I was on a roll with my book buying this time last year:
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Профиль VivelyWhen I was about 10 or 11, my grandmother's house got burglarized. We called the cops, they shuffled around for a few minutes and started to leave. They laughed at me when I asked, incredulously, why they weren't taking any fingerprints. So that's my formative cop experience.
Em, midlyIt’s so funny when people are like “sure you’re an abolitionist now but wait until you’re the victim of a property crime.” Buddy, the most useful thing the police have ever done for property crime is put the form you need to submit to your insurance online.
I grew up two towns over from the Belchertown State School, and just like with the roughly concurrent Catholic Church child sexual abuse situation, you'd hear stories that were so terrible you wouldn't let yourself think about them.
TelecomOneMassachusetts is unsealing records of generations of disabled people and the violence many faced while institutionalized. Advocates told me their stories should serve as warnings to us as demands to return to institutionalization are ramping up under Trump 2.0.
They're getting really really granular with their racism these days.
Mrs. Betty BowersThe way this idiot capitalizes “Vandals” makes it look as if he’s alleging the Reflecting Pool was damaged by the same people who sacked Rome in 455
Who was (or, if my theory is correct, were) Jack the Ripper?
G. Willow WilsonWhat's your personal great white whale of an unsolved mystery? The thing you desperately hope is solved before you die because you need to know the answer? Mine is the Isabella Stewart Gardener Museum heist. Where the hell are the Rembrandts. I need the full story
*standing up on plane* OK basic economy, Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce. Caussidière for Danton, Louis Blanc for Robespierre, the Montagne of 1848 to 1851 for
Sarah Day 🖋️🦊*standing up on plane* Okay fellow passengers Mercury might be appropriate for the setting but today is Thursday so you know what time it is: O Jove much-honored, Jove supremely great, to thee our holy rites we consecrate, Our prayers and expiations, king divine, for all things round thy head exalte