Via Give Us Liberty I’m surprised it took House Republicans three years to talk impeachment.  Certainly, when they won back the House, which is where the impeachment process begins, I imagined “impeachment” would become part of our collective lexicon again as the Republicans went after another Democratic president. The loss of the White House in [...]

Via Wikipedia In a very personal revelation Tuesday night, New York City Council Speaker and current candidate for Mayor Christine Quinn admitted to having a past struggle with bulimia for nearly 10 years.  Quinn also admitted she is in recovery from alcoholism. Via Talking Points Memo :

New Yorkers might have felt they knew about the personal life [...]

Via Mother Jones This is really sickening. The AP is out with an incredible report detailing the stories of undocumented immigrants who were deported by American hospitals,  while they were unconscious. Two of the immigrants profiled, Jacinto Cruz and Jose Rodriguez-Saldana, were unlucky enough to be involved in car accidents and their punishment was being flown to Mexico while [...]

Via MSNBC Being a good ally isn’t always easy.  I’ve made plenty of mistakes over the years, both in words and actions, and I can only hope to do better going forward.  Even as a black woman it’s important for me to recognize my own privilege and to try to understand where others are coming [...]

Via Jezebel First it was the NRA , and now it’s Republican Congressman Steve King’s (R-IA) turn to attack the Obama girls.  It all started when Breitbart.com bucked traditional protocol of never revealing the location of the First Daughters who spent their spring break in the Bahamas, for obvious security reasons. I thought I made myself clear before [...]

Via UsIraq.Procon.org Today marks 10 years since the U.S. began the invasion of Iraq.  We were lied into this war and countless innocent Iraqis and American troops lost their lives.  And even today, on the 10th anniversary, a wave of car bombs have killed 56 people in Iraq. The Obama administration did successfully leave (except for [...]

via MSNBC I was thrilled to be included in a conversation about rape culture last night on The Ed Show on MSNBC. The segment focused on the problematic media coverage of yesterday’s Steubenville verdict and included me, Professor Salamishah Tillet, and Irin Carmon. And what happens when you have three out feminists talking about rape culture [...]

I was on Democracy Now! this morning to talk about rape culture, Steubenville, and consent. Check out the segment below. http://youtu.be/xhgo6Y1gyj0 The first two days of testimony in the Steubenville rape trial are proof positive that we need to teach young people about consent. The testimony about the text messages the defendants sent and received that night, as [...]

Via NetrootsNation.org We recently did an awesome Feministing Five with House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi , and this summer I have the privilege of interviewing Leader Pelosi on the big stage at Netroots Nation 2013. In this annual, #AsktheLeader Plenary Session , June 22, 2013, in San Jose, California, I will be able to use questions submitted via social media. [...]

http://youtu.be/91saKERf_H0 President Obama signs the newly expanded Violence Against Women Act . Soraya Chemaly on 4 steps men can take to get involved in combating violence against women. Are the folks at Dove the new feminist hacktivists ? Bishops oppose the newly signed VAWA because of protections for LGBT folks.  Because what would Jesus do? Lawmakers in Texas are working to get [...]

When Ann Friedman recently wrote a great piece about the risk in piling on Rihanna for reconciling with Chris Brown, I nodded along, despite my own personal feelings about the case.  It’s really hard to simultaneously advocate for survivors of violence and encourage women to leave, when Rihanna and Chris Brown’s reconciliation is so high profile [...]

A sample tweet from my mentions since Tuesday night. Trigger Warning On Tuesday night, I appeared on Hannity in a segment framed around the idea that giving women guns is the solution to ending rape.  I was on with Independent Women’s Forum’s Gayle Trotter who recently made the point that women need guns for self defense from rape [...]

More images of the troubles facing female veterans from the wars.

Whoa this cover of Businessweek is totally racist.

Good piece by Christine Pelosi on “having it all” and white privilege.

Tomorrow is the deadline for Congress to avert the sequester.

Did white feminists fail to defend Quvenzhane Wallis?

The House finally passed the VAWA in a vote of 286-138.  The bill now heads to the president’s desk for his signature.

Via NBC Warning: Spoilers! Last night, Law and Order: Special Victims Unit premiered a new episode “ripped from the headlines,” with a story line that was obviously supposed to be a take off of Chris Brown and Rihanna.  A singer named Micha Charles and her boyfriend, hip hop star Caleb Bryant get into an argument when [...]

How dare people of color demand free and fair access to voting! Who are they want to exercise their fundamental right to vote without threat of disenfranchisement by partisans looking to suppress Democratic votes!? That’s basically what Justice Scalia meant when he railed against Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act yesterday during oral arguments [...]

President Obama sends Kid President an Easter message! http://youtu.be/VWXAEutqoAQ In totally unsurprising news , Latino support for President Obama is up as a result of his push for immigration reform. Putting President Obama’s face on an ad to sell chicken is totally offensive . CNN is making a huge mistake by removing Soledad O’Brien as a regular host. I vote [...]

Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley made the mistake of responding to a question at a town hall about forced implatantion of microchips by the federal government, with the only logical and legal answer, “nothing can be done to your body without permission.” Oh really?!  Senator Grassley a anti-choice Republican is in favor of doing things to [...]

The cover of RIhanna’s 2007 album, “Good Girl Gone Bad.” I’ve noticed a theme emerging in the mainstream media of late.  Namely, the idea that singer Rihanna is a “bad girl.”  Yes, she has an album called, “A Good Girl Gone Bad,” and certainly is living the “rock star” lifestyle of late night partying  and [...]

FreedomWorks is an astroturf conservative tea party group financed in large part by the Koch Brothers and Big Tobacco .  Elements of the tea party may have started on the grassroots level, but that didn’t last for long when rich conservatives saw the movement as an opportunity to capitalize on the tea party’s energy.  Enter FreedomWorks. The [...]