I’m not a courtroom lawyer but I’m 99% sure cops don’t have the jurisdiction to make sure someone is a really a lawyer in court. That’s the court’s job and only the court’s job. The cop is there for security and to bring criminal defendants in and out of custody. This cop should 100% be fired but I’m sure he won’t be.

This is an organization that doubled down after 20 first graders were murdered at school.  Somehow, I am not surprised.

It’s shit like this that made me literally roll down my window when I passed the NRA HQ in Virginia, flip the bird and cry “FUCK YOU!!!!”

I’m curious what, “Given our current realities..” is supposed to mean? According to the current administration the economy is booming like never before so tax revenue should be growing with that giant tax cut right? Weird how that never actually happens and cuts are the next step.  

“The federal government can’t fund every worthy program, but we can probably scrounge up a few bills for fighter jets, great walls and tax breaks for someone like me.”

Eat shit, Betsey.

Oh no. This one hurts so much. People need to understand that PTSD is not just “over” after a couple of weeks. Surviving something so utterly traumatising has long-term emotional effects. The US Healthcare System let down one more young life in favour of guns. I am so angry.

Monique, is it possible to get this post updated with a couple of changes? I’ve been trying to do the same at Splinter, but I’m gray over there and can’t gain traction. Including suicide prevention information at the end and removing suicide from the headline can go a long way to reduce the risk of suicide contagion.

This is terrible, and only serves to show that the impacts of these kinds of events reach far more people than those physically harmed in the original attacks. We need more support from those suffering far longer than what people think.

I’m not assuming shit. Other articles literally say ten thousand. 

I bet you wouldn’t be posting this if the headline was ‘all sexual assault charges against Jussie Smollett have been dropped’. Just a feeling I have. 

They didn’t require him to do community service in exchange for dropping the charges — they were referring to volunteer work that he already does, not requiring anything new.

Preposterous! It’s critically important that random yahoos on the Internet have their underinformed opinions blasted through cyberspace into everyone’s faces as fast as humanly possible. If we had to wait a day or two before forming an opinion on something that basically has no real effect on us, why, imagine the calm…

If there was a victim who had actually come forward and accused him, of course not. Was there anything like that in this instance? Or is it completely not comparable and you’re making a shitty disingenuous false equivalence?

It’s only ten grand. You only pay ten percent of your bond. 

It’s unclear from this article whether the charges were dropped “with prejudice” (ie: the DA swears never to touch the matter again) or without (wherein the DA may bring charges again if further evidence comes to light) but at least for now he can claim as a matter of legal fact that the state dropped charges of its…

“He had to agree to community service...”

The fact that so many people seemed to be willing to let this fact slide is disturbing.

CPD cannot be trusted. This whole thing has been a giant clusterfuck.

I think I speak for all of us when I say