Between Speaker Pelosi’s State of the Union snub and freshman Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez on the hunt for Senate Majority Leader in-hiding Mitch McConnell I’d say Trump is learning the hard way what it means to fight like a girl. Or at least what it means to have your ass handed to you by them.
Tag: Fight Like a Girl
How We Play Chess: version Well, We Had Really Better Be Getting On With It, Then
Now, back to the focus. Which is not the queen, not at first, not yet. She is not in space. She is on a board and there is not a single square she can not occupy. So we know all that. That’s cursory for now.
One of my (secret) Theme Scenes
Like “Extraordinary Machine” is my theme song, I have secretly cherished one, 27 second scene from Braveheart and never ceased to see it and hear it in my mind. For what, now? How long has it been? I can answer that. It has been eleven years and eleven months. My foxholes I no longer dig…
SCOTUS: Justice Ginsburg was a trailblazer of women’s rights as an advocate in early ’70’s
Frontiero v. Richardson Advocates Joseph J. Levin, Jr. Argued the cause for the appellants Samuel Huntington Argued the cause for the appellees Ruth Bader Ginsburg for American Civil Liberties Union, amicus curiae, by special leave of Court Facts of the case Sharron Frontiero, a lieutenant in the United States Air Force, sought a dependent’s allowance…
Nobody Wanted to Take Us In: Lizzy Ratner in The Nation and on Democracy Now
Nobody Wanted to Take Us In Lizzy Ratner was interviewed by Amy Goodman and Nermeen Shaikh on Democracy Now! today about her beautifully written and powerful piece, Nobody Wanted to Take Us In: The Story of Jared Kushner’s Family, and Mine in The Nation where she is a Senior Editor. The piece begins: In my aunt’s house, in the bedroom…
justice
**For those uninterested in my alterations on the game of chess or other random free-flowing thoughts and want only to skip straight to changing the world, scroll down to “Justice and the Course of History.” (as an aside i apparently seem done with capitalization. we’ll see if that changes. Okay. Fuck. Oh, well, it was worth…
Fight Like a Girl: Angela Davis at the Women’s March on Washington
If you haven’t watched it, watch it. If you have watched it, watch it again.
make the world glass
fight like a girl we hear everyone saying instead of an insult the hope of all nations
Ethan2Wild (WARNING: Spoiler Alert)
Spoiler Alert: Let me tell you how this story ends. Well, not how, exactly; that will follow. It’s called the rope-a-dope. It’s called “SAY MY NAME!” Sometimes you have to play dead. Sometimes, that’s the only play. Sometimes you have to wander in the desert. But it is true that all who wander are not…
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