Turns out Matt Bruenig was nicer than Neera Tanden deserved.

I didn’t grow up in the Midwest, but that shit did and does happen outside the south. I grew up in wealthy, suburban Orange County and I personally saw a skit where the cheerleaders wore blackface at a high school assembly in 1988. (Google “El Modena cheerleaders blackface” - not only does the story come up, but it…

Dude, pretty sure you mean youngest woman ever elected. Because there are other current politicians who were younger than AOC when they were first elected to Congress (Harold Ford, Aaron Schock). God only knows how many Kennedy kids meet the category, but I bet it’s at least two.

Such a sad story, and such an important one. Thanks.

When I was in elementary school, I was in the “gifted” school, and the way the district got us to the school each day was to have buses get us from the individual elementary schools in the morning and take us to our school. They evidently did something similar with the special ed kids, and at one point they decided to…