Not to detract from your correction, but it’s “detract” :)

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As important as mental health is, whether or not people live or die is not exactly a fringe aspect of this issue.

How about just simply saying out loud that the system of law enforcement is broken and racist. Admit the systemic racism.

Near enough all news headlines are reported in the present tense despite their subjects occurring in the past. This one is certainly mangled but it would look a bit off instead if it were converted to past tense.

To be fair, if there’s anything worse than an employer being allowed to fire you for being transgender, it’s an employer being required to fire you for being transgender, and he did cover that (in the case of the military)

Because the subject of the article is a kooky Twitter personality with “alternative” political leanings and an open mind to replying to tweets from Jezebel writers, obvs.

Uh, do you not think prosecutors might have independently had the idea for such an outlandish line of investigation as “look him up online” anyway, and perhaps even have the budget to pony up the $49 or even a warrant for that information regardless?

The fact that the “wi” is contracted into an apostrophe doesn’t mean it’s not there. Way to completely undermine your point by being literalistic when even if there was no explicit threat it is obvious how one could be interpreted in the heat of the moment from what was said.

I certainly don’t claim to understand autism. Do you think autism is simple? I think it’s complicated enough that it is not the flight crew’s fault if they are not well-versed in what is or isn’t typical behaviour, especially for a particular individual they have never met.

You seem to have capitalised the one word that doesn’t appear in the quote above.

The threat is quoted verbatim in the article. How long are you going to pretend like it wasn’t made?

You seriously think a fifteen-year-old-girl is incapable of scratching someone? There’s no extrapolation here. This is a literal reading of what the mother said.

if we’re going to divert planes and delay flights because some people MIGHT not respond to crew instructions in an emergency, or become angry or have emotional outbursts

The responsibility of the captain of an aircraft for the safety of his/her passengers, and his/her authority to divert the flight and eject passengers to this end, long pre-date the era of terrorist fear. People don’t just pay to get to the end of their flight without being killed. They kind of expect not to be…

there was no risk to anyone on that flight

Even if we generously assume that the ten dollars will feed the kid if you give it direct to him/her, there is something tremendously narcissistic about valuing that kid’s needs today differently to those of kids targeted by humanitarian programmes (which may, with any hope, include that same kid either yesterday or…

50% administrative costs would be a bargain compared to the “administrative costs” an average street kid incurs on money you give him/her directly. Can we meet in the middle and resource charities who work effectively and accountably to help these kids, and not go around performing sanctimonious puppet shows?

As soon as he started to apply procedures to products/goods he needed an actual trademark approved by the Patent & Trademark Office.

Perhaps you have excessively lofty ideals regarding what "doing justice" means. Do non-autobiographers believe they are creating something that perfectly reflects the experience of its subject? I don't think so. Does it have to? Hell, no.