From Lin-Manuel Miranda this morning. Referring to it a lot to keep my head up because this shit is exhausting:

These aren’t two sides to one thing. On one hand, innocent black men were murdered by specific police officers, On the other hand, innocent police officers - who were not the ones who committed the murders - were killed by black people who were not the victims. These are two idiotic wrongs. If anything they are on the…

I can’t stop checking for updates on this story. It’s utterly insane. It feels like this country is losing its collective mind. And the worst part is, it only feels like things are going to get even crazier. I have a sick feeling that this madness will continue for a long time. I hope I'm wrong.

I don’t, in any way, condone this type of response, but I honestly can see where the rage comes from. It definitely doesn’t help, and it’s going to make everything worse, but after this week I am unsurprised that angry people are resorting to extreme violence.

Let it be said that I have sympathy for the policemen who were shot and/or killed. I also have sympathy for black people being shot and killed by police, esp in light of the last 48 hours. I’m capable of having equal concern for both sides.

This is such a stupid, scary, fucked up situation. These stupid, stupid assholes. Stupid. Fucking. Assholes. Stupid. Fucking. Assholes.

goddamnit. mothers shouldn’t have to protect their babies like this. i’m heartsick.

How do you know you don’t like the texture? ... unless you HAVE tried pasta!

I think there was another 100 or so days, but Allie left, so she ended it early.

Wow, I blocked that from my memory. Is it really gone or were the 500 days up?

I’ll be on the look-out.

Nah, I figured someone with the last name Cavallari was required to eat pasta in a bottle from birth. I guessed Heidi.

Same.

The next time I lose my Kinja key (so, soon) I’m coming back to life under the handle “TheOrlandoBloomOfStarches”

I admit that there are foods I don’t eat because I don’t like the texture, but PASTA? Either she’s never had real al dente, or she’s managed to have a problem with the Orlando Bloom of starches.

Bull. Fucking. Shit. She’s trying to tell us that she’s never had macaroni and cheese? PUH-LEASE.

ETA - Wow. Apparently I have strong feelings on this. Who knew??

Both cameras just went “poof.” Nobody knows why.

However, footage was taken by the squad car’s dashboard camera.

And both their body cams “fell off.” The rage and grief are indescribable this morning.

I’m at my parents’ house for the weekend. I just read Ivanka’s second quote to my (super feminist) father, who’s sitting in his chair across the room from me. His response: “She was born on third and thinks she hit a triple.”