Anything truly damning is being kept concealed for the SDNY case (which Cohen alluded to) or reserved for closed doorchearings accompanying this testimony.

Just because you’re scared no one will mourn you doesn’t mean you should lash out at people who had actual talent and warmth. 

That’s a bad faith argument. There are plenty of news sources providing nuanced and critical assessments of this White House and the GOP at large.

And if you think the “debunk” arguments from the right are anything but fallacious agitprop, well, I don’t know what to say.

Because America’s still very racist?

I was curious so I did some skim research. But it’s just a glance, so don’t take it me as an authority.

It looks like journalists *don’t* have protections in place in any absolute terms. Some states allow forgiveness in situations where viewing child pornography is accidental, but it’s largely at the discretion of a…

Obviously the latter. I mean, Avenatti has pretty obviously been a ratfucker since the start. But for now at least, he’s OUR ratfucker.

And I’m more or less fine with that. I don’t necessarily need my politicians and advocates to be paragons of virtue in their personal lives. But I do want them to produce results.

I have my issues with Bernie, but it doesn’t sound like this was necessarily a Sanders problem so much as it was a systemic problem somewhere in the chain of command.

Don’t get me wrong. It’s entirely plausible that he was complacent in what happened (and if so, that’s something we all need to address with a…

um......... I think they were being intentionally glib.

I think the Freedom Caucus is the sticking point here. They’re willing to play a war of attrition, but the rest of their party just wants to settle. The problem is that no Republicans outside of Trump and his most ardent supporters care about a wall, so trading wall funding that will probably never actually be used…

My guess is this. A compromise comes through. We get funding, with provisions, within the next month (probably shortly after congress takes office). There’s some major motion towards Dreamers (though it could range from ceremonial to substantive) and maybe some minor provision for Trump’s wall. The majority of the GOP…

Dems have tried the perfectly reasonable DACA for wall play. It doesn’t work. Trump wants a wall. The Dems and Republicans want their respective approaches to immigration policy, and neither is willing to budge for the sake of an election campaign promise that doesn’t make any goddamn sense.

The GOP’s approach to…

Even with no obstructions in his way, Trump couldn’t build that wall. And even if he built the wall, what would it really mean? He’d be doubling up on a border that’s already substantially covered. And all it takes is a loosening of immigration policy to make that wall inconsequential.

The problem is that Democrats…

Here’s the problem. That is a deal that Dems have made.

It’s a very weird situation, because, well, the rest of the GOP doesn’t give a shit because a wall doesn’t mean much. It’s fundamentally a money pit. We have walls over the southern border. They cover most of the accessible land, and what they don’t cover is…

She’s always looked pretty miserable in this role. I’m starting to wonder if it isn’t intentional, both on her part and as a way of messaging this White House’s attitude towards the press.

My guess is that the White House would take a patchwork approach, reframing the language of allocated funds to pull a few extra bucks here and a few extra bucks there. Would it work? I really, really doubt it. But the administration is really just trying to push Trump’s messaging on down the road to keep him and his…

I have never read a tweet with a more insane string of words than the one posted here, and that’s saying a lot given that we live in a world with Donald Trump and Jaden Smith.

I’ve read enough of your posts to know that it was implicit in what you said. You’re easily one of the most on point and thoughtful commentators here. But I also think there are plenty of readers who will mistake the symptom for the disease. Blaming circumstances for behavior is probably the most standard go-to excuse…

Let’s not blame internet media for the fucked up nature of the world. Twitch just gives assholes the means to broadcast their assholery to the world.

My partner literally can’t sleep without a TV show she knows by heart playing in the background to comfort her. While growing up in a physically abusive household wasn’t the only trauma in her upbringing, physical abuse between her mother and father was the specific vector for that.

Domestic abuse, even when it’s…

As someone else said, it’s about the magnitude of the response.

Even then, if you’re responding to physical violence with physical violence, outside of the context of self defense, you need to take a long look at yourself and find outside help.