Using "demented" and "senile" as insults for Trump is shitty. Millions of people suffer from Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and other diseases of old age. A lot of them aren't pleasant to be around. But it's not their fault. We can talk about gerontocracy without demonising the elderly.

I'm currently a pregnant person and I've found myself naturally referring to myself that way. Being called a "pregnant woman" is fine but sometimes makes me feel like I'm about to be tossed into a lifeboat.

Lmao. I was getting a bit prickly over some of your recent tweets about motherhood fucking up one's life, but that's because I'm pregnant and nervous about it. Now, however - I demand more mean judgemental tweets.

I'd say he's more of a Ted Sandyman.

I was recently talking to a geneticist about health issues in my family and could not definitively answer how closely some people were related to me, if at all. "I think he was my grandma's cousin... maybe second cousin? Maybe they just grew up on the same street?"

It's a musical!

I never thought I would say this but sometimes we need a good dose of old fashioned Marxist teleology.

I'm curious to hear more about this! I don't know that much about Mormonism so it's not obvious to me. And what I do know I probably picked up from Battlestar Galactica lol

I feel like that is somewhat different as she is still a public servant and doesn't own the means of production.

Imagine not just blurting it out when you're drunk and sleepy, but typing it out and sending it to someone else.

But don't know a thing about Sally Rooney's actual politics.

I can, but it would be more complicated for my husband, plus I'm pregnant and I don't know how much that would complicate things. But I am considering things very hard right now.

Children are not property. Parents do not get to do whatever they want to them and claim it's fine because it's their child and that no one has any right to butt into their private family affairs when what they are doing places their child in danger. Children deserve better.

4. I know it sounds melodramatic but the logic of this decision in DC and of vaccine opponents and transphobes shares a lot with school shooters - go for the softest targets.

3. It's also why the discourse around the inevitability or necessity of violence disturbs me so much. It never starts or stops with ideological opponents. It spreads through society, and the people most likely to be the victims of it, with the lowest consequences, are the weakest - children.