I grew up in Illinois before moving away for university and I was at least partially politically-aware in the sense of I knew who my Senators were and had seen my Representative in person and other things like that. I never ever heard of Barack Obama in 2000; at a statewide level he was an unknown. Four years later he…

Does Splinter have non-novelty account commenters?

The only unlikely part of this hypothesis is the notion that Hamilton Nolan would want to spend more time at this website than he already has to.

Tomatoes are truly one of the most delicious fruit.

Today marks 8 full weeks since the questionable idea of removing recommended status from all of the commenters and the community hasn’t really recovered back to pre-“Purge” health/quality/whatever because

I think your points A and B are completely correct and I will agree with your paragraph 2 as well.

He has a lot of stress so it makes sense he’s been stress eating a lot. Look forward to him remembering how to be a decent person in 2019, if he is capable of doing that.

This guy is 41 years old but he doesn’t act a day above 12. Being rich has its privileges.

States which can’t actually run their own governments are the exact reason why federal governments exist. Arkansas is apparently incapable of running its Medicaid program and its residents deserve better.

Disclosure: I live in Felder’s district

I was going to comment on the article but the comment thread by a Kinja user who switched logins to reply to their thread is too funny to not comment about.

People who just lost elections generally shouldn’t offer a lot of advice on how their party should win, in my opinion,

this is only important if you value my opinion, which many of you cretins don’t

The reason Republicans win is because their voting bloc understands how to put their differences aside and get their shit together long enough to get a candidate elected

This honestly feels like the most correct take. Clinton won the 2016 Dem primaries in part by making sure no one else would run; that the only major opposition she faced wasn’t a Democrat was a feature, not a bug. The zeitgeist of 2015-2016 would have given a Warren candidacy the momentum it needed to get into office,…

Her announcement video is amusing to me because she basically says true things: that rich people are getting richer by giving themselves massive tax cuts, that Fox News is a big echo chamber of toxicity, that ethnic minorities in the US don’t fall through the cracks, but they are stuck in economic traps. This all…

I am a big fan of pumping the breaks.

This article just taught me Lindsey Graham is still alive. It’s a New Years’ Eve Eve miracle!

There were a few weeks (cumulatively) during the latest 2000s / earliest 2010s where it seemed like the US federal government might actually try to do something about the federal debt. Loud noises were being made by people in both of the major parties about trying to cut federal expenditures (and/or increase federal…

xenophobic Trump supporters