The power that you have is that if you are white, you have a better shot at eventually owning the factory, or at least a piece of it, than someone from the Congo does.

Jesus Effing Christ there’s a lot of nonsense in this thread. White is only a meaningful racial concept in the minds of white supremacists and those duped by white supremacists. For everyone else, it’s a cultural construct based on skin color, class, political power, and the privilege associated with those things.…

Gonna just assume the screen name is a bikini kill reference and thus a dead giveaway to their (and my) age which is considerably older than the average GMG writer these days

In order to care about human rights, you would have to consider those you think of as below you as human.

I’m assuming this will cross your desk soon but I wonder if this is why Trump was so unhinged this morning

Wait, why were the guns given to a relative and not just kept in police storage indefinitely? Were they afraid that they were infringing upon the rights of the guns to be in the hands of someone capable of shooting them?

While I don’t think people should be automatically fired for one stupid social media post, the folks who decry this are the same people who wanted California to be an at will employment state in the first place. I hope conservatives are ready to argue for stronger union protection for nurses!

The veto threat was such obvious posturing. I don’t mind if the boys in congress sweat when he does this, but come on, the man is predictable and so are his methods. Threaten the obvious thing that no one wants, and then act like you’re compromising by doing the thing you were going to do anyway. And then next time…

I go back and forth between being giddy that everyone who thought that the stock market was booming because of tax cuts is pulling their hair out over tariffs and fretting over the state of my 401k this year so far.

The movie is almost as good as the book. Follows it closely enough, and everyone in it is really good. The only thing that my wife points out though, is that in the book the races of the main characters are never mentioned (most likely on purpose) and it would be far more believable for them to have been minorities in…

I don’t think the scary part is him making up facts based on what he feels is true. We know he does it and we know he brags about being right when someone cherry picks data that shows he’s right. No, what’s scary is his complete lack of understanding about how economies work, and his 19th century belief that if we’re…

He kidnapped his own kids, presumably because he didn’t agree with a custody order, and somehow only got probation. I think that puts him squarely in MRA territory and thus misogynist as fuck

It would be nice to know that once fired from the Trump administration, the stench and shame would follow you everywhere you went and you’d never have a well paying job ever again. However, since some of them are billionaires and the rest will be “contributers to Fox News” we’ll probably have to see their dumb faces…

This wasn’t at the gridiron dinner though, this was at a private fundraiser lunch earlier in the day. Maybe he knew he had to tell jokes and was warming up, but I really don’t understand how “That guy who just pulled a classic authoritarian move is so great, I wish we could do that” goes over well with ANY group of…

The audio is pretty horrifying, because everyone in the audience LOVES the idea and thinks it’s hilarious. They know it’s not actually going to happen, but they would back a fascist dictator in a heartbeat. It goes to the whole “government is corrupt because we can’t get our way” spirit that this whole administration…

I hope everyone who likes the new Superchunk goes and listens to both Foolish and On The Mouth, both spotless albums imo

I think the problem people are having, myself included when I first saw them, is that these are very personal works of art. They represent much more of the private side of Barack and Michelle Obama than they do the public face of President and First Lady that we are used to seeing. I was thrown at first but the more I…

Another white house staffer is out after domestic violence allegations came to light, allegations that, again, the FBI knew about and either the White House didn’t get the memo in their vetting process, or just didn’t care

Out tomorrow

have you read the completely ludicrous letter that Pat Meehan wrote to one of his staffers that resulted in a harassment settlement? This is Grade A creepy man feelings.