Don’t know if you’ve seen this:

CPS teachers are fucking heroes. It is beyond clear by what they’re specifically asking for that they are doing this for their students, not for themselves. Yes they’re asking for pay raises, but those were already on the table and public school teachers are drastically underpaid everywhere in this country anyways.…

I am a CPS parent and I say, give them what they want. I would go further and cap charter school growth (which I believe they did in LA) - they perpetuate the segregation and they take public funds while not being held accountable to the public for results or proper spending. Rahm’s expansion of UNO charters, CPS…

“Jean had to be exceptional. The DA had to be exceptional (and let’s be clear, statistically, pursuing a murder charge against a cop in the first place is exceptional).”

If all the kids in the campaign had messy hair, then this isn’t a controversy. I’m not going to do the research to determine if that’s the case, though. I don’t care enough.

Wow, how racist do you have to be to be considered too racist even for the Daily Mail?

Betting he self-filed in civil court. No lawyer needed. For his county that’s ten minutes of paperwork and a small fee; in his case, looks like he probably paid $28.

“Gratuitous displays of the old flag express a desire for black people to be relegated to labor reserves, a pining for the killing, the torture, the abductions, a melancholia for the discrimination, the death squads, the curfews and the horrific atrocities committed under the flag,” the organization said.

Just for a little context Chabot Elementary serves Rockridge & Claremont neighbourhoods where 3 Bed 2 bath house will run you $1.5 - $2.5 million. It’s Oakland but it ain’t Oakland. I don’t know the school’s demos but it seems an odd choice to throw a noose on.

But who knows what goes through a racists’ head.

Sickening, but not surprising. As someone born and raised in Staten Island I can tell you it’s very conservative, very pro-cop and very VERY fucking white. In fact, soooo many cops and ex cops live there, it’s pretty much a known fact that Pantaleo wasn’t prosecuted by the Staten Island DA at the time, Dan Donovan,…

He actually says something really intelligent in the art of comedy that not many people don’t see: you have to workshop your stuff over and over before you nail a joke and a whole set. Comedy IS definitely about working things out in order to get a laugh from an audience.

I think that it’s worth remembering what the focus in training and equipment is for law enforcement.

Set up a few stands at popular tourist destinations around the country, and you’re set for life.

Thank you for writing this! I was just yesterday listening to an episode of Revisionist History where Malcom Gladwell (it’s about a third of the way through the episode) talks to Cherrod Baines (sp?) who worked on both of the Justice Department reports. The entire episode is worth a listen, but the Ferguson stuff…

And, this was me when I saw “Distraction Becky.”

Huh? Nobody voted in Conway or Carlson.

Something I wish would happen every time Fucker Carlson says something stupid, that those who respond to him also list all the advertisers who supported his show that day. Add the tagline “This hate speech brought to you by Nestle, because we really don’t care.”

As a former government worker, I can say I never, not once, considered working for border patrol for these reasons. When I was making a list of the agencies I would aim to join they never made the list. This department encourages its agents to treat people poorly. It is expected and if you don’t, you won’t last very…

But I do wonder, why it is Davis’ tears are considered so remarkable? And I do find it impossible to listen to stories like hers without thinking of the generations upon generations of people of color—black and Native people in particular—who have said the very same things and begged this country, just once, to…