My freshly-showered feet look absolutely shocking after 15 minutes of walking my cat around a very small grassy courtyard, across a concrete path and up a set of stairs to a deck so he can survey his domain, only two minutes of which are spent actually walking. I put on shoes when we leave the property.

I cannot stand her voice, but I’m quite enjoying her as a cultural phenomenon. 

Yeah, she couldn’t possibly want some viral attention on another Trump goon being publicly shamed. She’s totally in it for the doxxing, rape, and death threats.

I am not really into sports, but I caption a lot of highlights. During the playoffs, I idly told my neighbor, a small white woman in her 50s with whom I had spent hours talking about politics, music, books, cats, and pop culture without ever once mentioning sports, that I’d just done a series of LeBron highlights that…

I don’t even watch football, and it made me happy. I had so much fun captioning his fail over and over and over again for all the different outlets that ran it. That’s my only exposure to sports, which I am not really interested in except for the Olympic ones that purists insist are not actually sports.

Yes, he groped Connie Willis, but he also refused to spend a single penny in the state of Arizona after they refused to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment, driving to WorldCon in a Winnebago fully stocked with gas, water, and food in California in lieu of staying in a hotel, and spending much of the event writing in a…

Yes, he groped Connie Willis, but he also refused to spend a single penny in the state of Arizona after they refused to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment, driving to WorldCon in a Winnebago fully stocked with gas, water, and food in California in lieu of staying in a hotel, and spending much of the event writing in a…

Goddamn right. Women’s clothes hardly ever have functional pockets, so I was THRILLED when cargo pants became acceptable for women to wear. I still have them, and would still wear them if I was still the same size as I was in the ‘90s, because now I am old enough to not give a fuck about what is acceptable for women…

Did you mean to say a face for radio and a voice for print? Because I had to read that twice and was like, “wait, a second...”

More people need to listen to Sarah Kendzior. She’s called it before anyone else, and better than anyone else. 

My first job interview in Portland, the guy asked where I was from, and I said DC. He asked if I was from Maryland or Virginia, and I said that I was from the District itself. He said, “huh, I didn’t know any white people came from DC, I thought only n*****s came from DC.” When I regained the power of speech, I said,…

The other 47% exist, though. 

Every article with “civility” in the headline should include a link to this thread, or others like it, written by people who lived under dictatorships. They’re turning up more and more. Seriously, go read the whole thread.

“It has also taught me not to bother arguing with them in the first place, because they will mischaracterize every damn thing you say, anyways.”

I’m not talking about the next election, I’m talking about the last one. Looking at the stats, it’s entirely possible that enough of Trump’s base would have gone for an old white man who was preaching economic populism and was not associated with the culture wars, who had not been the target of decades of vilification…

So what if they do? That doesn’t matter in the slightest.  That’s just part of the right’s overall strategy of working the refs, which is how we got to the point of arguing over whether we should be more civil to Nazis in the first place.

Cool. I wasn’t asking to accuse of being a snowflake, I was genuinely wondering about Kinja, as I’ve noticed lately it seems to be losing more things than usual.

What a pity that he didn’t stand on his much-vaunted principles and run as the most popular third party candidate ever against the two most unpopular major party candidates ever, galvanizing turnout and breaking the two party system, then.

You aren’t very good at reading, because I explicitly said that Democrats won popular votes at multiple levels, and yet the Republicans still control most of the government due to a variety of factors which mail-in voting would go a long ways towards fixing, for the extremely well-documented reasons stated above,…

Well for one thing, an agency that is only answerable to itself and serves no purpose save armed law enforcement has less oversight that is critical of law enforcement than one that is part of another agency. Another is that spinning them off accelerated their transformation into stormtroopers.