I wonder whether it makes sense to read the situation, or draw conclusions as if these trans people were being denied access, or were otherwise misgendered in the United States. If something like this were to happen in the U.S., I would feel very comfortable imputing some deliberated upon socio-political motivation to…

How sure are we that Trump wasn’t trying to work out a deal to open a Trump Plaza Pyongyang, contract North Korean slave labor to do construction work on one or more of his international properties, asking for a loan, or otherwise trying to find new ways to launder money?

“I was there with [Trump] one day when he ended the caliphate[.]”

Amber Heard might be the only real-life person with a veritable “rogues gallery”.

Scary looking af.

With regard to Spears, I am not an expert on her conservatorship, but my understanding is that, at some point or another, someone close to her compelled some judicial process in which she was examined by a mental health professional, and was deemed incompetent. Barring some affirmative indication that the judicial…

I mean the Q loons would start claiming that Clarence Thomas was murdered and it will lead to violence.

“I said counsel Kanye not cancel Kanye.”

Indeed, this is a prime opportunity for those perpetually auditioning for POTUS to trot out their shrillest dog whistles, hottest takes, and most thinly-veiled coded language. It’ll be a real race to the bottom—who will ask the most inane questions? Who will be the most racist? Will Lauren Boebert or MTG burst into…

Should she recuse herself based on the rules as written? Probably. Should she actually recuse herself? I don’t know, but probably not. This may be a little real politik, but why would the liberal justices hamstring themselves by following standards the conservative justices won’t? This is a case in which conservatives…

Now he’s 34, an age at which several of the great quarterbacks of the past generation—Tom Brady, Drew Brees, the Manning brothers, Ben Roethlisberger, Philip Rivers—were still competing at a high level.

On this point, I think it’s worthwhile to point out that there are organizations like Run for Something which are aimed at trying to get more young people to run for office—and particularly low-level state and municipal position. Building real power, and creating lasting and systemic change, is probably more easily…

Elizabeth Warren got continuously, and in many cases misogynistically, attacked as being some kind of traitor for not making way for Bernie Sanders as though that was a requirement.

Between 2006 and 2016, the outlet found that at least 26 of 158 law enforcement officers who had been charged with sexual assault and unlawful sexual contact with people they had detained had invoked the “consent defense.”

This country is broken. Anyone cheerleading the moves by Citi, Bumble, and Salesforce is egging on companies to pursue private solution to what is a public health problem.

“There is evidence to suggest that romance fraud offenders use the same types of techniques that are well established in domestic violence research,” criminologist Cassandra Cross wrote Jezebel in an email. “Romance fraud is all about the use of coercion and control, and the ability of offenders to use their power to…

This is my new go-to example of what “not freeze peach” actually looks like next time someone bitches about being put in “Facebook jail” for posting some anti-vaxx or conspiracy shit. Say what you will about America and its leaders...

At least one academic article in the Buffy studies canon makes the argument that “the primary cast of Buffy constitutes a fundamental component of the series’ authorship.”

The sentence structure was unfortunate.

Also a Warren supporter; your interpretation is the interpretation I like and would call “fair” and “giving credit where due,” but as written I thought it could also be read in a backhanded way. I get a little defensive about Warren; she she had actual plans, and America (once again) decided that being an intelligent…