There are an alarming number of nurses buying into crazy conspiracy theories about COVID-19, or who are dismissing it as no big deal. This shit has very real consequences.

This is so sad. I grew up on the water/with boats and this is unfortunately a really common kind of boating accident. If she fell and hit her head or anything her child wouldn’t have been able to do anything to help her. This happens a fair amount in boating, adults will get lost in the water and kids will be alone on…

This is fucking devastating, and punches me in the gut as someone who grew up on a lake and saw my fair share of accidents. I hope that they have trained child psychologists who can gently and effectively question her son to get a few more details. Did she dive in the water head first? Could have hit her head and…

Not really any harder than getting out of a pool, assuming the ladder was still down from when they got into the water.

“Once they’ve become co-conspirators in time-killing mischief, Nyles and Sarah basically carve out their own little reality—it’s a fantastic expression of that feeling of being the only two people in the universe, the only ones that really get it.”

His nursing duties are what? To check with his publicist every few days to see if her publicist has any news from her personal assistant who has news from the poor immigrant that is forced to wait on her? 

I’m surprised her Chiclet teeth didn’t serve as a better barrier to infection

Yep yep. That’s why I say that you’ll never hear a grocery store owner complain about food stamp users. It’s a stimulus every month.

We wouldnt have to worry about the impact of sustaining it over a longer period of time if the 2016 tax cut hadn't happened or the military budget wasn't a trillion a year.

And if he thinks it's stupid, that's his business, but he's not the norm which is a family of four that now has no income or only one income. 

We shouldn’t punish responsible people because of the irresponsible people. The extra $600 might make people lazy, but who really gives a fuck? It’s money they are guaranteed because of how fucked the country is. I’d rather my fellow citizens be ok than so desperate that they have to put a gun in my face so they can…

one thing to remember is almost ALL of this, and the previous $1200 stimulus went right back into the local economy. not too many people hoarded or invested it, which is what happens when the well-off get their tax cut.

There’s no mechanism to easily make a percentage stimulus payment for everyone. “Give everyone 10% more” riiiight. well. Bob Duckup makes 249 a week in Unemployment and Sally Stupid make 361. sure bob gets 25 extra bucks a week and sally gets 36.. simple to you and me. But they’d need to sit down, figure out how to…

I watched this last night. It’s weird, it’s funny, it’s so very 2020. I loved it. I laughed so much. My husband and I yelled at the contestants to do smarter things and make better choices and also admitted that neither of us had the upper body strength to go on the show. 

When they opened Florida back up, the first three things I did was get my hair braided, and my nails and eyebrows done. Even the flyest folks were looking crazy. I tried a wig when i lived in Connecticut. It was a summer with record heat. I was sweating like a whore in church! NEVER AGAIN. It was hotter than a wool…

This is very powerful. I followed your thread on Twitter and it broke my heart. As an Indian-American woman I’ve experienced so much of what you describe here, including being told I had a “chip on my shoulder” for asking for a raise to bridge a small part of the $40,000 salary gap between me and the white man who had…

White capitalist feminism seems to have just turned into “we’re going to do what our men do” and nothing else. Let’s “girlboss” our way to the top by degrading others just like white men do, harass and underpay our employees, fail to address all the same racial disparities that white men fail to address and in fact…

My family is fairly WASPY, and my brother and I did all of the activities that lead up to the actual debutante year. At that moment, something inspired my parents to ask us whether we wanted to continue. A resounding, “No!” Both of us played multiple competitive sports and played classical music and in a band, so that…

While you’re up go over to the Rifftrax site and buy Mary Jo and Briget’s riff on Prom; It’s A Pleasure! and just wallow in this bizarre world. It’s this insane short film from the early sixties starring America’s Junior Miss and she lays out the night like it’s a sacred ritual where angry gods will punish you if you…

Bought! I am all about this and know what I’ll be doing tonight! It’s also very timely for me personally just because I had happened to be thinking about debs during the 1880s in London (long story, doesn’t matter) and just the other day thought, I should see if I can find a book on the history of debutantes. I know…