If I hear one more hunyuck from my hometown pining about “simpler times” ... I will probably not be invited to the next Big (2nd or 3rd) Wedding.

“Since Nov. 7, 2016, the rush to blame the rural poor for Trump (despite the hard numbers revealing that his real base is comfortably middle-class whites living in suburbia) has created a thirsty market for this kind of drivel.”

I would add that there is absolutely no attempt to grapple with the actual, functional policies that are messing these people’s lives up. You would think that given how celebrated articles like Ta-Nehisi Coates’ article on redlining or reparations was, you might see attempts to imitate it rather than simply dutifully…

Journalists who engage in this type of cultural tourism are part of the real “problem” with rural America.

Yeah, Trump Country drives me up the freaking wall. Trump voters are overwhelmingly white. Full stop. That’s important. But they’re also the sort of white people who are lazy, and who want to make their political arguments on affect and opinions they pull out their asses—they don’t want to make fact-based arguments,…

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The focus on white voters in media is a reflection of who we value in society. Its why white Trump voters always get favorable coverage and the benefit of the doubt when Black people do not. This bias is a cultural problem in our society in…

I just want to tell everyone that someone, not me, coined a phrase that has appeared in several stories at Gawker Media Group, and it enchants me. It encapsulates so much about these bogus and ahistorical and contrafactual and economically illiterate stores coming out of the media. The term is “Cletus Safari.”

Stassa, this is a superb article and the following:

This particular hot take is more insightful than 99% of the Trump County profiles I’ve read.

I believe that “Trump Country” is populated entirely by people who are highly resistant to change because they have a major stake in maintaining the status quo. The interesting part is that the reasons for their resistance are so many and so varied that it makes these various attempts to define “Trump Country”…

Seriously; I’m obviously sorry/horrified about this, and nobody deserved it, AT ALL. But girl, just the fact he was saying any of this shit should have been enough for you to pause, at least.

Sadly there is a good chance if she’d rejected him outright, he’d have shot her instead. There is no safe way to act around crazies.

Misogyny is everywhere. It certainly resides happily in Bono and always has. How horrified he’d be to hear that from anyone as he sits there sharing this misogyny with us. And god forbid white boys don’t get their rage, so much of it aimed directly at women and minorities. Their rage is the very best, transformative…

Women making music does affect men because it fosters competition. That’s what this is really about. Jealousy and insecurity.

What a sad way for this girl to find out her parents were right about this boy being a monster. I hope he survives to face a trial and prison time.

The Bob Dylan interview in 1987 that broke my freshman heart, and every last shred of respect for him. NB, he adulates U2 three lines later in the interview. Bold mine.

Our lead campaign at the moment is called Poverty Is Sexist. And there is another one called Girls Count. About 130 million girls can’t go to school who want to go to school.

Oh fuck off. Women making music doesn’t have any impact on men making music. Also where is the genre where women can release their anger? Why do genres have to be dominated by a gender in order for music to be made? It makes zero fucking sense. Are teenage boys in their rooms with a guitar going “but I just CAN’T…

A study of Michelle Obama’s outfits in her first year in the White House, by New York University finance professor David Yermack, found that stocks of design firms and retailers typically spiked after she wore their apparel.

I’m always going to be a little confused by the idea that Hillary was a “dead end.”

She was a poor, poor choice of candidate. That I do not deny. In fact, it seems that outside of Bernie Sanders, she’s about the only person on the planet that could’ve lost to Orange Foolius.

That said, I’m a bit vexed by the idea that,…