In Helsinki, Trump’s true message to Putin is: “Thank you.” And we have no idea what to do about it.
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”When you’re black in America, you’re either seen as a problem or not seen at all.”
“This is who we are.”
Voting for “skinny repeal” isn’t “just a vote to help the process along. It’s a vote to uninsure millions of Americans.”
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“This isn’t just smoke. We can see the damage done by the fire. We are watching our president pal around with the suspected arsonists.”
And this was before yesterday’s news.
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“Does anyone at Twitter even use Twitter?”
John McCain “will once again try to paint himself as a voice of reason and a courageous truth-teller, while not actually doing anything.”
“If [Republicans in Congress] don’t act decisively now, when will they act? If this isn’t bad enough—what will be?”
“Put simply, I don’t believe that the stated purpose [of Trump’s executive order] is the real purpose.”
“[…] this is not a document that will cause hardship and misery because of regrettable incidental impacts on people injured in the pursuit of a public good. It will cause hardship and misery for tens or hundreds of thousands of people because that is precisely what it is intended to do.”
All of us showing up, stopping Trump, and taking care of each other is important right now.
But a pin isn’t all we should do. If we see casual racism around us, let’s help stop it.
It’s symbolic, yes, but it’s a start for staying strong and sticking together: wearing a safety pin in support of those who are afraid and possibly harassed.
“Your hand may hesitate to put a mark beside the name, Hillary Clinton. You’re not doing it for her. The vote you cast is for the republic and the Constitution.”
“These rhetorical time bombs, in other words, could be the catalyst for actual intimidation and violence, before and after Election Day. And if that violence and intimidation strikes, it will be against the chief targets of Trump’s campaign: people of color.”
“To evaluate Trump’s life as a whole is to see that however distasteful one finds Hillary Clinton––I will never forgive the Democrats for nominating her––to regard them as equivalently bad candidates for the presidency isn’t just absurd, it is reckless.”
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“The Republicans sold Clinton as season one Leslie [Knope]. Can Democrats make their candidate season two Leslie?”
“the overriding theme was fear—fear of a brown horde.”
“The incident throws a harpoon into the heart of the Trump campaign’s racial politics.”
“Imagine if we could just like what we liked, without being hemmed in by dated stereotypes?” On cards and gender.
“Team Sanders needs to give up on winning the nomination. That battle is over. But Sanders still has an unprecedented opportunity to leave a stamp on the Democratic Party.” And he should.
“If you conjured all the ignorance and arrogance in America and gave it human form, you would have Donald Trump, give or take a spray tan.”
“Violence is scary. But violence-as-ideology is terrifying. And that’s where [Donald Drumpf’s] campaign has gone.”
Dindim. I love everything about this.
No, President Obama, it’s not my phone I’m “fetishizing”. It’s privacy and security. But since when is feeling—and being—safe a fetish?
These are sad times we live in when the top two US senators on the *intelligence* committee don’t believe forced encryption backdoors threaten national security.
But then again, the chairman of the *environment* committee doesn’t believe in climate change, so… http://time.com/3725994/inhofe-snowball-climate/
“Either everyone gets security or no one does.”
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