The person she saw was at a stop light before the shooting took place. From her own description she lost sight of him and then the shooter came up beside their car, but on the opposite side. Given how traumatic the event was, it’s easy to see how she could’ve connected the person she saw moments before to being the…

Faulty eyewitness testimony doesn’t have to be ambiguous or uncertain. A person can be certain they saw Person A when shots rang out and think that person is the suspect, when really it was Person B who was behind the eyewitness who was the actual shooter. Faulty doesn’t just mean unsure. It can also mean plain wrong.

Fair enough... but the sister’s statements were very specific. There was no ambiguity or uncertainty in her assertions.

Faulty eyewitness information. Happens all the time. See the DC Sniper case when everyone was looking for a white van due to information from eyewitnesses. The killers were actually driving a blue Chevy Caprice.

I would’ve said fog of war, but the family was overly specific about the details, so frankly I’m at a loss. The sister clearly provided statements about him being white.

Okay, now I’m officially confused. How have we gone from ‘White man in his 30s or 40s’ to ‘20 year old black male’? I mean, there’s nobody that’s going to confuse me for Lady Merc’s little cousin, so how’d this shit happen?

There was a BBC doc on “Trump one year on” a while ago and it seems he just finds these people at parties in his shitty Florida mansion. One of the interviewees was this “small business owner” who was just yet another daddy’s girl trust fund kid of that exact description who never spent a day at work and instead spent…

Trash recognizes trash.

I am really beginning to wonder, where does Trump find all of these completely unqualified blonde women?

There was an interview Desi from The Daily Show did with a golf club owner. He said the border wall would run right through his golf course, he thought the wall was just talk, so he voted for Trump and still supports Trump even if it destroys his golf course.

Surely it was the mad despot, Jimmy Carter, who lamented his failure to build a 50 foot high wall to keep out all those (his words) “Damn peanut stealers”.

It’s a great quote. I find myself thinking of Hitchhiker’s Guide often. Adams was really good at keying in on the ridiculousness of human existence.

Because they’ll all be dead, first of all, and second, there is at least one or two science dudes out there they can point to who will say that either it isn’t happening, or that it was going to happen regardless. So fuck it. We have one very conservative friend, and I guess he knows a guy who works at JPL who told…

one of the biggest Native issues

Because they think that when we are literally fighting wars over potable water and arable soil, the bodyguards and police are going to protect them from a mob of starved, diseased humans that will be breaking down their doors out of desperation.

Man, digital watches ARE neat tho.

This author writes about Native American issues all the time, beyond the personal connection if you look at the list of articles it’s clearly his beat. Is a media conspiracy more likely than people choosing to click on articles about Warren instead of ones just focused on Native issues, and publications responding to…

This is the greatest threat that makes AOC such a lightening rod for the rightists. Not just that shes’s advocating for “radical” policies. She’s advocating for a new outlook on how we want this society to function. That maaaaaybe dog-eat-dog capitalism shouldn’t be the ultimate goal of our species.

For someone who’s so tired of this, you sure write a shit load about it.

I truly cannot understand how people can put money before the health of other human beings and the the health of the ENTIRE PLANET. I’ve been thinking about this quote from Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy quite a bit lately (I won’t copy the whole thing here because it’s way too long).