Raven Campbell

Oh no. *hug*

Woman Is Granted a Protective Order Against Representative Cory Mills Representative Cory Mills’s former girlfriend, Lindsey Langston, the reigning Miss United States, told a judge that he had threatened to release sexually explicit videos of her.

A judge issued a protective order against a Republican congressman from Florida on Tuesday, forbidding him to contact a former girlfriend who in court proceedings said he had threatened her with revenge porn after she broke up with him.

My kid personally hasn’t had problems; this is just an observation from looking at rhetoric

“Stop bullying by making your kid conform and not be bullyable” isn’t the anti-bullying masterstroke some people think it is

“The incurable condition of being a little bitch” vibes

Everyone knows the cradle catholic “I think this food is for poor people” vs adult convert “no women driving” meme. Is there anything similar for other religions?

Part of those networks of inertia consist of people mourning/in denial/clinging to nostalgia over associations that they used to find trustworthy and perceiving their grief as the end of all trust, when it’s actually pretty straightforward to get reliable information elsewhere if you want to.

Eh, it’s not them this time. It’s something bouie said.

Billboard launched the debut strip club chart in August, and will continue to track the top-played strip club hits each month throughout the year.

a little late but what an innovation lol www.billboard.com/lists/top-10...

heterodox, adj. Beliefs that align with the historically dominant ideology of Western countries, including racism, misogyny, and eugenics, as defined by political and business leaders and enforced by the state. eg. "Only very brave boys and girls have the courage to express such heterodox views."

see that reply bouie has to that one guy blowing up

Someone else wearing a mask does not harm me in any way. They do not owe me an explanation for why they are.

Oh lord, because it seems to be a discourse of the day:

Personally, I'm not a universal public masker, but I absolutely will not judge anyone who does. It's just none of my business. Wearing a mask might be rational to that person at that point in time.

A bunch of people in the comments were like "no, it's not" but this one guy was convinced that the locked cases were warranted because crime in the Seattle area was out of control. I asked for specific examples of this. Mostly he cited trash and graffiti.

You know, "crime" takes place in cities at night, the buildings are tall, there's graffiti and trash everywhere, "not crime" takes place in suburbs/small towns during the day, everything is one or two stories and looks super clean, like it was just pressure-washed.

Another theory comes from something I read in The Gift of Fear, where a woman was kinda displacing the fact that she hated her job **into** a fear about going to her car alone at night. I realized that "fear of crime" is deeply embedded in our culture as "acceptable reason to dislike something"

And a lot of the time people going to a city and seeing "crime" are really not seeing any crime, what they are seeing is "things that in a movie/TV/Fox News presentation would signal crime" like, the SET DRESSING for crime and they literally don't know the difference.

Anyway, this led me to concoct a theory I call "Crime Aesthetics" which is that we have this shared cultural narrative about what "crime" looks like and it just kinda looks like urban decay and poverty, but also to an extent just looks like URBAN

It's nice to know that "organized retail theft operation" is now copese for "shoplifting sting" just like how "anti-human trafficking operation" is copese for "prostitution sting"

Long Beach Cracks Down on Self-Checkout to Curb Shoplifting The city’s first-in-the-nation “Safe Stores are Staffed Stores” ordinance requires major retailers to hire more employees and limit self-checkout, drawing praise from unions and pushback from grocers.

I love this pro-worker, police-free way to reduce retail theft:
"[Long Beach]’s first-in-the-nation “Safe Stores are Staffed Stores” ordinance requires major retailers to hire more employees and limit self-checkout."

How the US Dollar’s Dominance Negates Fears About Debt and Deficits The 2024 presidential election presents Americans with perhaps the starkest choice in our entire political history. On the one hand, Kamala Harris and the Democratic Party are running on a platform re...

"But we can't afford nice things"

Stop it. That's entirely a political choice, not economic reality.

Other choices are readily available. We should make them.

"I'm obsessed with my kid getting into the right college"

Fund. The. Damn. Public. Universities. Like. We. Used. To.

"College is unaffordable"

Fund. The. Damn. Public. Universities. Like. We. Used. To.

👇🎯 Your regular reminder that unfunded mandate are bad, we shouldn't have them, & the actual solution to nearly <every> problem in 🇺🇸 higher education - both real & imagined - is to...

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<John Facenda voice>

...Fund.

The.

Damn.

Public.

Universities.

Like.

We.

Used.

To.

Do.

what a sweet baby!

“No Kings” is great , but we really don't get a functioning democracy back until we internalize, bone deep, the instinctive response to this and every other statement like it: “I don’t care what that rich guy thinks.”

Make it your morning affirmation. Say it ten times at the top of every hour.

something something the perils of elite projection

I mean even if a specialized program could be done in a charter, isn’t it more efficient to have it… in the school anyway?

I’m of course all “haha no”

What messages would make you feel better about charter schools