My heart is breaking for my dear friend today. She's stood so tall through this, been ignored and derided and the whole time the question of "is she electable" could never be answered because despite endorsements, no one ever dared to ... vote for her ( Read more... )

I could rant and rave. I want to rant and rave. I sat in the chamber today with men and women I have personally written legislation with and watched them refuse to look at evidence. This is, truly, what ... no. No politics ( Read more... )

I became a scientist because I wanted to see how things work. I needed the world explained to me. As I went through physics, it became about more than just the basics. It became about the theories, the concepts, the possibilities.

Today, I sat there, watching with the rest of the world as InSight touched down on Mars ( Read more... )

I spent a lot of my life thinking politics didn’t matter. No one in politics came to save me when I was a kid, and as an adult, I spent a career in law enforcement where I saw politics mattering over the lives we were trying to repair ( Read more... )

Months of fretting, campaigning, learning everything I still don't know ... it comes down to today.

All right then. In a few hours I'll know if I am going to end up back in a classroom or be packing my bags for DC.

What's next?

The truth is ... protest songs of today are the same as 40 years ago are the same as 80 years ago. We just keep moving forward and hope that in the end, it's more steps forward than backward ( Read more... )

Watching the disaster that has been this Supreme Court process, of course I'm horrified. But I'm horrified on levels I'm still processing ( Read more... )

First, it's voter registration day. Check to make sure you are registered at your current address! It takes just a few minutes and we need everyone out there in November ( Read more... )

I've barely seen Greg and Maddie lately. The closer it gets to the election, the busier I am. Greg and I knew going into this, that this could and would be the situation. But sometimes I feel like all I do is see my family when they're sleeping ( Read more... )

Justice Sotomayor has become a hero of mine. Even more so after reading her dissent from this morning's abjectly horrific return to a replay of history. You would have thought the Supreme Court would have learned from upholding the "legalities" of such atrocities such as Japanese Internment and the Dred Scott decisions ( Read more... )