I don’t know about drug related charges, I was thinking they’ll go with a black on black crime narrative. I dont know the neighborhood but considering a police officer and an accountant lived there, and the brutality with which this latest murder occurred it’s a lot of red flags... I wish I could just get the hell out…

What’s the over-under that it’s concluded to be “unrelated”? And then some drug-related charges are brought up against the deceased?

Show me what other avenues they have left to stop the project.

don’t want to ungrey the troll, so I’m responding to the parent comment:

Greta Thunberg’s message is not a political message, and she is neither Republican or Democrat. The University of Iowa is making her message political shame on them.

Unfortunately, this is probably the prudent thing to do in today’s political environment

Climate science shouldn’t be political, but now they’ve made it political. Because they can’t argue with the science.

Well we wouldn’t to upset the people *checks notes* that want to destroy the world for profit would we?

So if the president was stopping by would it be political to promote his appearance? This is a bullshit excuse and everyone knows it. Trump’s rhetoric has people scared that speaking the truth will come back to hurt them. If people continue cower in these situations, he gets one step closer to dictatorship.

I think at this point there’s the “Okay” gesture we’ve known all our lives and the “Okay” gesture white supremacists have now adopted.  At first I wanted to agree with you, but when I looked at the picture it was pretty clear he was using the latter gesture.

Did you actually follow the link to see the pic?

There was so much wrapped up in Rep. Tlaib’s statement...where to start!

I think that’s a really great point. And one thing I wish I could have, and should have, made more clear is delineating a personal act of forgiveness vs the spectacle of it. I don’t know if Brandt intended for it to be a spectacle, but because it was filmed, because it was such a high profile case, and because the…

They don’t believe in notes, either so cut it out. 

Shocking! People who don’t believe in facts....(checks notes)...continue to not believe in facts.

“Brandt Jean’s hug was not a political statement but a personal one, and it’s a distinction we need to make if we want to live in a world where his older brother is still alive.”

Crystal Mason got five years for “illegal voting.” So... yeah, fuck this sentence.

There are some folks who are really invested in performative forgiveness. If you ever look into the case that inspired the Dirty John podcast, you’ll hear of a mother who testified FOR her daughter’s ex-husband. The ex shot her daughter in cold blood in the back of the head (explicitly she testified at the trial he…

Yeah, I’ll allow Jean’s brother to mourn in whatever way helps him. If that includes forgiveness and it truly helps him, I’m not here to judge.

A white woman walked into a Black man’s apartment while he was sitting on the couch eating ice cream watching TV in his underwear and shot him, and I am relieved that she was actually found guilty.