Hit the paywall, but, yikes. Cool pope just got way too cool for me.

Does he isolate, though? I imagine with all of the basic security protocols for him, it wouldn’t be too much of a stretch to isolate him in a quarantine pod such that he didn’t need to mask up too often...

The stories I could tell but won’t because I don’t want to be blacklisted.

F*ck this. Mostly the part where she is ‘around town’ and going to the gym when CA officials spent literally all Thursday reminding us not to do this shit because cases (especially in LA) are at beginning-of-pandemic-when-we-knew-nothing-and-had-no-PPE levels.

God - this stinks of trying to personally capitalize on increased awareness of disability with a vague nod to decreasing stigma without actually doing any of the work.

Yup. Healthcare worker here. I’ve watched a handful of highly at risk people rapidly die from COVID after refusing to ‘believe the hype.’ The thing about good healthcare workers is - radical compassion. Anyone here who is like, “I could never work in healthcare because I would slap some truth into these people!” Babe,…

I’m watching the latest season of The Crown, replete with Thatcher touting god-awful policy and suggesting that she is the only woman who could adequately fill a leadership role. I look at women like Flourney and I wonder if she was always going to be hawkish or if it was a posture she assumed to appear ‘not like…

I often think about how this compares to Bush handling 9/11. Bush didn’t do anything extraordinary - and people were pissed he kept reading that book to kids after he was informed of the first attack! But in the days, months, and years that followed - he simply verbalized sympathy and spoke seriously about his…

For me, the balm to every pain mentioned here is to call my dad. He’s smart as hell and has lived through worse times (he fought in Vietnam against his will), and best of all - he’s completely offline. Like, all he has is his landline. He also won’t spring for cable so his “talking heads” info comes pretty much just…

I feel like Melania might have some gold-digger strategies up her sleeve that could provide a decent, separate life for her and Barron after January.

It is one of the most corrupt places. You can’t trust either party. Every politician in that state is completely corrupt. I don’t know where any of the money in that state goes, but it’s definitely not towards infrastructure or schools. Also, the prison system there is completely terrifying. Angola should be burned to…

There is nothing scarier to me than a rural Louisiana police department. A few months ago I watched a doc about a rural Louisiana town with a shocking number of murdered women. Needless to say, the doc found that pretty much everyone who was a suspect either worked in law enforcement or was family with someone in law…

You should venture into the QAnon-loved-ones support Reddit.

This was an excellent read.

What a mensch. I’m not sure what is politics were, but I hope he had a peaceful final day on Earth.

It perfectly captures how I feel about so many people/situations.

It is possible, but if polls are consistently off (by such a terribly wide margin as they have been), I’d wager it’s more of a polling methodology issue than people lying. And the reason the methodology is suddenly an issue is: tech. Advancement in tech allows for cheaper and faster polls, and anyone with a little…