Maybe my threshold for embarrassment is a lot higher, because this is mild. Even for a Prince in public.

As much as the GOP claims to be “the party of personal responsibility” they sure like blaming everyone else for all their problems.

It’s terrifying that he thinks the President can decide who gets prosecuted in this country; that’s the job of an independent Justice Department. Letting the president dictate who should or shouldn’t be prosecuted is for authoritarians, not democracies.

My dad grew up with a lot of shit because he was the child of immigrants who couldn’t speak English, were poor, etc. And he’s fully embraced the racist elements of no immigration, everyone needs to speak English all the time, deport the “anchor babies”, Christians are awesome and every other religion is bad, and so…

You guys. This is getting scary. Being alarmist and overstating one’s case can be dangerous, but I also believe in hoping for the best and preparing for the worst. This is not a “let’s see how it all shakes out” situation.

I believe she was throwing back the line right-wingers use about immigrants.

So Trump is already starting to “appoint” favored media to which he’ll grant his press releases and puff pieces? Fine. This might just be the wakeup call that the media needs. For too long, the press has relied on releases and “media kits” to cover news and culture. As a PR flak, I’ve seen entire passages from my…

Honestly the media deserves to be trashed, because they did this. They got him there with their lack of professional ethics. With their casual disregard for the truth in favor of ratings.

I can feel the gaslighting kicking in. Like maybe I am the one who is wrong?

Stalin was known for canceling the careers of artists and musicians simply because he didn’t like what they did. When I read about it in grad school, I thought, “What a sad time to live in. I’m glad I’ll never have to worry about that.”

Step 1 in delegitimizing real investigative reporting. He knows that smaller papers take note of what bigger papers cover and respond to. If he makes the NY Times seem like a tabloid he can then make the National Enquirer seem legit. Who knew you could be a dissident just by subscribing to a big newspaper (which I…

Oh you’re completely right there’s an exploitation of some vague “tribal” aesthetic going on here and that shit is problematic. But the commenter who posted it clearly meant to imply it was “white appropriation” and I figured best just to tackle that claim..:.

but if the model reads as black, what’s the harm?

It’s Grace Jones working with Keith Haring. It’s art, is the answer.

It was found in his notebooks, but wasn’t copywritten until after he died. He lived in the building in 1950-52, and by 1954 Fred Trump was already testifying before congress. (This is the time he did so for profiteering from post-war government subsidies, not the times he faced charges by the DOJ for racial…

“If you’re able to volunteer, volunteer...if you’re a musician, write that anthem. If you’re a writer, write. Take what you’re good at, and what you truly enjoy, and lend your services to the causes you care most about. ‘Cause we can’t, and we won’t, and we don’t stop.”

As a mother of a child on the spectrum, can you please dismiss any comments mocking Trump for having an autistic child? I hate Trump with a fiery passion, but that shit is off limits.

I’d rather Pence and the GOP Congress do things we can eventually reverse (we can always restore Social Security and Medicare/Medicaid, it’s just a matter of winning elections) than Trump destroying our institutions, alliances and possibly launching nuclear war. I never thought I’d say this, but I hope Pence gets the…

Luckily I am bereft of artistic talent and/or luck. In this day and age I would also opt for the pen name route and would be one of those “she wishes to remain anonymous” winners of a lottery.