“You tell me” is pretty much the closest thing to /s in the spoken word. 

..... Ellen, I really hope that’s a rhetorical question because the answer is extremely obvious.

I feel like it was pretty clear that Ellen’s question was rhetorical...

A hard lesson that I’m still learning is you don’t have to engage with the bullshit every minute. It’s ok to step back and take care of yourself. All the horror going on around us is exhausting, depressing, maddening. But we’re not all responsible all the time for fixing all the bad things. Take time to enjoy the good…

“As of 2020, Del Rey has sold 19.1 million albums and over 13 million singles worldwide, while her YouTube and Vevo pages have combined lifetime views of 4.1 billion.”

If we can’t genuinely self-reflect after making a statement fraught with racism, intentional or not, we’re not going to have much of a society. OH guess what, that’s happening right now.

No one is suggesting you aren’t suffering. All women suffer for our gender, but in drastically different ways.

And the geography is both bachelors & PhD and her diss is paleo-climatolgy and like my experience w/ that field is it’s a lot of trying to model really messy and incomplete data. Like yes, I’ve known loads of grad students who don’t know what they’re doing...but I’m just a tad more skeptical of DeSantis side of the…

She has a degree in three things because one of them is an MS. I hate DeSantis with the fire of a thousand sunshine states.

Porter is one of the very few bright spots in this increasingly vicious hellscape.

About ten years ago, I had this friend Steve. He’d been through some shit. We got very close. We once spent an entire weekend together except for spending the night. Our offices were next door to each other so we went to lunch and happy hour constantly. We were also on G chat during the business day. In addition to…

You didn’t ask for advice, but you should tell her exactly why. Not in a mean, bitchy, fuck you way. In a factual way:

Oof. That's a long slow death and I'm sorry that's how it went down. These kind of tales are so much more painful than the fire and brimstone breaks. The fading glimmer of hope you carried for so long is palpable in your writing; it makes me wince. Well done, and that sucks.

Um, okay. Mine isn’t a fireworks blowout, but just sort of sad. Friend and I met as freshman roommates, and we remained roommates throughout college. Went to each other’s homes for vacations, etc. Really close friends. After college, friend moved overseas for a job, and I stayed for grad school, but we saw each other…

If there was any justice in the world, Katie Porter would be at the top of Biden’s VP list.

No-knock raids should be illegal.

“My father was a marine who fought to protect the laws and government of this country. That is why I demand the right to break those laws and defy that government.”

Honestly, it’s time. Elizabeth Warren needs her own in depth story. This is just the feminist blog to do so.

I think it’s also important to remember that 10-12 years ago, no one was available for constant texting, Facebook messaging, or video chatting. We’re now all suddenly supposed to be expected to drop everything for anyone the moment they reach out through any channel (and there are many!).

Ah, but here is the real question: What is the tweet that he felt important enough to have printed out and is holding under that notepad?