Him dying on Jackie Robinson Day in MLB was...gah. I saw a picture of him with Rachel Robinson and just burst into tears. Rest well.

Nancy and the House passed the HEROES Act and sent it to the Senate—where it died because Mitch McConnell doesn’t give a fuck about anything. You want change, then do whatever it takes to flip the Senate. McConnell & Co. can sit on their thumbs for years with no consequences while everyone conplains that the party…

We love America like an adult loves their parents: we understand that they’re flawed, and we want them to be better.

This is gross, and it stinks like day-old fish in the office microwave. And honestly, saying “Her family approves” raises all kind of red flags to me. Breonna Taylor’s family is grieving on top of trying to get justice and doing it all while being thrust into the public eye. All we have is Mallory’s word on their…

So many feels. It was good, and also very satisfying with the way the story wrapped up.

The House passed the HEROES act in May, which included additional direct stimulus, funding for the USPS, extended the increased unemployment benefits and eviction moratorium, student loan forgiveness, and additional funding for food assistance. It went to the Senate, where Mitch McConnell refused to even look at it.…

Harris is the most logical choice. Rice has never held elected office, which is a huge drawback when you’re the VP for a 77-year-old. I think the fact that she worked with Beau Biden was also a factor; Joe’s comfortable with her. I think they seem like they can work well together.

She said nice things about Warren on SNL, and suddenly she wasn’t the Cool Girl Who’s Not Like Other Girls any more.

That’s who I had in mind.

Senate Majority Leader Warren is a thing that needs to happen.

I assumed whatamithinking is a dude but I could be wrong on that.

I’ve seen folks—including some on this thread—who complained about Harris during the primaries because of her record as a prosecutor. Most of the people who dislike her seem to be dudes.

He announced shortly before the convention, as is traditional for both parties.

Or, you know, on this site.

VP picks are typically announced no more than two weeks or so before the convention. It seems like forever because Biden clinched the nomination so early.

So just checking, we’re all supposed to forget about the rape thing now? And the domestic violence? 

Yeah, no. I mean, if it works for you, great, but this sounds like all of the people who said to me, “What do you have to be depressed about?” or “Depression is a choice” when I was trying to decide what the most efficient way to kill myself would be. My brain chemistry is fucked up. Therapy helps, but the other thing…

My wife’s grandmother had bipolar disorder. Since it was the 30's and ‘40's, no one had any idea what to do with her—it was “just the way she is”. Unfortunately, because the family is very white, they certainly never talked about it, and so no one ever suggested that might be by wife’s problem when she started showing…

Absolutely not.

There was a reason she said that, and it wasn’t because of his sax playing. It was because he was poor white trash, and the DC elite treated him like he didn’t belong there in a way that they’d never treated previous 20th century presidents. Sally Quinn in the Washington Post famously said the Clintons “...came in and…