Thanks for this backstory. It sounds like a perfect storm. I’m skeptical that a white, possible legacy student in the same circumstances would have been beaten that badly. I’ve been in urban emergencies and have seen addicts so violent that I’ve been afraid to be in the same corridor—but the hospital staff and police…

Treat yourself!

It’s not everyone’s couple of tea but I find it cute and relaxing. Retta/Donna is everything and there’s not enough of her.

I get that he has a time schedule and I don’t usually watch him. The times I do, I’ve begun noticing that he immediately cuts people off who aren’t rambling, but introducing a shade of nuance into the discussion that doesn’t fit his narrative—so that the segments become orchestrated rants. Your take Chris Matthews’…

I think Ari Melber is attractive, but increasingly can’t watch his show. He interrupts people too much. He cut off Avenatti the other day and I was ready to cut him.

Yeah, i’m kinda stunned someone responded to this.

Absolutely. By the way, I told my Mom that “people” on the internet were calling Daniel’s lawyer “Hottie Avenatti.” She giggled and immediately started talking—in her well brought up black woman way— about how smart and good looking he was.

I wasn’t clear. That conversation was three weeks before the election, when most of the white women were obliviously anticipating an HRC win. Now she’s as freaked out as everyone else and trying to avoid going on a blood pressure medication. She’s donated decent money to the DNC in the past and is now diverting a lot…

Comey strikes me as a real Boy Scout

I ran into an older white feminist friend a few weeks before and told her I was having occasional anxiety attacks about the looming Trump presidency. She was incredulous and told me to stop being such a worry wart. Also had a fight with a friend who was strategizing on what jobs would be open in an HRC administration…

I had a feeling of impending doom starting about 2 weeks before based on things friends had been saying about their social worlds. I went to bed super early because it was clear he was going to win and I couldn’t watch it.

ALL OF THIS. Had no problem buying Fire and Fury, but not sure I’m down with this, especially if he also drags Loretta Lynch as a partial excuse. The media and all of the actors in the shitfest that was the most recent US election really need to do a deep dive into their own ingrained sexism before I can take…

Claudio has had high-profile collaborations with black male artists, like Khalid, Duckwrth and 6lack,

You really don’t want to know.

There’s hilarious shit folk say at cookouts, house parties and dinners. But Auntie Maxine would tell you to keep that shit off instagram and twitter.  #FuckBothTheseGuys

If its any consolation, it was pretty cold in DC that day. They must have been freezing.

Judging by that even the Fox interviewer was side-eyeing him, his plebian butt is out soon.

Honestly, I don’t care as long as Tim Gunn is in it.

Not to mention that the entrance tests screen out people whose IQ is too high.

One radio show (maybe this American Life) did a segment on a guy trying to find other employment in the wake of an NDA about 15 years ago, it was devastating. These things are creeping evil.