When I was a young teen, and an extremely prolific (and very precocious) storyteller, I cultivated the wild lie that I could see ghosts. It wasn’t just a one-off lie, either. The lie became a blog with a dedicated following of Internet Strangers Who I Did Not Know, wherein I detailed my adventures with ghostly drama…

I think Shannon was making a joke about Republicans legislating uteri. So, yeah, guard your loins. And gird them, too.

Congratulations, I guess, in getting so much wrong in a mere two sentences.

I am....very uneasy with how this may align with the current thinking in British feminism that trans rights activists are actually misogynists who hate “real” women, and that pursuing trans rights is misogynist. Perhaps I’m being cynical, though.

I highly recommend everyone set some time aside and read this piece in the Atlantic, entitled, “What If Trump Refuses to Concede?” Its basic conclusion is that this will not be a normal election, we can’t treat it like one, and we need to prepare for the possibilities it lays out now. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazi…

The issues former employees spoke about goes beyond Ellen’s behaviour. Some of her producers were accused of rampant sexual misconduct and racism. So, yeah, for her to joke about this on air is pretty gross.

I agree!

I was alive 4 years ago, thanks!

I am having terrible flashbacks to 2016.

If it takes one commenter on Jezebel to change their minds about fascism, then they deserve my comment.

I don’t think the issue here isn’t “our side would be doing the same”, it’s that we literally had an example of it in 2016, and every single person who made noise about not nominating a justice to the Supreme Court during an election year has suddenly performed mental contortions to justify why it’s okay for their…

This is a good point. Because if any Republican senator wanted to give even the veneer of a principled stance, they’d say, “I’ll have to wait to see who the nominee is before I comment on whether or not I’ll confirm.” But they legitimately don’t care, as long as the nominee is capital C Conservative, and they’re not…

There are no good Republicans.

I don’t think Melania has a “robot” persona, and I do think she’s being careful. However, in people’s rush to sympathize with Melania, I think they forget that she is self-serving (and a racist birther to boot, but that’s for another time). There are rumors that she renegotiated her prenuptial agreement with Trump…

Yeah. One thing that has grown exceedingly tiresome over the last 4 years is desperately appealing to the humanity of these goons and begging them not to fuck everyone over. And they (Collins, especially) string us along for weeks like Lucy with the football, and people keep playing the Charlie Brown part and thinking…

While they still have some great writers on staff (Kelly Faircloth), it seems like Jezebel is going more for the snarky tone lately, and it hits a bit different when we’re in the middle of a crisis and need the acerbic wit and smarts of writers like Lindy West and Dodai Stewart. 

McSally already knows she’s going to lose and is eyeing her post-Senate career. There’s no chance of her saving her seat at this point, so the last thing she wants to do is alienate her Republican colleagues and supporters on her way out, when they’re all praising her for “risking her seat”.

This is why I think McConnell will keep that seat open until after the election. Collins will almost certainly vote in line after her election is called, whether she loses or not. The votes would be in; she’d have no reason not to.

It’s a possibility that they’ll keep the seat empty until immediately after the election to drive their voters to the polls. Evangelicals will show up for that seat. I...hope Democrats would be willing to show up as a countervote, but 2016 has made me a cynic. This is like the gods saying, “Here’s near exact…

Romney is probably praying on it*. But Democrats still need a 4th Republican to flip, otherwise Pence is a tiebreaker. McConnell has probably weighed in the Arizona special election, which McSally looks likely to lose, and Mark Kelly will be put in that seat by the end of November.