Hector Barajas fired a gun into a vehicle, an aggravated felony that carries deportation as a consequence. He refuses to discuss the details. He refuses to sign a privacy waiver so the government can discuss his case, so he gets to control the story. Gun crimes are serious, and I want to know the details of his crime…

As a vet myself it is worth noting that veterans very often don’t get the treatment they need, especially for mental health issues. A LOT of the crimes that vets with PTSD get charged with are alcohol- and drug-related offenses, which are often attempts to self-medicate things like depression, anxiety, and insomnia.…

Well it was like that for decades in the past, so it’s no big deal for Londoners. And I’ll remind you that in the past it was due to largely US-funded terrorism. Funny how it took 9-11, a terrorist attack on their own soil, for Americans to realise that terrorism is no joke. Funding for the IRA from the US dried up…

Literally every other prison manages just fine.

You’re right, it takes 1.5-2 hours of 1:1 or 1:2 instruction, 5-7 days a week, to help struggling readers make significant progress in reading. The research shows that. Schools are clamoring for resources to provide that kind of help to students who need it, but providing those ratios, it would require a lot more…

So is a plate.

I am a special education teacher and I prioritize reading over all other subjects, but don’t worry- there is almost no time for science and history in our teach to the test culture! We can’t afford an art teacher, so we don’t have art. Or PE. The only reason we have computer class is because teachers are supposed to…

ISIS claiming attacks is absolutely worthless; they claim responsibility for things that they hear on the media but clearly they had no involvement in, and if they don’t even know the guy’s name then this is not their doing. Heck, when the great Northeast blackout of 2003 happened, terrorist groups claimed…

The very sad “terrorist attack” wasn’t an act of terror at all. It was a robbery.

My only take away from Kate Winslet’s filmography: Never take a trip with Kate Winslet.

“It’s impossible to wrap your head around the numbers,” Garcetti said on Wednesday, addressing reporters. “We can’t let rents double every year.”

A few years ago I was sexually assaulted on the CTA in Chicago. Some heroic passengers tackled him and held him there for the police. The responding police officer - while taking my statement - started hitting on me and asking me out. Right after an assault. He took me to the police station, and sat me in a very…

Haha. Good try, komrad.

The larger problem is that the question as reported lumps “suicide bombings” with “other forms of violence.”

David Rochlin - “People who don’t think Trump’s Twitter is funny enough can open a fake Trump Twitter like everyone else.”

Someone else has already done a thorough job of tearing this argument to shreds, so I’ll just link to them.

Why, so the GOP could continue to politicize climate change and argue against entering literally any kind of accord while they pretend it doesn’t exist? It’s noble to want to try to come agreement with them and to think that they’d be willing to do any meaningful debate about it in the Senate, but the reality is that…

i dunno, i believed that once. but i have seen each resistor fall in line. I need to see some demonstrations of spine before i believe that now. even republicans not in the tea party fear their voters. they vote farther right than they believe because the feral republicans wont vote for moderation and they want…

But that’s one of the pts. The private security and the cops and the feds are basically interchangeable. Just so we agree. 100's of nonviolent protesters were attacked by all of the above. Here’ a video of the contractors unleashing their dogs on protesters.

the problem is that on a bianry level, the republicans would not give any ground on climate change. so long as they are propped by the various fossil fuel companies, there will be no action on their part. Obama was a guy who coudl work with people who were willing to work, but the post 2010 republican party, with…