Before you all go lusting after Avenatti, just remember that he is also likely a terrible human being who is just a competent lawyer using the media attention for his own personal gain, and could give two shits about actual justice or other’s rights. He is exactly as #TheResistence as James Comey is.

the prevailing theory online is that the police finally were granted access to online DNA testing sites like 23andMe and Ancestry and were able to run the killers DNA through the database. They got a match in the family and were able to narrow it down, then used discarded DNA (they said this part during the press…

The 2 guys she worked with and who finished the book said he wasn’t on their list.

You haven’t read the book, I have and cops had been working off and on for the entire time. I am not arguing she didn’t influence the investigation, I am arguing the stupid notion the cops did nothing. The book is NOT just about Michelle’s obsession, but about the detectives who kept working on it when they could.

Did you read the book? The idea that the cops did nothing for decades is completely false. Much of the book is her literally talking to the cops who worked on this case. And she didn’t solve it, the guy they arrested is never mentioned in the book. I can appreciate the fact that she sort did much time and helped bring…

Yeah, no shit. Even if he’d said “we appreciate her work for keeping this unsolved murder in the spotlight and for bringing renewed attention to it,” that would have been something.

I think they have DNA of the killer, so they can just do a match.

My fingers are crossed b/c they id’d him via DNA. I think this is really it.

Can anyone spoil this one for me? What’s the final request?

I don’t know...it never really blew me away. I wanted it to blow me.

It makes more sense if we consider cults like this extreme examples of things that happen everyday. I mean, there is a possibility that you might be in a cult. Consider for instance: there are companies out there that require people to work really long hours, deal with all manners of abusive behavior from their…

It seems entirely possible that the NYT was biased against Clinton and that Clinton’s aides were sexist assholes to female reporters from the NYT. I’m not sure what the tapes are supposed to show unless he recorded every single interaction he had with Chozick.

Im sorry people are jumping on you; you can feel sorry both for a victim and for the people he victimizes. You can think of the women he hurt because their hurt due to his trauma helps us understand the full scope of how terrible trauma and abuse is, since it doesn’t just hurt the person who experienced but so many…

I read the piece. One thing that stuck out to me in this piece was that it hits on what I think is a common theme in life and in entertainment: hurt men — men who have suffered in whatever awful ways, often abuse women on their road to healing. And, as in this piece, the suffering of those women is kind of written…

So well written. This reminded me a lot of my childhood and life - the knowing that I wasn’t really a man because men can’t be raped. The shame and depression. For me it was years long sexual abuse from my step father and there are multiple times in my life where the fallout from those years nearly destroyed my life…

Exactly this. I’d be interested to hear the story of the Brooklyn natives that were pushed out to make room in whichever neighborhood Ms. Merlin lives in, or the feelings toward tourists who are trying on on an urban ‘Brooklyn’ look as fashion.

This.

I do find this article confusing for the very reason you point out. There are good points that should be made and voices that should be amplified, but the uncritical first person and family accounts of what seems to be a fairly privileged position of whiteness really weaken her position to be taking a stance against…

I stopped reading at “At the same time that Santa Fe and Taos undergo a massive and perhaps irreversible gentrification process.” FFS, Taos is a goddamned ski resort and has been an artist colony since 1899. Georgia O’Keeffe moved to Santa Fe in 1984. Both these places were gentrified before this person was even born.…

If this country has proven anything throughout its history, it’s that its capacity to treat Native Americans with callousness and cruelty knows no bounds.