I also don’t think I’m that big. But, as Anne said, I’ve never lost someone to gun violence or state violence, so I ultimately can’t really know what I would need in that situation. I feel deeply for him and the rest of the family though. 

Brandt Jean took pains to say he was only speaking for himself - not the system or even his family - and a lot of coverage just ignores that. 

Excuse me, Ashley, hi! I’m a 13 second-old account, and I’m here today to write you 7 paragraphs of stories using phrases definitely not copied directly from Andrew Yang’s “about me” page on his website. I really think you’re overlooking our guy Yang! Just a 5 out of 10? If you’d just read through his policies, you’d…

“Bernie Sanders is recovering after experiencing chest discomfort having a heart attack and having two stents placed heart surgery to treat an artery blockage.”

I’ll take 10 out in 5.

The thing that white people just don’t understand: Yes, jokes, memes, likes, and other shit you post on social media absolutely do inform what type of person you are. It is one thing to chuckle at an un-PC joke; it’s quite another when you’re just making the same joke over and over. Because at what point does it stop…

That it took the jury a mere handful of hours of deliberation gives me hope.

That it took the jury merely a handful of hours of deliberation gives me hope.

Nah...she’ll get 25 or more. In Texas, murderers have to serve at least half of their sentence in order to be eligible for early parole. The jury convicted her for murder while there was no discussion of racism in the trial. With the sentencing hearing, the jury found out she is a racist, and I think they’ll give her…

If she admits that she “is a little racist,” then you know she is extremely racist. If she were just really racist, she would have said she didn’t have a racist bone in her body.  

Thank you. 

Glad I'm not the only one finding this whole thing really off.

I wouldn’t be surprised if she was teased for her hair and that was the reason why she cut it. She probably placed the blame on some of the boys in her class when she was about to get in trouble at home for cutting her hair.

As long as we’re celebrating a touch of skepticism, there is a long and rich history of prestigious, elite institutions filled with wealthy and powerful families, obtaining public retractions with some combination of carrots and sticks.

I’d put money on her actually having been bullied by those kids. That’s no excuse for lying, but having been bullied in middle school for my race (among other things), I understand trying to find a way to make the school take what’s happening to you seriously. I hope she learns that what she did was wrong, but I also…

Unfortunately the Trump administration only allows staffers to use @aol.com addresses.

“I think the American people would be let off the hook if Donald Trump were impeached and removed from office”
::checks national popular vote::
::national popular vote did not go for Donald Trump::

So he means the electoral college? He means that they should not be let off the hook? Fine with me.

Also just for everyone to see since it’s been deleted.

Intakes at the battered women’s shelter I directed indicated consistently year after year that 96-98% of the women had been sexually assaulted. No stats were kept on initial encounters or girls (under the age of consent) unless they were self-disclosed. Groups doing DV and rape crisis work know that raping women and…

That’s a large sample size for a study like this. The idea is that if you do appropriately randomized sampling you can get a representative sample