A cop in Texas goes on trial today for shooting a Black woman to death through the back window of her home. Aaron Dean went to Atatiana Jefferson's address after a neighbor called a non-emergency number at 2:30am saying her front door was open.
No Black jurors were selected.
Found the girl my boyfriend cheated on me with on Facebook. Turned out she still lived at home with her mum. Joined her mum's bookclub. Just so that I could be there when the girl came home with my ex.
hating kids is actually a really weird thing. not wanting kids and hating kids are two separate things. kids are a vulnerable and oppressed group of people. i really don’t trust you if you hate them.
"All time low" aquifer levels occurring in the N Sacramento Valley are an indication of intentional overdraft to create storage space for "recharge" water banking by private enterprise projects funded by State Taxpayer Funded Grants.
"Free Speech" is one of those issues where any sane person obviously agrees in the principle but if you make it more than, like, 5% of your whole personality then you are definitely an asshole and we're all just waiting to see if you're a pedophile too.
In 2014 I was diagnosed HIV positive at the age of 32. I was ~3 months abstinent, living in a sober home, and had nobody to tell. The disclosure was handled well, but I still ended up outside, alone, on the street, crying. I couldn’t cry in front of the doctor🧵
I was talking to someone (much younger than me) about how Megan has medical records showing she was shot. He replied, “I thought they said that wasn’t true.” Me: “Who is they?” Him: “It was on one of the blogs I follow.” This is how people are consuming news now. Dark times.
Today is World AIDS Day. It took me too long to realize since studying AIDS activism during the '80s that this infamous jacket made by David Wojnarowicz wasn't a slogan or quip. In fact many AIDS victims specifically requested a political funeral, and some had them.