He’s knee deep in a “new” real estate company founded by himself, Jared, and some other dude in 2015. Plus, his “disapproval” of Trump is weak as fuck. He’s been photographed at the White House at his brother’s swearing in, posing with a smile on his face, while other Kushner relatives have been straight up writing…

Well, the Carter administration enabled the hell out of Suharto during his genocidal campaign in Timor-Leste, arguably in an even more expansive way than we have with the Saudi’s during their campaign of atrocities in Yemen. So I’m going to guess no.

I wish voting was a requirement here, like it is in Australia.  Good for the Obamas for doing a go out and vote type of campaign.

Obama’s not above criticism, but as someone below said there is a bad habit of people drawing devils advocate false equivalencies, historical revisionism (I have seen so many 22 year olds earnestly argue that universal health care was always popular and supported by the public and that it’s high approval isn’t a new…

I’ve been critical of Obama at times from the left, but he was definitely a very good president, despite some deep flaws, and I don’t understand this rose twitter talking point that he was not unless we aren’t judging him in context with Bush, Carter, Clinton, Regan, etc. Even a well regarded group of historians put…

I definitely agree what Warren did was different, she’s downplaying her former statements from her claiming an identity to just distant ancestry, and the cookbook thing was offensive. However, I’ve heard/read people stating that one shouldn’t even discuss any sort of Native ties without tribal affiliation because it…

It’s not so much Arab men, it’s mostly men from the Gulf States (Bahrani, Saudi, etc.) and Mauritania. Not to say other Arabs, Assyrians, Chaldeans, etc. can’t be racist as hell, but the above countries are the ones that tend to be the most racist and problematic towards Black women.

He brought out Chris Brown at one of his recent shows. Tabloids make up a lot of shit, but he routinely gets hit with rumors that he mostly sleeps with 18-20 year olds and he’s 31, including the latest rumor that he was having dinner with an 18 year old model whose father he had known for years.  He made Rihanna’s big…

Yes, this is a weird tight rope for me to walk. I’m Black (Black/Arab/Amazigh), but my Black side of the family had a story that my great grandmother was taken to an orphanage when her parents died because her tribal relatives didn’t want to claim her because she was half-Black. She was dumped with basically no…

Yeah, the pop songs aren’t terrible. My favorite songs are “Look What I found” and “Always Remember Us This Way;” those two have been on repeat for me the past week.

The Hate U Give isn’t in wide release until this Friday, Loving Pablo got shitty reviews, and Bad Times at the El Royale and First Man sort of flopped at the box office.

The two sides thing drives me insane. I’m not even a Hillary person, and I lost my shit on an acquaintance I just had lunch with a few hours ago and I started whisper yelling that she wouldn’t have hired Jeff Fucking Sessions. I can’t stand that the media plays the both sides game too. I’ve barely seen any coverage in…

Agree. The original was an incredible, complex, and nuanced film that touched on several social issues and this sort of looks like a shoot ‘em up thriller. I probably would have liked the trailer better, especially as I love Gina and root for female directors, if I hadn’t see the one from several years ago.

It’s a dumb, stupid stunt but a necessary one because it allows her to confront this long before 2020 rolls around.  Trump can’t keep badgering her to take a DNA test, etc.

Your criticism was measured, but some other journalists and popular twitter personality leftists have been way over the top with hammering down on Warren for this admittedly dumb (but sort of necessary) stunt. It was always going to follow Warren if she ran, so better to get it out in the open so that it will blow…

This piece is good, though, didn’t mean to sound like I was criticizing this particular think piece Kelly!

Some of it is so over the top, though.

I mean, that’s very true, but Blackburn is so goddamn evil (she’s arguably even more bigoted and corrupt than Trump and McConnell) that I’m not above people ignoring Bredesen’s fuck-ups until after the election rolls around so he can get elected. So I get why Gillibrand might not be saying a word on the vote when it…

Again, my point was less about people dragging them constantly (that was about the general attitude of both right wingers and some, not all, of rose twitter) and more about Jezebel doing barely, if any, coverage of the Obama Foundation and/or Michelle’s get out the vote initiative (The Root covers it) but focusing on…

It was a very dumb comment, we all make them on occasion, and I suspect she felt obliged to say something nice about him because if she ripped him it would have become a news story.