We are disappointed. We are furious. But we will carry our anger into the election. Women will not forget that the Senate chose to confirm an alleged serial sexual assailant and anti-choice radical to a lifetime appointment on the Supreme Court.
Women can decide this election — women voters, women volunteers, and women candidates. So here’s what we do next. We elect a historic number of pro-choice Democratic women in November.
I’m losing my mind I just saw panic in Pittsburgh and while they set up Africa by Toto came on and the entire crowd went wild and turned on their phone lights and sang and I was sitting next to a dad in his fifties and he was SO confused he said “this wasn’t even this big of a hit when it came out???”
I would like to add that my father had the exact same reaction when I showed him a video of this happening at a recent music festival I was at. “Why the heck do you all like this song, it wasn’t even a hit!!”
The exact same thing happened when Panic! performed in Vancouver! Phone lights came out and everyone sang! It was magical
I wrote a paper about instituting better police hiring policies (because right now it’s a damn joke), and I researched this officer in particular because of the murder of Tamir Rice. Here is an excerpt of my paper:
“Candice Bernd, a journalist that writes for
an online news outlet called Truth Out,
writes about a Cleveland police officer named Timothy Loehmann who shot and
killed Tamir Rice. Loehmann took four written cognitive
entrance exams for four different police departments, failing all of them. He
did, however, pass the psychology exam and that alone deemed him “fit for
hire.” Bernd writes, “Just a few months later [after the shooting],
Independence Deputy Chief Jim Polak recommended Loehmann be cut loose, writing
that Loehmann was ‘not mature enough in his accepting of responsibility or his
understanding the severity of his loss of control’ after he had multiple
emotional breakdowns during training. Loehmann was allowed to resign.”
Loehmann’s psychologist wrote in his psych evaluation that Loehmann “seems
fairly rigid and perhaps has some dogmatic attitudes that could be problematic
in police work” but still recommended him for hire. Dr. M.L. Dantzker points
out the flaws in the psych system from personal experience both as a former
Fort Worth, Texas, Police officer and as a mental health specialist. Bernd
interviews Dantzker who states, “Every psychologist in Texas can choose
whatever personality inventories they want to use and can do whatever else they
might want to do, all within what the departments are willing to pay for. That
sets us up for a very, what I consider, inconsistent, unstable protocol and
procedure for doing [evaluations].“ He continues on to explain how many
departments require the applicant to pay for their evaluation, which gives them
an opportunity to pick their own evaluator. “You can basically go shopping
for your own psychologist,” says Dantzker. “It makes it even
worse.” After the recruit has been hired, “it’s not standard practice to
re-evaluate police officer incumbents at any point post-hire” says Dantzker in
his interview with Bernd (Bernd C. 2015). Not only does there need to be better,
thorough tests for new recruits, but there definitely needs to be
re-evaluations for officers that are already on the job. The kind of work that
goes into being a police officer is taxing on the mental health of the officer,
it should be mandatory to continue to test the people entrusted with the lives
of many citizens within a city.”
I don’t want to fucking hear anyone say white privilege doesn’t exist ever again. You know who doesn’t get any more chances? Tamir Rice! And Philando Castile! And Sandra Bland! And ANYONE else killed by these Bastards in Blue.
The Fence patches have just come in. I originally only wanted like 2 so that I could create a cosplay but the company I chose to go with had a minimum order of 20. So I have a bunch of extra patched and decided to sell them for a unit price of what it cost to make. So like I get no profit for selling these but more like attempting to break even on all the ones I don’t need.
i feel bad that those nyt journalists spent all that time proving that the president committed years of criminal tax fraud and the whole senate was just like
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