am personally not delusional enough to believe that the rich and famous are following the same health and safety protocols as the rest of us

Well simply defunding the police altogether is also not a persuasive argument to most people. Not merely the most deluded people but just most people, generally. So it’s a bad slogan and a bad idea. I also think that it’s disingenuous to say that defunding the police is an end to itself for activists. I don’t think…

I suppose AOC and The Squad could fill this role. Unfortunately, I don’t think they are able to.  

I’m not saying Bush & Gore are the same but I think it’s safe to say Gore would not have done much different than Bush related to the financial crisis. He was very close to Wall Street and the only thing that would have prevented the crisis would have been restrictions on mortgage lending and derivatives that he was…

“CBS is getting their shows, they’re getting their advertising dollars, the production companies are making money, but they’re not paying us.”

Justice Ginsberg should have retired during Obama’s second term.

Yeah, this is the only workable solution. There needs to be broad reform of the full process to ensure this doesn’t happen again. Accepting DC and Puerto Rico as states would also be something on the table that would be harder to counterbalance.

I came here looking for this. I see ads for it all over the internet. I’m curious if it really works. Eggs in particular.

I came here looking for this. I see ads for it all over the internet. I’m curious if it really works. Eggs in…

This is only slightly true and depends on your definition of middle class. Biden’s tax plan will not raise taxes on families making under $400k. $400k is very affluent, don’t get me wrong, but it is not “super-fucking rich” and is well below seven figures.

An interesting take, really! 

Also, said white suburban housewives spend Saturdays wearing school colors with maybe a “just so” school logo face paint on the cheek. If the team is winning, they talk about the coach like he’s a favorite uncle. They cheer for their favorite player and chat with the other ex Kappas or Thetas about how cute he is and…

I wrote the same (but I’m in the grays). Also, Virginia Halas McCaskey has been principal owner of the Bears, since she inherited the team in 1983. English lower division clubs Stoke and Coventry City have women owners.

a forewarning, perhaps, of what real-life locker rooms might expect if ever a woman were in a position to own a football club.

“It is indicative of what they’re tacitly admitting, which is that they don’t have substantive criticisms [of Coney Barrett].”

Just to echo what you are saying, the Robert Bork situation was actually exactly how the confirmation process should work. Reagan nominated someone unacceptable to the Democratic-led Senate, he had hearings and a vote and his nomination failed. Reagan nominated Kennedy (after the pot-smoking Ginsburg debacle) and he…

It could be but I’ve met people who know them and think they are genuine (I used to work at HGTV). I’ve always thought they were like the Bushes (W. & Laura) personality wise. She’s more driven than Laura, but she’s also much younger and of a different generation.

Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN) still exists. It’s focused on programming for African American Women with original scripted shows from Tyler Perry, Will Packer (Girls Trip), Tarell Alvin McCrainey (Moonlight), etc. It’s the no.1 network for African American Women on most nights. It’s successful.

In fairness to these platforms, it’s not that easy to monitor and prevent harassing posts. The AI required isn’t as “smart” as people think and when the mechanisms that are in place mislabel things people get annoyed about that (ex: breast feeding photos getting flagged or trolls intentionally flagging posts they…

I am against making this illegal. This is the sort of law that feels right but will inevitably be used to squash some legitimate journalistic purpose.  

As far as the Roe v Wade questioning goes, that’s definitely a “both sides” thing. Ever since Bork*, all appointees generally act like they have no opinion on anything to avoid getting anyone riled up.