I think the thing that bothered me most about the Anderson Cooper “Olive Garden” dig is how much self awareness he lacked. Sir, your family owned slaves. Clearly racism and white supremacy isn’t just a white trash thing. It’s a white thing.

What is up with so many woke/lefty/progressive dudes being so shitty? I had one of these too. Self-professed feminist, vegetarian, proudly talked about how much he cared about consent (ha), all about progressive causes. Emotionally abusive, manipulative asshole. 

Nobody would miss this 10-second cameo, it’s true. But I actually do think it’s important to remember what people were complicit in doing...Trump has been deeply enabled by others his entire life, this scene being one small data point, and it does feel a little cowardly to erase it.

His weaving of himself into popular culture was critical, absolutely critical, to his ability to “win” the 2016 election. He was the first candidate since Kennedy to understand at a visceral level how media shaped perception and audience longing.

Yeah they should go with the Disney model of labeling it... instead of “outdated cultural depictions” it should be “contains terrifying veneration of the wealthy leading to white supremacy”

I mean, I find it bizarre that we’re going to act like this man wasn’t a widely admired figure and that Americans aren’t drawn to wealth and status... that was kind of part of the problem!

I have suffered from extreme cynicism where the human race is concerned for most of my life (I’m 46). This has all only made it that much worse. It is all I can do to get gas for my car anymore. I don’t go to the market, don’t go on hikes like I used to, don’t do anything. My work was in music but I also have fixed…

I feel this.

The horrible thing is that it’s not even just the lay public. I have had nurses and other hospital workers straight up lie to all the screening questions and when I go in to see them, tell me the real story. When I inevitably say, “You know this sounds like COVID, right?” I get an interesting range of responses…

Would this be Dolezaling?  Or just exoticism?  She’s not claiming to be a person of color, just a fake Spanish ancestry. 

The pulse oximeter info!!!! Oh my god! Terrible I had never heard that before & will research & then pass on to my fam & friends!

Chronic Lyme is a fake diagnosis pushed by quack doctors. There seems to be a lot of overlap between the Chronic Lyme and anti-vaxxer communities.

Allegedly the error was caused by a faulty algorithm, however the protestors claim that Stanford became aware of the error on Tuesday and did nothing to course correct.

Person recovering from severely disordered eating here, and her posts just made me so...sad. I am so thankful I’m at a point mentally where I can see diet culture in this form and feel sadness, rather than apprehension, or that temptation to dive back into disordered eating for the “control” and “results.” Your…

No diversion of funds or good intentions can stop humanity from being punitive. I think it may be hard-wired; hopefully we figure out how to rein it in.

I am so over this “self-care wellness” bullshit when it really means, “eat/drink, or don’t eat/ drink this” to be skinny like me. And I am on the small side. My younger sister died from her eating disorder. She is DEAD. It is an illness, a lot of this behavior, and not a thing to be endorsed. Celebs need to be more…

Cleanses are B.S., in the sense that there’s no ‘detoxing’ going on. They really just boil down to fasting, which may or may not be good for you when done intermittently/responsibly (without weight loss as a goal).

Let’s use Messing’s fuck-up to remember that it’s the time of year where you can fill out holiday messages for prison rape victims. It only takes a few minutes & helps them feel less alone and forgotten.

The WSJ editorial office is where we can find the worst possible expression of “America.”

more great advice (and gentle nudging to me—on one hand, I hadn’t gendered the reader and on the other, I did).