I have been suggesting “demilitarize the police” as an alternative slogan. There’s no reason that street cops should be geared up like they’re soldiers in Iraq who have to worry about IEDs. It creates a definite “us vs. them” dynamic that exacerbates tensions in the community.

If he did, it would a good motivator to get out the democratic vote, especially anyone who was 17 this year and disappointed they didn’t the chance to vote against Trump.

Not only is Katie Porter a lawyer she got her law degree from Harvard where she was an editor on Harvard Women’s Law Journal and graduated magna cum laude. Oh and she is also a tenured professor at the University of California, Irvine School of Law and literally wrote a textbook on consumer law.

Anyway, are we getting another stimulus check or nah?

Yeah, in any sane context, things Bill Barr has already done WRT empowering the executive would be unacceptable. The fact that even he has a limit speaks only to how nonsensical and insane Donald Trump actually is.

Be nice if that couch was made of metal and the PJs were actually a cotton/polyester blend dyed orange.

Thats why Trumps lawyers never want him to testify. On Twitter or Fox, its an opinion. In. a court of law it’s libel, or slander or perjury. Rudy can say “ Election Fraud!” All he wants outside of a court, but in the courtroom he is subject to having penalties applied.

He deserves none of those things and can fuck right off into the bowels of hell.

Oh, and this just dropped:

Jesus Christ that Loeffler video. On a positive side, it wasn’t actually her who made the claim about having to wait for that paycheck. On the negative side, it somehow made it even worse. Also when starting to watch it, I assumed that they would spin some Cinderella story about a poor youth or something. Instead the…

god december is going to be so bad. the scale of human suffering and death we’ve already gotten used to is staggering. daily, i tell myself it didn’t have to be this bad (it really, really didn’t), and then i get depressed all over again.

When the (wimpy, ineffective, unenforced) “lockdown” in Arizona was lifted, I and my family responded by continuing to stay home, wear the damn masks already, socially distance, etc. As things stand now I can actually see myself living like this for the rest of my life. (I’m 58 years old) At least the (appallingly…

I’m really glad we let Reagan and the GOP drown the government in the bathtub, guys! The Gipper was right: government is certainly the problem! Look at how awesome we're doing in states that refuse to intervene!

That picture is from October 2020. I imagine she was actively trying to look older. There are plenty of even 20-something who can still be believable as teenagers, anyway, but there’s a limit past which the suspension of disbelief doesn’t hold anymore, and Lyra not being yet an adult is an important plot point.

There never needs to be an excuse to screen Paddington, but the scene they were watching is the one where he steps into a new world, so that was clearly done for metaphorical significance.

If the price of them bringing back Jessica Henwick as Colleen is that Finn Jones comes back as her sidekick, I would be okay with that 

But what about Rocket Raccoon’s lawyer; surely you could make a show about him?

If you traveled for Thanksgiving, Dr. Deborah Birx wants you to get a covid-19 test.

I generally prefer Amnesia Moon / Gun With Occasional Music Lethem to Dissident Gardens etc. Lethem (though to be fair, I haven’t read Dissident Gardens; but the description didn’t entice me) — which is to say, the weird-ass stuff to the more grounded stuff. I don’t actually know much about his two novels previous to…