One note about Daddario’s dress; it’s probably a good thing it wasn’t super windy yesterday

Is it weird that I’m not thrilled about Hailee’s knee-high boots with this dress? I mean, the boots are fab but when you’re already wearing basically mesh over a two-piece swimsuit, why would you visually hack your legs off just above the knee?

Higher quality shot of Celine’s dress for comparison:

I’ll sit with you. I am not looking forward to another 6-ish weeks of warmed over Perry/Swift feud think-pieces and snake emoji comments in the various corners of the internet.

The Alias I’d rather have on a plane:

Shittiness which has been documented on this very site against this very site and its commentariat:

Taylor’s damned if she does, damned if she doesn’t. Look at the Kesha legal defense story; originally kept her $250k donation on the DL, got dragged for not participating in the hashtag activism. Kesha’s mom came out and told people to quit their bullshit since Taylor gave them actual material support, Demi Lovato…

As Trump digs himself deeper and deeper into a Russia-sized hole, his lawyers - honored as the 2016 Russia Law Firm of the Year - have announced that his tax returns in the past decades do not show “any income of any type from Russian sources,” with a few exceptions.

I don’t doubt that if the compact were to be agreed to by enough states, someone would challenge it up to the Supremes but the arguments for and against constitutionality seem pretty evenly split.

IAmBrett linked it in his reply but check out the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact. It would require no changes to the Constitution, just enough state .gov’s to agree to it that it would have the necessary 270 electoral votes.

ikr? It’s legit good work and if Felicia Day’s memoir is to be believed, those national commercials pay $$$$.

He’s got that national commercial campaign money though. His bank account is probably healthier than one would expect.

In other Dirt Bag-y news:

Not that I really want to drag her into this but I kind of want a statement from Barbara Kruger on this “When Women Speak It Is Mostly Poetry” overwrought nonsense.

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Follow-up tweets from @ColinKahl

Former Obama deputy assistant and Biden national security advisor asks an important question and a former CIA deputy director responds:

I’m sorry but, you wish: