SEIU has come to depend on a fucked organizing model itself. PR campaigns have replaced deep organizing, and they lined up at the HRod trough next to Randi Weingarten.

You sound like you haven’t understood the contractor-employee relationship. The IRS doesn’t set that status—just who does and doesn’t deduct taxes.

Seen from the front, Brady was rightly convicted of Deflate-Gate.

And yet, under Bush, we got a whole new legal category to justify sweeps of Muslim men in foreign countries on the basis that they MIGHT be terrorists.

Maybe I was unclear, but the speculation is that the testosterone is the sole source of her success, rather than one in a palette of factors. Isolating testosterone as the only factor is arbitrary, reductive, and dismissive of any and all other factors.

My apologies if I seemed like I was singling you out. I’m suggesting that the broader conversation isn’t about fairness, it’s about (and I’m not talking motivations, but effect) punishing a woman who was so much faster than her peers and using reductive scientific logic and intrusive methods to harass her. She has…

This whole debate is too testerone-deterministic. Calling her testosterone levels the magic bullet to her success—which ultimately is being used as the line dividing what she is capable of performing—devalues any and all of her training regimen, commitment to practicing, and, even, the special genetic lottery, similar…

But! The measures that the IAAF use to define women’s status as such reduce a complicated subject—gender identity—to one-dimensional scientific measurements (from chromosomal status to testosterone levels), rather than other material measures (funding of women’s sports relative to men’s sports). All because she blew…

Egypt broke their own world record time in losing to Israel last night.

My partner may get jealous from me saying this, but I think I love you (because of this suggestion).

Dude here, with a full, soft beard. I can’t even count the number of times strange women come up to me and fondle my beard without asking. Even asking a stranger to touch their face is gross. Boundaries, mother fuckers! My partner and I have been trying to come up with quick, but polite ways to say, “back the fuck…

It was the damndest thing. LT came outta nowhere.

Its weird to see someone vouch for Bajo Sexto. We paid $8 for chips and salsa, and they were selling fried crickets—CRICKETS!—for $12 or $14. Las Palmas til I die!

Not sure what you mean exactly by “retail,” but UFCW—RWDSU’s affiliate international—is successful elsewhere, largely in grocery stores including Kroger’s, and the Teamsters have organized a few CostCo stores. I’m not sure what the breakdown is for urban vs rural unions, but differences in membership rates are more…

Hold up—it’s not like mandatory medical procedures haven’t proven destructive in the past. Off the top of my head, there was considerable debate from the 1950s up through the 1970s as to whether the Salk and Saban vaccines were safe. There were legit cases of infection from the early Salk vaccine, and much of the…

The DNC’s comical misrepresentation of a mobilized base finally reveals itself. A Hollywood star’s Twitter message equals, what, like, twelve working-class votes?

Also worth noting: hot chicken only recently became a “Nashville delicacy.” Before about four years ago, hot chicken was a “black” food here. The success of a new, white-owned hot chicken joint—Hattie B’s—has helped to put forward the idea that the food is a celebrated city delicacy, rather than the product of black…

This wasn’t their first time.

Did Rabbit already sell out of their aerator for wine bags? I’m not seeing it.

Did Rabbit already sell out of their aerator for wine bags? I’m not seeing it.