I read comments on Jezebel every day but rarely post. But this article and the one linked inside it about 18-year old Brooke Alexander, a girl touted by Pinson as a “success story” absolutely make my blood boil.

Margaret Atwood sourced Handmaid’s Tale from things happening around the world at the time she was writing in the early 1980's. There was no internet then so she cut articles out of newspapers or magazines and put them in a box. Authoritarian governments, religious extremism, women’s rights, fertility and the issues…

This was tried in California in 1994 - it was called Proposition 187. No services of any kind for the undocumented. While voters approved it - a “win” for right wingers in the short term - it was later thrown out by the courts and never enacted. It also awakened the sleeping giant of Latino voting and political…

According to the text of the bill, it also does not “prohibit the use of curriculum that addresses topics of slavery, racial or ethnic oppression, racial or ethnic segregation, or racial or ethnic discrimination, including topics relating to the enactment and enforcement of laws resulting in such oppression,…

I got my booster shot last Thursday and saw a similar situation. A mother came in with her two sons; the younger one was calm (not sure if he was old enough for the shot) but his older brother was having no part of it. Crying, ear-splitting screams and at one point he broke free of his mom and ran across the room to…

Rare commenter = greys dweller but Root reader everyday and big Michael Harriot fan. You’ve made us laugh and think and we’re all better, more knowledgeable people for reading your work. Thank you for telling us the stories we need to hear and for sharing your own.

Friendly reminder that Peter Thiel is the a-hole who killed Gawker and started the death spiral that killed Deadspin too. He’s also funding JD Vance’s Senate race in Ohio - Vance took Thiel’s money, got on the Trump train and has basically disavowed everything he wrote about in “Hillbilly Elegy.” Especially the parts…

The Art of Mackin’! An old coworker of mine Photoshopped the cover of this book, replaced K-Flex’s face with his own and sent it out as a Christmas card. It was a running office joke for months that today would probably be reported to HR. Simpler times. 

Race is an issue here but this is also about age. I think ESPN was trying to lay the groundwork for pushing Nichols out and replacing her with Taylor.

Sacramento resident here, proud of the poolside crowd showing Colonizer Karen the door. She was there because she’s a) on her way back from her Covid hideout in Lake Tahoe or b) looking for a bigger house in Sac now that her tech job’s work-from-home permanently.

“[L]ying next to Michelle in the dark, I’d think about those days when everything between us felt lighter, when her smile was more constant and our love less encumbered, and my heart would suddenly tighten at the thought that those days might not return,” he wrote.

I thought I was the only one into Neal Katyal... he’s lowkey hot

I’m calling it right now - he’s going to pick Becca, a dental hygienist from Vegas. Haven’t watched The Bachelor in years but I’m all in for this!

I’m more like the author’s husband - I never took the time to look for online workouts until SIP came along. But now, there’s so much good content online! 24 Hour Fitness (my gym) and other chains are streaming classes and a lot of instructors are posting videos made at their homes. I’ve been a gym member for 20 years…

Disagree - it’s about reminding the world of our right to exist in any space without harassment or violence.

It’s not about the science, it’s about being able to open a business and keep it open in an industry dominated by white men. Most black people I know - female or male - can’t call their friends and family and raise enough money to open a brewery, which is how many get their seed funding. Business loans are also hard…

Thanks for making this and giving these breweries some national exposure! Shoutout to another brewer: Annie Johnson, 2013 winner of the American Homebrewing Association’s Homebrewer of the Year. She’s the first African American and woman to win the award. Formerly of Sacramento, she is now the Master Brewer at…

When someone announces that we need more ice, Warren might hand your cousin Hothands her car keys and never see her Subaru again.

Occasional commenter here, coming here to associate myself with the above comments - they are my thoughts exactly. Every day I read something on Deadspin that makes me laugh and think, often in the comments. It’s an integral part of my day and will be missed more than I can say so I’m hijacking DennyCrane’s words to…

Occasional commenter here, down in the greys. I work at this State Capitol. I believe that the halls of government should be open to everyone to voice opinions on the proposed laws that will impact their lives. But the anti-vaxxers... wow.