The long-ish mandarin jackets are almost certainly chosen to hide a vest.

I have super bad allergies and get some manner of walking pneumonia basically every winter. From what I’ve seen she’s coughing but doesn’t have a hacking “oh god I need to lie down” cough, so she’s doing better than I sometimes do when I get it.

There are multiple varieties of pneumonia. The vaccine prevents certain varieties. Based on the doctor’s note it sounds like this is pneumonia that got kicked off by allergy issues (there’s also an article by a health reporter going around describing it as “walking pneumonia”), which I’m actually quite familiar with-…

There are a few different groups that define hate groups, but there are some general themes that run through them. Most relevantly, the SPLC’s requirements (pulled from Wiki) are:

Plus, Thimersol was removed from the vast majority of childhood vaccines in iirc 2003, basically to help put people’s fears to rest. It’s use now is mostly limited to some varieties of flu shot (you can ask for one that doesn’t have it if you’re that damned concerned) and regions where conditions are such that using…

I’m still greyed on Jez, I think, but I was ungreyed on io9 so I’m now legit across the Gizmodo blogs.

He’s just so excited to be included!

Deadspin has been hitting some of the other stuff, although I’m sure not all of it- I know they’ve had articles on Kayla Harrison (judo) and Michelle Carter (shotput), in addition to the swimming and gymnastics stuff, plus a smattering of other things.

I’m copying part of what I wrote in reply to a different post:

Wrist locks aren’t legal in judo. Elbows only. I can’t find very many videos of actual matches (thank NBC), but this weird compilation video has a decent shot of her doing the same armbar at a different angle (1min 22s if Youtube didn’t copy the time code properly), plus a few more times after that. In 2012 she won…

She’s doing an armbar called juji gatame (straight armbar). You typically see it performed with the opponent on their back, but it works just fine this way, too.

Did you see the Lochte and puppies thing? There are apparently photos for a bunch of the US Olympic team + puppies, but the Lochte ones are the best.

Did people have to go through security screening to get in? Plus since I think everyone in the building had to have credentials (either as a delegate, media, or convention center workers), they might have been able to be more sure that she could be safe without it.

A few people on twitter suggested that they delayed it so that the news would pay attention to her event this afternoon (which is basically entirely focused on slamming Trump’s convention speech).

The gif is really damning. If it was just a still image, you could write it off as being a wave caught at a really inopportune time (right wingers trying to minimize this are posting images of Hillary and others caught mid wave for exactly that reason), but in the gif, she clearly holds it for a few seconds.

I saw someone on Twitter earlier call Trump a “weapons grade plum.” I feel like that probably means something horribly offensive in Scottish, but it’s fucking delightful to my American ears.

Legit no idea. I wonder if it’s either a typo or if the person who did it gave a MASSIVE tip

They started planning this a few days after that tweet apparently. Rep Katherine Clark apparently spearheaded the planning and asked Rep John Lewis to lead the sit-in.

Someone already sent pizzas actually!

I’m gonna be on the hunt for that blondie mix. I need those in my life.