Reminds me of all the breathless coverage of the person who paid off kids’ lunch bills so they could graduate. AS IF KEEPING KIDS FROM GRADUATING BECAUSE THEY COULDN’T AFFORD FOOD WASN’T UTTERLY FUCKED UP OR SOMETHING!

While I agree with the spirit of this article, the math errors are hard to overlook:

The deadspin update clarified the whole deal, to paraphrase:

I read a piece of DeSantis last year that argued that his appeal outside of Florida and a very Trumpian base is pretty slim, and that winning a general election would be difficult for him. That said, I thought the piece generally underestimated how well DeSantis has taken the Trump playbook and run with it. He’s good…

Texas public schools are primarily funded by local property taxes.

“Republican lawmakers were never going to stop at overturning Roe v. Wade”

PPP Loans.

Thrift stores don’t sell *to* poor people. They sell to raise money for other programs (which sometimes involve just giving clothes to the poor). Anyone buying the clothes is good because it funds the other stuff.

This is terrible and I do wonder if this is as much recognizing rape for what it is now? For so long, so many young women were told it wasn’t but it was still happening; I feel like the percentage is still much higher. Certainly the overwhelming majority of women I know (like two-thirds to three-quarters) can point…

Thank you for the sensible take.

If it makes the “alphas” mad then I’m all the way in and will happily buy some Galentine’s merch from Target. Leslie might have been written as an over-the-top character but she was also right a lot of the time. It’s okay to be girly and also get s*** done and celebrate the women in your life. It feels misogynist to…

“We’re all adults, meaning we shouldn’t need a fake holiday to drink, fuck, and do whatever we want with our friends.”

If they wanted to do right by those guys, they should really just make the scholarship non-concurrent with the playing. Top college football players are professional athletes that are forced to pretend like they are studying something on the side. If they don’t make it big in the NFL, they should have the option to…

Nothing of value was lost.

Counterpoint: a disproportionate number of the screwball comedies of the 1930s and 1940s are among the greatest movies ever made

To me the best rom-com of the last 20 years is Alice Wu’s Saving Face, with Michelle Krusiec and Lynn Chen

Really strange to write a whole article about queer representation in media today and how it’s dominated by mostly gay white men and totally fail to mention Joel Kim Booster’s Fire Island. On top of being a genuine depiction of the Pines/Cherry Grove experience it fully explores all of these topics. And it’s also a…

The dividing line in America is no longer between right or left. The choice is between normal or crazy. It is time for a new generation of Republican leadership.

Sad & preventable death. It’d be easy to laugh and jeer at someone’s stupidity but any one of us could make a mistake at a critical moment that could cost our lives. It's the nature of our existence here

I can tell you what would probably happen here (in Germany). They would look into the person’s state (sleep, alcohol, whatever), but also into the company. Did the person have enough time to rest the night before? Did they get their breaks? There was a briefing, great. Was the “15 foot zone” delineated with anything?…