Despite a few minor errors that resulted in a lower score than qualifications, the US women still won by the largest margin ever at a gymnastics competition at Worlds or Olympics.

There was also a time when the USSR, or more recently, Romania, were invincible in women’s gymnastics. Russia, of course, is still doing pretty well. But Romania, oof… So don’t worry, the US dominance in women’s artistic gymnastics won’t last forever.

Thank you to King Bey for her tribute to Toni Braxton! Toni doesn’t get enough love these days, but her voice is one of my favorites. It’s so impossibly rich, it’s like extra concentrated honey.

Simone actually had her best floor exercise routine at this qualification! Since her return to competition, where she’s upgraded her floor routine with higher difficulty than she’s ever done before (and naturally, the highest difficulty any gymnast has attempted), she has yet to have a competition where she kept…

Some baffling details in this proposal:

As someone who used to run tons of voter reg campaigns, and have personally registered at least 2,500 people (I lost count at that point) to vote, I fully cosign Katherine’s post. You can get people’s attention, even those damn youths, without tricking them! For instance, by signing up for a table at a shopping mall…

I don’t think Lauren is holding out on you. From what I’m reading, they don’t yet know who killed her or why.

Another red flag for Mary Bono is that she works for Faegre Baker Daniels, the same law firm that was revealed to have given advice to USA Gymnastics to cover up the fact that Larry Nassar was under investigation. While it’s unlikely that Bono was involved or knew about the coverup, this is a law firm USAG should’ve…

A few black American gymnasts have spoken up about the racism they’ve faced in the sport. And there have been pretty awful examples of people in the sport openly directing racism at black gymnasts as well. Can we trust Bono to handle those incidents? Or would she deem that black people complaining about racism is just…

Here’s Simone doing some flares:

Well, not quite invincible. She did have a freak fall on her dismount from the beam during day 1 of selection camp. She still won by over 2 points, though, against a level of competition as tough as you’d get any international meet. So… maybe she is invincible after all.

What happened in NJ is that under Christie, the legislature kept passing a bill for automatic voter registration (where any eligible voter who gets a driver’s license or non-driver ID at the DMV would be registered to vote), but Christie kept vetoing it. After we blessedly got Gov. Murphy in, the legislature again…

He was one of the reasons I started watching football. But then I found out about the rape accusations against him. This is not the only one. He was arrested for rape in London in 2005. Having read up on both cases, I found it credible that he’s a rapist. And now we actually have his own damning words. There are other…

While a tiny smattering of female models actually make bank, the vast majority of female models make very little, and sometimes have to work for rich clients without getting paid (they get paid in “exposure” and leftover clothes). And models, no matter how high on the totem pole they are, are still subject to…

In this year alone, in just Laredo, three different Border Patrol agents have been accused of heinous crimes:

That’s very likely, with, IIRC, 5 incumbent Republicans retiring from the State Senate!

The good news is, 6 out of 9 of the renegade State Senate Dems who vote with the Republicans lost to primary challengers from the left tonight!

He’s as skeevy as Ben Affleck, but a better actor. So, minor upgrade?

Being an advisor means he will continue to wield influence at CBS. This means he can continue to retaliate against women who spoke out against him, threaten those who haven’t yet, and silence future victims.

Her game is amazing. Just effortless power in her serve and her groundstrokes. And she is so, so much better now at holding it back to keep the errors down, as demonstrated in this Tsurenko match, where she didn’t bother going for too much when Tsurenko was self-destructing, and only dialed it up when Tsurenko tried…