Ironically, according to the letter William H. Macy wrote to the judge, their daughter’s first choice was a test-optional school (who nevertheless denied her admission after the scandal came to light).

Gillibrand hasn’t been a moderate in several years though. She was originally elected as one, but in 2018, she had the most progressive record in the Senate (yes, very slightly ahead of Sanders). In the last five years, when you rank senators by how progressive their records are, she’s only been outside the top ten…

There are some graphs at the bottom of this FDA press release.

Yeah, for comparison’s sake, here are the youth smoking numbers up until Juul became popular and sent it back upward again. If you went to high school in the ‘90s or ‘00s, you probably have an unrealistic conception of how many high schoolers smoke cigarettes these days. It had fallen off a ton.

All that, and she’s never been a great public speaker to begin with, so this isn’t that much of an outlier. But yeah, even under the best-case scenario, this will likely end up losing the Dems seats in the House (which Pelosi definitely knows), and she’ll be the one who has to answer for it—and if it loses the House…

What would constitute “working” to you? Because it feels like a lot of people have a lot of unrealistic expectations about what this is going to accomplish.

“Upstairs, at the Pence’s private suite—separate from the Trumps’—he tried again for a victory kiss, and again she told him to back off.”

This has been true up until now. But the reason Pelosi (and Lewis, and the rest of leadership) are publicly committing to an impeachment inquiry now is specifically because Democratic moderates in R-leaning seats, like Spanberger and Slotkin, have finally started flipping.

I’ll keep my fingers crossed.

Especially given how extensively she quotes from it, that’s pretty messed up.

My favorite thing about Terrace House is that it taught me the phrase “hot pot sergeant.”

You say that like the Harajuku girls are a thing of the past. She’s still monetizing them.

It plays well to certain crowds...but the legality/logistics are unclear, the whole process would be quagmired in court for years (probably wouldn’t make it through the SCOTUS) and it still wouldn’t solve the broader issue

Law enforcement has gotten involved.

Literally half the world’s literature exists because somebody was willing to get paid to work through their trauma on the page, haha. (And plenty more are willing to do this in exchange for no money, just attention.) I mean, not saying your question doesn’t warrant an answer, but this is not a new phenomenon at all.

I mean . . . that’s the point? It’s not an article about how one person is good and the other one is bad, it’s an article about a toxic friendship that made them both act in messed-up ways. I don’t understand why people are acting like the writer didn’t know it was an unflattering portrait of herself. It was! That was…

And, again, we’re not party to the vagaries and requirements of payscale within the industry as bound by contracts and union agreements.

The Disney project has not been released.

an in progress Disney movie which may or may not be intended for wider theater release.

That’s because it’s not a particularly meaningful distinction, unless you’re committed to ignoring the big picture in favor of a very small, heavily curated data set that gives you the exact justification you want for paying her less.