Quarantine week 4? Sourdough starters, spring and silly dogs
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Trump’s plan to ‘drain the swamp’ of corruption means bringing back (Rudy) Giuliani, (Chris) Christie, (Newt) Gingrich and (Sarah) Palin. It makes sense: they’re exactly what I’d expect to find at the bottom of a drained swamp.
On Donald Trump’s reported considerations for his cabinet, STEPHEN COLBERT (via inothernews)
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High-functioning anxiety sounds like…
You’re not good enough. You’re a bad friend. You’re not good at your job. You’re wasting time. You’re a waste of time. Your boyfriend doesn’t love you. You’re so needy. What are you doing with yourself? Why would you say that? What if they hate it? Why can’t you have your shit together? You’re going to get anxious and because you’re going to get anxious, you’re going to mess everything up. You’re a fraud. Just good at faking it. You’re letting everybody down. No one here likes you.
All the while, it appears perfectly calm.
It’s always looking for the next outlet, something to channel the never-ending energy. Writing. Running. List-making. Mindless tasks (whatever keeps you busy). Doing jumping jacks in the kitchen. Dancing in the living room, pretending it’s for fun, when really it’s a choreographed routine of desperation, trying to tire out the thoughts stuck in your head.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen it written out as if it were describing me exactly.
This…
Holy shit.
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Christine Teigen is a goddamn national treasure.
Source: twitter.com
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When you’ve lived through the unexpected or out of order death of someone you love, your heart has, by definition, already been pushed too far. Your heart has been pushed beyond the limits of what most people, many people, will ever have to endure.
Megan Devine, refugeingrief.com (via survivingsiblingsuicide)
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So accurate it hurts
The first episode of our new series Skirt the Issue starring Jacqui Rossi is here! Watch below (1min36sec) :
Source: youtube.com
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Studies show that when women achieve high office, female advancement in politics “trickles down,” with a woman governor or senator inspiring a downstream boost in women state legislators. These victories would themselves carry important symbolic value, but beyond that would generate concrete changes in the governance of the country — including more attention to issues related to child care, family life, women’s health, and the needs of the neediest.
Source: vox.com
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🙋🏼🙋🏼🙋🏼💅🏼💅🏼💅🏼
THE SHADE.
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Later today, Hillary Clinton will likely become the official Democratic nominee for president.
If you support Senator Sanders, I understand that you’re probably disappointed, but…
There has been, all along, a certain subset of Bernie supporters who claim that they will vote for Bernie and only Bernie. They claim they won’t vote in November if he isn’t the nominee, or they’ll vote for Jill Stein, or, worse – and illogically – for Trump.
I usually try to avoid inflammatory statements, but there isn’t another way to say this:
<rant>If you’re a Bernie supporter and you petulantly refuse to vote for Hillary Clinton in November, you obviously don’t have much to lose other than your ideological struggle, and it shouldn’t require pointing out that it reeks of privilege that you’re willing to hand the election to a demagogue who denigrates women, racial minorities, ethnic minorities, religious minorities, the LGBTQ+ community, the judicial system, and so on, and so forth.
Is Hillary Clinton perfect? No, and neither is Bernie Sanders. But you’re deluded if you think Americans will be worse-off with Hillary at the helm than with Trump, who has already displayed demonstrably poisonous, prejudiced views.</rant>
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This is rape culture.
This is white male privilege.
This is injustice.
The rapist and the judge are revolting, sociopathic spawns of the devil.
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Rapist: Brock Allen Turner Judge: Aaron Persky
if you haven’t read her letter yet in full, you should.
This judge is up for re-election on Tuesday for California voters in his district.
When people talk about the importance of “down ticket voting” this is what they are talking about. Judges in some states are elected - this guy could be voted out on Tuesday.
VOTE HIM OUT, CALIFORNIA.
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When I think it’s going to be an easy day at work and then I get absolutely buried
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He licked his lips. ‘Well, if you want my opinion–’
‘I don’t,’ she said. ‘I have my own.’
Toni Morrison, Beloved (via wordsnquotes)
Source: wordsnquotes.com
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Why I Love Hillary Clinton
Taking Bernie Sanders out of the equation, here are the articles that make me genuinely excited to vote for Hillary Clinton as the next President of the United States. I’m with her not because of some pragmatic calculation, but because she’s the best candidate for the job, a kickass human being, a liberal leader, and an important feminist trailblazer.
- If You’re Liberal and You Think Hillary Clinton Is Corrupt and Untrustworthy, You’re Rewarding 25 Years of GOP Smears [Chez Pazienza, The Daily Banter]
- “There are reasons you may choose not to vote for Hillary Clinton in 2016, but one would hope they’re policy issues rather than problems with her personality — because the “personality” that’s been sold to the American electorate is largely manufactured, and not by Clinton herself (another facet of the smear: that she’s a phony). The reality is that Clinton was one of the most liberal members of the Senate during her time there, ranking within ten points of progressive messiah Bernie Sanders and her history as a crusader for progressive causes is precisely what so motivated the GOP to destroy her in the first place. As far as the right was concerned, Clinton stepped far over the line when she pushed for healthcare reform way back in 1993 and her activist past informed a future as a ‘difficult woman.’ By the way, it hardly needs to be said but many of the conservative attacks on Clinton throughout the decades have been the product of rank sexism. Men rarely get labeled difficult or abrasive and their general likability isn’t often called into question. Those are all buzzwords employed specifically to knock empowered women down a peg. And Hillary Clinton has been subjected to them — and so much worse — her entire political career.”
- Hillary Clinton doesn’t trust you [Ezra Klein, Vox]
- “Clinton’s reputation, among people who’ve worked with her, is impressive. Even Republican staffers will admit they’ve never briefed anyone better informed. Stories abound of unsuspecting deputy assistant secretaries charged with running a meeting on some obscure sub-issue only to be peppered by detailed, knowledgeable questions from Clinton herself. During her time in the Senate she won over legions of ex-haters with her work ethic, her seriousness, and her pragmatism. Even people who didn’t agree with her appreciated her no-bullshit attitude toward getting things done. Another way of saying that, though, is Clinton wins over even people who disagree with her by treating their ideas with respect — she takes the time to understand their arguments, she’s honest about her counterarguments, and she is relentless in her efforts to find shared ground on which to make progress. The problem is Clinton doesn’t campaign the way she governs. She often seems scared to tell voters what she really thinks for fear they’ll disagree.”
- Emails Offer Glimpse Into Hillary Clinton’s Private Side [Philip Elliott and Sam Frizell, Time]
- “The State Department email batch details, in hour-by-hour fashion, Clinton’s first months as the United States’ top diplomat, always on the go but also always wanting to do more and know more… Clinton’s career-long focus on girls’ education didn’t end when she became Secretary of State. In August 2009, Clinton inquired about a Yemeni girl, Nujood Ali, who at the age of 10 had asked for a divorce; two years later, a news report indicated Ali was bitterly unhappy and not going to school. ‘Is there any way we can help her?’ Clinton asked the U.S. ambassador for global women’s issues in an uncharacteristically long email. ‘Could we get her to the US for counselling and education?’ Next week, she followed up. ‘That’s good news,’ Clinton wrote after finding out Nujood was indeed attending private school.”
- Hillary Clinton Was Liberal. Hillary Clinton Is Liberal. [Harry Enten, FiveThirtyEight]
- ”Clinton has always been, by most measures, pretty far to the left. When she’s shifted positions, it has been in concert with the entire Democratic Party…. Clinton was one of the most liberal members during her time in the Senate. According to an analysis of roll call votes by Voteview, Clinton’s record was more liberal than 70 percent of Democrats in her final term in the Senate. She was more liberal than 85 percent of all members. Her 2008 rival in the Democratic presidential primary, Barack Obama, was nearby with a record more liberal than 82 percent of all members — he was not more liberal than Clinton. … Clinton also has a history of very liberal public statements. Clinton rates as a ‘hard core liberal’ per the OnTheIssues.org scale. She is as liberal as Elizabeth Warren and barely more moderate than Bernie Sanders. And while Obama is also a ‘hard core liberal,’ Clinton again was rated as more liberal than Obama.”
- The Case for Hillary [Zachary Leven, Medium]
- “My experience has been that whenever you closely examine the attacks on Hillary, whether they come from the left or the right, they break apart under scrutiny. That is, if you’re so inclined to scrutinize. Scant few are. Many, however, are steadfastly unwilling to view Clinton through anything other than the most severe and cynical lens. If one bit of evidence against her breaks down under examination, then another must be found. If that one fails to pan out, there’s always some other way to interpret her record that satisfies the harsh narrative we’ve chosen for her.”
- (NOTE: This article also discusses that “damning” Elizabeth Warren video: “Now I deeply respect and admire Elizabeth Warren — but it seems she left out some important details from her account. Clinton, in fact, worked with other members of congress to include amendments that addressed Elizabeth Warren’s concerns. And the bill passed 83–15. So why didn’t Warren mention this?”)
- The Most Qualified Candidate For President In Our Lifetime [Dan Rayne, WBUR]
- “Suppose I told you about a potential candidate for president, not now running, who had this background: Spent eight years in the U.S. Senate on the Armed Service Committee; Served on other committees on the budget, the environment, transportation, health, workplace safety, pensions, and children, families and the aging; Was honored as “a tireless voice for children” by the nation’s leading child advocacy organization; Was called by GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham “one of the most effective secretary of states, greatest ambassadors for the American people that I have known in my lifetime” in May 2012; Was named by Time magazine one of the 25 most powerful women of the past century. That last one gave it away. It’s Hillary Clinton, and if she runs she may be the most qualified candidate for the presidency in a generation.”
- Why Sexism at the Office Makes Women Love Hillary Clinton [Jill Filipovic, The New York Times]
- “ ‘A lot of the women I was friends with in college would have never called themselves feminists, but now that we’ve been in the workplace for 10 years, a lot has changed and they’re becoming more radical,’ said Aminatou Sow, a digital strategist and a founder of a support network for women in technology called Tech LadyMafia. They realize, she said, ‘that the work world and the world at large remains a place that’s built by men and for men.’ ”
- Hillary Clinton wants to talk to you about love and kindness [Ruby Cramer, Buzzfeed]
- “This was 1969. She is 21, still Hillary Diane Rodham — senior class president, bound for Yale Law School, full of big and unrestrained talk about the future, first student commencement speaker in the history of Wellesley College. And there at the podium, in full cap and gown, she diverts from her prepared remarks, and the words come tumbling out — urgent and excited and abstract at points beyond comprehension. She calls for human connectedness and understanding, for a more conscientious state of being. Her target is the ‘empty rhetoric’ of the preceding speaker, a sitting U.S. senator. ‘What does it mean,’ she asks of his speech, ‘to hear that 13.3% of the people in this country are below the poverty line? That’s a percentage.’ She and her classmates, Rodham says, demand “a more immediate, ecstatic, and penetrating mode of living” — a society ‘where you don’t see people as percentage points,’ a restored ‘mutuality of respect.’ ”
I would like to read all of this.
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I’ll never stop reblogging this.
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