This was a bad date. She had a horrible date with a clueless guy who thought he was being sexy and hot. She was made to feel uncomfortable, and it wasn’t right.

“present Grace’s story for what it is—a starting point to discuss the ways consent can feel blurring, no matter how clear we might wish it were, and our lack of language to describe this”

This is a valuable conversation and could have occurred in a better written piece. I also think a discussion about the blurred…

I would like a President that has experience in government, please and thank you. That being said, it seems to me that a Democrat cannot win the presidency unless they are deeply charismatic: Clinton, Obama, JFK. As someone once said to me, Democrats fall in love and Republicans fall in line. This is why Democrats…

Well she’s a hypocrite and that’s purely political. I really hope someone calls her out on her garbage.

But she is mixed....so I don’t get it. She’s black and white. She doesn’t have to dismiss either of her parents to make us happy.

Apologizing, serving out your term with distinction, and not running for reelection is probably the right move here. (Also the cessation of ass-grabbing, if it hasn’t happened already.) 

Regarding Al Franken: His actions were horrible, but at what point do we can we stop painting everyone with the same brush? He was a comedian, albeit one that I never found particularly funny. He’s clearly joking in the one picture that I saw, and grabbing someone’s butt during a photo in the past sounds like a…

“[In Texas] Trump won the support of 60 percent of white female college graduates, 75 percent of white, noncollege-educated women, 65 percent of white college-graduate men, and 76 percent of white, noncollege-educated men.”

I won’t make any excuses for him, but I also don’t think every offense requires resignation as the only possible punishment. Have the Senate censure him so that he has a public black mark for eternity, let him do acts of contrition, and then let the voters of Minnesota decide next election cycle if they want him or…

So the big topic of a Republican Senatorial candidate embroiled in a sex scandal will end with a Democratic Senator being forced to resign. Like clockwork.

Seriously, no one is going to leave a ‘good on ya, Drake’ comment here? Good for him.

Yvonne Spicer, a black woman, was voted in as Framingham, MA 1st mayor.

Y’all, look here:

WOW. She speaks like someone who has NO FUCKING IDEA about what the re-entry population faces. The answer to reduced recidivism rates isn’t hiring the formerly incarcerated. It is a multi-faceted approach that includes prevention, diversion AND re-entry. You don’t just automatically hire a population that has spent…

Uh okay. She’s pro police transparency AND pro Trump? That’s like being pro chemotherapy and pro cancer. I agree we need less white dems taking black votes for granted.... but this is not the way.

After decades in community action, all I can say is that right now is “the resistance” dead in the water. A lot of the long term campaigners, like myself, are burned out and struggling to find new ways of saying the same old song, and -while there have been some smart and motivated younger voters- most of the younger…

Thanks for this balanced take. My issue with a lot of dems right now is that they seem to be incapable of doing the easiest things. Perhaps those very easy things would not have won the elections, but they are so easy, why not just try? I was so disappointed Jon Ossoff never actually moved into his district. I get it…

“I thought I heard thunder outside, so I made those same grandchildren turn off all of the electricity as we sat in silence and prayed that the lightning wouldn’t come.*”

Us old timers shed a tear when black-ish took a classic Schoolhouse Rock jam (I’m Just A Bill) brought in The Roots and turned it into a slavery primer.