I vividly remember an incident that happened over 20 years ago, when I was in my early twenties. I was sitting in a train, on my way to Christmas dinner, in a nice velvet dress, and a guy with very bad skin sat next to me. I felt super uncomfortable, and was chastising myself for it because I had no reason to feel…

The Dems are being smart about this and linking Trump to all the down-ballot GOP candidates. They have a very real chance of taking the Senate, and a not-totally-unrealistic chance of taking the House, too.

If they have all of this shit lined up and are releasing it for maximum effect... Well, these next couple weeks are going to be the best Season of House of Cards ever.

Right. If a trans woman walks into a women’s restroom to pee, it’s an affront to all we hold sacred. If Donald Trump walks into a women’s restroom to look at undressed women, it’s LOL boys will be boys high five bro.

So I typed out this whole sarcastic remark about it being just words and locker room talk and Bill Clinton yada yada and then I was like NOPE! I’m over joking about this, even in our circle at the Slot. We have to continue calling out the monsters that normalize this kind of discourse which makes it ok to sexually…

every half brother is some woman’s whole son.

As the owner of a male dog, I salute Brendan’s courage.

One of the heartbreaking things about the Trump video is how many women see it as confirmation that this is just how men talk. We don’t.

I can’t stop picturing Hillary Clinton kissing her fingers and pressing them to her wallet sized photo of Beyoncé for good luck before each speech. “We got this, Bey...who run the world?”

Wow, Rudy’s really showing his age.

This makes sense. I couldn’t imagine the actual Donald thinking, before these speeches, “these are the racist points I want to make, and here is how I’ll cloak them.” But if he’s surrounded by people saying “this election is going to be stolen by people in the inner cities,” he’s just absorbing it without thought (or…

Fun fact: that is not actually a stuffed animal! It’s their favorite maid Florencia in a lion costume. The Trumps wanted to include her in the family photo because they love her so much they practically feel like they own her!

Love story, schmove story — it’s about money and power and dysfunction.

I don’t watch that but it sounds like the bug guy in Men In Black.

And I was so hearing Mom voice from Martha Raddatz. That tight, at-the- end-of-patience tone that one uses with a tantrumy kid, while privately considering if there are boarding schools in the middle of the Sahara, and if said school can be afforded.

Oh, that one gives me nightmares, too. I try not to look at Uday’s face much.

This cut brings home to me something I hadn’t really noticed while watching the debate. There’s a huge charisma differential. Huge. Even when the camera and lights are on him, and he’s talking, she’s the one I’m looking at.

The entire time I would be on stage repeating “do not twirl” over and over again in my head.