I’m not going to argue research because I agree it’s a huge issue (and not just with Jez); my issue was with moderates telling progressives to trust McConnell. I would be more likely to trust Liz Cheney, blech, over Mitch, but she isn't the one shaking Biden's hand on this. 

I’m just going to come out and say it:

I really don’t understand this marketing campaign for The Flash.

Hillary won the popular vote, and lost the Electoral College which is based on a two part selection process (https://www.archives.gov/electoral-college/electors). That bullshit line about progressives not turning out has no bearing on why Hillary didn’t pass the EC- that’s strictly on ill-informed voters:

Depp/Ryder was the first celebrity couple that I cared about and I remember being sad when they broke up. But it looks like she dodged a bullet there.

I’ll cut her some slack. That’s an extremely niche thing to know.

In like 5-10 years I want to see Britney and Meghan Markle talk about their awful families and how far they’ve come since cutting ties. Maybe on a panel moderated by Drew Barrymore.

Codifying gay marriage and other gay rights is a move that the Dem party could attempt, since previous SCOTUS rulings obviously can’t be relied on as un-reversible. Maybe such an attempt -and others- would fail, but are they even willing to discuss the option? Will they expend any actual effort to address this issue…

THEIR freedom.

On Downton Abbey franchise, star Hugh Bonneville says, “It might be the right time to stop.” Might????????

Same-sex intimacy is a sin because it can’t produce children. So, do the Lord’s work, Ken Paxton: ban all non-procreative sex from Texas. If you’ve ever given or received oral sex, off to jail with you. Better not find any porn in your search history; that towel can’t get pregnant.

I assume everyone is suitably terrified to see which cases the Court chooses to hear next. There’s so much more damage that can and will be done, especially in the face of a Democratic party leadership that has no plan and appears to be willing to do exactly nothing to counter any of this.

The party that is always prattling on about freedom, right to privacy, and limited government demonstrates once again their willingness to throw all those things away when it comes to anybody they don’t like - women, LGBTQ+, Blacks, Muslims, Mexicans, and Democrats.

Orville Peck’s Bronco is probably my favorite album so far this year.

Who’s helping to elect Republicans? Are you implying that anything less than uncritical enthusiasm is actually "helping Republicans"?

They are very good at itemizing all the things they can’t/won’t do, but very thin on details of what they will do. We know how it turns out when they have “many arrows in their quiver”...

Maybe we should try things... even if they won’t immediately work? We might even try things that don’t work, but eventually something that will work?

I start fucking screaming every time an elected official’s full response is “vote!” Also this is nothing: “I think that what is most important right now... that we do everything we can to empower women to not only seek but receive the care where it is available” Empower them how? Tell us literal, concrete things you…

their, or anyone’s, ability to travel to a different state shouldn’t really matter. just because someone has the means to bypass an issue doesn’t mean that they can’t think the issue is a problem. if they reach people and make them aware, or more aware, of the problem, hopefully those people vote. at this point, it’s…

I’m glad they’re not only speaking out, but putting their money where their mouth is, which is more than we can say for most politicians on either side of the aisle these days. Since Trump I’ve developed the belief more and more that the country’s government as a whole frankly needs to be...ahem... overhauled. Just…