“I just wished I could say to each of the museum directors: ‘If it had been your daughter who had been affected by Chuck Close and Picasso, how could you look her in the eye and say, Sorry, we’re keeping the painting and the painting matters more than my relationship to you,’” she added.

It’s so good to see you come around Jezebel. It seems like it was only yesterday (actually, 3 years ago) when this whole place was filled with people insisting that Beyonce or Rhianna or some other millenial favoritza was breaking ground by being a powerful women of color making her own career choices, scoring massive…

Regardless of the link (or absence thereof) between the gestational mother and the child, it seems extremely likely that there is a biological (genetic) mother involved here who is not a US citizen. So all the issues remain the same, really.

I’ve been wondering what will happen - in Congress, in the media, in the country - if someone yells out “You lie!” during this State of the Union address.

1) I’ve read the facts of the case differently. My impression was that the birth mother is the genetic mother of the two children.

This is really quite a tricky issue. On the one hand, the two men are clearly the parents of the two boys, in some way that many/most of us recognize these days. On the other hand, the non-citizen child’s biological parents (a different definition of parent than the one just implied) are clearly not citizens, and…

birthright citizenship isn’t what is at issue in this case. the non-citizen child was born outside the US and both of its biological parents are not US citizens.

A lot of actors have weighed in on this because they have previously worked with WA. Baldwin has also worked with him, but hasn’t (thus far) come to the same conclusion as the other actors who have weighed in.

I think so many stop seeing you as anything but an object to manipulate.

I’d forget the bags and use a much lower tech approach.

the CIA has been evil. That doesn’t mean that it makes any sense to write “Bezos has a $600 million contract with the CIA”. The CIA contracts with many companies for many things. Does it make sense to say the Boeing has a contract with Satya Nadella just because they signed a deal with Microsoft? Criticize the CIA all…

I’m not encouraging anyone to be complacent about Bezos. But please don’t base your outrage (justified) on this non-event. There’s plenty of other stuff to be upset about (c.f. my other post here).

Finally. Recognition that collective bargaining improves the lives of employees! Thank you!

The introduction of Amazon’s new retail cashier-free food store in Seattle boosted Bezos’ net worth by $2.8 billion in one day. The total amount earned by all cashiers in the USA in one day is about $210 million. 1 in 10 Amazon employees in OH are on food stamps. The new store does not (currently) accept food stamps.

Not this nonsense again. The CIA has an account/contract with Amazon Web Services. It’s relatively small compared to some commercial cloud contracts. Bezos is the largest shareholder in AWS (since it is owned by Amazon).

I think there’s even more to this. Boys and girls approach sex with a pronounced asymmetry. Both have a new set of hormones creating strong levels of interest in sex, but there also has to be a consideration of potential downsides. The potential downsides of sex are much worse for girls than for boys - both…

Everything else you said here seems great, but “white people created the construct of racism” is false. The “construct of racism” has been created many times among many different human populations, over many centuries or even millenia.

I should have been slightly more accurate. Lush did not claim that an older generation “cannot see the truth”, but rather that they have been “literally broken by society”. I don’t see a lot of difference there, but I want to acknowledge the difference (and my error).

I think my jaw literally dropped, because I could see he truly was trying to help me feel better, but he couldn’t see that he was describing how his wife had literally been broken by society and (never met her, but I can imagine) that she DOES still care, but she just can’t yell anymore because she was shutdown…

Although it isn’t central to your article in any really important way, I also think that it is important that inaccurate theories (masquerading as statements of fact) don’t get left unchallenged. I was thrilled by the outcome in Alabama and encouraged by the apparently obvious and deliciously ironic account in which: