He’s the Amendment King who got the biggest piece of positive, bipartisan legislation through the Congress in years (Veterans bill). He is very good at legislating. What’s key with him is that he understands when to compromise and when to push hard — an example of the latter is when he got community health centers for…

I’m a cranky Old that never did this, but right off the top of my head, chalk might get around various posting restrictions because it’s impermanent. Survivors might feel safer writing in such an impermanent medium. Symbolically, using chalk to protest actions made by school authorities seems awesome.

I think it’s…

This ruling made me deliriously happy. I hope she can and does separately go after that lawyer who watched the video on his phone in a restaurant with others watching LAST WEEK.

I would also like to take a moment to say that I’m impressed with how she does her job. For years, I only heard about her as “attractive woman…

My first attempt at doing this in Kinja:

First, the Ivies has started to figure out how to get around the scholarship problem, and is fielding stronger and stronger teams in marquee sports. They’re doing it because their alums REALLY want this. As per this article, Yale is going to March Madness this year.

Given that, what do you imagine would be bad enough…

One of the many, many things I loath about the Clintons is the toxic impact of their campaign lies. Last time I checked, she wasn’t winning the black vote — the majority of black voters have been staying home, just like the majority of all voters. Because she’s basically telling everybody, “Abandon all hope, all who…

They dyed his eyebrows. I hadn’t thought of that the first time around. That is some massive, massive makeover.

Nah, they’re all being paid.

What’s amazing is here is HRC’s henchwoman making it very clear what they’re about, and yet millions of people are going to vote for HRC and assert she’s “progressive” “caring” and “the best we can do”. And Elizabeth Warren is apparently just going to sit on her hands and let them dismantle…

Funding. Funding. As a female filmmaker who was basically driven out of the business because I kept writing female characters that weren’t male projections, it’s all about the Benjamins. Wall Street funds Hollywood. It’s a white boys’ club, and the girls that with be Cool Girls for them. It has enraged me for decades…

Actors have a union. So do electricians, etc. They used to support each other during strikes, but that kind of solidarity has been weakened along with the general decline of the union movement. All the creative unions (and I think also the crew unions) have seen their protections, benefits and pay erode since the…

Also, women are blocked from promotion, better paying jobs, etc. Women are driven out of sciences, denied tenure due to gender, professions with higher rates of female employees often see decreasing compensation as a sector.

There are lots of ways to slice and dice compensation, but none are going to get you to any…

It’s rapidly turning into my favorite comedy/news show, now that I have started watching again. I adore Mike Yard. He’s incredibly funny, but watching him fight with Al Sharpton over Obama’s legacy was AMAZING.

I actually like the Noah version of TDS. I didn’t think I would — those repulsive tweets turned me off. And…

The Nightly Show has become EXCELLENT. I tried it when it first started and was deeply disappointed. The panel dragged everything down. I gave up and I think only came back because of his Bernie interview. But he has fixed it, and the supporting cast around him is terrific. The bits they are doing for Black History…

Not only that — they exploited racism to gain power, cut programs to help the poor while SPECIFICALLY stigmatizing and othering black citizens in need, ramped up the police state, etc. She’s taking private prison money RIGHT NOW. She isn’t actually offering to do anything at all except talk. And with all that “I”…

Can she just release several spoken word recordings of rape survivor testimony and call it a day? They won’t promote them, but it gets her out of her contract, right?

“She rolled back....” Ok, sure. She actively works to destroy numerous countries, but I’ll take your word that she was a leader on the legislation to allow information on abortion to NGOs. It’s not like that’s a terrible thing. It’s just a minor thing. That’s not actually helping women get abortions, or housing, or…

Oh, for heaven’s sake, REALLY? Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders are not the same. Bernie Sanders was a leftist civil rights activist in the 60s while Hillary Clinton was a Goldwater Girl and head of her college Young Republicans. Hillary Clinton was on the Walmart Board during its most exploitative and sexist…

Gee, then what are you complaining about? She’s been in power for 30 years. This is the world she and her compatriots have made. It must be the best of all possible worlds, right?

I could fight with you about her obvious, demonstrable dishonesty and corruption, and how she’s been “me too-ing” Sanders’ positions to get…

The current system is not designed to deliver a solution. It is designed to keep you in debt peonage for the rest of your life.

The solution is a dramatic change in US governance. That is the actual solution. The US economy has been captured by robbers and criminals, essentially. I could write in more technical terms,…

Be more specific. Do you mean, the exact same plan to address current student debt holders?

I’m not inclined to argue with you about your particular complaint, simply because I agree that there is no meaningful correction being discussed right now in the campaigns. Any real improvement is too far to the left of the…