Thank you. That statement was shocking to read. Do I think mothers with addiction issues should be prosecuted? No, I do not. Do I think we need to acknowledge the consequences of a mother’s substance use while pregnant? YES. The solution is education, not to absolution.

We shouldn’t have the death penalty, is the obvious answer. This is the perfect case to illustrate the capricious nature of it. Also, killing one more person won’t bring a single person back. There is no justice in murder. Also-also, it is much nastier to make someone sit in jail for the rest of their life, watching…

The State should not be in the business of murdering people for some misplaced sense of vengeance.

They also claimed Cruz had neurodevelopmental disorders from alleged prenatal alcohol exposure, and presented evidence that his birth mother used drugs and drank alcohol while pregnant with him—a message that sends a pretty dangerous message for blaming and punishing pregnant people for a future child’s behavior.

I’m not going to begrudge any grieving family their perfectly understandable desire for vengeance after having their children ripped away from them by this absolute piece of shit. Nevertheless, I’m anti-death penalty. I think it’s barbaric, I think it can’t possibly be applied in a fair manner, and I think it can’t…

“If this was not the most perfect death penalty case, then why do we have the death penalty at all?” - I can’t help but feel she’s absolutely right, just not in the way she intended.

If the death penalty is not a deterrent, and we know objectively it is not, then the only reason is revenge. Revenge is a bad reason to keep the cruel and inhumane practice of state murder. Especially when we also know without a doubt that we have executed the innocent, the underage, the mentally ill and mentally…

Who the hell cares?

I agree that we need more noise around labor rights. But it doesn’t have to be one or the other. In what I’ve seen from more grassroots efforts to legitimately recycle/upcycle textiles, labor rights and sustainability can actually go hand in hand. When there is an effort behind a systemic shift away from “Buy a 5$…

When I was on the Hill, one of the Klobuchar staffers was suicidal because of Amy’s behavior.

In fact, people who know, some who have posted here, will tell you that Klobuchar is not business as usual, what it’s like be a Congressional staffer. She exists on her own tier of awful. 

I need to read up on this story to have a better idea of what happened. Was Forstater harassing coworkers with her view or stating them from a work account? Im always iffy about this kind of shit. People have a right to their opinion even if its backwards. And employers can fire people often as they see fit and…

It really irritates me that Rebecca left out the part where the Fresh Air producer said that they let Driver know in advance when the clip was coming up, prompted him to remove his headphones, and had the producer in New York (where Driver’s part of the conversation was recorded- Terry Gross records in Philadelphia)…

You know what I’m so over? Taylor stans who spill out paragraphs of indignation at anything that might possibly, maybe, be construed as the smallest slight.

asdkfjdk my GOD woman, get your head out of your ass. Sarah, you write shitty teen romance YA, you’re not out here writing the next Booker Prize novel. Of course a college junior, who is presumably in her twenties and you know, at university to challenge herself academically, wants to read something with more…

The thing is, it’s really impossible to erase that power dynamic from the relationship. If I, your boss, ask you to unload the dishwasher in my capacity as your significant other, it’s just not feasible for you to somehow not know that I’m your boss before you decide to point out that you’ve unloaded the dishwasher…

A person using a leadership position to compel a relationship is exploitative sexual behavior in most workplaces

I don’t sleep with employees. It is a heavy cross to bear, yet I still choose to bear it.

How hard is it to not have sex with your employees?

This thing is a perfect example of how bottom-wrung scandal “journalism” operates.