Reread the headline with an open mind you might get the nuance. I read the headline as she’s the first black woman that America thought was important enough to rescue. In any situation. In any country (even America). Period.

Driving them to dictatorships? Come on, now. Griner gets paid more than a hundred grand a year to play the sport she loves. That’s plenty, or would be for most people. Just because the NBA outrageously overpays its athletes doesn’t mean the WNBA is wrong not to.

Relatively free? The Olympics were without incident?

Agreed. ICE has the wrong mission and top to bottom the worst fucking people doing their job for the worst fucking reasons.

Viktor Bout is not a criminal mastermind. He is a man who had a skillset (he could fly a plane) and connections (through his military service) to exploit egomaniacal warlords and corrupt government officials into buying weapons from him and smuggling them from Eastern Europe into these war-torn countries specifically…

“Immigration should never have been made into a para-military group patrolling our borders.”

Bout going free is awful, but not because he’s really dangerous now. It’s simply unjust that he isn’t going to face the full consequences of his crimes.

Gonna have to disagree with that one. Prior to Griner’s sentencing, perhaps, because since then they’ve been routinely discussed as a package deal for Bout. And even THAT would have been a crap deal. Bout is widely acknowledged to be one of the most dangerous people on the planet, full stop. His name should never have…

I’ve said it before and I will keep on saying it until it sinks in with more and more people: ICE needs to be disbanded and we need to bring back the INS. Immigration should never have been made into a para-military group patrolling our borders. The entire national conversation around immigration, having devolved from…

You can’t genuinely tell me that you’re anti-gun, anti-capitalist, pro-Black, and pro-queer when you are cheering on that a man who sold guns on behalf of Russia to murderous regimes across Africa.

He’s too high-profile for us to torture, I think. But I agree that this was a very poor trade, while simultaneously being very happy for BG and Cherelle and everyone who loves them.

Probably not much more than it has for the last 4 years. 

Brittney herself admitted she brought it in. She says she packed them in her bag by mistake because she was in a rush. 

Hopefully the US handed over the “Merchant of Death” in the same condition that North Korea handed Otto Warmbier back to his family. Otherwise Russia just got back a person responsible for countless deaths and will no doubt go back to arming enemies of ours and all of our allies that will results in thousands of more…

No offense but you have no idea what you’re talking about. One arms dealer getting out of prison has zero affect on Ukraine. Putin, the dictator of an entire nation, has been throwing every bit of resource imaginable at Ukraine and failing. Absolutely nothing about that just changed. He has no special access to special…

Thank god Harry and Meghan have you.

Oh how sweet. The GOP finally realized that Walker’s little field trip to Crazytown needed to be supervised by some adults...and Lindsey and Ted were the only people who didn’t have something better to do.

On behalf of myself, as a former seven year old, and my kids, I think it’s pretty fucked up and insulting to seven year olds to imply as if Walker is operating anywhere near the same intellectual or moral level as them.  Come on Obama!

Like it or not, England’s royalty has been a largely effed up institution forever. It’s got to be hanging by an albeit sturdy thread by now. Whatever Harry and Meghan, the series, the couple, can do to hasten its demise is all for the good. Unfortunately, this will eventually be remembered as historical and it’s…

Dave Chappelle’s SNL monologue on this one kind of summarized the overall sentiment of the right here for me: the gist there was “it’s not that Kanye’s WRONG about what he says about the Jews, he should just know better than to say it that way.”

They’re not mad about the antisemitism, period, they just like it when…