The Squad is growing. “I’m already part of the Squad!” Bush told me, when I asked whether she plans on joining the group of leftist women that have transformed the face of the Democratic Party and symbolize its future.

Because it is after the election when it is most important that the public not be misled about the results and whether they are fair. We need the FEC to finish up all the counts, and we need a high enough portion of the ballots to be counted that even mainstream conservative outlets like Fox are ready to call the…

Have we maybe advanced to the point of representation where we don’t get our jorts in a twist if the show pokes a bit of fun at itself for the caped crusader giving criminals a gigantic advantage in the form of a copious mane of beautiful hair for them to yank on?

This is even more petty than that.

But what is really intriguing is Nick Cannon’s idea about a vampire origin story. Starring Nick Cannon as the lone man willing to fight against the evil scientist Yakub and his vampiric creations, which of course, lack melanin.

I’d clap for your self restraint, but as per national DSA conference rules I don’t want to accidentally trigger anyone who might be set off by loud sounds so instead accept this offering of jazz hands and spirit fingers!

I answered the now what part as well. You can do that and still think RBG is the one who slagged her own legacy by holding on well past her sell by date.

I mean, I’ll say my contrarian self is still here, noting Jezebel’s rank hypocrisy in how they fellated Julia Salazar with almost no interrogation of her conservative activist past while here their reception is cool at best. That’s because Julia Salazar is a fringe DSA wahoo like them of course.

No, you fuck off. It’s hubris to think you should stay in a job that important deep into your 70s. You are one of 9 people making decisions that impact not just 330 million Americans but also many other people around the globe.

And yet, in spite of all that, I do think there’s a good argument for the statement Citizen’s United is worse. Maybe not in terms of the pure maliciousness of the rulingl, but in terms of subverting our political system for the benefit of people with money, it’s impact is so far reaching.

So?

Here’s her quote on her judicial philosophy from the nomination:

The comment didn’t stay grayed, but honestly I’m not sure what people expected out of the hearing. Unless there are prior scandals to pick at, SCOTUS nominee hearings have been very rote affairs for a long time.

Her repetitive non-answers on basically on the questions (all in almost exactly the same format) would in any sensible place be cause for dismissing her as a nomination.

“Need” is a relative word. No one really “needed” these functions in their watch. And while people may have occasionally needed altimeters and compasses, those watches were notoriously janky about all those other features functioning for very long, if you actually needed a compass or altimeter in the 90s, like if you…

Not being a smart watch wearer myself, I’m going to go out on a limb and suggest that if watches in the 90s had even a modicum of the connectivity features of today’s smart watches their batteries would also have only lasted a day as well (or less), they would have been the size of a Pip-Boy and they also probably…

Progressive Catholics can rejoice that there is any water in the glass at all, but LGBTQ+ Catholics

Fair use isn’t just about whether it’s “transformative”. It’s also about the volume of the work you actually show. The best comparison is Spaceballs vs. MST3000 vs. a video game review that uses short clips. Spaceballs is clearly fair use. It is based on the content but doesn’t contain substantially all of it. A…

Well sure but Earther only knows how to report in a maximalist voice.

If I were home alone I might agree. Having 3 ankle biters and a wife I’m stuck inside with has left me wishing for a month of total isolation. I’m sure after the month I’d feel the opposite. The stresses of the pandemic are just ... fucking weird.