everyone: that otter is adorable
evolution: thanks, it has pockets https://t.co/Q3GjwZL4Ky— Ashley Hamer (@smashleyhamer) May 23, 2019
I love the way otter dude whips out his clam, like a man in a suit jacket pulling out his cigarette case. (Doesn’t offer to share his clams, you’ll notice.)
Also, the tweet text is a sneaky snarky feminist riff… as anyone who’s tried to find a dress that’ll let you carry your wallet & phone already knows.
The women of @TheView are practically begging @JoeBiden to make a more direct apology to Anita Hill. And it appears he continues to be unwilling to do so
— Mike Memoli (@mikememoli) April 26, 2019
Silver lining argument: It’s a good thing we’ve advanced enough that — for Democratic politicians, at least — it’s a problem when someone’s been ‘merely’ disrespectful / dismissive of women, without being actual rapists or pathological horndogs. Kinda like it was a problem for a certain long-term politician who praised then-candidate Barack Obama as “clean and articulate” back in 2007. Obama forgave Biden then; will voters (especially women voters, and voters of color) be as understanding today?
Jane Mayer, who was there for the hearings, at the New Yorker:
… Predictably, Biden was asked if he should have given Hill a fuller and more personal apology. Biden again stopped short of blaming himself, saying, “I did everything in my power to do what I thought was within the rules.” He then added, “I don’t think I treated her badly.”
Biden failed to acknowledge that, as the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee in 1991, he set many of “the rules” that damaged Hill and determined the over-all fairness of the process. As Jill Abramson and I reported in our 1994 book about the Thomas confirmation fight, “Strange Justice,” several of Biden’s Democratic colleagues in the Senate later acknowledged that, in his eagerness to be impeccably fair to all sides, Biden got outmaneuvered by the Republicans. That left Hill and, ultimately, the truth undefended. As Howard Metzenbaum, a crusty Democrat from Ohio, later admitted, “Joe bent over too far backwards to accommodate the Republicans, who were going to get Thomas on the Court come hell or high water.” An adviser to Ted Kennedy, the Massachusetts liberal whose own womanizing eroded his credibility, was more critical still, saying, “Biden agreed to the terms of the people who were out to disembowel Hill.”
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Chewbacca frolicking among the cherry blossoms @darth pic.twitter.com/HrT6PuyY0P
— Ashley Durkin-Rixey (@ashleydrixey) April 8, 2019
Looks to me like Chewbacca is pondering the evanescence of beauty… and the perky cluenessness of the human animal. (Also, as the Spousal Unit pointed out, those are magnolia petals… )
Speaking of the deliberately obtuse:
Great @CNN coverage of an Important new @NUjournalism study that shows women running for president are being covered more negatively than men: https://t.co/tMe37Gv8az Here’s the study: https://t.co/G5nrbHY1Ro pic.twitter.com/BwjxUBFOrq
— Dan Kennedy (@dankennedy_nu) April 9, 2019
why don’t the female candidates do more things that are fun and relatable like *squints at writing on hand* reading Ulysses?
this can’t be right hang on— Alexandra Petri (@petridishes) April 9, 2019
Warning: the media seem determined to make the next Democratic nominee for president an old white man. Almost any old white man will do.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) April 9, 2019
I can see past Warren practically being ignored right now to two years into the future when we are inundated with think pieces retroactively appreciating all her thoughtful policy proposals and wondering why the hell she wasn’t on the ticket.
— Schooley (@Rschooley) April 9, 2019
Nasa cancels all-female spacewalk, citing lack of suit in woman's size https://t.co/gv6qZl1oDp
— The Guardian (@guardian) March 26, 2019
“Make another suit,” said former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. https://t.co/wrrj6byCIt
— Vogue Magazine (@voguemagazine) March 26, 2019
At the same time, in another sterling example of the GOP ‘Billions for bullshit, but not one cent for science’ offensive…
Trump wants NASA to get US astronauts to the moon in five years “by any means necessary," Pence said. @VP was pretty critical of NASA. He said if NASA can't achieve this goal, need to change the organization, "not the mission."https://t.co/HcKCjzCevt
— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) March 26, 2019
send mike pence https://t.co/J7hmUmRyDT
— darth™ (@darth) March 27, 2019
Serious explanation, from someone who’s not a moron:
Let's talk about spacesuits, specifically Extravehicular Mobility Units, and being a #ladyastronaut.
The EMUs on the ISS were designed more than 40 years ago, with a 15-year shelf life.
11 of the original 18 are still in use.
Only 4 are on the ISS.
Those are the only EMUs. https://t.co/hZPLD7PV99
— Mary Robinette Kowal (@MaryRobinette) March 26, 2019
What people actually mean when they say they want “non-political” comics like when they were kids is that they’re devastated to have woken up one day as an adult, read a comic book, and realized they’d grown up to become the kind of person their childhood hero punches in the face
— Andy Khouri (@andykhouri) March 6, 2019
Whoever decided Captain Marvel's release date should coincide with #IWD deserves a bonus for top tier trolling of the misogynist manbabies.
— Danielle Blake (@abradacabla) March 8, 2019
We are SJWs and we leave the house. https://t.co/bcVK8YhgUJ
— Schooley (@Rschooley) March 10, 2019
Director of FANTASTIC FOUR ?? pic.twitter.com/hKea0bQjK5
— Dana Schwartz (@DanaSchwartzzz) March 10, 2019
Elsewhere: Engage, Magic Lasso of Truth:
On Instagram @GalGadot rebukes @netanyahu: "Love your neighbor like yourself. It's not about right or left, Jew or Arab.. It's about dialogue, talking peace, equality and patience for each other. The responsibility to sow hope and light for a better future for our kids is on us." pic.twitter.com/kRbKsukji8
— Batya Ungar-Sargon (@bungarsargon) March 10, 2019
Per the Washington Post:
… With less than a month to go before Israelis head to the polls on April 9, the long-serving leader [Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu], who is hoping for reelection in a tight race, publicly challenged on Sunday one of the country’s most popular celebrities — model and TV presenter Rotem Sela.
In the process, he seems to have sparked the ire of Israeli actress Gal Gadot — better known as Wonder Woman.
Sela, [whose] face adorns billboards across the country and who appears on Israeli television in one reality show or another almost every night, had aired concerns about the way Israel’s Arab population is being used in a derogatory manner during the campaign…
In his weekly cabinet meeting Sunday, Netanyahu reiterated his message to Sela, stating: “I want to respond to a few people who are confused. The state of Israel is not a nation-state of all its citizens; other minorities have a national representation in other countries.”…
Writing to her 28.2 million followers on Instagram, the “Wonder Woman” actress made clear her support for Sela:
“Loving your neighbor as yourself is not a matter of right-left, Jewish-Arab, secular or religious, it is a matter of dialogue, of dialogue for peace, equality and tolerance for each other,” Gadot wrote in Hebrew. “The responsibility for such hope is on us to create a brighter future for our children. Rotem, my sister, you’re an inspiration for us all.”…