“I live in the bay area and people speak about it like we’re barely holding it together through all the crime;”

Burning up buildings because of something you dislike should be an automatic Get Out of Society card.

I hope she gets all 20 years.  

While we likely have Republican lawmakers to thank for her 300 mile round trip, it seems they dropped the ball by not having added requirements that she wait until her second appointment or view images from an internal ultrasound probe before committing arson

Streets of Fire is very much an underrated weird good but not great but also sorta great movie.

It’s OK to pressure companies who are doing something we don’t like. It becomes far less OK when that pressure causes real, material harm to people who aren’t doing anything wrong. (And who don’t have a real option to avoid said real material harm)

This is classic “In order to make an omelette, you gotta break a few eggs” thinking.

That’s the problem. What’s happening is that the laws being drawn up are extremely broad and cover far more than sexual exploitation. They conflate all sex work of any kind with sexual exploitation, and often any queer sexuality at all. It’s the exact same thing when it comes to the Anti-trans and anti-drag bills…

There is absolutely no reason why the two are mutually exclusive. It’s like saying we can’t regulate restaurants because there are starving children out there.

Isn’t the issue that it dramatically affected the ability for sex workers (predominantly working class, queer women and femmes) to make a living AND hasn't shown to be effective at protecting kids from exploitation? Sure, pornographers can't use Pornhub as a hub anymore but don't act like there aren't 1000s of porn…

And yet any number of starting quarterbacks that performed worse than he did (even though they played more games) kept their jobs and even got raises with lesser performance. Heck, Eli Manning’s 2017 season stats were very similar to Kap’s 2016 season, but he wasn’t let go.

I don’t know why I’m still in the greys, so you might not even see this, but my 2 cents:

Will Smith being wrong does not make Chris Rock right. Chris Rock has been very problematic for a very long time. The Root pointing that out is not the problem.

There’s a great section in White Fragility about this very thing.

>>State Rep. Brad Sherman (R, duh) sponsored both measures, but said they don’t mean queer people can’t believe in marriage. “If they want to call their relationship a marriage, they are free to do so; that is freedom,” Sherman told NBC News via email. “But, by the same token, people who do not define same-sex unions…

“Honestly, I find myself wondering why the hell we’re still fighting over straight cis men (arguably the most unimpressive of our species) in the year 2023"

It’s the rare controversy that manages to be offensive to both men and women. It presupposes that there is only one way for men to be. Absent as fathers, cruel, power-hungry. And it equates anything feminine as bad.

It seems that coming up with the stupidest opinions imaginable is all some people have. Great article 

I don’t mind this. I’m opposed to violence against ALL women, no matter their skin color, trans or cis.

bummer. that’s too bad. deal with it.