PS the comments on theirMedium are innnteresting. This apparently went down a little over a week ago, and they had originally had a photo of their tan self with a tanned aunt as if to say “look, actually I was kinda dark as a child” and people were like “um.... so what are you trying to do with this photo” and they…

Black academic here (#blacademic): higher ed jobs and clout have been in diminishing supply for decades, and people will do or say almost anything to gain an advantage, real or imagined.

Every time I hear some one say that Biden is a far leftist controlled by Sanders I always say to myself I wish. 

Trump has Twitter’s “He’s a world leader so he’s immune” blessing, the rest, that’s a very good question. It should also be interesting to see how they’ll excuse not banning him when he isn’t president.

I wish I was voting for the Biden that Trump claims I’m voting for,

How is Trump and his dumb cronies and idiot children still have twitter??? People get suspension for nothing.

What you say is certainly true, but to take advantage of them people have to have a number of things that they might not have if they are also poor. Internet. Phone with internet capacity or computer with internet access. The understanding that those things exist. The understanding of how to find those things on the…

This is how they turn poor people into prison labour. You need to see the end-to-end journey here.

Goddamit somone really needed to nail his ass to the wall...this soft soaping is getting monotonous and all he does is parrot. Get up front of the horseshit and tell him the answers he’s been shitting out ARE NOT GOOD ENOUGH.

Trump: George, it’s been 40 years since you had good health care ―

‘When responding to a woman’s concerns about police brutality, Trump said that sometimes police simply “choke.”’

Trump continued, noting that “a lot of people don’t want to wear masks” and that “a lot of people don’t think the masks are good.”

Just from the thumbnail image and headline, I honestly thought the couple in question were the Falwells, and I’m so disappointed (in a very schadenfreude kind of way) that it’s not them.

I misread that as “a big snowboarding moment” and suddenly I’m puzzled how we made it through the aughts without a ski hill rom-com about an uptight downhill skier falling for a goofy snowboarder.

I broke up with The Bachelor for Colton’s season because I thought he was such a terrible pick. On his home visit, he said that he his mommy had to nurse him back to health after his last breakup. It was described in such a way that was a major red flag. Combined with the pedestal he placed his virginity, this man was…

And for those of you who are wondering what that “subplot” is and can’t get behind the paywall:

Oof, I read the first couple of Strike books and couldn’t get over how mean-spirited they are. Just full of awful stuff that, when you look back on, was present in Harry Potter, too—misogyny, fat shaming, transphobia, etc. etc. She has a weird obsession with describing how ugly people are, like GRRM and his food…

I’m a grandparent and I’m not sure, either. I could ask my grown-ups but they would probably assure me I’m not, yet.

This would have helped avoid a moment of panic on the first day of school in my daughter’s second grade class. The teacher asked a student to tell his parents something. The student replied that his parents weren’t there. I could hear the panic in the teacher’s voice as she asked, “Are you alone right now?" The…

“basic assessment/surveillance like a real teacher”