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Comic Jim Gaffigan Lights Up Twitter With Some Tough Talk For Trump Loyalists

(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9L0VjAewGs)

I can't just write another angry blog or witty meme. I am outraged at what the Republicans are trying to do to Obamacare and Medicaid, not to mention the unimaginable huge tax cut they want to give to the very people who don't need it at all. I'm not quite brave enough to got on a hunger strike, but this is the next best thing:Flushing my life-saving meds down the toilet.

If I was selling bumperstickers, would you buy one?

100 Days of Waking Up to Trump

Honoring my mother (d. April 6, 2015) via John Singer Sargent

A lot of people my age or older (or very historically aware) might remember the shock of seeing the drawing on the front page of the NYT of Bobby Seale bound and gagged during his 1969 trial. It came to me this morning, and I have switched in Coretta Scott King, who was silenced via Elizabeth Warren by Mitch McConnell on the floor of the Senate yesterday. If the original represented a police state hostility toward black men, yesterday's shutdown showed the intense disrespect that endures toward black women, even of the greatest stature, and women in general -- as no male in the Senate who read the same letter was interrupted and asked to sit as Sen. Warren was.

Signs Against Trump

Kellyanne really isn’t looking so good these days.

Give Donald a break. He just got one Fred Douglass confused with the other.