What America’s barely-elected president is trying to do to Ukraine and the world order is a disgrace, and I want you to know that most Americans are horrified. Even as Trump/Musk/Putin conspire to force their naked oligarchy on the world, most of us have grandparents who remember how fascism works, and we don’t like strongmen.

I think that my husband has internalized homophobia, but I don’t really know what to do about it.

Within less than a month in office, the Trump administration exceeded its article II powers, diminished the role of Congress, and challenged the authority of the judiciary. Waving away his campaign pledge to lower the cost of groceries, Trump focused instead on maximal cruelty and political retribution dispersed with a wrecking ball.

Every seat in the U.S. House of Representatives matters. The razor-thin margins currently in Congress mean that even one more progressive voice could shape the future of our politics, our democracy, and civil rights.