“The ones who are most likely to be on the receiving end of hate crimes—like the one that happened in Buffalo”

You need to move on. You’ll never escape whatever hell-hole occupies the center of your mind if you keep harping on some bizarre fantasy that white people are having picnics celebrating the death of Black people.

On the day this shooting took place, there had been 193 mass shooting incidents in the US since Jan 1. As of right now, there has been 210.

Also cue up the odd fascination/admiration/glorification of every detail of the wedding by progressives.

To a certain degree, AOC falls into this trap on her own; she also very neatly divides issues into good and bad, black and white, progressive or nazi. When her political movement is defined by a kind of purity olympics, it’s fair to assume those same standards would be reflected back on her own behavior. 

I’m conflicted about what the American public can do in a situation like this—political hostage taking isn’t visibly influenced by public pressure, but I appreciate these posts reminding people that this is happening.

“Bring her home”: you had several weeks since writing your last piece on this to say how this might be accomplished, and came up with... (scans article again) nothing. Not a practicable pay structure for the WNBA, not a path forward for the State Department, not a reasonable action that any individual reading this…

We should be as equally outraged about all the Americans wrongfully detained in Russia. They all deserve a swift and safe return. I feel like calling this out as a showing of the lack of care for Black, queer women is unfair. Likely there is a list of who is in the most dire of health and has been there the longest in…

“At this point, however, silence won’t cut it. Griner’s detention is white supremacy, is pay inequity, is homophobia, is misogyny, is the worst of us.”

Jesus fucking christ no one on this website knows shit about geopolitics.

She is being held by a fascist government that no longer has normal relations or ties with the…

It’s like a “Performative Woke Culture” bingo card. Is it any wonder the American white girls at Jezebel are so eager to make this story a thing?

A) She and her lawyers admitted to having smuggled them

I fully expect an article on this site at some point that says that ads for Crest White Stripes are white supremacy because they imply white teeth are preferable to non white teeth. It would not surprise me at all given their propensity for calling anything and everything white supremacy.

“What a privilege it is for those who’ve been able to carry on with their lives without feeling Griner’s loss. That privilege is a uniquely American one: Living in an individualistic country that places profit above people and politicians above progress means that we do not bleed for one another.”

I have mixed feelings about cases such as these, because she *should* have “known better” than to bring these cartridges. Russia is not soft on drugs, and given that she had played there in the past she knew the laws. This isn’t America where we’re *RELATIVELY* soft on drug crimes; we can compare our laws to other…

This faux outrage about wrongly detained Americans has been strangely absent as applied to....any other wrongly detained American overseas. Once you leave the U.S., you are subject to the laws of the country you are in (and their fair or insanely corrupt legal system) and the U.S. government has no control. Saying…

Yeah. $228,000 is a paltry salary. Sure. Is it comparatively smaller than an NBA salary? Yes. But that’s still six and a half times median earnings in the US. Most people would consider $228k a pretty good salary. Let’s not pretend that a high salary isn’t high by selective comparison. After all, by that logic I could…

Keep in mind that they did the opposite thing for our current sitting president, where they actively blocked real news that would’ve affected the last election.

“Pivoting to women’s sports, where athletes loudly advocate for reproductive rights and public health measures, would be the next logical step.“

Holy crap.

Why is anyone upset about that word? Its a perfectly acceptable word.