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Or: My road map through adulthood — I first read Simone de Beauvoir’s The Woman Destroyed in my freshman seminar at Beloit College in the fall of 1991. I’ve returned to it many times over the years, captivated each time by a different one of the three stories it contains. For a long time “The Monologue,” the…

It’s worse than you think. — My daughter was seven months old when I dropped her off for her first day of daycare on December 14, 2012. I handed her into the arms of a stranger, went home and tried to work. That afternoon the news came. Twenty first-graders and six adults. Massacred. They had to…

Most of us did the right thing in 2016. — Trump claimed he won 52% of white women in 2016. I know this will shock you, but that’s a lie. “Trump won 35% of college-educated white women and 56% of white women without college degrees.” https://time.com/5422644/trump-white-women-2016/ It’s much easier to blame white women than Russian interference, or white men. Obviously…

My mother once started a union at her work, after her employer attempted to demote her out of a personal vendetta.

The Best Candidate to Beat Trump Is the One Who Already Did — She’s proven she can get more votes. She scares the shit out of Vladimir Putin. What better way to restore our credibility in the eyes of the world and tell Putin to go fuck himself than to make his worst fear come true? Vladimir Putin isn’t scared of the mayor…

Remember how the Berniebros decried the evil corruption of PACs, Goldman-Sachs and Wall Street? All while ignoring their idol’s own funding from super PACs, Wall Street, Goldman-Sachs, mystery donors and Karl fucking Rove? Well, they’ve got their very own 501(c)4 now, adorably called “Our Revolution.” From some of my exchanges…

He’s not the Messiah. He’s a very naughty boy. — [NOTE: This post originally appeared on the Huffington Post contributor platform, though only for a few hours. :)] “The election is over. Move on.” “Stop dividing the party.” “We have to unite.” If you’re as sick of hearing this gaslighting bullshit as I am, feel free to adapt my own…