The interesting thing is just how many GOP Senators breathed a sign of relief after John McCain (AND SUSAN COLLINS AND LISA MURKOWSKI) voted down the repeal attempt. This whole process was bungled from the start, and the bill they were trying to push through followed no recognizable process, no time for public…

You’re arguing with the findings of a scientific study in the article and, if you do additional research, more than one study. The American Psychological Association’s official stance is that the current best understanding is that disrespectful treatment and fat shaming in order to attempt to motivate people to change…

I both read and understood the article.

Being an ignoramus is clearly more dangerous than being overweight, and it’s far more voluntary. Educate yourself, then form an opinion, then share it. You skipped step 1.

Yeah, no, that’s not how it works. Opinions are valued based on how informed they are. Given that the article you either didn’t read or didn’t understand goes into how shame doesn’t get people to stop doing the thing they’re being shamed for, in fact it can increase it, there’s no legitimacy to the opinion that people…

I don’t think I can agree.

I didn’t body shame anyone, so I’m not sure why this reply is aimed at me.

Legitimately, there’s nothing more boring than fat-shaming. It’s hilarious to me that people who lecture fat people or make fat jokes actually think they’re worth listening to. No one who matters will give you attention, and you’ll have to scrape the bottom of society for the validation you seem to be seeking in your…

Go to Audible, find Born to Run, as narrated by Fred Sanders. It’s basic af, but it’s nothing if not inspiring to go longer.

It was 304 Electoral College votes that allowed Donald Trump to be the President of the United States of America and now all of those (white) people are changing their minds.

• Why are manhole covers round rather than square?

I mean this predates President Obama by decades, right? Limbaugh, perhaps the Typhoid Mary of this disease, has been polluting the world with his nonsense since the 1980s, whining about affirmative action (can’t believe that’s making a comeback this week) and Jessie Jackson and such. And that’s just as far back as I…

Don’t let the door hit you, you ranch-flavored oligarch.

I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more…

If more white people had their own version of The Talk, perhaps we’d live in a better world.

The law enforcement system, the criminal justice system, the drug war, mandatory minimums, a lack of economic mobility, unequal education, voter suppression laws, felon disenfranchisement.... Did Jim Crow really end? Like, yeah, the legal and social mechanisms are less explicit than they used to be as far as punishing…

“I mean I could try just Instagram modeling and being flown to Dubai, but I bet it would be easy to string together a bunch of idiotic, far-right conservative talking points and be a millennial version of Megyn Kelley. It’d be a unique niche and I’d make a lot of money and get really famous.”

You don’t drink Diet Coke with antiquated social gender norms or a vagina, so what the hell does girly mean?

I did not know this was a thing. Thank you, stranger!

A settlement is better than nothing, but police officers who unlawfully detain and then commit assault against innocent people belong in prison.