After posting a lengthy Instagram caption on Sunday night throwing her support behind Tennessee democrats Phil Bredesen and Jim Cooper and urging her more than 112 million followers to register to vote, Taylor Swift has, well, inspired a hell of a lot of people to register to vote.
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What else could the justices do to reassure Americans and bolster the rule of law?
We are in a political environment in which there are no rules, no norms anymore to violate. There is only power, and the individual judgments of individual senators—facing whatever political pressures they face, calculating political gain however they do it, and consulting their consciences to the e…
Change should not demand the bodies of women. It should not demand our sacrifice or our pain.
Not to be crude about it, but politics is what comes out the a**hole. Wouldn't you rather be up front, feeding the horse?
You are not overreacting. You are not being hysterical. You are seeing another example of just how little respect and care we give to survivors. This is traumatizing.
Though marijuana is only fully legal in nine states as of September 2018 (31 states allow for medical marijuana, to varying degrees of access), each new election brings with it the promise of expanding marijuana legalization until it can be adopted federally.
I believe survivors. Those who can and do come forward, and those who cannot or do not choose to. I stand behind Anita Hill, Christine Ford, Deborah Ramirez, Julie Swetnick and all of those whose names I do not know. And I’m eager for this conversation, and the action it inspires, to broaden and dee…
Kavanaugh doesn’t seem to fit neatly into an incel bucket. On one hand, he’s a prototypical “Chad,” an athletic white guy in a powerful social order in an Ivy League school. But on the other hand, that doesn’t dissuade the incels from believing in Kavanaugh’s innocence.
Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, you coast for a while, you have a hell of a closing.
Though in war, you can only get killed once. In politics it can happen over and over.
— Carla Robinson, President Laura Roslin, Mary McDonnell, imdb.com
Politics. As exciting as war. Definitely as dangerous.
— Carla Robinson, Cpt. Lee 'Apollo' Adama, Jamie Bamber, imdb.com
First rule of politics, kiddo: Never let the truth get in the way of a good story.
Yes, wow, a better world is possible. We can win.
Bring it.
I would love to be able to bring back our country into a great form of unity. Without a major event where people pull together, that’s hard to do. But I would like to do it without that major event because usually that major event is not a good thing.
I like conflict. I like having two people with different points of view, and I certainly have that. . . . I like watching it. I like seeing it, and I think it’s the best way to go.
A prominent businessman who does a lot of business with the Soviet Union calls to keep me posted on a construction project I’m interested in undertaking in Moscow. The idea got off the ground after I sat next to the Soviet Ambassador, Yuri Dubinin, at a luncheon held by Leonard Lauder, a great busin…
It’s like zonking yourself out on morphine while the cancer painlessly devours you.
Qué pasa mi raza? This is your girl, La Pinche Chinche. This is a manifesto, mi gente. So grab a pencil and take note, because this morning, I’m saying, ‘Basta.’ The way they shut us down at the city council meeting last night, was some straight bullshit – like if we shouldn’t have a say in how and…