There are no good cops. The Culture doesn’t allow there to be. “Good cops” get fired or harassed and taken off the street and put behind desks. The “good cops” don’t speak up and against these other cops when this happens, instead they cover the body cams and make up stories to get their buddies off. None of this is…

He wasn’t there, doesn’t know the situation, but is fine with espousing the police’s justification for the assault. Well done on the statement to the public, Ernie. Nailed it!

With a bad haircut.

Call him a damn liar.

The reason people are going hard at Maggie is because she is a pretty near constant enabler of Trump’s behavior (and the destruction of this country’s soul). She tows the line, as does the NYT, in order to ensure Trump remains president and NYT readership stays up. I do get the distinction between lies and falsehoods,…

Also intent doesn’t matter, impact does. Everybody, especially the President, needs to strive for truth because lies are destructive.

This is what I can’t stand about the way Haberman has been trying to parse this distinction. It’s meaningless because she’s ignoring important context. It’s not actually the case that he thinks whatever he says is real. It’s that he is completely indifferent to, and uncurious about, whether what he says is real. But…

“...what he does can be hard to label because...he often thinks whatever he says is what’s real.”

What you “think” is one thing. The truth is another. The fact that the government responsible for the children doesn’t know is monstrously evil.

WTF are you on about? There is no circumstance where the “destination” of these kids is relevant. The only question is “can the parents of these children, and the children of these parents, reconnect with each other once the US Government had decided what punishment to capriciously apply to either of them?
It seems…

This is a horrifying example of how Trump, while making literally everything worse, does not represent a new problem so much as a deepening of the same old ones — racism, sexism, xenophobia, dehumanization— long-since baked into the cake of American society and governance. Shit like this is why when my well-meaning…

I wish folks had been as mad about this during the Obama years

Hold on. I’m no fan of Goop, but she has never ever been known to berate and/or harass any of her coworkers.

Reading the way these guys dismiss the incident in front of their co-worker who clearly DOESN’T THINK IT WAS NOTHING is very discomfiting. I get loyalty, even misplaced loyalty, but they don’t seem to have any toward Walter.

Brunch is a sacred privilege for those who respect day drinking on patios in harmony. You can’t go disrespecting a large swath of the brunch community as your day job and then just show up expecting a table and bottomless mimosa.

The flip side is this feeds their astygmatic worldview wherein they are victims, under assault by globalist leftists. Richard Spencer getting punched in the face dissuaded neither him nor his followers; months later they were marching in Charlottesville. Throwing drinks at Tomi Lahren isn’t going to cause some cosmic…

Another way to look at it is a form of norm enforcement. to speak super generally, many people feel that certain norms have been violated since this current administration came to power. Debate is not an effective tool because the offenders are not interested in hearing their opponents. Compromise is not possible…

while yes, i agree with you in terms of how much this fills me with warm and fuzzies, and i am completely on-board with the idea of making people consider the consequences of airing their bigoted ass-hat opinions in public (TALK SHIT = GET HIT!) I mean hey, if you want to wear a nazi armband on the subway then you…

It used to be that crashes and deaths caused by driving while drunk was just considered a part of the inherent risk of driving. People drive; people drink; sometimes bad things happen. Such is life. It took a concerted effort of pissed of moms of dead kids to say that conceptualization was fucked up and it’s not only…

Memoializing Sabika Sheikh with a cross is...problematic.