It's vile. And completely detached from reality. If anything, the push should be to disaggregate better. I was looking at a funder's data recently and noticed a perfect breakdown of male/female project beneficiaries. No NA or unknown. Really? I asked. No answer. It's already by sex, and sloppy AF.

I liked this line: "Only chumps make money by selling goods or services these days; the real geniuses rely on management fees, deal fees, dividend recapitalizations, real estate deals, and the like."

Mike Johnson could stand next to his mother and deny knowing her. His ability to shamelessly lie and spin is really extraordinary.

And calling his dad's cousin "Aunt" is a lie? That's bull. I get the initial questions, but as soon as he named a specific female older cousin, this should've died. Maybe Snopes could've explained familial terms among non-white families. In South Asia, you don't even have to be related to be Auntie.

This is idiotic and racist. Mamdani himself said he wasn't referring to what Americans strictly define as an "aunt," but to an older female relative he called "aunt," as literally billions of people do around the world. It's naked xenophobia to treat this as a controversy.

A modest suggestion for anyone providing supermarket gift cards: Can you do Market Basket instead of Stop & Shop? Every dollar counts, and S&S is significantly pricier, by at least 10-20% on most items and as much as 50% on some.

It's also dickish and condescending towards working-class white people. It says they're just too stupid/primitive to not be racist, even if you call them out on it and invite them, in good faith, to be part of a multiracial coalition that treats EVERYONE with respect and dignity. Not OK. (3 of 3)

This reads a lot like what apologists for Plattner have been doing in recent days. It boils down to a sort of [white] "boys will be boys" that seems remarkably similar to what JD Vance has been saying about his own people. And it effectively steers Plattner away from genuine contrition. (2 of 3)

I agree, but there's no reason not to use rainy day funds to protect vulnerable Mass. residents in the meantime. Do you think 🎃 or anyone in the GOP cares if people in blue states go hungry? There's nothing to lose politically, and their immorality does not excuse your inaction.

Wait, where? Pierogi 😍😍😍

If I were in one of these African countries I'd be like, surely it's not good for tourism that DHS is choosing us for punitive deportations? CR volunteered and it makes lots of sense fora fellow Central American, but it's not what DHS perceives as a hell hole.