This is where I live. All of upstate NY has had their judges stripped of this right.

I hear you, but she is a hell of a lot smarter than Melania and Vance was never her sugar daddy. He’s taken away her legal career and turned her into a baby-making factory who he openly muses about pulling away from her culture. I’m going to wait and see.

I blame Ted Lasso.

There’s a lot of federal employees (and former employees) in those states.

In 1948, Octave Mannoni wrote a book called Prospero and Caliban: a Psychology of Colonization. It’s mostly a bad book, famous because Fanon shredded it in Black Skin White Masks. But Mannoni proposed that colonizers are fundamentally children who do not want to treat others as people.

I did like it during the BLM protests when the leaf-blower dads came out to disperse the tear gas. But yeah, where the hell are people?

I watched as my Church—the one my Irish ancestors died to protect—pivoted from the ethos of service to focus solely on abortion, abortion, abortion. My parents remained faithful and lived by their values, but they were more and more out of place. They’d have loved Francis and Leo, but otherwise, no.

We went to church on days that weren’t even Holy Days sometimes. (My mom thought Holy Thursday SHOULD be a Holy Day, so we went.) My parents were progressive Catholics, who stepped away from an easy retirement to join the Catholic Workers, living in community and performing acts of service. /2