What’s with the tweet about the sketch? Why is he so threatened that he needs to even comment on it?

I honestly don’t care how crazy this woman is or was at the time. The way she murdered those children was horrific and she’s never seemed to give one fuck. Plenty of mentally ill people do something in the state of psychosis and feel something afterwards. Fuck her. Flush her down the toilet. Leave her in a dark hole…

Thank you for this well-written and gut-wrenching article. Having recently gone through one of those “life-upending” tragedies - my father, a historically non-violent person, killed my mother and then himself, completely out of the blue - I find myself thinking about mental illness and where accountability…

Comey continues to say he had no choice but to reopen the e-mail investigation. Maybe when his second book comes out in a few years he will actually explain the decision.

There is no guarantee Dems will win the House and/or Senate. We need to get involved - donate, calls, hit the streets. Sitting back and hoping the GOP is just going to implode is NOT going to be enough.

Seems like an unnecessary power move. Why not just let go of the people that you don’t want to keep? If I was in fear of getting fired because my boss said to turn in my resignation, they are going to have to fire me because I would get no benefit from resigning.

Yeah. To me it’s not obvious that it’s a smart move. I’m sure Monique Judge would be singing a different tune on the merits of this management strategy if The Root got a new boss and told everyone “you’re fired until I decide you’re worth keeping at this job.”

That was my first thought. If the city is still trying to rebuild their IS systems, the last thing you want to do is come in and start cutting headcount. Not only do you have people stressed trying to fix everything, but now you’re adding the stress of “Am I next?” onto that. That will lead to mistakes.

You really must not know what Atlanta politics is about if you think Bottoms has any idea what she’s doing. Notable fuckery includes pushing an ordinance to prohibit music studios from being within 1000 ft. of residential areas “because that’s where rappers get shot” and voting against decriminalization because she…

Firing people in a turnover is not that weird. But having everyone submit letters and then telling them you’ll let them know later, that is simply a person I would not want to work for.

Off-topic-on-topic question: how does any of this play into the ransomware hack? How does it make the mayor look? Did her people advise her not to pay the ransom? Are city networks still shut down?

I’m sure she will be able to easily replace those fired after word spreads in that professional community about what type of boss she is.

That is bold move but with any bold action, you can only do it once or twice or it loses it impact. Another thing Bottoms has to keep in mind, while this move is very Game of Thrones move, if you live by the sword you are most likely to die by the sword.

I hope she knows what she’s doing. Something similar happened at my own government job. It destroyed morale and the people who were initially asked to leave, but were later asked to stay left anyway and those positions either attritioned or were left in the hands of the incompetent who used the position to pad their…

Well, ask any victim of child abuse if confessing to the world that you’d been raped as a child seems like the “easy way out”, and I doubt they will agree. There are comments on this thread talking about how speaking up about your abuse is one of the most difficult things you can do-so I doubt Junot Diaz is doing so…

Don’t women who are victims of horrific childhood trauma also hurt others in the course of their healing? I would venture to say that most abusive mothers are reacting to childhood trauma.

And, to be clear, as I said above being a person who hurts others due to HORRIFIC trauma in one’s past is absolutely a mitigating factor. It remains interesting to me how frequently the path a man takes in the course of healing himself often results in him then causing emotional trauma to women along the way. If…

Oh well, as long as you hate being a cynical person. I guess it’s okay to trash a child rape survivor.

Me Too is, at least partly, about fighting toxic masculinity. This piece strikes exactly at how damaging toxic masculinity is and how it perpetuates itself to compound the damage.

You realize the person you say you “agree” with called you a jackhole before you even posted right?