“The problem is that without innovation, its not always easy to get customers to pony up for the “new hotness”

To all of the “A cop smiled at me one time therefore systemic police brutality doesn’t exist” crowd you can save you faux outrage over the title. Yes, ACAB. No, we don’t need to have personal interractions with every cop in existence to know this. The institution of Police exists from top to bottom to enforce the will…

I learned (as a child) not to get in a car with strangers. Especially those with candy.

Police PR guy, answering all subsequent questions: "That officer is no longer employed by this department. Next topic?"

I guess just stop? I think the difference here is that a human would look around for cops, think “fuck it,” and drive past.

I mean, that’s what weird right wingers are doing sure, but there was a whole slew of articles from various historians critiquing a few of the factual underpinnings of the 1619 Project.

The school? No. The administration? Maybe.

“I didn’t even want to be in them,” he continued, while visibly perspiring. “Who wants money and fame in some of the biggest movies of our time? I’m happy watching the old stuff anyways, back before it got mainstream. I definitely didn’t audition for the new ones, and never heard back, ahaha, why do you ask? Oh, you…

Was this what the school wanted all along? This last minute, grudging “well I guess you can have your stupid tenure if you’re going to be so bossy about it” vote was clearly meant to be insulting and they hoped she’d tell them to get bent.

Exactly! It’s a scholarly lens through which to evaluate, well, pretty much anything. It excels at certain things and has a few blindspots, like literally any other theoretical framework.

The extra cherry on top of this Fuck Around & Find Out sundae was Hanna-Jones explicitly noting that this dollar amount was to match Hussman’s donations

“If any Democrat official admitted they helped to shut down any conservative event…”

Nothing but a reminder of how bad things have grown that the Bushes and Cheneys are looked on with the warm nostalgia of simpler times.