Okay then. I think how victims get treated in the criminal justice system is because part and parcel of this story, because what you seem to be arguing is that victims should not be in a position to make legal decisions (which I agree with) but victims like her would probably be less likely to insert themselves into…

The problem is the criminal justice system basically ignores victims EXCEPT when it is using them for the purpose of obtaining convictions and stiff sentences. When we talk about criminal justice reform we usually focus on defendants caught up in a system that over criminalizes, over punishes, warehouses people, and…

I live in a city (austin) that makes ALOT of money on the taxes of alcohol sales in bars. Lots of drunk driving.

This is really worrying.

There is nothing conservatives love more than a self-hating black person.

Sheriff Clarke, Justice Thomas, Dr. Carson, Omarosa?

They are the modern Jig-a-Boos that whites delight upon.

If there are no cabs/ubers/lyfts in your area you can call your local fire department or police department and they will have to give you a ride home (for free). Since you notified them that you are intoxicated they become liable if they refuse to drive you home and you get in an accident. (I’m an substance abuse…

Fucking horrific. I don’t care what he did. No one should be tortured to death by dehydration. On top of that, he should have been getting treatment for his obvious mental illness. Anyone who doesn’t find this man’s death egregious, criminal, and horrific is a monster. That fucking Uncle Tom Trump-fellating sheriff…

The reason no one mentions the dead man’s crimes is that they are irrelevant to the way he was treated while in custody. 

More drama than the last time us Iowans were involved in a rose ceremony.

Thomas was diagnosed with a bipolar disorder and his family claims the shooting was sparked by a mental breakdown, an allegation that could be backed up by his erratic behavior, as described by The Washington Post

I empathize totally with this. I try to check myself, but often fail. It’s like anxious is my default setting most of the time.

Ivanka has it in her head that she has to defend Trump no matter what, because he’s her father but she knows exactly what he is. But she’s been raised to be a good little team player so she’ll cheer him on no matter what he does.

“As good fortune would have it, we had a bodyguard that summer,” she writes. They persuaded their bodyguard to buy lemonade, and then their driver, and then the maids, who “dug deep for their spare change.” The lesson, she says, is that the kids “made the best of a bad situation.”

I do that too!!! It’s so messed up. I count one rape where I guy I was casually sleeping with drugged me and forced himself upon me despite my protests before I fell unconscious but the time I went back to an acquaintances parents house when I was in my late teens and he basically led me to the far end of the huge…

I’ve spent years saying i’m one of the lucky ones as i’ve never been raped. I just failed to count all the times I had “non-consensual sex”.

You know what’s fucked up is that I have been in situations where guys forced me to do things sexually and I don’t even count those as true sexual assaults.

I knew how hurt my family and friends would be after finding out and I didn’t want to put them through that.

My mind still isn’t around Serena and Alex as a couple. Like, he’s so dorky! And she’s so cool! How?! HOW DID HE DO IT?!

The degree to which sportswriters perennially downplay Serena’s utter domination of modern tennis is a scandal.