Starred and then unstarred when I got to shadow government. None of these people are good enough (or at all) at planning or subtlety to get away with that.

On one hand, yeah, I should eat a vegetable.

My understanding is gendered insults are bad because they weaponize existing inequalities, not because you cannot criticize another woman. I can hate and curse out Ivanka all I want without needing to say ‘she’s bad AND she’s a woman’. Just leave the second part out, it doesn’t add anything.

I lost a friend to suicide in the aftermath of 2016. I don’t think anyone figured out anything concrete about his reasons, but it’s unbelievable to me that our collective bleak and pervading sense of hopelessness then didn’t factor heavily into them. For me, this was an inoculant. I know what it’s like to be on the…

It’s possible to have this discussion on any day but Election day. This article is 8 months too late or 2 months too early.

Also neck and neck, not neck-in-neck.  Copy editing around here is ...

Because in most places around the country, late November is winter.  The fall occasion is Halloween.

What?

I know you said don’t think too much, but my first thought was “For what?”.  It’s comically early for a bed time, late but all too common as a dinner time.  It’s the middle of the end of the day.

*Gird your loins

[Biden] made a case for treating the reduction of fossil fuel emissions as a nonpartisan issue that could create manufacturing jobs while preserving the planet.

He’s giving members of his base exactly what they want, which is not to live, but to be able to blame their deaths on a democrat.

How has no one posted this yet?

Everyone associated with this administration is a bad person who doesn’t care about anyone who isn’t a white, cis, straight, “Christian” themself.

Well, yeah, I assume she thinks she is the best choice or she wouldn’t have run. Do you believe every other primary candidate who supports the eventual nominee realized they’d made a mistake and their opponent was the best choice all along?

I assume the Sanders team asked her to nominate him, not the DNC.

Who would you consider a presidential success? Or is this a ‘time to overthrow the system,’ ‘the revolution is now’ type thing?

Started watching the roll call expecting to get bored four states in. Am now at Hawaii and am crying.  As an immigrant, that one hit particularly hard.

She is not a victim. She is awful too.

“Outside of a small handful of specific unverified examples where this is not true, it is only within the last five centuries that there seems to have been a shift towards more authoritarian and domination-based practices being used to control children’s behaviors in Latin American families.”