u/lovelyyecats

Hello all! I'm in my late 20s and I've finally gotten my driver's license. I'm looking to buy a used car from Carvana, and I'm trying to figure out the process of setting up auto insurance with USAA. I'm a USAA member through my dad, and I have renter's insurance with them now. I didn't have a USAA policy because I only just got my license, and when I had my permit, I was insured through my parents' policy. (I believe I'm still on my parents' policy, even though I don't have a car and I'm not driving theirs anymore).

How would this work? Would I schedule my car pickup with Carvana, and then call USAA on the day of my car pickup and set up an insurance policy then? Should I call/tell USAA about my plans in advance? Do they set up an entirely new policy or transfer my parents' policy over to me? (Note: I don't live with my parents anymore, so our addresses are different).

Thanks!

Unsure how this could affect food companies adding new allergens to foods that didn’t have them before. Specifically, maybe this could slow bread companies adding sesame seeds/flour to their bread?

What are your thoughts?

Hi all! I graduated from law school in 2023, and I went straight into back to back clerkships. I’m now finishing up my second clerkship and I’ll be starting with my third (and last! 😩) clerkship in the fall. So, I’ll be all wrapped up in fall 2027.

I’m excited for my next clerkship, but frankly, I’m pretty burned out. I would really love to take some time off after clerking to do some traveling and recuperate before starting my next job.

My question is: would it look negative to employers if I were to have a 3-5 month gap in my resume after clerking? I’m not looking to apply to big law, but basically everything else is on the table (mid size/small firms, government, nonprofits, etc.).

Thanks!

On the off chance that Tim or Sarah or someone at the Bulwark sees this, I want to genuinely try to engage with the question that Sarah had on the recent TNL (and the question they've been grappling with on TNL for a while): Why aren't young people protesting in as large numbers as Trump 2.0?

I just turned 29 years old. When I was 19, Trump was elected for the first time - it was my first presidential election, and I was crushed. But I dusted myself off and took a Megabus to D.C. for the Women's March. It didn't stop Trump from becoming president. It didn't stop the overturning of Roe v. Wade.

When I was 20, I participated in marches for science, climate awareness, and reducing dependency on oil. I wrote letters to congresspeople, and I picketed Republicans and Democrats. It didn't stop "drill baby drill," not even under Biden. Nobody cares anymore about how we're destroying our planet, I guess.

When I was 21, I participated in the March for our Lives to protest gun deaths. Some blue states passed more gun laws, but no national laws. And even looser restrictions in red states. Gun violence has only gone up since then.

When I was 23, I participated in the BLM protests. We held vigils, and we picketed police stations and legislatures. We asked for specific reforms to the use of force, we campaigned for and supported progressive prosecutors, we passed bail reform measures. And then we got yelled at by moderates for not being "tough on crime" enough and for somehow getting Republicans elected as a result.

When I was 24, Joe Biden became president. And it seemed like maybe things could actually begin to get better.

When I was 26, October 7 happened, and I was out in the streets in support of the Israeli civilians who were brutally murdered. That was good. And when Israel began its campaign of ethnic cleansing, I was out on the streets in support of the Palestinian civilians who were being brutally murdered. But that was apparently bad. I have never been treated more poorly by counterprotesters, by police, by institutional actors, than I was at those protests. We were punched and tear-gassed, and we weren't even occupying any college campuses - we just dared to be protesting the same thing as those students. And then I went home and turned on the news and heard over and over again how we were all antisemites for protesting a genocide.

When I was 27, I voted for Kamala. I convinced every single one of my Kamala-hesitant and Democratic cynical friends to vote for Kamala. I phone banked and worked GOTV and donated. And Trump won anyway.

Trump has dominated my most formative years. I've spent 10 years protesting this man. I've spent 10 years out in the streets for the issues I cared about. And not a single one has been successful. In fact, things have gotten far, far worse. I'm not opposed to slow progress and the "long arc of the moral universe." But it sure is discouraging when you start out your political activist career as a young, scared but determined 18 year old, and get to your current day as a tired 29 year old who feels like the world is about to end.

I'm not so nihilistic that I think that everything is hopeless and nothing is worth doing. Voting is still important. Donations and campaigning is still important. The core work of trying to change people's minds is important. Mutual aid organizing, like what we saw in Minneapolis, is maybe the most important thing of all (and this is something that I've personally directed my energy towards during Trump 2.0). I do still think that we can beat Trump.

But I've given up in thinking that peaceful protests are the way to do it.