While Ms. Manning’s a troubling figure to have to have as one of the major activists in the trans community, I can tell you as a trans veteran that regardless of legal status developments involving her are quite important, not only for her unique case but for the case of more conventional transgender veterans.…

Okay. And? She wasn’t really free to transition, anyway, as at the time transgender people were not permitted to serve in the military.

I hope this ruling will set a precedent for federal/state prisoners. I work in federal court and we have several active cases where transgender inmates are not getting proper medical treatment for their transitions and/or they are being housed in a prisoner for the opposite gender that they identify with.

Good. I dunno why the Army made such a muckityboo about her gender identity in the first place. She’s already in jail (where she belongs, to be sure); no need to make her a prisoner in someone else’s body, too. Pointlessly cruel.

I will say this: I occasionally frequent a football-related website. The fan site itself might skew a little more liberal than you might expect, but what has been stunning is the amount of high-level discussion. Football fan boards are supposed to be one step removed from 4chan, and yet I’ve seen a steady, consistent…

I observe that the city has changed a lot. “I pioneered Williamsburg,” says Grenier. “It got so gentrified that I had to come to Bushwick. I lived two blocks away, and then this place opened, and I couldn’t afford to live in this neighborhood,” he says, gesturing around Roberta’s, which opened in 2008. “We used to…

Who?

“Inability to fulfill debt obligations as they come due” is pretty much the legal definition of “insolvent.”

Thank you Jay’s assistant, that’s very good to hear.

I’ll bet when the service was named no one knew how apt going with a natural disaster would be.

Daniel Pantaleo, the NYPD officer who put murdered Eric Garner in a chokehold]

It’s okay guys, the Seattle Seahawks linked arms. We’ll never see injustice like this again.

$20 on her becoming a nun (not sure whether Buddhist or Catholic/Orthodox) by age 30

i was like “hahaha this is funny” then got to the threaten to beat him part, frowned, and thought to myself “hope she’s kidding :(“

I seriously hate all things Kardashian, which by extension includes their boyfriends and spouses. But North makes up for them all. She is one seriously adorable kid, with a plethora of enigmatic expressions. Love her!

I was too young for Cats to have been a big deal in my living memory, but it’s hard for me to wrap my head around the fact that this was/is a thing.

What asshole takes anyone to Cats?

Maybe not Earth, but at least her house.

Pretty sure they’ve seen more elaborate outfits than that at home so what’s to be impressed by.

“The fact is that politicians get sick. Indeed, presidents get sick. George W. Bush fainted in the white house just sitting on a couch eating pretzels. His father famously caught the flu while he was travelling, grew faint and vomited on the Prime Minister of Japan‘s lap. Ronald Reagan was shot and had cancerous…