US media is too busy running “inspiring” stories about old men walking 8 miles to work each day, or dads working 7 days a week at 3 jobs to buy their daughters a grad dress, or students going RIGHT back to work after getting seriously injured in car accidents, because the REAL story is that perseverance leads to succe…

I’ve linked it before and I’ll link it again. Last time this came up (when Bernie was making a splash about single-payer healthcare in 2016), the Citations Needed podcast covered extensively why the “it’s way too expensive” narrative is complete and utter bullshit. In fact, they dismantle the very notion that the US…

Did this piece even have an editor? For the love of god, Jez, you are dealing with people’s intimate stories here. What are your standards for reporting on them?

She has started a GoFundMe to help care for her three young grandchildren, who are now left without a mother.

If you are a person who thinks “But how are we going to pay for it?!?!”
has even a shred of validity, have I got a podcast for you! This is a fascinating deconstruction of the way the Republicans (and therefore the media) talk about the budget in order to control the narrative, and how the thinking about the deficit,…

Good to know US enforcement agencies will prioritize prosecuting mothers who overstayed visas over actual violent offenders who may have harmed children. Yep, this system seems to be working great.

Not surprising at all if you actually LISTEN to those 10-year-olds, instead of just pearl-clutching at their signs.

Counterpoint: If you think your son being named after a black person means you can’t be racist, you are probably a racist.

It really demonstrates how “pro-life” just means “against women.” Want the abortion you are legally entitled to? Nope, too bad. Want insurance for medical care to help with your pregnancy? Also no. Think you might be having a miscarriage and need care ASAP? Work that out with God. Want support raising and caring for…

This is completely insane! What’s next? Criminalizing GUNS?!

And to think, my local clinic gives these “instruments of crime” out FOR FREE!

If you think that manipulating someone into lying still and not resisting so that you can ignore the fact that they are CRYING and have sex with their motionless body is the same thing as “giving consent,” then you can look forward to a very long life of involuntary celibacy.

...is what Hardwick should have thought before trying to get Dykstra blacklisted for leaving him.

You mean apart from trying to have Dykstra blacklisted for breaking up with him? I know you must be furious about that, since your primary concern is people being fired without proof of wrongdoing.

It’s been corroborated that Hardwick tried to have Dykstra blacklisted just for breaking up with him. THAT is ruining someone’s career without proof of wrongdoing. Dykstra’s claims against him ARE substantiated. She is the victim of what you are describing, not Hardwick.

I can understand her disappointment. I believe Gilbert was the one who really rallied the original cast and pitched the reboot. This version was more her baby than Roseanne’s. That said, it was never going to get far with Roseanne involved, and they should have all seen this coming.

That dress is the first thing Villanelle did that made me out-and-out shriek with delight (but far from the last). My partner and I often fondly recall the brilliance of “the tantrum dress.” That said, I would never wear anything resembling it in the real world.

Psst... Defending this asshole’s dumb point of view? Makes you sound really unfuckable. Just in case no one’s told you.

“Have sex with me so I don’t murder people.”

For a VERY interesting take on this story, I strongly recommend the Reckonings Podcast episode with Preston Shipp. Shipp was the prosecutor who argued in favour of Cyntoia’s sentence... then got to know her once she was in prison. He talks about how badly the criminal justice system failed her, and how her case helped…