“For Profit prisons should be banned. No one should profit from punishing people, especially in our current climate of racial inequality. We cannot solve any of our serious problems by continuing to incarcerate people on such a massive scale, and the for-profit prison system just incentivizes sendi…”
- PATRICIA G
“Impeaching Trump is a matter of principle and should not be based on strategic political considerations. I no longer consider myself a Democrat, thanks to what went on in the last presidential election -- i.e., top down Clinton supporters micro-managing the primary elections, especially in Californ…”
- PATRICIA G
“I was on food stamps and public assistance while raising a child and finishing an MA that allowed me to become a big time taxpayer. Requiring someone in similar circumstances to hold down a minimum wage job at Dunkin Donuts is nothing more than a kind of war on the poor that punishes people (and th…”
- PATRICIA G
“There is no emergency at our southern border, anymore than there is at our northern border. This whole power grab tantrum is just a dog whistle to every MAGA-hat-wearing racist who resents non-existent welfare queens and hates imaginary job thieves and wants desperately to maintain his white privil…”
- PATRICIA G
“For decades the right wing and the corporate billionaires have been sucking the life out of the middle class, relentlessly dismantling every feature of the New Deal that they can get their grubby hands on, handing out tax breaks (such as those to big Pharma -- ahem) like they were candy at Halloween…”
- PATRICIA G
“Homelessness has become a national disgrace, with people moving from state to state, being driven out by one city after another. If we can throw money at mass incarceration and the Pentagon (who recently lost track of $21 billion), surely we can afford a little compassion for the thousands upon tho…”
- PATRICIA G
“It is impossible to know for sure when a foetis becomes sentient, but we know for certain that a grown woman is sentient. Women should have the right to determine whether or not they will host a parasite for nine months, risking their own lives in the process, just to satisfy a bunch of holier than…”
- PATRICIA G