Even a company with savings would likely have to lay off employees in this situation. You may run a company, but I highly doubt it’s so big that all of your employee base could cumulatively rival a small city. The scale of the problem makes it much trickier to deal with, especially since we’re not talking about 3…

I’m actually wondering if he meant to write Van Jones instead of Chris Wallace? Jones does work for CNN and Stephen called him a good girlfriend to Jared Kushner, which is an apt description these days.

As I said above, my own personal experience has made the idea that you ditch or accept people entirely based on their politics a pretty silly idea. That’s the sort of privilege afforded to people where people who share your politics are relatively abundant. We don’t know where she lives or what her personal…

Pretty sure Ina and Jeffrey are longtime Democratic donors and I think Jeffrey has worked in at least one Democratic administrations. Also he was a business partner of former Jezebel staffer Joanna Rothkopf’s dad who is a Democratic Washington insider type.

God election night is going to be such a shit show. I have no idea what I’m going to do. After 2016, I vowed to never watch election returns again because I don’t ever want to repeat experiencing the drip drip drip of traumatic news that we had in 2016. Pre-covid I had thought I’d just go see a movie, go out for…

Weirdly, I was far too depressed to drink on election night in 2016.  I had plenty of booze on hand to either celebrate or commiserate with, but as the night wore on I couldn’t drink or even eat my feelings.  I was just too distressed.

Where do you live? Is it somewhere actually important? Also, have you considered calling off the wedding? If the answer to the first two questions is “somewhere unlikely to decide the fate of the election, so no not important” just give yourself the permission to stop trying to convince him to change his vote. It’s…

That may be so, but obviously not one with enough power that he could have gotten her salary approved without taking it out of his own compensation.

The Boseman story is equally heartwarming and infuriating. It’s great that he was the kind of guy who would step up for their castmate, but it should not be the actors themselves who have to make sure that their costars get paid fairly. The studio could have afforded it and it’s obvious her asking price wasn’t…

He’s paid slightly more than that. The Times said he’s paid $0 in fed in come taxes in 10 of the 17 years that have record for and in two of the years he did pay (2016 & 2017) he paid $750. I don’t think they’re said how much he paid in those other 5 years, but I assume it’s another comically low number.

Great rapid response ad from the Biden campaign.

400 million is about the same size as what he’s said to have inherited from his dad. I wouldn’t be surprised if his net worth (assets and all, not just his cash on hand) is completely in the red.

I’ve spent the last two hours reading Twitter off on and on.  The Trumpers in the replies have all just been sticking to the idea that we just don’t understand the tax code and therefore can’t judge.  As if there were any acceptable reason for someone able to live as in the type of luxury Trump does and not have to…

It’s gross that there’s so little effort on the behalf of city governments to incentivize the build of reasonably priced housing. I get that most developers will always choose to build luxury housing if they have their choice as that’s where the profit margin is highest, but it’s in the city’s interest to have a more…

The NYT finally got ahold of Trump’s tax returns! They’re just as infuriating as you expect.

I was promised that the director’s cut was a better movie by people like you, and that promise was unfulfilled. It was just a longer equally ridiculous movie and the theatrical version of BvS was already way way too long. The movie still had a bloated mess of a plot that was weirdly paced, a truly terrible version…

Logic? I don’t know if there’s logic other than it’s just a fact that stanning female songstresses (Judy Garland, Cher, Diana Ross, Madonna, Janet Jackson, Kylie Minogue, Lady Gaga, etc.) has long been a part of gay culture. Historically, these stars embraced their gay fans in way that they were unlikely to find…

I had completely forgotten about this workout video, but as soon as I read the headline I could hear the song in my head. I can’t remember if I actually ever saw the workout video (I was 6 when this video came out so workout videos weren’t on my list on things to beg my parents for), but I remember singing the song as…

A famous white man who was groomed to avoid overtly political statements too, so there’s no history of Harry saying bad things about him even though I’m sure he has plenty of thoughts.

Man I loved making custom Winamp Skins back in the day!