I’m far from a CPD fan, but I believe they did exemplary detective work in this case. They knew they were under enormous scrutiny, so were very careful to pull together a well-documented case. The SA Kim Foxx is one who screwed the pooch. Based on her behavior during the Oscars (hanging out in LA at some glittery…

This is typical Chicago—if you have clout, they make the charges disappear. A few years back, the mayor’s (Daley) nephew actually killed a guy during a street fight.  It took years for the victim’s family to even learn who killed him, much less press for prosecution. 

I agree. Buttigieg is really good at communicating his platform, and also debates like a pro. 

From End The Backlog, an organization advocating for expedited rape kit testing:

Exactly. The mega-rich don’t need to bribe little SAT proctors or coaches. They go straight to the President and the BOT.

Seems to work with both!

In the Netherlands, I discovered tomato soup with a dash of cognac. Very nice.

One of several photos of his non-writing hobby. The one with plastic wrap and duct tape didn’t scale well for posting here, but it looks like an asphyxiation waiting to happen. It caused me to ponder what insurance do dominatrixes carry?

Prediction: this guy is going to accidentally off himself before the case is settled. 

Here’s Meadows being totally non-racist at a rally in 2012:

After reading some of the Reddit r/JUSTNOMIL posts, I actually believe that one. 

Yes. I used to have long hair that I wore in a single braid, and white men (and a couple of latino and black men) felt very free about pawing at it. My theory is that when you feel superior to another person, you feel free to touch them without permission. 

The anecdotes are fun (e.g. telling her aides she’d trade them for a bottle of water) but more troubling is the reported family leave policy and blacklisting of ex-employees.

And for god’s sake, plz ungray me. My posts are clean and juicy.

There’s another terrible precedent being set here: the confiscation of public park land for private interests. There’s plenty of open and under-utilized sites on Chicago’s south side. Some of these potential sites are even near public transit train stops (which the current site is not) and in communities that might…

I’ve been ungreyed on Jezebel and The Root for years, yet this fool gets it here? Ungrey me ffs, Splinter.

I loved visiting your country, but the Dutch are the most admonitory nation on earth. I was  scolded several times, mostly deservedly...

I was visiting friends in the Bay area and took the BART into SF in the middle of the day. I was aware of its rep for crazies, but I ride public transit in Chicago all the time, so I’m not easily intimidated. At S. San Francisco, a disheveled man with a large shopping cart boarded and sat behind me. After a stop or…

I puked over the edge of the Damen platform, once. On the alley side, where nobody was walking...I hope.

I saw this on Twitter followed by dozens of tweets by parents w biracial children or transracial adoptions, on how they had to carry extensive documentation on them to prove their children belonged to them. One man got his son a state ID when the child was still a toddler.