“Shelby County v. Holder. Thomas ruled in favor of the plaintiffs in a 5-4 decision gutting the Voting Rights Act.”

What I love is when people try compare entire states to *just* Chicago, or whatever other city—because apparently the rest of the state of Illinois doesn’t count?

As whole, Red states have provably higher rates of violent crime and homicide than Blue states.

I agree there’s a sense in which the word “evil” might be part and parcel of a supernatural framing of ‘why some people do bad things,’ but I think it’s very often shorthand way of issuing moral condemnation without regard for motivating factors or surrounding circumstances. It says “we don’t care what was going with…

That’s more or less what I’m saying.

I’m sincerely sorry your friend and colleague has basically become an unwilling pawn in this fucked up, Kirkland Brand version of ‘great power conflict’. I think what he was doing—reporting from within Russia—is important, and meaningful work.

I think you may be overthinking this a little.

I understand the “technically excellent” to mean that it was good or great, but that it just wasn’t going to be as good as it was with Pitt, with whom she apparently had some crazy chemistry and connection. Affleck could be the best lover ever, but having strong chemistry with another person, being in love, etc., are…

Even if the lyrics are relatively simple, the underlying sentiment feels fairly complex.

Are you under the impression that my position is that, *even if someone has perfectly atoned they’ll still be subject to “the approach as [I] described it” (the practice of dragging or deriding a celebrity for past misdeeds, even in stories or articles that are nominally about good or otherwise socially…

“[O]ne young woman asked Harris about ‘partial birth abortion[.]ʼ ‘There’s no such thing,’ she told them.”

I can’t speak for others, but I read that as a quite “real” and self-effacing statement. He’s not even pretending that cutting someone off after they’ve done something sufficiently bad is entirely, or even mostly, about moral rectitude/“the right thing to do.” It seems like he’s admitting to this being as much (or…

“But now you are saying you aren’t sure whether any of those three people have actually been subject to this approach”

“Macklemore, Miley Cyrus, and Taylor Swift all”

“If you have a black ancestor from 10+ generations ago, with none of the pigmentation and no real connection to the culture, then are you... black? Is that all it takes to identify?”

“I will be traveling this great country before it falls into Socialism and then Communism.”

Off the top of my head (and not including Harlow just now obviously), Macklemore, Miley Cyrus, and Taylor Swift.

We do... BUT... unless they’ve perfectly accounted for, owned up to, and made amends for every exploitative, regressive, bad, or Problematic(TM) thing they’ve ever done or said—or from which they’ve benefitted (regardless of their direct involvement, i.e., white cishet male privilege)—they don’t get any good will,…

Even if the lyrics are relatively simple, the underlying sentiment feels fairly complex.

Federal law preempts state law, so if it’s actually the case that compliance with the federal law and the state law is incompatible, federal law wins out. Anywho, I’ve just never considered the “strongly worded letter” to be “going hard.”