they’re such sweet, nice people

Typical self righteous bigot with direct dial to God who talks out of both sides of her ass. “I have so many gay friends! I mean, they’re all gonna burn in hell, but boy do they have great fashion sense. Oh, the LGBT lifestyle, with its throw pillows and cocaine parties and it’s Velvet paintings of Tammy Faye Baker.…

Me thinks your white guilt is preventing you from criticizing a black woman and blinding you from the obvious which was that Banks vitriol was genuine.

But you should critique your police in general.

I remember asking this questions when I was a kid and learned about transplants (why can’t these people sick with X get organs from others sick with X?). My husband asked the same more recently regarding blood donation. So happy the laws have changed!

That HIV/AIDS is almost entirely preventable is a fact. That a little personal responsibility is all that’s needed to prevent it is not.

So you think that all people with HIV/AIDS got it because they didn’t take personal responsibility? Is it lonely on your pedestal?

“Paid administrative leave” is “Go home and have yourself a little vacation. Come back when this all blows over. We’ll straighten it out, brother. Don’t you worry about a thing.”

Chicago elections are decided in the democratic primaries. Rahm got 3oo,ooo or so votes in the primaries. Chicago’s population is slightly under 3 million. So only something like 15% of eligible voters voted for him in the only election that was at all relevant (a Republican becoming mayor of Chicago is not a thing…

Chicago PD have been notorious for generations. They are right in a league with LAPD.

He can apologize until he’s blue in the face. He’s still garbage.

Fine, fine, they’ve charged the cop with murder. Are they going to assign a competent, unconflicted goddamn prosecutor to it? And make sure the judge isn’t a former prosecutor? Because as we’ve all seen, charging cops is a good start, but it isn’t enough.

Roast him, then leave him to rot in a cage. Fucking animal.

The governors of Massachusetts , Illinois, Ohio, Michigan, Indiana and Arkansas have also announced that they won’t be accepting Syrian refugees. This isn’t only a Southern embarrassment.

Not all southerners are the same jerk face. I feel sorry for these refugees and am happy to help. As long as they’re properly “checked in” and yes monitored. Just bc we are being nice doesn't mean we need to be fools. I love the way you just assume we're all back wood hicks with a few teeth and a lot of ammo.…

California has a democratic governor passing some of the most progressive legislation around. Iowa has a very conservative republican “governor for life”, who is more or less basically assured of re-election until he can’t run anymore. (and was sued for allegedly driving a LGBT individual out of office). An electorate…

Until the teaCrazies repealed all the judges who voted for equality, that sent it into a spiral where the state lost it’s last Democratic senator to a Palin-esque candidate who’s very commercials championed pig castration abilities as a main qualification.

Yes, but trans women and WOC are treated like this EVERY FUCKING WHERE and it’s disingenuous to pretend like it’s the product of some some scary Midwestern state or like that state is the only place it’s happening, when it is literally occurring everywhere and these women don’t have a safe place at all, even in places…

While I can only go by anecdotal evidence from friends and acquaintances who have lived there, I think it is rather safe to say that Iowa City, in most part due to the university, and thus an educated environment, exists in a bubble within the greater state.

...and these hateful, ignorant fucksticks get the first say in choosing our next President.