Also important to note: these laws only have the little (but powerful) support they do because they are implicitly classist and racist. Read more

She shows the absurdity of the issue without attacking (verbally or physically). The perfect way to protest. Absolutely brilliant.  Read more

“The measure would also pre-empt local nondiscrimination ordinances that allow transgender Texans to use the bathroom that corresponds with their gender identity,” Read more

Yes, but the Bible says...nothing about trans people but I’m sure someone will find a passage to explain that God hates them so we should too.
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I’m rather meh about this pic. She didn’t say anything about Abbott actually talking to her. Did he know? Did she ask him? Quite possibly he did. Maybe he didn’t want to be rude. Maybe it was just a quick snap of the camera and he was gone. To reach the conclusion that he knew or didn’t know her status is kind of an… Read more

If she got a picture with that ass hat Dan Patrick it would have been even more impressive.
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wait... this bills to protect privacy in bathrooms?.... what the fuck is the door for then? Read more

Brilliant. Read more

I love this woman. She’s clever and got moxie. Read more

It couldn’t POSSIBLY have anything to do with he and his cronies...er... “friends” owning crap-tons of shares in private prison corporations... right? RIGHT? Read more

A report from earlier this year by Syracuse University’s TRAC Immigration project showed that as a result of the backlog, people had to wait an average of 670 days before having their immigration case heard in court. Read more

Isn’t justice delayed justice denied? Read more

I’m taking a shot in the dark, but I’m going to hazard that, as it stands -right now-, this entire clusterfuck is costing the taxpayers far more money than the imagined figures they tend to blame illegal immigrants for. Read more

I think everyone can get behind us private citizens using our collective power to keep government organizations in check. Read more

Hard to believe that it’s come to this, in this day and time. This is governance by intimidation, and it sucks, it’s morally and ethically bankrupt, and we should be better than this. And no, the answer is far more complex than ‘be legal, or go home’; that’s a childish solution that has no basis in reality. There is… Read more

As a fellow Latino I’d like to be the first to say... “Who gives a fuck!” is the work the same? then change your name to whatever the fuck you want cause I don’t care. Read more

I’m glad for this. As a Latino woman I always felt put out by “La Raza”. Their new name feels much more inclusive and accepting of Latinos of every ethnicity. Read more

Seems like a perfectly reasonable change. Though I hate that it’s going from something distinctive to essentially a Spanish version of every SuperPAC/Campaign group created in the last decade. Read more

“This is America where the rule of law means something, not some third world shithole where the law means nothing,” one person wrote on Facebook. “You need to get your act together and figure out how to start actually playing by the rules, like the rest of have to. Disgrace.” Read more

Let’s get something clear here: Read more