And did you care about TPP before the 2016 election? Did you ever take any action against it when Obama was negotiating it?

I’m even more fascinated by this after reading through the pitch deck. There were employees! There’s apparently an additional associated business (that appears to be Gig Salad for more famous performers)!

I even understand how they would attract investors with that pitch deck. I caught some typos that should have been…

You’re preaching to the choir on all counts. :)

Yes! Trump did not happen in a vacuum at all. The GOP has been successfully electing AND re-electing politicians like Trump throughout the country on the basis of sexism and racism. Michigan and Wisconsin have both swung red for Tea Party politics and politicians.

I was surprised by all of this. I really didn’t believe…

Yes. Especially in the environment we are in now, it is really, really important for all of us to remember that the majority of the country did NOT support Trump and did NOT vote for him.

I also think as a country, we should all be enraged about having a political system in which approximately 80,000 votes can…

But I’m not sure if things had been reversed in 2008 and we lived in a hypothetical two-term Hillary Clinton presidency that Obama would have won 2016. I think a lot of white people and a lot of men felt existentially threatened by having a non-white-man in charge. There were racists who voted for Obama because they…

I believed she was going to win up until I saw the first state go for Trump. I truly believed that at the end of the day, Americans would take the job of presidency more seriously than to vote for a man with no governing experience, no policy knowledge, and bumbling debate performances. I clearly overestimated…

And she campaigned in those states, too, which is why the whole she-lost-because-she-ignored-Michigan-Wisconsin narrative is so frustrating. She also lost in swing states where she campaigned. There is simply no evidence to support the claim that her campaigning in Michigan/Wisconsin would have changed anything AND…

I think the main problem is that every Democratic voter thinks they’re the base and too many refuse to admit that there is no unified Democratic base. Democratic voters are a coalition, with similar interests but different priorities and a tendency to eat their own.

Progressive-identified candidates also have a…

Now that I’ve read the article, there are women who are interviewed and part of the broader club—NU Hacks—the Sthacks kids are connected to. So both photo and articles could have and IMHO should have included the women (IIRC, Niousha is actually the president of the NU Hacks club). The women aren’t part of the…

I think part of the problem is that the title is also just a bad title for communicating who the group is and what the story is about. It made it seem like a group of individuals who were chosen for their individual accomplishments to be profiled (in which case, yes, it would speak volumes that Wired couldn’t find a…

And that right there is why I still feel sorry for Ivanka despite the many excellent think pieces about why people don’t need to. I forgive her nothing, think she’s absolutely complicit, and deserves all the boos in the world, but there are a lot of signs that Donald behaved towards her in a profoundly unhealthy way…

Love that sign and props to the guy for doing it in what look like heels.

I don’t know if you are misunderstanding the issue that was repaired or if you are being screwed by your insurance. Leigh did not have a pooch removed for aesthetic purposes. That would be an actual tummy tuck. She had her abdominal muscles split apart by her pregnancy, which significantly reduces their functionality.…

Yes, he was lying. He was lying as a rhetorical device to dehumanize Thomas and characterize Thomas by the crime he was accused of. Clarke didn’t expect anyone to seriously believe he didn’t know who Thomas was. It was pure rhetoric and disgusting.

It also illustrates how morally bankrupt so many GOP-aligned voters…

Finally! I have been mystified how Jones has not been sued sooner. I know Jones has money, so I don’t want to count chickens before they’re hatched, (and also IANAL), but it seems like Chobani will have a good case here. I don’t think Jones will be helped by his lawyers putting into the public record the claims about…

Those shoes are great, and I want them. Especially since they’re Vittadini and not Ivanka.

Bigger than I would have expected.

Eff the Berkeley College Republicans. If they want to sponsor white supremacists, I guess there’s no solid way for the university to block them from being able to do it. But they need to take responsibility, work with the university, and front the cash to guarantee safety.

Coulter’s such a lying prick. She knows darn…

No, the snowflakes are sad that we live in a wealthy country where people nevertheless are defended in murder trials by visibly drunk attorneys and judged by judges who are having an affair with the prosecuting attorney.

I will freely admit that I don’t know the full facts of the case and what genuine evidence there…