“Women who wear yoga pants are a regular target of rage from men who describe themselves as ‘incels’—involuntary celibates — online, and Beierle appeared to consider himself a member of that community.”

If that shitty music had been in Arabic, I guaran-fucking-tee he’d have been locked up for it. It’s not that law enforcement doesn’t have the tools, it’s that law enforcement sees gendered violence as “boys will be boys.” 

When are crimes like this going to be categorized has hate crimes? It says a lot about us as a society that we are so used to violence against women that it’s not considered a hate crime even if it targets women for being women. 

$215 million wouldn’t even be rounding error on the financial hole that looms for mass transit in NYC. Construction there is unfathomably expensive. The bigger problem with the MTA isn’t that things are crumbling (which is a HUGE problem), but that they are at.beyond capacity in a city where you can’t expand without…

A 4% decrease in ridership (not revenue, since they weren’t paying anyway) would make a difference in terms of congestion delays, if nothing else.

Also, as often as not, women didn’t so much “enter” convents as they were shipped away to them. This doesn’t sound to me like a story of a woman renouncing her vows, but rather escaping captivity. 

I have absolutely no interest in this movie, until I saw that he was in it! Go Hardison!

What you’re doing is essentially wondering what safeguards are in place to prevent a woman from aborting, late in her pregnancy, a perfectly viable fetus when there is no apparent danger to her health. The safeguard is “doctors” and that no medical doctor will perform an abortion in this case. The other safeguard is…

I had an abortion at 15 weeks to remove my already dead fetus. Although it was simple and quick the process, quite frankly, sucked. It hurt, I felt sick and sore for a couple of days afterwards.

Who throws elbows in a moshpit? Back in my metalhead days throwing punches, elbows, etc was considered bad etiquette. 

I will certainly enjoy watching her try more than any of the others who have announced so far. ‘Course, I’d vote for a turgid lump of toe-jam over any Republican, so there’s that too.

It’s amazing to me that adults are often treated with less agency than kids.

Right, thanks for reducing my well-founded concern that there are meme-generating, out-of-context-sound-bite spreading, particularly prevalent in BLM and other progressive circles, outside actors trying specifically to divide the Left, into “everyone who disagrees with me is a bot!!!!” Sure man, that’s exactly what I…

I do understand how FOSTA works. I was being facetious. But I do think it’s ridiculous that many in my demographic cohort are using this issue as a reason to toss Kamala Harris. Bernie Sanders voted for FOSTA, why does no one seem to care about that? We are never going to get an electable, mainstream candidate who is…

I think you are overthinking it. She had a job as a DA and then DOJ which was to enforce the law as it was written by the legislature of CA. She overall did a hell of a job and worked on so many things that the opposition machine is going to find something that doesn’t sit well but a hit piece by the ultra-right or…

The Olympic Channel had World Cup Curling.  I enjoyed it during the last Winter Olympics so I watched mixed pairs Curling last night.

Sorry, I don’t follow Greenwald’s tweets daily, and that one is from yesterday; before yesterday, he seemed very much on board with Tulsi. Apologies for not stalking his Twitter account more routinely. 

My experience of the “Black women will save us” narrative is that it is mostly driven by…black women and other women of color. (generally in the context of ‘we are tired of saving you with no credit’). (including this site: https://theslot.jezebel.com/republicans-dont-have-a-woman-problem-1830282833).

It would really help the argument that this kind of criticism is just about examining Harris’ record if there was more nuanced reporting of her policies (numerous comments in the Jezebel article about her truancy policy pointed out the black-white reporting and how it left out the actual impact) and we saw this level…

We should always hold our candidates accountable, especially if we are fans. Kamala has shown that she is strong and intelligent, and therefore capable of defending herself from criticism.