Over the course of the last week, I’ve had a poll about the potential 2020 Democratic Party nominees open via Google Drive on my Facebook page. The poll was shared on my personal “timeline” as well as the page for…
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78-Year-Old Trolls 29-Year-Old for Caring about Planet’s Future
WASHINGTON, DC (AP) — Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-California) was unimpressed with the Green New Deal put forth by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York) to try to combat climate change and prioritize life on a jeopardized planet. When asked…
First Wednesday in December (Anticlimax)
When it snows, I’m accustomed to rushing to the window, plastering my eyes against the glass, feeling the eyebrow-brush against icy pane as I struggle to find contrast. At night, I look at lamplight, dull yellow or hard sodium orb,…
The Devastating Self-Defeat of Racing to the Middle
On Sunday, Trump’s US government temporarily closed the US/Mexico border at San Ysidro between Tijuana and San Diego. He ordered the use of teargas to disperse the crowds, colloquially and pejoratively described by some as the “migrant caravan,” many of…
A Sexual Education
Content warning: explicit sexual content, rape, rape culture When I was 11, I watched Anita Hill’s testimony during Clarence Thomas’ Senate confirmation hearing. It felt like everyone was watching, or at least listening. My parents held a week-long garage sale…
Anatomy of a Blue Wave: Storey’s 2018 US Election Prediction
After my upsetting (in multiple ways!) and remarkably accurate prediction of the 2016 election two years ago, I’ve been expected by a particular cadre of Facebook friends to recreate the magic with the 2018 midterms. The midterms, unlike 2016, are…
How it Happens Here
It’s been a pretty appalling week for the United States of America. Which is saying something. The Trump administration has ordered ICE to arrest and incarcerate everyone attempting to cross the border and is subsequently separating children from their families,…
Gina Haspel and the 87%
A little over a week ago, in the wake of mass outrage over the confirmation of Gina Haspel, avowed torturer as the new Director of the CIA, I asked myself a question. Then, I asked 71 of my closest friends.…
For the Love of Dichotomies!
Remember The Dress? That’s the question that’s prefaced many a fluffy thinkpiece in the last 48 hours as the purported audio version of The Dress was unleashed upon the Internet: a three-second sound-clip which sounds, of all things, like either…
Grace, Aziz, and the Seemingly Inexplicable: What I Got Wrong
Last week, I posted a six-point treatise on what we could learn from the Grace/Aziz Ansari encounter first documented in the (in)famous Babe.net article written by Katie Way. I cheekily noted that no one would agree with all of the…