Seeing how police react to even the mildest criticism is pretty shocking. That alone makes it obvious to me that civilian oversight has no shot at working

Chicago’s mental health emergency response program will now operate solely under the Chicago Department of Public Health and will not include police officers or fire department personnel. blockclubchicago.org/2024/09/26/c...

City Removing Police And Fire Departments From Mental Health Emergency Response Program

The CARE program, which launched in 2021, previously deployed mental health professionals and specially trained police to certain 911 calls. Police and fire personnel will no longer be part of the res...

I think they either know, or are willfully ignorant. They have a narrative they want to craft, and this person gave them the quote they needed

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Wild Faith

The acclaimed author of Culture Warlords investigates the rise of the Christian Right over the last half-century that lays out the grim vision evangelicals a...

Watching the Vandy kids struggle to take the uprights down is great. Let’s see if the future consultants and hedge fund guys can do a physical task

I am very bad at picturing things in my head, but I can “hear” things in my head at near perfect quality. I wonder if it’s the same kind of spectrum with visualizing, and also if the two are related.

The coverage is so bad that I’ve stopped believing that it can be adequately explained by incompetence.

I didn’t use to think so, but their coverage of Trump is so favorable to him I think it’s the explanation that makes the most sense. Did you see that image CBS News posted that summarized the two candidates housing plans? Might as well have been “build more” vs. “do an ethnic cleansing”

I worry that team Kamala is going back to unity messaging which no one actually wants. When Walz says he believes Vance genuinely wants to fix real immigration problems i don’t know wtf he’s doing. Maybe they think he’s attracting independents but that is not even what independents want.

the basic problem with how democrats prepped for this is that they see it as an opportunity to persuade when it is really a chance to humiliate your opponent. (see: biden, joe. 2012 debate.)