McCaskill and the DNC actually were instrumental in making Akin the nominee. That isn’t even some conspiracy theory; they’ve taken credit for it themselves:

Yeah wavering on voting for Kavanaugh and explicitly supporting Trump’s racist border policies showed real “courage.”

AOC campaigned for Davids’ opponent because that opponent was more progressive, specifically on issues like Medicare for All. She was also the first to say that if Davids won her primary, she would support her.

This...isn’t complicated. It’s not some conspiracy. She supports candidates who are more progressive and…

I’m not attacking her specifically (I think the larger media ecosystem is complicit, and continues to be with other figures), but sorry, saying that a connected Hollywood person wouldn’t have had any inkling or who he really was in 2005 is bullshit. Especially someone Mullally’s age who should remember the 80s and 90s…

It was before the birther stuff, yes, but it was sure as shit after the Central Park 5 letter and a million other racist incidents that should have tipped off any reasonable person to who he is. The guy literally built his career off racial discrimination in his buildings.

I didn’t grow up with Spider-Man so bear in mind I have no opinion about how any of the movies represented the characters or the source material. The same is true for all other superhero films I’ve seen for that matter.

When I critique the politics of the show in passing, I’m thinking of critiques like this one, that posit it as another show (like The West Wing, albeit WW was definitely a lot worse) that taught a lot of liberals that politics is about being the most competent person and being above it all, and being respectful with…

As bad as Trump may be, he has yet to do something nearly as stupid, evil, and destructive as the Iraq war. At this stage Bush is still way worse. It’s not even close. 

I would only add to this that Weatherly’s comments were also very clearly aimed at a specific person, and not just joshing around making a boner joke with a friend or something. When you’re referring to a specific person as “legs” and talking about having threesomes with them, unless I am specifically aware of some…

Yeah partly that, plus his rhetoric on immigration (I didn’t know Rob Lowe was randomly racist until he made those comments, but here we are). Also, great name. 

As Blast Processing references, the sex tape with the minor, though also he has said some racist and unfortunate things about immigrants in recent years. 

Sex with a minor in his heyday, racist comments towards immigrants more recently. 

I don’t know if I want to diminish that necessarily, but I will say I think there’s a difference between generally making sex jokes (on the set of a show that often makes them) and making sexualized comments towards a particular person on the set.

Rey is unquestionably the main character in the new trilogy. I know what the reasons were that they didn’t count them in the survey, but it was actually that Ford and Hamill (and Fisher) were top billed for contractual reasons. And Finn and Poe, while prominent enough, are essentially supporting characters. Again, Rey…

He would presumably appear in any reunion, and there was always a chance he would make a final appearance in the season or finale (I don’t remember offhand whether he did). Sitcom characters tend to find ways of returning. 

Not specifically but I don’t work on Parks and Rec. I know that I personally do not feel comfortable watching him anymore and was relieved when its cancellation made that decision for me.

Even if it isn’t, the immigrant rhetoric has kept him squarely in that camp. 

A friend of a friend of mine who happens to work in the biz wrote a blog expressing discomfort about Ansari in part because of stories she was privy to about harassment on the set of Master of None. (Unfortunately, I think it got taken down.) Beyond that, I have no idea. I imagine there are some who have either…

Wouldn’t a lot of this be reflective more of franchises and films with popular names? Like, obviously if you make a female-led Star Wars (and yes I know TFA and TLJ weren’t actually included here for dubious reasons) it’s going to make a shitload of money - it’s Star Wars, it will do that no matter who you cast…

This is substantially less than the number of Clinton-to-McCain votes.