Abortion will be outlawed regardless by this far right supreme court.

No. Kennedy was the swing vote. Roberts has voted pretty consistently in favor of abortion restrictions.

It’s also the 60-vote threshold that has kept, say, abortion from being outlawed federally.

Because it was.

He still has plenty of time to—the Texas Senate filing deadline isn’t until December—and if the race is still short on big-name candidates by the time that rolls around, I still think he might.

The vast majority don’t lease to fraternities or sororities. And for good reason, at least with fraternities—it isn’t worth the legal liability.

Right—my argument here is that “entertainment” is a shitty reason to make a critique that has the potential to hurt somebody. There are valid reasons for criticism as a field to exist, but that isn’t one of them. And there are plenty of ways to entertain people that don’t require making other people feel bad about…

I think the Tom and Lorenzo post is a good example of critique that’s focused on the clothes. They’re a little negative on it, but the focus of the critique is clearly on how the suit fits into fashion trends, why designers are dressing her this way, what about it works and what doesn’t, and it gives us a mini-fashion …

Which is bullshit, because this particular post was pretty clearly a mean-spirited attack on Munn’s general taste and how she usually looks, not just on this particular outfit. It’s barely a critique of the individual outfit at all.

Yeah, there’s been a lot of people defending GFY with “This is what critics do,” but is it what critics should do? We need to think a little harder about what purpose their job actually serves. A movie critic? If people are going to spend 10-20 bucks on something, they want to know if it’s worth it before they put the…

Why not take on Tom and Lorenzo?

Loans are never a better option than free money. If people want to give her their cash, they’re allowed to.

Until you’re 24, the FAFSA counts your parents’ income as your income. I’m guessing if she’s estranged from her parents, she doesn’t have their financial information, and if they were anywhere near middle-class, she probably wouldn’t get a ton of non-loan aid anyway.

Somehow journalists survived decades without using it and still managed to break the Watergate story, tank McCarthyism and leak the Pentagon Papers. I think reporters using it to take down C-List Twitter celebrities can manage to get along without it.

They know that while what Duca did was bad, it isn’t really bad (or well-sourced) enough to justify their reporting on it unless they turn it into some kind of philosophical musing on the nature of Twitter fame or cancel culture or something.

Yeah, that’s really, really not okay to do to people who haven’t consented to its use. And very weird that a reporter who has spent a lot of her time on this site covering the “consent” beat would a) not think twice about using it and b) would have so little clue that its use would be controversial that she just…

If she’s using a ghost writer, she’s keeping it seriously under wraps. She maintains that she writes all her books, and all available evidence points to that being the case. Her work ethic is pretty legendary.

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I’m probably not going to vote for Beto, but I do love him for making all these aging punks have panic attacks over the fact that they too sold out and had to get a job with health insurance.

Found Tori-chan.