Like most of you, I didn’t know much about former Alaska senator Mike Gravel until his Tweets started popping up in my feed. The Tweets, many of which call out centrist Dems, were smart, sharp, […]
Brady, Byrne, Cassidy, Cornyn, Collins, Duffy, Dunn, Ferguson, Fitzpatrick, Gallagher, Joyce, Kelly, Kennedy, Long, McCarthy, McCaul, McClintock, McHenry, McConnell, Mooney, Moran, Mullin, Ryan, Rooney, Sullivan, and Toomey. Sounds like a map of Irish surnames, right? […]
Last week, I unfriended a Democrat on FB because he went on an irrational rant about Bernie, calling him “an egomaniacal old buzzard,” accusing him of being a weak thinker and a fake progressive, […]
It’s two days before the midterms, and I’m looking out my office window at the wind blowing the trees in the cold November rain. I should be making one final pitch about voting Democrat down the […]
I have been a keeper of secrets. For more than two decades, girls (“young women,” I know, but at eighteen they seem so young) in my college composition and creative writing classes have been brave […]
We all know them. They’re our Facebook friends, co-workers, and family members. They’re the liberals in our lives who ignore politics. They rarely comment on our political posts, and when they do comment, they write things […]
The GOP worships mothers. Or at least that’s what they want you to think. Except when they’re mothers who want control over their bodies. Or when they need prenatal care. Or healthcare. Or maternity leave. Or affordable childcare. […]
What image comes to mind when you think of Trump supporters? If the stuff I see on social media every day is any indication, it looks something like this: older, white, poor, overweight, undereducated, slobbish, Bible-thumping, brainwashed, […]
I’ve worked with words professionally for half my life, which has trained me to look for meaning in patterns and contradictions. This makes me pretty good at identifying Twitter bots, even though I’m not a […]
The most ardent and vocal Trump supporters I know aren’t Millennials or even Boomers. They’re my own peers, Gen Xers. Millennials think Trump is pathetically out of touch – an obese, senile great grandpa sitting on […]
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