Fair enough. Didn’t mean to be short, it’s just glaringly obvious to me — but maybe that’s because my office prayer rug is literally a cutesy version of the header image:

Re: What makes these carpets Muslim — Besides the size and shape, which are identical to the prayer rugs used five times a day by Muslims around the world, the rugs in the header image and the Instagram post all go one step further and straight-up depict mosques. There’s really no other way to interpret this.

Yep. As soon as I heard my gym had reopened, I went down and paid for my membership to be frozen for two months -- and I expect to have to freeze it for much longer. I hope I can go back eventually, but right now, the risks are too high.

This has going on in full view of the world for years. Haaretz had a first-person account of a Uighur woman being raped in front of the other prisoners as a means of psychological torture, and I didn’t see a single other news outlet pick it up. It wasn’t even deemed newsworthy. Maybe the racist coronavirus backlash…

Yeah, I was so relieved to read that! But I think it’s important to keep in mind that cell phone data from that some period showed a lot more people in big cities were staying home than usual to avoid potential confrontations with police, so it’s possible that compensated for any bumps in cases among actual…

Absolutely agree. I will forever love Jon Stewart, my point is just that I wouldn’t sub out Trevor Noah for him in 2020.

Just read that Netflix took down a single Always Sunny in Philadelphia episode over blackface... but I’m pretty sure they did it more than once? Plus there were all of Dee’s racist characters in brown-face and yellow-face. That show has somehow managed to be accepted as a full on demonstration of how NOT to behave…

I loved it in its heyday and Jon Stewart revolutionized the gig, but honestly, a lot of his work hasn’t held up. I watched an old clip about police killings the other day and it was pretty painful to see how flippant Stewart was with the material. Don’t get me wrong, I give him endless credit for bringing serious…

“He was seen and photographed having a meal at the Four Seasons on that trip. Also, that Selena wasn’t there the whole time and was photographed in NYC on one of the dates.” 

I shouldn’t have Googled that... Muslim woman, freaking love the Smiths. But that was a whole lot of crazy views :/

I mean, it’s not like she went out of her way to shit on the movie. Her comment was taken from one of those Vanity Fair videos where they break down a person’s entire career, so she had to say something about her experience filming Twilight.

“I am America’s hope and the president’s nightmare.”

Ben Schwartz is a treasure... that’s my contribution to this conversation.

They’re super rich, I’m sure they would have been footing the bill.

After starting out with so many exciting candidates, it’s really frustrating to end up back here with Biden. I’ll vote for him, but I truly don’t think he will inspire people to get to the polls the way Bernie would have. And Warren’s delegate count actually makes me furious... what are Americans thinking?

Erik von Detten... Now that’s a name I haven’t heard in a long time! Had such a crush on him when he was in Brink (#soulskaters) and So Weird... which I guess means I have a type (soon to be irrelevant blond dudes), because I was also crazy about Chad Michael Murray, heh.

I hear what you’re saying. I’m sure it takes a lot of stubbornness to be as consistent as Bernie has been on practically EVERYTHING throughout his career, which could be a flaw in a president. Honestly, I would be thrilled with either of them as the candidate... and will vote for whoever it ends up being (assuming…

Just to give my two cents, I like Bernie better on foreign policy; that’s really been the determining point for me. I know that doesn’t even factor in for most Americans, but I live in the Middle East and I’ve seen the havoc that American foreign policy wreaks on the world up close. Right now, Warren and Sanders line…

Agreed. I prefer Sanders because of his long-established foreign policy stances (particularly on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which has been blow to hell by Trump’s reign of fuckery), but I would still be absolutely THRILLED with Warren as the candidate. She’s undeniably great, and a thousand steps up from Biden,…

I’m worried the media is going to lean into this Pete surge narrative and give him momentum that he hasn’t earned. America loves a (male) underdog story.