davidson, probably:

he ought to recuse himself in any case remotely related to her activism. he hasn’t and won’t, and that ought to be sufficient for him to be impeached and removed - but of course the g.o.p. senators wouldn’t impeach him under any circumstances, so it’s a moot point. 

the only songs i listen to out of these 100 are lean on, dance monkey, and shape of you.

warren is the best. 

Last week was a rough one for the North Carolina Republican, between being told by House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy that he needs to “turn his life around” and being chewed out by members of his own caucus.

i’ve been saying he should be impeached (he would never resign) due to his refusal to recuse himself from cases that have a material impact on his wife’s professional life/status/success for <10 years at this point. if only our elected representatives had any ethics, they would have ousted him long ago.

question seconded, where you at shannon? 

re: barbara walters:

you want other people to “Stop blaming Hillary for Bernie not being able to win the nomination,” but then you also want to go on absolving hillary of any blame for losing the general. hmmm. 

“If Mississippi’s bid to have Roe vs. Wade overturned is granted the Supreme Court, we expect about half the states in the United States to decriminalize abortion. And that would be devastating to people across the country who need access to those services,”

i’d be more impressed if he took pay cuts to help increase pay for the lowest-paid members of the crew.

i’ll take stretch-tite personally. 

ms. tcholakian:

the entire concept of actors needing to actually be what they’re portraying is complete nonsense. we should be moving in the opposite direction and trying to make actors’ demographics irrelevant to the roles the play, not championing demographic essentialism.

i mean, drivers are terrible everywhere, but texas has huge problems with self-governance: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/07/10/americas-future-is-texas

i am pleasantly surprised by the high quality of my state’s choice. reese’s pieces are the best reese’s candy imho, so props to my fellow new yorkers.

i clicked through to read about the childcare costs study that you cited for the ~$8k figure, and that’s an average for ages 0-18. that’s a distorted picture because the costs are heavily front-loaded - once kids are of age to attend public school, childcare costs drop dramatically. i’d argue that the more relevant…

it’s impossible to always do the right thing in every situation, but voting “no” on this specific bill wasn’t impossible. i am honestly baffled at this decision on her part. she’s *never* going to convince most of the people who think we ought to be funding israel’s military that she’s on their side, so from that…

germany has a federal government: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federalism_in_Germany

my first thought was “this headline is missing a ‘man,’ man.”