....a well known law professor with a personal connection to Kavanaugh who doesn’t actually make a liberal case for why he’d be great for the court apart from the fact that his former student is studious. And he hilariously proposes that Democrats pledge to vote for him in exchange for Kavanaugh answering all fair…

New York is a company town: the business is high level finance and big ticket real estate. The New York Times is a company newspaper. To the extent that we identify “right wing” with pro-corporate, anti-worker, elitist, and, when necessary, pro-authoritarian, the New York Times is for sure a right wing newspaper.

Kavanaugh has stated outright that presidents shouldn’t be indicted...

I’m sure a woman 10 years from now, weeping over her positive pregnancy test after being raped, will wipe her tears away, take a deep breath, and say “well, at least Brett Kavanaugh went to Yale.”

We do get the fly the Trump blimp next week though!

Thank you for pointing this out. My reaction to reading “‘one of my attorneys.’” was “He’s not your attorney.” 

“That whole God made Trump president bullshit”

Here is the immoral pig defining hypocrisy:

From the RI story

The Democrats have done nothing but dangle centrists potatoes for decades and it hasn’t worked. It wasn’t the progressive wing of the party that wanted Romneycare 2.0, or years of silence about DOMA/DADT, or a doubling down on ‘sensible’ neoliberalism while the working class rapidly disappeared.

My question is -…

In ‘On Tyranny,’ Timothy Snyder writes, “In a Hodge novel, the protagonist notes that you never know, when you make love for the last time, that you are making love for the last time. Voting is like that. Some of the Germans who voted for the Nazi Party in 1932 no doubt understood that this might be the last…

We have passed the point of compromise and niceties

Spineless fucks.

That’s actually the same point I made in another comment. As it stands, the industry created itself a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Easy: the boundary is where actors of a particular identity are marginalized and silenced in favor of the voices of the powerful.

preach! the last time Scarjo had to fight for a role was 15+ years ago. meanwhile those two struggling actors both said no to roles which would have given them quite a bit of money because they know their place and ironically enough the good publicity from doing that got them much better roles. turning down those…

Johansson is a producer, and ABSOLUTELY a powerful enough star to publicly say “this role should be filled by a trans actor” and be listened to. This imaginary situation where Johansson suddenly becomes expendable despite being fairly recently among the best-paid actresses in Hollywood is a bizarre fantasy that…

It’s the responsibility of trans people to stop themselves being oppressed by faux-allies like Johansson?

She got paid, she doesn’t care.

Because her taking it actively prevents trans people from using their own voices in a system where they already experience extraordinary marginalization and erasure. She’s an active participant in the oppression of trans folks by taking this role. How is that not clear?