you’re right, and rape is endemic on reservations. IIRC native women live with some of the highest sexual assault rates in the country.

it’s the fucking worst. I’ve tried to stay out of election discussions this year in general because it’s gotten so hostile, but I’ll add a light-hearted comment to a friend’s political post every now and then. and oh my god I swear, every single time, some Berniebro shows up with a meme or a graph or an article about…

most of this looks pretty boring and like every other running shirt I’ve seen before with a logo slapped on. but then there’s only so much one can do with athleisure as a concept. backless hoodie is an interesting concept, but looks unwearable.

this is very different from the Bernie bros I know (and I know quite a few): their hallmark trait seems to be cynicism. to hear them talk Bernie would have everyone’s approval if it weren’t for the evil media not giving him the coverage he deserves. furthermore, there’s a marked air of defeat, on a personal level,…

I went to a huge urban public school. my graduating class alone was about 750 kids. we were one of those schools you hear about in slow news day scare pieces with metal detectors at the doors and rent-a-cops roaming the halls. the police departments from the neighboring suburbs used to use our school to train their k9…

ours does in NC too... you just never know when your erstwhile pro-business government is going to pitch an ideological shit fit and drop a legislative turd on your lovely state these days.

I don’t think I’d ever vote for Bernie because his understanding of the economy is tenuous at best, but I’d be cheering his progress rather than rolling my eyes if it weren’t for his fanboys. It’s funny how closely they are echoing the right wing’s “woe is us, we’re such an underdog” strategy when they kvetch about…

i think bernie has raised our collective awareness of a lot of issues that are usually drowned out by the noise single-interest groups. it’s great to see discussion around infrastructure and education and college debt, but he’s starting to sound like a broken record. getting people interested in an issue or cause is…

i can’t figure out why anything about her is newsworthy... her acting is uninspired, she’s the total opposite of a rags-to-riches success story, and she has talbots good looks. america’s answer to equally bland kate middleton.

I find her supremely boring. talented, no doubt, and beautiful, but boring.

he should just shave it off, it always looks better. that might be un-royal though.

I said this upthread but it bears repeating... the issue isn’t white people needing to see white faces, it’s international audiences wanting to see movies with recognizable celebrities. you could hire an actress who is famous in Japan, but nobody in India or South America or even the Philippines would know who she is,…

I think you have to give the movie-going public more credit than that... if anything, American audiences now tend to respond better to unknown actors than big ticket names and whitewashing in movies has gotten a lot of negative press in the last few years. but American audiences are a shrinking market. international…

when I was an elementary school kid and an aspiring artist, there was nothing more inspiring to me— on dueling ends of the spectrum, I’ll admit— than Lisa Frank art (especially the rainbow leopard, he was under-appreciated) and those animals-in-space pictures that seemed to be on every folder. at least every folder…

I was using ‘Raleigh’ to mean the state government, not the city itself, but your point is well taken. thanks for the insight!

yeah thats the thing, I can’t figure it out. the minimum wage clause just seems so frivolous... how often does a city take it upon itself to set its own minimum wage? I’m sure it’s happened before, but it doesn’t seem like a common enough occurrence to warrant it being addressed in a law like that. when I heard it had…

I’ve seen it vernacularly referred to as the “NC bathroom bill” so I do feel like a lot of the other elements are left out.

he’s the first republican governor of NC in decades and his administration hasn’t been well-received. NC has a lot of liberal yuppie metro areas, a high black population especially in the eastern half of the state, a ton of college students, and a bunch of crunchy mountain hippies who all vote overwhelmingly…

yes! I’m proud of my city for passing the anti-discrimination bill that got this ball rolling, because in the long run I think the repercussions are going to hit McCrory’s administration hard.

oh I didn’t mean Raleigh in terms of the residents (and FYI you guys and Aville have my fave food scenes in the state,) I meant the state government generally. but your point is well-taken :)