I hope she pays people really really well then. Sometimes executives/rich people just have an expectation that people should be working as hard as they are, without thinking about the fact that they are probably making 1/1000 (if that) of their pay.

I realize this isn’t a popular opinion but this war on opiods is severely misguided. The truth is only a small percentage of people prescribed narcotics actually become addicts.  Don't get me wrong, the drug companies greatly contributed to the crisis but I'm sick of politicians patting themselves on the back for…

Yep, Portugal. Here’s some good reading to start with:

Yep, it was in Portugal (the entire country), and it was/is successful -- significantly reducing overdose deaths and HIV transmission, amongst other things. 

Spain did this (not the whole country - just one state/region as a pilot project, and now that I think about it, it might have been Portugal...it’s been a few years since I read about it). The region was extremely economically depressed and had a huge drug problem, and I think the leaders were just like FUCK IT, we’re…

“drug users aren’t only victims of addiction; they’re people who have made the unwise choice to develop a drug habit and the continued choice to not rectify it”

Interesting article.  Thanks

I’m an Old. I listened to every moment of the Thomas hearings and could not believe what I was hearing. It was ... shocking.

We’re in a stagnated, unhealthy, constipated, political stalemate. The media frames our politics based on their patronage of Donald Trump news 24/7. The Democratic party is afraid to test their constituency. They would rather read polls. They have no media presence. The president has commanded the media for 3…

I think you miss the point.

Oh for fuck’s sake not the 3 dimensional chess bullshit!

People who couch it as “free stuff” are peak disingenuous and intellectually lazy. 

It’s not grandstanding, it’s taking an actual stand and fighting for what is right. Pelosi and the anti-impeachment crowd can create a list of triggers that would lead to an impeachment, but they don’t even want to do that. They are afraid of their own shadow.

Yesyesyes!

Jezebel has some WEIRD, WEIRD dynamics around this stuff. But yeah, there are sane progressives here who don’t want to just aggressively re-litigate 2016 and gnash their teeth about “bernie bros”.

True. But it’s also true that she said it, and led it, and it seriously fucked up millions of Black lives while giving abundant cover to liberal White Supremacists everywhere. And it’s effects aren’t even over yet.

Don’t forget the Voting rights act was essentially gutted. 

Well, Hillary Clinton received the lowest percentage of the white vote (37 percent) of any presidential candidate—Democrat or Republican—in 32 years. According to the Washington Post, more than one-third of the 4.4 million Obama voters who stayed home during the 2016 presidential election were black.