He was wearing it, but the latch had (unbeknownst to him) begun to fail and came completely undone in the crash. A thorough inspection, of the kind drivers’ manuals always call for and no one ever does, before getting on the road may have alerted him to that, but like most people he failed to perform it.

If it was just a referendum on Bevin’s personal toxicity, then there’s at least hope that the most unpopular Senator in the country might be in trouble.

Yup. If they’re in favor of substantially expanded voting rights, I’m OK with almost anything else a politician wants to do.

I guess I’m just not willing to call her husband having nude pictures of her a major vulnerability. In general I agree that would-be politicians have an obligation to avoid leaving unexploded ordnance in their backgrounds ([looks pointedly at John Edwards and Ralph Northam]), I just don’t think this is one. Spouses…

Sure, but sharing sexy pictures with your spouse can’t reasonably be called negligence. It’s a perfectly safe thing to do unless your spouse turns out to be an abusive psycho, and if you’re planning around that nothing is safe. The point was to humiliate her by publishing intimate material (and threatening to publish…

One of the entries at elizabethwarrenisyournewbicycle.com is “Elizabeth Warren nationalized Deadspin.”

To be excessively fair to the shitposter, the plan calls for decreases in compensation for providers and also decreases in out of pocket costs for consumers. In isolation, the first can be expected to reduce supply. That’s less of a problem with doctors, because supply is already artificially constrained by med…

The key, I think, is that the wonkery isn’t the main goal of this plan. It, for example, includes comprehensive immigration reform as a source of revenue. It adds a financial transactions tax and huge investments in IRS enforcement, and eliminates an officially temporary but functionally permanent defense fund (Ezra…

The context in both cases is “Doing a normal, legal, and generally safe thing and, as a result, becoming the victim of a crime.” Private sex pics with your spouse are, at this point, a very normal thing, and having them non-consensually distributed is a crime. Not taking them would obviously be safer, just as never…

At this point I’m surprised whenever a [liberal] female politician doesn’t get driven out of public by misogynist nonsense.

I’m a pretty uncompromising Pelosi defender, but everyone whose response to Hill’s smearing isn’t “Let’s cut some dicks off” can go straight to hell. This doesn’t seem like a difficult call, but somehow it’s eluding otherwise smart people.

“Man, if only he hadn’t driven on that road he wouldn’t have been hit by a drunk driver. Just goes to show, you need to think about the consequences of your actions.”

And campaigns like hers are usually staffed largely by friends of the candidate. This is by-the-numbers Gamergate stuff, and a disgusting number of (ostensibly liberal) people are falling for it because sluts must be punished or something.

Of course I trust the texts shared by a vengeful ex and published by a full-time ratfucking organization! Why wouldn’t I?

I’m genuinely curious how many of the responses you’re getting are deliberate reactionary propaganda and how many are just honest, deeply felt misogyny. It’s really jarring to see in Jezebel comments!

I’m firmly of the opinion that, in the absence of aggravating factors, sex with a staffer absolutely is not worth removal from office without an election. If there’s any whiff of quid pro quo or coercion, investigate and remove if it’s confirmed.

She shouldn’t have been in a position where resigning makes sense, but I wouldn’t try to convince her not to; Rdstt made pretty clear that she could resign or see the most embarrassing parts of her sexual history online forever.

I think it’s pretty inappropriate for a politician to post nude videos online during a campaign, and there’s an easy way to avoid that: never be nude. How dumb must someone be to not follow that rule?

Both of those dudes were accused of breaking the law. The accusation against Hill is, at worst, that she created the appearance of impropriety. She’s resigning because a conservative media outlet is threatening to help her abusive husband humiliate her, which is pretty fucking different.

Yes, it’s important to remember that the blurry details of revenge porn are far more significant than the release of revenge porn.