Reagan’s daughter Patti Davis wrote that she “believe[s] in forgiveness,” but “forgiving someone in your heart doesn’t mean that you let them loose in Virginia to pursue whatever dark agendas they may still hold dear.”

When people tell you who they are, you should believe them

When you parse this out, it’s a tremendous Republican victory.

This ruling should be appealed. Although Heard might be too fucking exhausted to put herself through it again. The jury was asked to rule on the headline alone

I am beyond angry, and thoroughly disgusted. I believe the UK courts got it right, and I believe Amber Heard. My heart is with her because I’ve been in the same (but non-celebrity) situation as Heard and she has to be feeling pretty low right now. 💜💜💜

I’m sure they’ll charge her with it, and/or the guy she was with if they arrested him. 

I like James Acaster’s take on the whole ricky gervais comedy attempts.  Skip to 2:30 for the meat, but also don’t because James is brilliant.

I often wonder, with cases like this, if you’re a friend of someone accused of bad behavior, how far does your friendship go? I’m trying to put myself in a hypothetical situation, if one of my friends (male or female) was accused of something horrific, what would I do? Stand by them? Assume they’re guilty?

After Mel Gibson was publicly busted spouting violent racist/bigoted/sexist crap back in 2010 Whoopi Goldberg defended him by saying something like, and I paraphrase:

“It’s more performative crap that reduces all of this to some sort of feminist Coachella,” Christina told Jezebel. “Donate to an abortion fund, donate to clinics on the front line. With everything that’s happening at clinics, anything else is a waste of time.”

I work in abortion care. I hate that this is all happening. I both agree and disagree with Christina. We can do both — we can fundraise, donate to clinics and abortion funds to keep access going. We can also be out on the streets, pissed as all hell, showing our righteous anger, demanding that our rights be codified…

I worked for Wells Fargo and my interview was....confusing to say the least. I honestly thought I didn’t get the job based on the way the 2 hiring managers treated me throughout it. I worked there for 2 yrs before I started noticing things like they were not following Covid 19 policy. When I went above my managers…

But if you take out ALL the women, because they aren’t real people anyway, it’s 0%, which is good. When you pick your facts, why stop at racism?

I wish we’d stop using this over the top language for everything. Weaponizing when all you mean to say is that one side is politically exploiting events, the way all political parties do and have done since forever... gaslighting any time anyone disagrees or pushes back on someone’s version of events...

It is better, I guess, for an anti-choicer to at least be in favor of exceptions from abortion bans for rape and incest, since the alternative is unbelievably cruel, but it sort of gives the game away. If a fetus is a human life, and abortion is murder, rape and incest exceptions make no sense. If a rape survivor kills…

That’s kind of my point. I’m not a principled enough person to actually genuinely feel any moral outrage at Cawthorn being sexually humiliated, or being the victim of what is arguably revenge porn. I understand that it is nominally bad and indecent that this happened, but I feel such a seething hatred, disgust, and…

And yet there are piles of folks on the internet who are willing to cape for him because Captain Jack Sparrow might pick them next time.

That’s...that’s not what blackmail is.

But sharing naked videos of someone without their consent is objectively bad

If he keeps this up, it'll soon be illegal to say his name in Florida schools.