No one had a good answer for what to do with Mitch McConnell because there is nothing they can do about Mitch McConnell. The only legal thing that people can do to stop Mitch McConnell is to vote him out or get to 60+ Democratic seats in the Senate. That’s not up to the candidates (and at the point where we’re making…

The head of the senate said it verbatim, which is quoted in this article:

The Democratic head of the senate is saying now that the Democrats don’t have the votes to pass the bill even if the Republicans come back.

You’re underestimating how much information major tech companies have on you.

It’s not dumb luck, and the real way Instagram advertising works is plenty creepy, which is why he’s not discussing it. But it’s also probably not listening to your conversations. (People dramatically underestimate how much information apps can get from you without having to listen to you!)

that the ad platform knows that she’s associated with you somehow

That still doesn’t explain how ads for white-water rafting appeared in my beautifully curated feed full of dog accounts and beauty influencers after having (1) conversation with a friend.

Why wouldn’t they take out more student debt? Hell, I would take 4 years off from working, run up a stupid education loan if I knew that the Gov. was just going to pay it off for me.

What kind of credit card debt are we talking about? Most people with chronic credit card debt have it because of either bad spending habits or lower income than expenditures. None of those people will be helped by a payoff, because they’ll just build the debt back up again.

The impression I get was that Smollett wasn’t going to report it at all. He was just going to call his manager/agent and tell people at work, and hope the story took off from there. However, when he called his manager, he showed up and then insisted on calling the police, and from there it all spiraled out of his…

Sanders claims that it would be paid for by taxes on stock transactions, and I don’t do a whole lot of transacting of stocks.

How does the issue of the Aziz article have anything to do with the substance of poorly-defined boundaries at office parties?

As somebody who managed to graduate without debt from a combination of family contributions and working roughly 30/hours a week through school—I don’t need any money back. Graduating without debt is its own reward. I’ve been able to take risks (like working low-paying jobs with more flexible schedules, or move to a…

I was assaulted as a kid, and it didn’t feel real. I didn’t tell anyone about it for several years because verbalizing the assault—not the actual being assaulted part—is what made it feel real. I straight-up didn’t have the tools to handle making it real. So I waited until I did.

But, I’m sorry, the thought, “Why couldn’t you have told this story in 2016 BEFORE the election, or even the GOP nomination!” 

I remember reading an interview with Amaya just a couple years after that season aired, and she was so, so, so embarrassed, haha.

Yeah, I want to know this too! MTV used to have a couple older seasons up on their website (the first season and San Francisco, I think) . . . but not any of the other ones, and I’m not sure they even have those anymore.

Hawaii was definitely a turning point, but I don’t think people felt more fake at that point . . . just drunker. I feel like that was the season that MTV really discover that keeping the cast liquored up all the time changed the dynamic. But the cast members still felt like real people for the most part, just real…

I agree that we can do better than Biden, but the DNC is doing nothing to push him. The voters are. They’re the ones you need to convince.

I know this is gonna sound wild, but there are options that allow you not to be on the pill and also not have a child! It’s not a binary choice.