Trick or treat! I have one free copy of the WEARING THE LION audiobook and I want to give it out to a lucky trick-or-treater. I'll draw the winner at random in a few days.

To enter: show me a costume you loved wearing, or tell me your favorite Halloween costume.

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Yes!
In Trinidad lots of people can be your aunt!!! We also call our parents cousins aunts and uncles. An older woman who is a family friend and has been there all the years is your auntie. I refer to myself as auntie age now.

Auntie is not limited to a "blood relation." It's also used for respect!

"Well, I don't think we're gonna necessarily ask for a declaration of war. I think we're just gonna kill people that are bringing drugs into our country. Okay? We're gonna kill them. You know, they're gonna be, like, dead. Okay? Yeah."

Trump has abandoned even the pretext of following the law.

Folks demanding political / ideological purity fail to see that this is no longer a movement belonging to the left / liberals. This is an opposition against fascism. By definition it must be big tent. Failure to grasp this: see divided oppositions in Eastern Europe as your failed examples.