There’s a sad sort of “At camp one time, I touched a girl’s boob—under the shirt!”-energy to this whole thing. I feel no less contempt for the man, but simultaneously also find him quite pathetic?

I misunderstood you as well; I agree that it’s worse for these unhinged people harass Maggie Gyllenhaal.

Then ridicule her for harassing Maggie Gyllenhaal (if in fact she did that.) The reason not to engage in rampant gay speculation with regard to Taylor Swift is not because Taylor Swift is some great person, it’s because engaging in gay speculation like this is wrong regardless of the subject—but especially where the…

It’s not hard to believe that Miami-Dade would implement policy with a racially discriminatory animus (I say this having grown up and spent most of my life there,) but I suspect this really does have a lot to do with the shootings. Every Memorial Day weekend, Miami Beach has “Black Beach Week” (what was called ‘urban…

I feel like it’s probably not okay to treat a real life human being as if they’re a fictional character to be shipped with whatever other character/person via slash fiction (which is what this sort of rampant speculation feels like: wish thinking and open fantasizing.) I get—do not agree with, but get—that even among…

The comparison to Jackie Robinson is apt as hell. The barriers in KBJ’s way are such that it will have taken an absolute superstar to break through. This is patently unfair given the parade of mediocrity most recently confirmed to the High Court. I’m not saying Kavanaugh and ACB didn’t necessarily work hard to get to…

I find this theory fairly difficult to believe. Thomas’ didn’t just side with the majority in Shelby County v. Holder (i.e., striking down Sect. 4(b) of the VRA,) he wrote a concurrence saying the majority didn’t go far enough because he would have struck down Sect. 5 as well. I will submit to you that these…

That or he’s a real life Clayton Bigsby (except for the fact that Thomas is not, to my knowledge, literally blind.)

I’m sure his staffers are a grab bag of feckless baby neocon sycophants and toadies, and the rich children of important donors who want to beef up their failsons’ (and faildaughters!) resumes.

I want to assume that Clarence Thomas would vote with liberals on a re-hash of Loving, given that fact that he is in an interracial marriage. However, the man frequently writes opinions (in which no one ever joins—he is alone in this) lambasting the aggregate effects test as wrong (tl;dr- it’s a line of reasoning…

and I’ll add (5) Republicans don’t care about “waste” if it allows them to keep Guantanamo open, even if it would be vastly cheaper to transfer the remaining 39 detainees to a supermax in CONUS. https://www.thedailybeast.com/lindsey-graham-melts-down-and-storms-off-during-ketanji-brown-jackson-hearing

The British Royal family’s tour of Central America and the Caribbean was meant to strengthen the ties between Britain and Commonwealth countries, but it has not gone as planned as some countries are considering cutting ties with Britain as Barbados did in November 2021, according to the Associated Press.

“I do agree with both Justice Kavanaugh and Justice Barrett on this issue,” Jackson said Tuesday after Feinstein read aloud what the two justices said at their own confirmation hearings in 2018 and 2020, respectively. “Roe and Casey are the settled law of the Supreme Court concerning the right to terminate a woman’s…

I’m a fan of superhero movies, comic books (though I stopped collecting about a decade ago,) the MCU, and basically all the actors involved in the movie; I even went to go see it twice. But I wouldn’t call it particularly artful, impactful, moving, or socially meaningful; certainly not in the same way as Power of the…

“While we feel for the Black people involved in this opera, we do not support the rehashing of Black trauma for white entertainment. By centering a white character in a story of Black trauma, the librettist, Clare Coss takes an experience she has no claim to and centers whiteness.”

I assume that when Ted Cruz was asked by his staffers what kind of questions he’d like them to research and prepare for him, he responded “whatever questions will make it more likely that I can be President.” 

While we applaud Cox for his small mercy, it’s also clear that empathy for trans kids and their parents is not the governor’s primary motivation.

It wasn’t mentioned in the article, but I don’t pass up a chance to say this: Megan Thee Stallion is an upstanding citizen and should probably be considered a role model for everyone. Despite a thriving (and growing) musical career, celebrity, money, etc., she still went back to school to finish a degree in a…

I’m right there with you. I see this witness list and I think, did both of you deliberately go out of your ways to associate only with odious people?

Hey, now, he almost pulled it off that one time with the hang glider.