Jackie Joyner Kersee, Carl Lewis, FloJo, Ed Moses, Usain Bolt, ...

There is a reason NK Jemisin sets Staten F Island apart from the other NYC boroughs in The City We Became.

“...it should be illegal to call the police on us for no good reason. ...”

I wondered what studying Bertolucci, Sergio Leone, Granik, Copolla, Lang etc had to do with playing quarterback.

100% of the time racism causes injury. Some wypipol are trying to violate causality.

Yes, I hope so too. Unfortunately, no amount of cash penalty seems to act as a deterrent for cops to stop framing innocents and for DAs to stop prosecuting wrongful accusations.
Why don’t cops and DAs pay part of the penalties - cash or prison?

The idea that Donald or any of his descendants or wives will grieve the death of another! They may not be too smart but they all know that 1/(n-1) > 1/n.

The solution to the high taxpayer borne costs of jailing and feeding prisoners is to HAVE FEWER PRISONERS. AmeriKKKa jails its citizenry at 4 times the rate of any other country in the world, more than that “fascist dictator bogeyman” Putin’s Russia and more than China.

Any evidence for that, other than “the cops said”? And based on priors, it is quite safe to conclude that they lie, profusely, any time there is a civilian death, not to mention faking evidence.

Blame Andrew Jackson for encouraging the evils to persist after defeat by the North.

According to the bishop, professing that “Black Lives Matter” is anti-Catholic teaching. That can only be true if (by his interpretation) Catholic teaching is that Black Lives Don’t Matter.

I wish confiscation were the worst result. Since they can claim self-defense or “I shit my pants” for anything they perceive as a threat, nothing prevents them from inflicting fatal violence.

We should stop referring to them as police “unions”, they are protection rackets or mafias. There is nothing socialist or worker-solidarity about them, just a bunch of powerful violence prone and rapacious turds floating in their cess-pool. Sadly, the AFL-CIO still recognizes them and the DSA (while being “abolish…

“The internet isn’t telling these men they owe these women anything—even though they have children by them.”

I really like the clarity with which you put it. Yes, we should start defining the terms and take over the public rhetorical space. Forget the constitutional arguments and just state or ask Republlicans, “If you are against background checks then you want people who would fail a background check to have unfettered…

“The US is VERY MUCH a racist country... but it ... strive(s) to not be.” Agreed with the first part. But if racism is systemic, and no systemic changes are being even considered at all, in what sense is the US “striving” to not be racist? In every dimension, anti-racism gains are being rolled back hugely - voting,…

And what is with their oxymoronic use of “violent”? What are they trying to distinguish it from? What would “racially motivated non-violent terrorism” look like?

Aspirational history.

I had the same thought - cops will shoot a black person in front of the latter’s partner and children for daring to ask why they’d been pulled over, but a white person can shoot 13 people, be armed and have the cops play nice with him. They didn’t even rough him up? What kind of a s**thole country is this?

But wypipol having their underwear in knots is allowed by the dress code?