It’s a law created with cruelty as the product; it’s morally necessary for those who can to defy it at every opportunity. 

When I was younger and way more naive, I used to think: “If only these people understood how desperate some women can be, and how terrible the lengths they’ll go to, they wouldn’t be so against abortion.” Now, of course, I know that they genuinely don’t give a shit. But thank you, hero doctor, both for continuing to…

Yep—this is evidence of decency at play. Also it’s significant that this is a doctor who remembers the time before legal abortion. He’s seen the consequences.

What a mensch. godspeed doctor.

I gotta tell you, I am one of the few people who actually saw Sextette on screen - at the premier*! A few friends and I ducked out of school for the spectacle at the Cinerama Dome. Mae was practically wheeled out on a dolly to be vertical for her entrance (I’m certain film must exist of this somewhere). Sextette…

Seriously, this article is insulting.

Why exactly are we worried that Joe might pick a Democratic Palin in a way we don’t worry he might pick a Democratic Dan Quayle? As you yourself said, there’s no shortage of qualified women for this position. Biden himself has even mentioned Stacy Abrams by name as the type of woman he’d be interested in having on…

Yeah, my first instinct is to side with Lauren, that this is just tokenism. However, I think it’s also really important, for lack of a more diplomatic way of saying it, to remember how important tokens can be, if they also demonstrate savvy and skill.

Don't worry, they are just being counterproductive assholes. Just imagine the article where they'd be falling over themselves to praise Bernie if he'd done the same thing. 

This.  Democracy is ugly and you never get everything you want.  Suck it up, put on your big-person pants and keep fighting.  Change doesn’t happen overnight and big change only happens rarely.

“No one announces their VP pick until they’ve already won the nomination,”

Agreed. Get a fun and flashy VP that people can get excited over, and keep Warren doing good work where she is.

Do not compare likely running mates Kamala Harris, Val Demmings, Stacy Abrams, or Liz Warren with Sarah Palin. This isn’t about tokenism, and this isn’t about bringing in some cornpone cover girl because she’s pretty and sassy. This is about bringing in a serious intellectual with solid experience and national…

No one announces their VP pick until they’ve already won the nomination, but either way: while Warren was my top choice for POTUS, at this stage in the game it wouldn’t be a smart choice to put her on the ticket. We can’t risk losing her seat in Massachusetts now. The republican governor in MA has an extremely high…

The only thing Gideon is going to be “corrupting” is the GOP’s hold on Collins’ Senate seat.

First thing I thought of!  I think Pelosi should just respond, “WE WERE ON A BREAK!”  And let him figure out what that means (i.e. it means “Fuck right off with this shit”).

Endora might have a word or two for him.

That one line paragraph was my favourite part of the letter.

How did you not think of:

Donald Trump decided to issue a truly mindblowing six-page letter to Nancy Pelosi in which he whines about impeachment