I would offer that Alex Pretti putting his body—with his hands up—between a woman and the BP agent who had just violently shoved her into the snow, offer stark competing visions of manhood. Pretti, a nurse caring for veterans, who took a face full of pepper spray to shield that woman, is a much better masculine ideal that the masked coward shoving the woman and executing a man on his knees. MAGA may venerate the latter, but most people in a healthy society want the former.
another year as a male instacart shopper on the day before thanksgiving. I’m substituting celery for leeks on your order. I’m telling you they’re out of canned cranberry sauce. I have never heard of lettuce.
Let’s be clear. As we celebrate July 4th this year, it is not patriotic to throw 16 million Americans off the health care they have. No member of the House who votes today for this disastrous bill should be re-elected.
Well, it wasn’t easy, but Trump did it.
He ended the several hundred year friendship between the US and Canada — our neighbor and closest ally.
Isolationism is a dumb idea, but going out of your way to get countries around the world to actually hate us is even stupider.
.@LaverneCox: “Trans people are not the reason you can’t afford eggs. We’re not the reason that you can’t afford health care. We’re not the reason that you can’t buy a house or your rent is too high. I think they’re focused on the wrong 1%.”
Showdown of the terrible companies. @AirCanada finally sends (1, not 2) flight disruption check (yay!) over three months after a cancelled flight. Go to deposit via @BankofAmerica app. “Can’t detect signature” and so now I have to wait until I can get to a bank after the holidays
Academic publisher Elsevier's profit margin compared to Apple, Google, and Microsoft
Apple: 28%
Google: 25%
Microsoft: 34%
Elsevier: 37% with a revenue of $3.9 billion.
Elsevier's payment to academic authors and reviewers: $0