“you people in Texas” elected the Idiot King by less than a million votes. Fort Bend County, which hadn’t gone blue in forever, went blue. Fuck off with this. By your logic, the US as a whole elected him so we should all just ~deal with it~ and get what we deserve. No thanks.

I don’t know her husband’s specialty, but Dr. Ummat is a pediatric neurophysiologist at Texas Children’s who specializes in epilepsy in very young kids - including my best friend’s daughter. Her potential deportation is wrong on a million levels and would be a huge loss to the Med Center.

Vice President Nelson Van Alden.

Pretty much the only parts of the American South that are Catholic are parts of the bigger cities, Louisiana, and Kentucky. Also, this is just me probably, but I live 10 mins from Lexington and it really doesn’t feel “Southern” in Kentucky, just a weird mashup of Midwestern, Southern, and Appalachian.

That worked out super well for the Entente in Germany post-WWI.

... which is exactly the point. she didn’t fit into the mold of prim and proper princess in the figure skating world. she was a good athlete, so who gives a fuck?

It was such a fascinating trainwreck with nobody to root for. Nancy Kerrigan was (is) such a whiny, entitled snot. Tonya Harding rose above poverty to fuck it all up. America: The Story.

The Houston hating Dallas (rightfully, as Houston is the superior city for a few reasons but Dallas gets more attention) stuff cracks me up.

I live right outside of Lexington. Nobody here gives a shit about Tennessee at any time.

The further away from DFW you get, the better Texas gets.

Yeah, I went to Oklahoma, and the only thing I remember about student government was Matt Bruenig trolling some guy in the UOSA. Extremely forgettable, and certainly nothing I’d care to seek out or give a shit about long after I graduated.

“stop being paranoid” as you generalize the entire city of Chicago.

my mom would regularly say “busti-caca” whenever I wore something she thought was too revealing, haha. I think J-Lo nailed it and I’m so glad Selena is still so loved and respected all these years later.

I was a seventh grader in Houston when she died, and my entire biology class was in tears. I was a white kid but had just seen her at the Rodeo (which is a big fucking deal, if you know Houston at all) and my mom and brother were fluent in Spanish & were teaching me. We had Tejano going in our house constantly and I…

I wish the good parts of Kentucky (the triangle, basically) could secede from the rest of this bullshit, but then I remember there are good people all over the state who are hurt/impacted by Bevin being horrible and god dammit why couldn’t people just go vote.

This is a serious question, but how young are you if you’ve never seen that gif before? It’s been around forever and was not “personalized” for Eichenwald.

You’re not familiar with Eichenwald, are you? He is a smug, self-important asshole who blamed his seizures for conveniently forgetting to tell his boss he was paying a child pornographer. He literally looked at child porn for months in the name of “journalism.” No thanks.

This has honestly been happening for an extremely long time, and the .gif in question has been a thing since at least 2002-2003. This isn’t meant to dismiss your concerns in the least, just to point out it’s not a “now happening” thing.

I’m sad that the job is in Wisconsin and I wouldn’t be able to move there!

Passing the Pleasant Company catalog around during recess was such a huge deal in elementary school. Everything used to be so well-made and beautiful, and now my niece’s dolls are just plastic Mattel junk that totally isn’t worth the price. I always feel so old when I say things like that, but it’s true.