The depiction of the Pete and Chasten relationship is among the least specific portraits of a marriage I’ve ever seen in any movie, nonfiction or otherwise.

You name these people, when Talib Kweli is RIGHT THERE

I don’t doubt the collusion. (The first words in my comment are “I doubt anyone is surprised by this” and the second paragraph is about how they are turning on each other.) but I simply don’t trust Rolling Stone. That’s what happens when a journalistic outlet fails on a scale as epic as the UVA story. It’s the same…

I keep telling people this but they don’t seem to care. Once the hammer comes down, MAGA will go full Taliban. People need to be ready for that. And before someone starts in with “So are we supposed to just let them get away with this?!!” The answer is no. But we do need to be prepared for what comes next.

I doubt anyone is surprised by this. I’d also like some corroboration from a news outlet that didn’t completely fuck up a story about rape at UVA.

https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-biden-hbcu-funding/fact-check-bidens-ambitious-hbcu-funding-proposal-challenged-in-congress-idUSL1N2RE1UH - “Online claims that the Biden Administration cut existing funding for HBCUs are untrue. The Biden administration has made ambitious proposals to increase funding which…

This would have been some good red meat for old jezebel, but the writers, and especially the commenters, that are here now can’t handle this kind of stuff and go with it. Too busy kissing ass and being pollyannas.

This doesn’t sound like Harriot’s writing at all. It looks like a basic obituary that was saved waiting for the day Powell died. Just to be clear: that’s not a criticism. That’s what media outlets should do.

He may never have been able to redeem himself for his involvement in the 2003 invasion of Iraq, but at the end he spoke openly about his decisions and expressed regret for those actions. That’s more than anyone else from that Era has done. And as you pointed out, he was not the orchestrator of the lie. Not an excuse,…

I have to wonder how old some of these people in line to shit on his corpse are, or how aware they were of what was going on back in the early 2000s and Powell’s role in trying to slow the march to war. Part of why his speech to the UN making the case for the invasion was so devastating was he had earned that…

Oh I already love how Iraq was all his fault & no one else’s. I mean I expected this from white people but I thought black folks knew better. I ain’t blind to shit but when 9/11 happened Cheney wanted to go right into Iraq and it was Colin Powell that told him to fuck off the Taliban was the enemy. I am not in the…

I saw Powell as a tragic figure, in the Shakespearean sense, in that I think he was heroic, loyal, patriotic, a voice of reason... but he threw his lot in with bad people who exploited his reputation to fabricate a case for an unjust war. I see a lot of vitriol aimed at him here but I just don’t put him in the same…

It’s going to be an ugly couple of days on social media.

he owned his mistakes which is rare in politics, where the double-down is the default move.

I am going to look at the bigger picture here, his body wasn’t even dead for an hour before the Fox News, Anti Vaccine, this doesn’t work crowd began their shit. Here let me help you all before I tell you to go fuck yourselves:

Criticize him rightfully for his actions as SoS but he endorsed Obama and came out forcefully against Trump both times he ran.  

Huh? He voted for Obama, Hilary and Biden. He’s not a Trumper.

Forgove me or not, but when hospitals in my area are having two hour ambulance waits in their EDs, meaning the ambulance brings you to the hospital and the medics and EMTs wait with you at least two hours for a bed to open up in the ED, and when my hospital is at peak census every day because of all of our COVID…

With the staggering amount of misinformation, disinformation, authoritarian regimes, and overall global asshattery, do you honestly think that if everyone were offered a free* or “cheap” vaccine (relatively speaking) that they would take it? Sure, the Average American idiot is a common (and increasingly infectious)…

Got mine. Get yours. My doctor was super chill about the whole thing. She said, “Wow, it has been six months since your 2nd Pfizer shot, would you like your third?”