hey, a form of entertainment even worse for the world than american football. 

“that song is everywhere, as it’s the default song DJs play so they can pretend like they know even a modicum about reggae and dancehall.”

“Among the decisions she had to make was whether to continue to invest state resources into fighting against Larsen’s release. By this point, the District Court had affirmed that Larsen’s first trial was a sham and that, at the very least, he was afforded a new hearing in front of a magistrate judge. Stiglitz and…

“The venn diagram between those who believe Franken was railroaded and shouldn’t have resigned and those who want Biden to get the nomination is a single overlapping circle.”

“The backlash was so intense, I literally had to turn off my phone’s notifications on every single social media account.”

point taken, though i suspect “not one tiny little bit” slightly undersells bezos, who probably has most of his money invested in various securities rather than sitting under his bed.

i’m entirely familiar with the concept of diminishing marginal utility. yes, if all those $16 billion came from plutocrats who kept their money in gold bars in a vault then its loss wouldn’t make much of a difference.

anna, i respect and enjoy your work. i have never heard of this podcast and, after reading your description, will definitely not listen to it. they sound not good.

i’m in favor of raising the minimum wage. that said, you just quoted the cbo as saying real income would fall by $16 billion for people above the poverty line, but would only increase by $8 billion for people below the poverty line. so the result of this is that $8 billion disappears from our economy due to the…

“the majority of Warren’s supporters, as of right now, are the pathological compromisers.”

(a) plans for actually implementing public policy and a strategy for dealing with some bullshit media hypestorm are not analogous.

yeah, everyone knows hamilton nolan is a tool of the capitalist overlords.

i would like bernie to drop out and endorse warren.

pfft. the nba has 3 positions: ballhandler, wing, and big. having two wings, both knockdown shooters, lockdown defenders, and one of them an ace ballhandler, is not going to cause any kind of positional logjam.

“Yes, I’m a Neo Nazi, you caught me. I’m the first brown woman to be accepted into their ranks.”

if “words matter” then there’s nothing wrong with what cortez said, because her description was accurate.

“All 5 of the Quad Squad”

de blasio has many faults, but there is still no way under the sun that anyone should prefer to side with cuomo over him.

they have subforums about all kinds of stuff so crafting friends can discuss exercise, parenting, politics etc.

“Why was she on the pitch for nearly the entire match?”