So, this asshole husband is abusive and off his meds and rookie cop decides he knows best and that sleeping it off would be best for all parties - even knowing there’d been 14 other calls to the house??

This series “Till Death Do Us Part” from the Post & Courier (SC, not FL — but still) takes on this exact issue and discusses how their obsession with gun rights, combined with deep-seeded but outdated ideas about women, religion, and privacy, makes SC and other southern states really fucking bad at domestic violence…

It sounds like these cops know or care fuck all about actual Proactive Threat Assessment. Fourteen calls should have triggered an investigation. And seriously, “She was going to be killed by this guy some day, somehow.” FROM THE POLICE CHIEF?!! He should quit, too. If someone made even the vaguest, most veiled threat…

It kind of sounds like negligent homicide to admit to knowing that your willfull inaction would directly result in someone’s death, yet still failing to act even knowing those consequences.

“Forgive me please, but that’s what you get when you play with people’s emotions.”

“She was going to be killed by this guy some day, somehow. She didn’t have to die that night.”

“According to footage recorded on the officer’s body cam”

I'm no lawyer, but I think it would only work that way if their races were reversed.

I’m also betting half a mil would go a long way in increasing access to accurate sex education and birth control.

And also, notably, not a transgender woman.

Kansas is what happens when Tea Party ideology runs an entire state - huge deficits, cuts to aid programs, anti-choice laws and millions wasted defending stupid laws that are only passed to satisfy the far right extremist Christian base that wants their 2000 year old book of myths and fairy tales as public law.

i love good beer! i used to work at a beer bar and have a favorite beer in like 15 very specific categories. however, when it’s Party Time and not just like Casual Hangs Time i do budweiser because it’s cheap and i can drink many of them and it feels like no beers

Arya’s bully was a real bitch, but also she was 100% right. Arya is still very much a child, even if Maisie’s body refuses to cooperate.

I genuinely hope so (insomuch as someone can genuinely feel anything for a fictional character).

Are you sure he isn't bring Tyrion back to Cersi to try and get pardoned?

me, irl, after the wine jab

Yea but she just set herself up for some real sh*t with Cersei.

I’m slightly weirded out I was a little turned by Jon Snow beheading Janos Slynt. Maybe I’m just glad he’s out of that “mopey sheepdog with hair blowing in his eyes” phase.

"You know Tina, the Devil takes your soul every time you orgasm? That is why your mother is still a pure woman today!" (I'm just guessing based on the image, I have to wait until I am done with work to be sure.)