I don’t have any advice, but I’m in exactly the same place. I graduate in May, am completely freaked about the job/fellowship/whatever search (also in public policy!), and am falling way behind on my thesis. I know it can sometimes feel like everyone else is in a better place than you, but I promise that all of us…

What a horrible and untrue statement.

Okay but that was a bad joke made by a sixty-something year old woman. The DNC has no excuse for not hiring a twenty something to run their twitter. Like come on, guys, if Wendy’s can figure this out so can you.

I’m 21 and don’t watch the videos either, but that’s mostly because I read Jez in the library while I’m putting off working on my thesis.

I mean I’m all for putting up a fight literally everywhere but Susan Collins is ridiculously popular in Maine. She won every single county in 2014. She’s also not up until 2020.

So fun (?) fact about Alabama, they have super short civil statutes of limitations but no statute of limitation for sexual abuse of a minor in criminal cases. I mean, not that the DA is going to bring charges anyway, but there’s no time limit for his assault of a 14 year old.

If you like polling this Survey Monkey report is really interesting. They took the same results and depending on how they modeled turnout got everywhere from an 8 point Jones lead to a 10 point Moore lead

Happy SNS!

I completely agree re: the second half of season 6. Season 7 gets a lot of shit because no one can write like ASP but at least it felt like the season 7 writers were trying. Most of season 6 feels to me like ASP trying to blow the show up out of spite.

I’m confused about this, the two narratives I keep seeing are that Minnesota is super blue or that it’s trending red but neither of those seem true to me based on its electoral history?? Dayton was the first Dem governor there in 20 years and their senators flip back and forth all the time. Hasn’t it just always been…

I’m pretty sure being Republican is in the LDS handbook

Yes! These are the ones I was talking about

His resignation statement sounds a whole lot like he tried to force women who worked for him to act as surrogates which if true jesus fucking christ a Handmaid’s Tale reference feels too on the nose.

Against my own fashion snob inclinations I bit the bullet and bought ugg snow boots last year and they are now the most comfortable thing I own. I seriously look forward to the winter so that I can wear these babies.

I’m curious why you don’t think Peggy Flanagan is a realistic choice? I agree that a lot of these choices aren’t super realistic (and admittedly I’m not a Minnesotan) but some quick research makes her look like a really good choice.

Consider this, though: there are probably a hundred people who work on the show that expected to have one more year of steady paychecks. Something that I think is worth grappling with is how we take down abusive powerful men without massive collateral damage. Recentering stories on women is one way to do so.

Pamela Anderson’s is obviously a bad take (and I can’t for the life of me understand her lionization of Assange) but, and this might be an unpopular opinion, I’m way more willing to forgive this kind of thing from women who have themselves been victims of sexual violence than anyone else. When I was assaulted I…

Any chance you’ll direct me towards the recipe for that ham/potato/leek soup? It looks incredible!!

Autotune absolute can be used like an instrument. I’m not defending the way it’s used in a lot of pop music, but for instance the way T-Pain uses it is absolutely part of the instrumentation of the song.