1) I’m absolutely agreeing she got screwed over; my whole point is that there is nothing unique about the way she got screwed over here.

Yes, yes, I agree that “Taylor Swift is just invoking feminism here to advance her own interests” is very boring and cliched and often advanced in bad faith; I’m so aware of it I almost didn’t say anything and regret doing so!

I’m sure this situation sucks for her and the music industry has long been exploitive in this way, but most artists don’t own their masters and she had a chance to negotiate for them (and probably frankly could have gotten involved with some other people to buy Big Machine). That’s more than most artists get. Her…

Pramila Jayapal?

Because it can be a civil offense instead, like most immigration violations.

I think you’re missing the point. They’re not dismissing the Heckerling story, there’s just nothing else to be said about it other than “obviously very bad if true, though only based on one unsubstantiated account.” The focus of the piece is on Lorne because even the story is untrue, it is totally consistent with…

The judge’s stance here isn’t really problematic as presented. For one, it’s pretty typical for district court judges to try to get parties to resolve as many issues on their own as possible. Second, the political question doctrine, which is what Judge McFadden is likely referring to, is certainly at least arguably…

Certainty of negative consequences tends to be a better deterrent than severity of consequences; given how often domestic violence goes unpunished criminally, I wouldn’t be so sure about your assertion.

I’m not taking any stance on what the appropriate response should be, but:

If all those details are correct then your employer is probably paying a ton, which is depressing your income, a cost you’re not considering currently.

If nothing else, M4A includes longterm care. Under current law, that’s only provided under Medicaid which means people have to blow all of their savings (assuming they have any) before Medicaid contributes.

4 percent may be more than your premiums, but M4A also gets you a lot more than your premiums and doesn’t require co-pays or deductibles.

I agree this was a bad answer, but you’re overly connecting refugee status and a true open borders policy. His answer is consistent with “we can take more poor people,” which is your position.

While I’m glad Warren is advocating for the abolition of the filibuster, she’s not the only candidate to do so. Jay Inslee has been advocating for it ever since he announced.

If Pelosi actually read the Sanders and Jayapal bills (or just listened to them explaining them) she would know that they make Medicare a much more generous benefit than is currently; ironically, one of the biggest counterarguments against them is that they would establish the most generous healthcare benefit in the…

Matter of time until JK Rowling ends her twitter hiatus to defend this woman.

Polls done in February showed that Sanders was the second choice among 27 percent of Biden voters, which was leading, but obviously not that high.

The Biden team denial isn’t really a denial. They deny that the two teams discussed it; they don’t deny that they discussed it internally, which was the original report.

Regarding other careers, in law, you handle conflicts by screening out the attorney with the relevant conflict if it’s a firm. There’s no analogous action available here. All possible things that the NYT editorial board covers deal with politics and implicate the conflict.

The write-up is not just about the allegation itself. The write-up is about examining whether it is newsworthy in the first place, why it hasn’t been reported on despite being widely known, and if journalists have considered it newsworthy but decided not to publish it anyway. Those are all interesting and important…