Wait, Esther, you never explained why you’d never been to Red Lobster - you leave your 16th-birthday story hanging with your mom asking you if you wanted to go. Why didn’t you go??

True capitalism REQUIRES vigorous intrusions by the government. There is no capitalism without, for example, consumer protections the the FTC; otherwise, you get monopolies, which are inconsistent with a truly capitalist system.

They support Democratic Socialism which is based on the principles of a democracy. Like FDR and Teddy Roosevelt. Democratic Socialism is using a little money from everyone to provide services for everyone. This country already has many social constructs paid for with our tax dollars - the military, highways and…

As a school librarian I’m excited to see these books on a summer reading list and I hope the teacher who made the list prevails. When The Hate U Give was removed from school libraries in Katy, Texas, 15yo Ny’Shira Lundy successfully petitioned to get it put back on:

Documents later procured under FOIA are likely to include reveal:

Thus furthering their goal of taking America back to the 19th century, when rich robber barons didn’t get called out for being rich robber barons.

In a sense, yes, they control vastly different policies and budgets and people and personnel.

Margaret Sullivan’s media column in WaPo today had the best suggestion for how reporters should deal with Trump and his lies: the “truth sandwich.”

Here are some names of people who were treated unfairly:

If by beloved you mean “people felt bad that something happened to the city he was mayor of” then yes, Rudy was beloved after 9/11.

He was never that popular before or after 9/11. He just jumped on the PR train after the planes hit by showing up at Yankee games wearing a FDNY/NYPD baseball hat.

He was pretty hated on 9/10. Most of NYC was entirely sick of him.

I like where this could be going...Does this mean deporting people proudly wearing red caps?

He gets one thing right. As the mother of high school aged daughters who want to go to Yale, I would love to see it adopt a gender-blind admissions policy. It is well-documented that the standards are much lower for male applicants than females, because the males compete against each other and the females compete…

As a firearms owner and recreational shooter, these are the very people that make me most uncomfortable. Their rhetoric and unjustifiable hatred and fear are in my opinion the greatest threat to the very right to keep and bear arms that they espouse.

I sorta feel like unless you’re Toby Ziegler, you don’t get to use phrases like “New York Jew.”

I love that Vogue considers Schumer’s totally unsurprising fondness for the New York Times to be a literary eccentricity requiring ethnographic contextualization:

Yoko is like a comfort blanket at this point. If she’s not in tweet beat my whole day gets thrown off.

Don’t forget grinders...

The Tequila Mockingbird Academy for Young Ladies and Gentlemen and Other-Gendered Persons has one dress code: