Does this mean there haven’t been any orthodox Jews who wore yarmulkes in Congress in the last 200 years? That seems sort of bizarre to me, and if true it’s a reminder of how very very white and Christian Congress has traditionally been.

You can tell how scared the establishment is of AOC by how hard they’re working to tear her down. 

I get what you’re saying, but when Notorious BIG died in 1997, Diddy recorded a song called “I’ll Be Missing You” about the loss. It used the melody from “Every Breath You Take,” and Biggy’s widow Faith Evans sang on it. It was a monster hit that MTV played every 15 minutes for the rest of that year.

My understanding is, obviously he had an ego on him from day one, and he always did some shady stuff like fake healing. But when he was in Indianapolis in the ‘60s Peoples Temple really was a force for good. The trouble really started when he decided he was too big for Indianapolis and then we get into “power-hungry…

I’m reading a book called The Road to Jonestown right now. It’s interesting because it makes it clear both how Jones started off with genuinely good intentions and a true socialist ethos — and how that got corrupted by power. It’s incredibly sad to think about all the people who followed him because they believed in…

Yep. I’ve been with my husband 20 years. (We met just before I turned 20.) Married 16. Planning to stay that way for another couple decades, god willing.

This is awful, but am I the only one who thought AJ was a woman until this episode? His name and wardrobe both seemed androgynous to me, and his hair length made me see him as feminine.

It’s the same reason hating Anne Hathaway was a thing for a while. If you’re an attractive, successful woman with a certain amount of earnestness, the easiest thing in the world to do is to tear you down.

Thank you. The whole thing is so dumb. Literally every other pop musician writes songs about relationships, and somehow Taylor is the one who gets called out for being insufficiently thoughtful or whatever. It’s fine if people don’t like her, but the “all she does is write about her exes” thing has always been just so…

Plus she isn’t exactly recording this on her laptop after her shift at Wendy’s. She has access to all the producers, professional songwriters, and backup musicians anyone could want. When you have more resources, you can do things faster.

... and?

It’s not like she grew up rich, either. I’m sure her lizard brain still thinks of $30k as a year’s salary. 

They seem to have moved on to “we need armed citizens, not just armed guards.” Because nothing is safer than a bar full of drunk people with firearms.

Yeah, my son inhaled meconium during his otherwise very fast and easy birth and had to spend a couple nights in NICU because he was having a hard time breathing properly. He was full-term and seemed healthy otherwise so it wasn’t as scary as it could have been, but I still wouldn’t have wanted to be at home when my…

I’m sorry the DNC ignores you, and I’m sorry you put in so much work for nothing. I totally get why you’re frustrated and I’m sorry for sounding elitist.

Is there a breakdown of the West Virginia or Alabama votes by class and race anywhere online? I can’t find one.

It’s getting really hard for me to care about abortion rights in states where women are determined to shoot themselves in the foot this way. If a bunch of nitwits in Alabama and West Virginia are so certain that Jesus loves all the blastocysts that they’re willing to risk a forced pregnancy for themselves or their…

Sigh. All this voter suppression, and nobody’s working on a way to suppress the “complete racist idiot” vote. 

It’s like all the Trump issues - they probably never made a law against it because they never thought anyone would be bold enough to try.

First, even if Abrams ultimately came just short, I think she did a great job just by energizing people and showing what was possible. 49% seems high for a black female Democrat in the deep south; maybe in 2022 she’ll be able to push it over the line.