#BringBackPleasantCompany

...Didn’t expect those gifs to be so large. Regret nothing.

Luke Pasqualino has spent the last three years being super hot as D’Artagnan in the BBC’s Musketeers series.

I’m fine with this, honestly. It sounds like they’re actually going to be forced to sit and think through the dumb shit they did, rather than just be punished blindly and have their prejudices and ignorance fester and possibly deepen. After all, it’s not like sending them to prison would make them any less likely to…

I don’t know. I think that a position of constant wariness is useful to the extent that it keeps us ready to take action at a moment’s notice. You’re right that we can’t let them pull anything past us. But I think it’s also important not to let that wariness and vigilance laps into despair and defeatism. If turning…

I know things are just looking like an endless cavalcade of bleakness lately, but it’s moments like this that have been giving me hope. Maybe one of the benefits of the fact that the left has been largely quiescent for so long is that people like Kalanick legitimately don’t know what to when we finally stand up. Maybe…

Yup. I also think it’s especially poignant that they’re bodegas — aka, one of the quintessential New York City institutions, and a symbol of the city’s long-standing cultural diversity and embrace of immigrants.

I don’t understand why people can’t understand this.

Are there a ton of Yemeni-owned KFC franchises?

LOL the original and biggest protest was at JFK in Queens, asshole.

Corruption’s such an old song that we can sing along in harmony
And nowhere is it stronger than in Albany the upselling market for Hamilton tickets

Uber’s pretty pissed about this too:

Do something. Call your representatives. Go to the vigil at JFK if you’re in NYC, or find a local one near where you live. Be the person you think you would have been in the past when things went to hell. Because things are going to hell right now.

Jerry Brown I’ll buy. But I don’t trust Cuomo to stick up for de Blasio on this, any more than all the other times he’s screwed him.

Yup.

“States’ rights” people are just that — they may hate the federal government, but it turns out they also really don’t like cities, with their uppities gays and minorities and liberals.

Oh, good. Because we don’t already know that Steve Bannon writes his speeches.

I’d settle for being the country that knew how to spell the names of the leaders of its major allies.

Not to mention his insightful and empathetic commentary on one of the world’s darkest days:

Somehow that accent makes it even more poignant, too.