She put out the following statement: "I acknowledge the privilege that I benefit from in life, in society and in my ability to shoulder the enormous cost of defending myself in a trial like this. My hope is to help those whose voices should also be heard. Therefore, I will be making donations in the near future to…

Yeah the US is big on fixed terms and even-year November elections.

"Category: Fictional nudists" was deleted in 2007. Here's the rationale from the moderator:

"Ali Wentworth of I'm Sorry" — I don't think she's in that show, actually.

McCain un-endorsed Trump after the Access Hollywood tape, which is more than most people did.

I dunno, I think the many intertwined plotlines is a strength of this show, not a weakness, and it worked well in this episode. It reminds me of all the complicated worldbuilding in Veronica Mars.

The conflict has been basically over for 20 years, but a few die-hards are still doing attacks and other operations. The last person killed by the so-called New IRA died in March 2016. The last time a New IRA bomb cache was found was this past Friday.

Strictly speaking the Civil War did have a successful submarine, just not one of any strategic significance. The Hunley was the first submarine to sink another ship.

A bit of a factual error in this article. It's Lena Luthor, not Rhea Luthor. Rhea is a monarch and doesn't really have a surname.

The difference is, in France you need to get over 50% of the vote.

They're not the last Daxamites, other Daxamites still survive on/around the devastated planet.

I must've been looking at the 2000 information then.

The character is from Blue Springs, Nebraska, which oddly enough is a real town. Statistically speaking, a person of color from there is far more likely to be Native American than Latino.

She was good in The Bling Ring, really nailing the Valley Girl accent.

According to Vox's count, 21 Congressional Republicans have opposed or criticized Trump's executive order, 20 have supported it, and the rest have not taken a position.

When Gates & Rice praised Tillerson before the hearing started, it looked like a done deal. That was an indicator that the foreign policy professionals of the GOP were coming around.

That's a big overstatement. The Taliban were a small offshoot of the Mujahadeen. Other Muj factions became the Northern Alliance, who remained US allies and continued to fight the Taliban until 2001, when they routed the Taliban with more direct US help.

"The ideal subject for totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists." — Hanna Arendt

Except for the invasions of Mexico, Canada, Spanish Florida, and Indian lands.

Well, there has been scholarship since that documentary came out 26 years go. Notably, they raised the Hunley in 2000, did some archeology on the dead crew members within, and buried them in Charleston in 2004.