You just have to be that guy. I feel sorry you can’t enjoy a bath.

Trump for his whole life: I’m smart because I don’t pay taxes!

My respect checked out on that line as well. The rest of me stayed to finish it. I enjoyed the quotes from the Native activists htemselves, but not so much the paragraphs surrounding them.

Exactly this. I’d be interested to hear the story of the Brooklyn natives that were pushed out to make room in whichever neighborhood Ms. Merlin lives in, or the feelings toward tourists who are trying on on an urban ‘Brooklyn’ look as fashion.

I do find this article confusing for the very reason you point out. There are good points that should be made and voices that should be amplified, but the uncritical first person and family accounts of what seems to be a fairly privileged position of whiteness really weaken her position to be taking a stance against…

But they don’t come here for the people. They don’t really come here for the land. That’s something that really bothers me. They got off the plane, get in the rental car, drive around, consume, consume, consume, then they take off. And they don’t do anything to recognize the people who have lived here and who still…

I stopped reading at “At the same time that Santa Fe and Taos undergo a massive and perhaps irreversible gentrification process.” FFS, Taos is a goddamned ski resort and has been an artist colony since 1899. Georgia O’Keeffe moved to Santa Fe in 1984. Both these places were gentrified before this person was even born.…

It takes me weeks back in Brooklyn to recover.

It’s not illegal and stupid to accelerate through a person?

Well Prince’s estate surely has grounds to sue.

Thank you jinni! And yes, knowledge and growth came from growing up like that and having a family like that. I’m the opposite of my mother, personality wise, and I’m happy with the peaceful relationships I have.

To survive in that insane family with a narcissistic witch mother and flying monkey family members, I hid as much of myself, my feelings, everything, just so that stuff didn’t get trampled on and used against me. So, basically everything in me has been pushed down because of said terrible family situation where I was…

Yeah, I’d want that shower as well. There’s no doubt that this news got the original posted video pulled.

Our state capital is Frankfort, with an “o”. 20 counties sounds like a lot unless you know we have 120 counties. Glad this is happening though, my mother is a retired KY teacher. Support teachers!

It’s wryly amusing to see Republicans pass legislation crushing teachers at every turn, complain when teachers push back. Yes, you can consider that they are throwing a temper tantrum, or you can acknowledge that they are grown professionals who you are (probably) hoping will carry a gun to shoot intruders and then go…

THANK FUCKING GOD THIS STORY FINALLY BROKE. I use to work in animation. “Use to” being the key phrase here. It is such a toxic environment for women; an environment in which we’ve had to keep silent for so long. I have my own road to get my truth out and I can’t wait till it finally gets out there.

...his attorney writes that the 1990s were a time of “mental and emotional fragility” for Kricfalusi and that he has stabilized his life over the past decade.

And we are supposed to just give him a pass because he had “emotional fragility”? He had a hard time, so all is forgiven? Fucking hell.