Thank you. No, it wasn’t a good thing... but like everything there’s good and bad to it. It was a while ago so I’m mostly past it (although I think if someone tried to handcuff me I’d punch them); it was short-lived; and I think it makes me more empathetic to people who endure similar but worse situations. All said…

It’s hard to switch from “this is a social interaction” to “you are being questioned by an authority” when you’ve been lucky enough not to interact with law enforcement much. At least I got a gut punch lesson on the type of privilege I have from not dealing with this often. And on never, ever, ever making jokes when…

The damage from that experience must have been horrible for both mother and daughter. I hope there’s some legal recourse since they were deceived.

The woman is supposedly friends with Chelsea Clinton. How on earth could one be blindsided if one asked even a single question?

Yeah I’m back in school right now, so it’s common that I’ll be in my bedroom silently for hours studying... when I come out my roommate’s dog goes nuts. Luckily in that case my dog runs back and forth between us reassuring her that I’m not a monster, just a quiet roommate. “No, we like this one!”

That was fairly similar for me. When I adopted my puppy he was kind of afraid of everything. Now he’s very confident that I love the non-existent pants off him and he’s become the happiest and most secure dog.

I have a dog and a step-dog (my roommate’s). They’re both rescues but mine I adopted as a puppy so he’s been super happy and spoiled. He is now 6 months and as a teenager he thinks he’s immortal. BUT he is weirdly afraid of anything that’s sphere-shaped, other than a tennis ball. Like lost it over a piece of glass art…

My friend has regularly met with both Kylie and Kendall in professional settings, and as a surprise to no one says Kendall is sweet and Kylie is a total monster.

My dream campaign is just a ton of really hot ladies in their twenties tweeting him about how they’d never bang him. I’m in my early thirties so I think I’m past his age limit, but if someone made this happen I think he’d have a meltdown.

In 2011 I saw Jonathan Franzen at The Moth and he spoke about this in a pretty moving way. In the end he still kind of wriggles out of it, but I was very struck by the reckoning he’s gone through. Essentially he wrote about the death of a boy he knew as a child, and the boy’s mother was terribly harmed by seeing…

What’s kind of fascinating about this whole thing is that his presidency up-ends the typical trophy wife dynamic. I bet she doesn’t have to do *anything* she doesn’t want to now (I mean, aside from being FLOTUS). It goes from “do what I want or I’ll divorce you and you’ll be poor again” to “sure buddy, divorce me,…