As usual, excellent recap! Your analysis of the historic references and details always gives a lot to think about.

Honestly, Mother should just start planning Pence’s funeral now.

Perfect! If I remember correctly it’s pretty short, I think I read it in a day or two.

Like I said, highly recommend! It’s more insane than you can imagine. I belieeeeeeve there may or may not be pdfs of it floating around the internet.

I read it and HIGHLY recommend, assuming you don’t mind people hearing you crack up when you read it. The first chapter includes a line about fog lifting “like a push-up bra” and it only gets weirder from there. Also there’s a weird period fixation?

It’s also super disturbing when people basically straight out tell you that you’re not allowed to be concerned about antisemitism in progressive spaces because they’re not like, openly advocating for murder or something? Like, as if Jewish people in progressive spaces should consider ourselves lucky that we’re allowed…

I mean, idk, I don’t buy into the idea that we’re only allowed to care about one thing at a time, it’s equally valid to care about human rights abuses in Israel and the U.S.

It strikes me as a little beyond that you’re trying to police what color Jewish stars are allowed to be.

So so so much this. I’m tired of the eyerolls at discussion of antisemitism, and the suggestion that because the antisemitism coming from the right is more violent, that we’re not allowed to be concerned about antisemitism on the left at all. It’s infuriating and exhausting to be interrogated about Israel in…

I’ve actually never seen that show! It’s one of those ones that everyone recommends to me, and I think they cracked a few jokes about it on Psych, but I just never watched it.

Yeah I mean, as a lawyer and fan of true crime, I’m very much aware that this has happened thousands of times, that the federal estimate of how many active serial killers there are is absurdly low and intellectually dishonest, etc. My observation was more meant to convey that these particular circumstances just happen…

Yes! That’s the one, I couldn’t remember whether it was actually a border patrol agent or if it was the sheriff’s deputy.

Preeeeeetty sure this was the plot of an episode of Criminal Minds.

RIGHT?! If I take vitamins on an empty stomach I will definitely puke.

Is it just me or is there a disturbing number of commenters essentially going “who gives a fuck about the Holocaust?”

Honestly, I think a lot of the reason you get verdicts like this one (where the jury properly understands the nuances and the dynamics of the people involved) comes down to the quality of representation. I’m still less than a year out from law school, and I’m currently a law clerk to a judge, and the thing that’s been…

Judicial clerk here! Being a judge is definitely not boring, you get all sorts of absolutely insane cases all of the time. My first or second week on the job I had to write my judge a memo on whether my state recognizes a constitutionally protected property interest in human remains, for example.

Right?? As a very short person with that same type of proportions, I haven’t been able to find jeans/pants that fit properly since those went out of style.

Right? I actually think Melodrama is better than Pure Heroine.

Also like sometimes you just want manzanita sol or jarritos and not coconut water, ya know?