The timing of this is insane. This weekend is Berkeley Law’s admitted students weekend. One of the events is an invite-only brunch at Dean Choudhry’s house. I can only imagine how this is influencing the hundreds of women (and men!) contemplating their acceptances to BOALT. Glad it’s coming out at this point in the…

On the plus side (and correct me if I’m wrong here, legal Jezzies), but at least the insertion of that “doctors must have receiving privileges” bit means that when the Supreme Court strikes down that awful Texas bill (fingers crossed!) that requires admitting privileges, that this law would be struck down as well? If…

I just don’t want Kim Kardashian to be the poster child for body positivity and anti-slut-shaming. There are many many better spokespeople for that message, seriously almost anyone beyond a woman who is, to me, the literal embodiment of self-serving, self-interested capitalistic excess.

But activists make a difference too. Telling an activist that, to make a difference, she needs to become a politician is like telling nurses and EMTs and medical researchers that in order to make a difference, they should become doctors. It ignores three basic facts: 1) that politicians (and constituents) are…

But, like...what exactly does “improving trans communities” mean? Who is getting this money? Are they legit? Or is it just a “Caitlin Jenner Center for Improving Transgender Communities Who Want to Learn to Be Good” situation where the organization technically exists but actually does fuck all?

I am excited, as an atheist Jew, if only cos Bernie could never and would never pull the Jesus-centric shit that the Republicans won’t shut up about. This country is not about you, Christians. It’s not about Jews either. It’s about all of us. Deal with it.

But did he obtain those guns legally or illegally? I mean, I’m 100% for background checks, but I’m 110% for, like, banning all assault weapons always and forever, cos background checks will do jack shit to the black market on guns.

Yup, Venezuelan Bernie-supporter right here as well. The problem in Venezuela is not, at least not completely, socialism, although Venezuela’s particular brand of socialism is reinforced by and reinforces Venezuela’s particular brand of corruption. Bernie would be a radically different experience.

The worst part is, it’s not just about the back alley breeder. It’s about the poachers and whatnot capturing them in the wild. The exotic pet trade is a huge but rarely discussed threat to many of the world’s more adorable endangered species.

Although I will say, very satisfying to see that the evocation of “Losing You” was approps - Melina Matsoukas directed that one also!

No need to be so aggro, at the time that I wrote this most sources cited Beyonce as the director of the video. I just looked it up again, and almost all the articles/websites I read with that information on it yesterday have updated it. Be kind with your corrections, dude, and don’t shoot the messenger.

Also worth noting that Beyonce directed this one herself - she’s co-directed some of her other videos, but I think this is only her second stab at solo directing, with “7-11" being the first.

And just, like, tired. I was over it before it even started.

This is the best set of prints and the worst set of cut-outs that I’ve ever seen on a red carpet.

I don’t understand. She’s Republican because she thinks the party aligns with her social values, but she’s supporting that particular Republican candidate because he aligns with her economic values (let’s assume here that economic values are separable from social values), although he seems completely against the…

My favorite thing about conversations around downgrading species from endangered classification is that it is usually initiated by people whose thought process is “That thing that we stopped doing that allowed this species to rebound? We’d like to start doing it again, thanks. There’s enough of them now that we can…

AGREED

Remember when you couldn’t make out Fall Out Boy’s lyrics? Those were the good days...

Now I’m just going through all their old videos. Much better way of spending my time.

I keep watching in hopes that one of their new videos might capture the whimsy and talent and charm of their earlier stuff...alas, they somehow just keep getting WORSE (this song/video is so so so bad). I may grow out of many things, but hope will never be one of them! FIGHT ME