I don’t want to hear about what Democrats are or aren’t doing anymore—if elected, no matter how bad, or not-progressive-enough, HRC would not have put ACB, Kavanaugh, or Gorsuch on the Court. That’s the bottom line.

It really is a situation of “choose your poison” here. It’s going to be exceedingly difficult for any private enterprise to implement policies so robust that they successfully thread the needle between ‘not doing enough’ and ‘overcorrecting’ for whatever advantages or disadvantages inure from societal bias, or nature.

Whether it’s the fluctuating prices, the lack of quality content, or the company’s failure to properly address anti-trans jokes made by its hired talent, the streaming platform has pissed off enough people to lose over 200,000 subscribers in the first quarter of 2022.

Fo[r] now, Rausch is being placed on administrative leave, and could not be reached by reporters for comment.

She just recently finished a degree in either public health or health administration—so well after she became a multi-millionaire and world famous recording artist. What’s more, rather than starting another useless celebrity-branded alcohol company (because how ever did we live before Puff Daddy’s vodka, or Ryan…

I wouldn’t be surprised if some component of the decision is a desire to justify the $5 billion Apple spent to build Apple Park.

That’s a pretty small audience? This counts as an official debate for the mayoral elections?

My bottom line is I don’t really care what other words are used (I leave that up to the people who fall into those categories to let us know which terms they’re most comfortable with)

My thinking on this was that that phraseology makes or implies insensitive assumptions about women qua women, or would be otherwise insensitive to non-“pregnant-capable” (“pregnant-incapable”?) individuals who nevertheless identify as women. I’m pretty committed to making room in my lexicon for the evolving politics of…

The irony is that what Republicans call “censorship” is (99% of the time) literal acts of free speech by private actors with regard to their privately owned and operated forums (because content moderation is basically a category of deliberative speech act/expression.) But then, it’s Republicans who turn around and…

This is a hugely important clarification, because the article makes it sound like the slur-yeller school claimed the allegations were unfounded, but then the school’s Principal admits that it happened. It makes vastly more sense that the Principal from the non-slur-yelling school is the one who is saying slurs were…

it’s important to recognize that people who could be at risk of a stroke and other cardiovascular conditions can still safely use long-term contraception—if they’re thoughtful about which forms.

I don’t think you’re framing this correctly.

According to other outlets, this deal to exchange Yaroshenko for Reed has been in the works since as far as back June (source: https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/27/politics/behind-the-scenes-trevor-reed-release/index.html.) That said, we don’t yet know what’s going to happen to Griner, or whether there are back channel…

Depp brought on a clinical and forensic psychologist as a witness to testify that she met with Heard for 12 hours in 2021 and concluded that Heard has borderline personality disorder (BPD) and histrionic disorder. The psychologist testified that both of these disorders can manifest in an individual needing to be the…

I continually have to remind myself that despite this site having once produced actually good and thoughtful journalism (and probably even now, from time to time,) at this point it’s typically a few steps removed from someone writing a Reddit post off the cuff; the why of it is probably complicated.

I have people served with process and subpoenas all the time—like I’ve done this hundreds of times—and have worked with dozens of different process servers all over the country. I’m sure you CAN specify that you want docs served in a particular manner (even beyond whatever legal formalities are required in a given…

I find it hard to believe that anything Joe Biden does (or doesn’t do) on student loans is going to appreciably move the needle on the mid-terms or the 2024 election. The beneficiaries of such a policy (i.e., the recipients of the student loan debt forgiveness) are either (a) already going to vote for the guy; (b) not…

‘Influencers’ will jump platform just like they did between Myspace and Facebook.

I’m in favor of regulating monopolies, but Twitter doesn’t have a monopoly on social media or microblogging—not even close. Lina Khan has some interesting ideas about new ways to conceptualize monopolistic power beyond simply market share, but even those don’t include a model for finding Twitter to be any kind of…