Cedillo, a liberal Democrat with a reputation as an advocate for immigrants, has been accused of being unresponsive to community needs and defending the interests of developers, billboard companies and oil companies. Bray-Ali, meanwhile, also a liberal Democrat (the seat itself is nonpartisan), was hailed by some as…

I’d suggest that going on social media and holding up a sword to try and bring light to racism is about as effective as trying to stop a rampaging bull with a piece of undercooked spaghetti.

Eh, I get it. It isn’t enough for us to take an idea with merit and carry it forward. We have to turn it into a Statement(TM), preferably #hashtag-ready, that Matters(TM).

His mistake was commenting under a too-simple username. For instance, I cleverly changed only a single letter of my real name to create an impenetrable net identity. No one will ever match the “justice” I mete out online to my real-life...

I dunno. Given all the real stuff that’s going on lately, I just can’t get too upset about a pageant contestant not giving the answer everyone wanted to hear. Nerves, maybe? [shrug] 

The only thing Gideon Yago is burning these days are latte’s when it’s rush hour at coffee bean

This. I agree on paper with his premise. I’m working on something now where only three of the characters are ... “me.” The rest are based on people I know and certain cultural things. But like you said, there’s something more insidious going on that he’s only brushing on: Writers who intentionally present themselves…

And always important to remember that definitions of “bad guys” are fraught with racism, classism, homophobia, and the like. So I honestly don’t believe shit the cops say about “bad guys.” (Just like “good guys” with guns.)

“I don’t care if it’s a good guy or a bad guy—I will never allow that to happen again,” Perez told reporters.

No. She is a gymnast. Not an ice skater. A very good gymnast.

Since the information is “declassified”, that means everyone can file a FOIA request. Refusing to do so shows that he didn’t officially declassify it and intentionally revealed state secrets.

Seriously one of my biggest fears- someone attacking me in my home.

John McCain just said that it was the president’s legal right to share that information. What a paper-thin defense. Just because its legally okay, it doesn’t mean that it won’t jeopardize the lives of many agents and Syrian civilians!

Terrifying. I watched a crime special about how burglars now use social media to target homes. It’s so easy to figure out which houses will be empty if you happen to know who lives in them. I’m not even referring to celebrity homes - just average, every day people. When my family goes on vacation we don’t post…

From John Oliver’s show last night (quote copied from WaPo):

Disagree. Your niece told the truth because she is a good-hearted and naively, innocent little girl. She just had to spill her guts and didn’t see the point in evading the truth.

One of the reporters for the piece was just on NPR. The president literally had a script, apparently went off script and began to brag about—I shit you not—how he gets the best intelligence. At which point, you have to assume the Russian ambassador broke out and put on his fake handlebar mustache and began twisting it…

Trump is like the guy in hs who so wants to hang with the cool kids that he sells out his lifelong friends by telling all their secrets and the cool kids just laugh at him.

Sk8r Boi was the OG whatever-that-TSwift-Song-about-short-skirts/tee-shirts-is.

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