“You probably think you’re a Good Guy too. Well, you might be the good guy defending a potential rapist. You might be the good guy making your female friends feel silenced by insisting on interjecting jaunty anecdotes into a serious discussion of a could-be creep. You’re the good guy derailing the uncomfortable conversation, and by extension, any shot of progress and positive change.”
“How Tippi Hedren made Vietnamese refugees into nail salon magnates”.
From the “Look, I Have Always Had Problems With Deadlines” department.
Maybe there was a good reason why nobody had been eager to start trade wars lately.
“We are convinced that mandatory family separation is profoundly harmful to children and to families, in addition to being morally egregious and a violation of fundamental human rights.”
“I see Paul Ryan finally said he’s not comfortable with babies being taken from their mothers. Well hoop de do. He and Corker and Jeff Flake, who are all so brave they’re headed back home (or to K Street to make millions of dollars from whatever remains of the Trump presidency), aren’t going to matter soon anyway. They have been, and have let themselves be, steamrolled.”
Among many other things, Harvey Weinstein is an example of how the cash bail system is broken.
Phishing attacks, y’all. Know how to avoid them.
The importance of Pride Month in Major League Baseball.
By the way, the Brexit-Russia connection is becoming clearer every day.
Kris Kobach deserves a lot more than this, but it’s a start.
Some giant panda news, since I know you like that sort of thing.
“Finding true love is hard. Almost as hard as getting cast on The Bachelor, which guarantees if not a soul mate, then at least a few paychecks for hawking FabFitFun boxes on Instagram. But a shocking pair of recent revelations — that current Bachelorette Becca Kufrin’s pool of suitors includes both a sex offender and a bigot — has made it painfully apparent that the long-running reality series’ casting processes are in desperate need of an overhaul.”
“You should know that Mike Godwin — the guy who came up with Godwin’s Law — is saying that you’re in the clear to make those comparisons.”
“Soerens and the other good people at World Relief are grappling with the dismaying disappointment of realizing that the very same white evangelical Americans they have spent decades educating about the need to minister to immigrants and refugees are the most viscerally and viciously anti-immigrant and anti-refugee group in the country.”
“All presidents are tested now and again, and Trump is failing massively. It’s not quite the first time, and it certainly won’t be the last. Being president of the United States is a difficult job, and Donald Trump has no idea how to do it.”
“On June 23, 1988, a sultry day in Washington, James Hansen told Congress and the world that global warming wasn’t approaching — it had already arrived. […] Thirty years later, it’s clear that Hansen and other doomsayers were right. But the change has been so sweeping that it is easy to lose sight of effects large and small — some obvious, others less conspicuous.”
“A new group called Lawyer Moms of America, formed to oppose separation of immigrant families, has quickly grown to 10,000 members, thanks to social media.”
“In a week of crazy lying and horribles, this Trumpian tweet below stood out to me. It speaks directly to the core of Trumpism, and why Trumpism is failing as a governing approach.”
RIP, Koko, the sign-language-using gorilla.
RIP, Mildred McWhorter, founder of the Mission Centers of Houston.
“But that’s not the best part. Kobach chose to personally represent Kansas in this case, and he persistently flouted the rules of evidence by failing to disclose documents and repeatedly trying to introduce new data that he had not given opposing lawyers a chance to see:”
As I’ve said before, IANAL, but even I know that there are rules to follow regarding evidence. In addition to these shenanigans, we still see stories about convictions overturned because the prosecution didn’t turn over potentially exculpatory evidence to the defense. Despite the fact that they are required to do so. WTF is with these people? They slept through that particular law school class? I wish we had a 3 strikes rule here- get busted flouting the rules of evidence in 3 separate cases, and you are permanently disbarred.