I still benefit from this kind of permissiveness as a poor white person. In the UK where I live you can get government assistance with housing costs - but many landlords will not accept this arrangement. They put “no DSS” on their adverts - “no department of social services funding allowed”, they mean.

I think it’s almost implied in the scenario she presents; from their own perspectives, the business managers pressuring contractors to keep costs down and the contractors enforcing those decisions are in different, seemingly adversarial positions, their actions justified as simply working within a flawed system. But…

That’s always our hope. I’ll tell you, the absolute worst people in the world, though, are the foster parents who end up abusing the kids they take in. I mean, a natural parent doing so is bad enough, but a foster parent made a deliberate decision to take in an already-hurt kid; when they then turn around and hurt…

I’m an immigration attorney. I’m constantly telling my clients that they may have the law on their side, but the government has the power. And most of them don’t have the money or the resources to fight, no matter how right they are, or how just their cause.

I like the way you distinguish between sins of commission and sins of omission. Those two groups of sinners need each other to game the system, and each can blame the other for creating conditions of systemic injustice.

“I learned later that the wealthy, Wall Street, the banks—they all get to break the rules. But us, the poor, the people of color—we don’t”

Oof. This hit me so hard today. I started out pissed off about the bank because I am still in the middle of a three year fight (with lawyers! paid for by insurance companies!) with a loan servicing company that let the property next door to my house rot. I estimate that it has cost me over $50,000 dealing with the…

As someone who works in a group home shelter for abused foster kids, I can only personally speak to the first part of this article and say that, for all the attempted subterfuge our kids go through to dodge the Rules, we almost always know when they’re doing it — we just sort of let it go (as long as it isn’t anything…

This was an incredible article. These are the things I return to this website for, thank you

Celebritits is possibly the best typo ever.

I was just coming to post that very video. Did you know that they actually invited her and her family to the White House to meet the President? He was so sweet to her and it gave me so many feels, she was super happy.

Those tears got that child and her family a personal invitation to the White House Easter Egg Roll this year! Sigh. Damn kids have all the luck.

I hope the next president nominates him to the Supreme Court and the GOP has to eat shit and approve the appointment.

I love his obvious joy at spending time with all children. I love his genuine charming enthusiasm for everything. You can see the dorky smart eleven-year-old he must have been inside, still thinking”I can’t believe I get to do this for part of my job!”

There is nearly no universe where Clinton calls herself a liberal. She’s somewhat socially progressive now (except when it comes to war) and economically neoliberal. Sanders is John Galbraith, made to look far-left in our post-Reagan era of top-down excesses. Most of America’s liberals are actually around where…

I like this attention. It’s really boosting my voter self esteem.

The “catching your eye” and “careful product placement” reminds me of a marketing trick that kind’a freaked me out the first time I learned about it. Cereals marketed for children (Frosted Flakes, Cap’n Crunch, etc.) have characters on the boxes that look down. That way when they’re placed on the shelf, they can make…

That’s crazy talk! Anyone would think that you might be interested in some kind of national health service...maybe paid for by some sort of national insurance scheme!