kick her ass!

  50. 50.

    Mnemosyne

    @Dorothy A. Winsor:

    He’s not. He’s just making up numbers that sound impressive to him.

    Given the current estimate of maybe 1,000 refugees making it as far as the US/Mexico border (many of them are accepting asylum from Mexico), that means that Trump thinks we need 15 US soldiers to protect us from each woman and child in that group.

    Geez, we’re a bunch of wimps. Oh, no, it’s a toddler! Watch out, it’ll start crying any second!

  52. 52.

    hueyplong

    @Jager: I originally read that as “black eye” instead of “eye black” and thought, “Man, nobody is going to get that Tony Conigliaro theme.”

  54. 54.

    catclub

    @tobie:

    wouldn’t it be poetic justice if CNN aired an hour-long conversation with Stacey live and ignored the Trump rally in GA?

    no, it would be a fucking miracle.

  57. 57.

    TenguPhule

    @Miss Bianca: Its been a bad month. I had to step out and go over my emergency plans again.

    I have also learned a few new things.

    Bullet resistant vests are good for about 5 years of use.

    After being shot, the vest must be replaced and shouldn’t be reused because the protective properties of the vest will no longer be as effective.

  58. 58.

    Mnemosyne

    My store-bought Edna Mode costume is cute, but the polyester is making me feel clammy. I’m going to have to change as soon as I get home from work. ?

  59. 59.

    Luthe

    @Sister Golden Bear: There was a post about how trans* rights are under siege going around Tumblr, so I added a reminder for everyone to vote for state level candidates because even if the feds are being dickholes, individual states can still extend protections and health care to trans* people. Reversing Maryland’s asshole decision starts with voting the assholes out.

  60. 60.

    TenguPhule

    @Sister Golden Bear: For what its worth, my cousin is trans and “he” is in a hopefully happy relationship with his current girlfriend after a marriage that didn’t last long or end well. Our family supports him in his life choice, even if many of the older folks don’t really understand it. This is personal.

  63. 63.

    lamh36

    ‪Yes!!! They nailed it! And look Megyn Kelly, NO BLACKFACE!!!‬
    ‪#????‬

    #DontLookAnyFurther
    ‪https://www.facebook.com/barzRAW/videos/1816300095277976/‬

  64. 64.

    BC in Illinois

    @Haroldo:
    Anything that indicates the defeat of Ann Wagner (R – safe Republican vote) is great news. Rep. Wagner is running her usual — private — campaign: no public events, no town hall meetings, generic TV commercials.

    Cort VanOstran, on the other hand will be at a Claire McCaskill / JOE BIDEN / Cort / Wesley Bell event starting in three hours at a union hall in St Louis County. (Wesley Bell is a story worth telling in his own right: a public defender, Ferguson City Councilman, and professor of criminal justice, he defeated a 26-year blight on the office of St Louis County Prosecutor. Words fail me, to describe the change from Bob McCullough of the past to Wesley Bell of the future. McCullough deserves a paragraph of abuse in his own right.)

    I leave for the event in a half hour.

  66. 66.

    Mnemosyne

    @lamh36:

    IMO, any candidate whose opponent pulls out of a debate should announce that they’re going to show up anyway and take questions from the audience.

  67. 67.

    Jay

    NoMoreMisterNice Blog has a post up noting that the “Caravan” fears were primed and stoked by The Ususal Suspects, not social media:

    http://nomoremister.blogspot.com/2018/10/the-soros-caravan-lie-its-all-social.html?m=1

    Wonkette has a nice post up noting that “Birthright Citizenship” is a “settled issue” and that the MSM is selling bullshit on the issue:

    https://www.wonkette.com/there-are-lies-damn-lies-and-uncritical-reports-of-lies-that-deceive-americans-into-believing-nonsense

  69. 69.

    Duane

    @Marcopolo: Josh Hawley is a wolf in sheep clothing. Missouri voters are a bunch of rubes. They ignore all his lies. HeeHawley would be as bad a senator as his supporters hope for.

  70. 70.

    Jay

    Oh, and Candace Owens is crying on the Book of Faces now that she’s lost her BFF Kanye,

    Her tears are delicious.

  71. 71.

    japa21

    @Jay: The whole birthright citizenship argument seem to rest on the phrase “under the jurisdiction of” in the 14th amendment. The argument goes that since these are undocumented immigrants, they do not fall into that category. To be honest, I can see a large portion of the electorate falling for that argument. I believe that phrase is part of the rationale for children of diplomats born in the US are not considered citizens because, due to diplomatic immunity, the parents do not fall under the jurisdiction of the US.

    Remember, I am not a lawyer and I do not play one on TV, but it seems to me that if they are going to use that argument, then they are saying that any crime committed by an undocumented immigrant cannot be prosecuted and the most that can be done is deportation.

    Of course, I may be full of you know what, but I can’t come up with any other way of looking at that clause in the amendment.

    I would be happy to learn that I am as misguided on this as I am on many other things.

  76. 76.

    Dorothy A. Winsor

    @japa21: That’s more or less what I was thinking too. Trump feels perfectly free to lock them up or throw them out. Ergo, they’re subject to US laws. Breaking a law does not equal being exempt.

    Unless you’re a Trump maybe–in your own mind anyway.

  77. 77.

    lamh36

    ‪Anyone else notice the tone of the story? Notice the way they talk about Gillum like he’s the problem for not cowering to racists like DeSantis. Like it’s the only thing he’s doing. Also notice that they are sure to mention the FBI investigation in Tallahasee, but made sure to mention in a way to say Gillum is using the race card do downplay it?

    I’m hoping Florida’s fam get out and vote big next week!!!‬

    ‪Florida governor’s race gets down in the gutter https://politi.co/2qkGCl5 via @politico‬

  78. 78.

    Dan B

    @Sister Golden Bear: I don’t have to inseet my name in your statements since that’s been my experience since I figured out I was “homosexual” at age 14. Even the bathroom statement at the time. When there were very few places outside of big cities where LGBTQ people could meet the T rooms and bushes were it – not safe or good for building social connections, but less likely to lose your job. The feelings that those times, and worse, could return are hard to shake. Tanzania seems ready to descend into hell for gay men, and any LGBTQ person.

    I missed what’s happening with trans healthcare funding in Maryland. Do you have a web source. It hasn’t shown up on my radar.

  80. 80.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @lamh36: I had the same reaction. Caputo is, from what I’ve seen, a snarky (not the funny kind of snark, the sneering kind) libertarian and (aging) bro.

    Also a white guy. Did I need to mention that? A middle-aged white guy

  81. 81.

    J R in WV

    @Mary G:

    JUST IN: Trump attacks Ryan days before midterms: He “should be focusing on holding the Majority rather than giving his opinions” https://t.co/QlHqnztQEF pic.twitter.com/LaQzDk0EGD— The Hill (@thehill) October 31, 2018

    But Ryan is retiring… why should he give a shit about the next congress when he’s going to be kicked back enjoying being a rich retired republican big-shot? That retirement kicked in when he announced it as far as campaigning goes, right?

    Gawd, Trump is so dumb~!!!~

  82. 82.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    From the other side:

    Rick Wilson @ TheRickWilson
    GOP Pollster doing several House races:

    “As you like to say, “‘It’s unspinnably bad.'”

  83. 83.

    Roger Moore

    @japa21:

    I believe that phrase is part of the rationale for children of diplomats born in the US are not considered citizens because, due to diplomatic immunity, the parents do not fall under the jurisdiction of the US.

    That is my understanding, too. The “subject to the jurisdiction thereof” clause was intended to exclude three classes of people:

    1) Diplomats, whose diplomatic immunity means they aren’t subject to US law
    2) Native Americans still living on tribal land*, who still lived under tribal law
    3) Foreign invaders, who were obviously not subject to US law because they were invading.

    *Remember that the 14th Amendment was passed when many of the Plains Indians were still occupying their traditional homes and hadn’t yet been forced onto reservations.

  89. 89.

    satby

    One hour over of the municipal two hour trick or treat window, and so far only seven kids. My block has two vacant houses though, and my own house looks like it could be haunted with the scary iron gates, so I guess I shouldn’t be too surprised.

  90. 90.

    MomSense

    I saw some of the best costumes I’ve ever seen at the Halloween parade today. I went as the Notorious RBG and people actually knew who I was. I saw kids dressed as chickens with their parents dressed as eggs. There were twins who went as a washer and dryer – with clothes coming out of the top and front respectively. There was a group of people dressed as the trump family in orange, prison jumpsuits. A little boy played trump sr and he was hilarious.

  92. 92.

    Jay

    @japa21:

    “In the light of the law as previously established, and of the history of the times, it can hardly be doubted that the words of that act, “not subject to any foreign power,” were not intended to exclude any children born in this country from the citizenship which would theretofore have been their birthright, or, for instance, for the first time in our history, to deny the right of citizenship to native-born children of foreign white parents not in the diplomatic service of their own country nor in hostile occupation of part of our territory. But any possible doubt in this regard was removed when the negative words of the Civil Rights Act, “not subject to any foreign power,” gave way, in the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution, to the affirmative words, “subject to the jurisdiction of the United States.” United States v. Wong Kim Ark, 169 U.S. 649 (1898)”

    The Wonkette post notes that:

    A) this is long settled Law and clearly defined,

    B) the FTFNYT, MSNBC, etc, are deliberately aiding and abetting The Insane Clown POSus’s puke funnel and fearmongering by suggesting that this is not clearly settled law, and is possible.

    It’s not just The Insane Clown POSus’s Administration that is engaged in High Crimes and Treason.

  93. 93.

    Shana

    @MomSense: Sounds fun.

    So far no one’s come to our house. Our neighborhood is turning over from families where the kids are grown to young families, but the lots are big so I’m not holding my breath. At Hubby’s suggestion we’ve started giving out full size candy in the hopes of attracting more kids. We’ll see how it works.

    Any leftovers come with me on Election Day. School’s always out on Election Day here so lots of parents come with kids to vote.

  95. 95.

    J R in WV

    As a child who grew up in a newspaper newsroom, literally, I have strong opinions about freedom of the press. My father spent a huge amount of money to defend his editorial page against a libel suit pressed by a crooked politician, and won in the US Supreme Court many years ago. Details to those who want them, it’s in textbooks about news media libel law.

    But the press needs to spend its effort on being accurate, truthful, and objective. Not on making timely but false accusations against political opponents of the owner’s captive politicians. Once a press organ begins promulgating lies, spinning falsehoods, distorting events, they begin to shed the freedom of the press and start to be a propaganda arm of a politically corrupt movement.

    Would the First Amendment have allowed the German Nazi party movement to take over America in the 1930s? After years of observation of reality my answer is NO, IT WOULD NOT!

    Truth is an absolute defense against accusations of libel and slander. I now believe that presenting blatant falsehoods repeatedly destroys a news organization’s “freedom of the press” and allows them to be shut down to protect the nation from the certain damage to come from a wild propaganda outlet spewing lies as if they were true, over and over.

    I’m going to post this comment in several threads, I think it is important.

  96. 96.

    Sister Golden Bear

    @Mnemosyne:

    I’m assuming there are other people I’m acquainted with IRL that I’m not aware of because they transitioned before I met them, so I’ve only ever known them as their current gender.

    Or they never came out of the closet. My anecdotal experience (on the MTF side of things) is that for every trans person who transitions, there’s probably 10 non-transitioners. Many of whom are deeply, deeply closets (even from partners). They’re the vast dark matter of the trans universe, often living lives of quiet desperation.

    @Luthe: Thank you!

    @TenguPhule:

    For what its worth, my cousin is trans and “he” is in a hopefully happy relationship with his current girlfriend after a marriage that didn’t last long or end well.

    Appreciated the support you have for him, but a quick ask: don’t refer to “he” in quotes. He’s just a he.

    It’s one of those othering things, like when cisgender people talk about “preferred pronouns” for trans people — when cisgender people just have “pronouns.” BTW, if you need to ask someone about pronouns, just ask them what pronouns they use. Or better yet, state what pronouns you use and then ask them about it, e.g. “I use she/her, what pronouns do you use?” Because that way trans people aren’t the only people being asked to state what their pronouns are.

    @Dan B: Maryland funding cuts for trans people on state employee insurance policy. (Sorry I wasn’t clearer about this earlier.) The lead is a bit buried:

    http://www.ncpolicywatch.com/2018/10/25/state-treasurer-dale-folwell-cuts-off-benefits-to-transgender-north-carolinians/?fbclid=IwAR2bcIfFODbOIrnrF6y4WmiFGY_pY-LJxW1iB6RcuUt-44YNy7rpOs0gZcE

    Far from being a frivolous elective procedures, Adkins said there is now ample medical literature showing that gender transition treatments save lives.

    “Any other medical diagnosis that had 40 years of research behind it showing there’s a treatment for it that works better than any other treatment, everyone would be behind it,” Adkins said.

    Unfortunately, she said, this seems to be a case of politics failing to catch up to science — with dire consequences for transgender people of all ages.

  100. 100.

    seaboogie

    @MomSense: In other RBG news, I was returning to our Sonoma shop with beverages, and as I passed our historic Senastiani theater there was a poster showcasing the RBG documentary. A gaggle of young girls were approaching from the opposite direction and one asked “who’s that”, to which a probably 10 year old girl replied “that’s Ruth Bader Ginsburg – Supreme Court Justice!”

    It’s that sort of experience that gives me hope when it seems in short supply.

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