What argument do you think I was making?

There are a number of entities who pay women soccer players, and they’re being conflated in discussions of equal pay. One is FIFA, who runs the World Cup and awards a prize purse to competitors and winners. There’s also U.S. Soccer, who pays both the men’s and women’s national teams their salaries and bonuses. Then…

If you did have Siri activated on your phone, you’d probably understand the limitations of it better. It doesn’t work unless you’re very close to it, it still regularly misunderstands what you’re saying even when you speak very clearly and directly to it, etc. It’s very obvious simply from using Siri/Alexa that the…

I mean, Pelosi acknowledged as much. Her actual quote was, “When we won this election, it wasn’t in districts like mine or Alexandria’s. . . . those are districts that are solidly Democratic. This glass of water would win with a D next to its name in those districts.”

If Biden is going to pick a black woman, he’s already signaled pretty clearly that Stacey Abrams is his number-one pick. (Georgia is better demographically than California, too, and she has the added bonus of less primary baggage than Harris. Probably also less overall baggage.) The only way I see him picking Harris…

If your concern is that he’s too far to the left for most of the candidates to select as their VP, then that would hurt him at least as much running for Texas Senate as it would in the VP selection, and probably more. Honestly, I don’t think you can really run for Texas Senate after saying the things he said in the…

He’s also in a weird spot where he backs some very progressive policies (reparations!) but also some very centrist ones (as you’d expect from a Democrat coming out of Texas).

It’s very hard to run a quixotic outsider campaign twice (as Bernie is currently discovering). They depend on novelty to take off. Beto stood basically no chance against Cornyn even if he had entered that race immediately, let alone after this presidential run. 

Joaquin Castro has already said he wouldn’t run against Cornyn, after some public waffling. It’s possible he could change his mind, but I doubt it.

It’s never specified and the details are contradictory—Sebastian suggests the Caribbean, the architecture and culture on land suggests the south of France or something vaguely Mediterranean, there are occasional nods to Denmark because of Hans Christian Andersen, etc.

For timeline clarification here, Swift’s father wasn’t involved with Big Machine before Taylor was. (Big Machine didn’t exist before Taylor!) The label was more or less built around her; she was offered a contract by them before the label actually had any financing at all. He invested either at the same time she did…

Not even stuck with him—he was talking about selling the label anyway. So she was going to be stuck with whoever bought it, with no guarantee of who that would be. (It could have been Scooter Braun!)

Yeah, I saw a lot of dismissiveness coming from younger (and whiter—although definitely not exclusively white!) voters who maybe don’t understand why this is such a big deal to some people. But for a lot of older voters—especially the kind who might be watching a debate on Telemundo—they can remember a time when…

Yeah, he should have done it, just because it’s weird optics not to, and now it’s going to become a whole media Thing that none of us wants . . . but I don’t understand how him standing or not standing on a ladder makes this more or less of a photo op, or means he cares about the kids/this situation more or less.

Beto O’Rourke’s Spanish comes off as disingenuous because a) it was unasked-for, and b) O’Rourke represented a state with a huge Spanish-speaking population but the fluency of his Spanish is merely adequate.

Lujan’s running for Udall’s Senate seat, and hypothetically should win. I think Hakeem Jeffries has been positioned for the Speakership, although that’s dependent on him surviving any primaries that he’s been threatened with.

New York doesn’t currently have a statute of limitations for first-degree rape, but it did when Carroll’s alleged rape took place. Her crime is subject to the old limitation--five years.

She did? All I remember is her asking John Conyers to step down. She was taken to task by a number of black lawmakers because they felt she was treating Conyers unfairly by not calling for Franken’s resignation. (Conyers was a member of the House and Franken was not.)

“Speaking Norwegian makes Mayor Pete a genius, but speaking Spanish on a debate that’s being co-hosted by a Spanish-language news outlet, when you’re running for president of a country where 13 percent of the population speaks Spanish at home, and where immigration is one of the most pressing issues of the campaign, is…

States that are blue enough to be able to gerrymander in favor of Democrats generally are so blue there’s no need to gerrymander in favor of Democrats.