I don’t get it either. Although it didn’t get much general press until recently, Theranos has been stumbling along for twelve or thirteen years. This wasn’t a disruptive technology so much as it was a lumbering dinosaur.

I’m typically a very nice person who likes to give everyone the benefit of the doubt**, but I’ve never felt such Schadenfreude as I do for Elizabeth Holmes! She is the epitome of reckless entitlement. I’m especially sad that her minions will chalk this up to the requisite “failures” that all successful, groundbreaking…

Fuck the race of the attackers, this shit is just sad all around. Even if the attackers were Black, and purposefully killing cop, it won’t change my stand with BLM movement.

Fuck the race of the attackers, this shit is just sad all around. Even if the attackers were Black, and purposefully killing cop, it won’t change my stand with BLM movement.

Oh God, this is so sad. It reminds me of a short story by Colette, were she’s telling her daughter, Bel Gazou, the Little Red Riding Hood story. In the manner of many kids, Bel keeps hooking into what Colette considers minor points of the story, such as her demanding to know exactly what pastries Red is carrying in…

Told you to suck his dick and hates Sam Biddle? Dear god, I think 4chan has become sentient and is calling you, Anna. This sounds like one of those bad horror movies recently about social media murdering people.

You’re saying this as if there aren’t ANY organizations dedicated to rectifying and stopping intraracial violence, especially gang violence. Just because YOU don’t think people care doesn’t make that the truth. Also, you wanna talk about how 80 people were shot over the holiday weekend. Do you also want to talk about…

I feel like my utter contempt for the wedding industrial complex and my bleeding heart empathy for the displaced just had a five-car collision.

Many of these brides will go to meet their husbands once they have established themselves in a new country. One bride, Siwar, went on to meet her husband in the Netherlands, where they will retake their wedding photo to replace a previously Photoshopped version.

I was going to be snarky about weddings without men being preferable anyway, but this is so heartbreaking :(

I care about black and white and hispanic and middle eastern and asian people being killed by anyone. I care about gun violence against anyone and perpetrated by anyone. But when the cops do the shooting, it is a special kind of brutality because my taxes paid to put the guns in their hands so that they can keep me…

I live 3 blocks from where Tamir Rice was shot, and I’ve seen firsthand the restraint of those hurt. This statement couldn’t be more true.

Becoming even a cop of the lowest rank requires three years of training and the equivalent of an associate’s degree in my country. Consequently, American cops kill 38 times the amount of citizens per capita each year than our cops do.

As my not-always-politically-correct mother used to say, “It’s a good thing so many black people are good Christians, because they sure have ample reason to kill white folks."

It makes me so uncomfortable that I can think that way because even though he’s still a kid I’m raising him to be proud of his blackness in every way I can. But god damn is it terrifying sending them out in the world.

This is what gets me:

I was just thinking about how much restraint and patience has been demonstrated in the struggle for equality.

3. The victim has a police record!

And in answer to your headline, yes, I’m afraid you will. It breaks my heart that a part of me is grateful that my son inherited his father’s light skin tone instead of my own.

I’m a paramedic. In our training, epiglottitis is one of the very few things that they’re like: “Shut the fuck up, don’t touch anything, don’t let them move, just GET TO THE HOSPITAL AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE and if anything changes you’re fucked”.