With a guilty verdict, justice has only just begun — At least twenty-two complaints of misconduct were filed against former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin before he would go on to murder George Floyd in front of a Cup Foods store— and the whole world — last year. That is, according to reporting from the New York Times. According to…

Ahmaud Arbery’s murder trial was already pandering to white supremacy. Then, in closing, the defense literally invoked Jim Crow. — “Turning Ahmaud Arbery into a victim after the choices that he made does not reflect the reality of what brought Ahmaud Arbery to Satilla Shores in his khaki shorts, with no socks to cover his long dirty toenails.” — Laura Hogue, defense attorney for Greg McMichael It was just one…

Following the Great Recession, many people learned this lesson the hard way: don’t pee on my leg and tell me it’s raining. — Before he was mixing presidential politics with personal quid pro quos, subpar-to-mediocre businessman Donald Trump was mixing his name and image (or, his brand) with a slew of crooked companies and poppycock products. This included everything from personalized vitamins to Vodka, steaks sold exclusively through The Sharper Image®, and vastly…

He’s pretty much an imbecile in everything, only he doesn’t know he’s an imbecile. — From time to time, each of us has the tendency to overestimate our competence, to think we’re better at something than we actually are. This manifests in everyday moments that can often be chalked up to pride. Like, when you struggle to assemble, say, an IKEA bunk bed, but also…

and no one should be surprised. He’s been doing iterations of the same grift for decades. — In the final point of her closing statement, at the end of day two in the January 6th hearings, Rep. Zoe Lofgren delivered a mic drop. Building up to this moment (which we’ll get to shortly), she said she wanted to outline some additional actions the Trump campaign had taken…

The unnecessary provocation that many white people engage in, often without realizing what they’re doing — It was one of those moments where you’re mid-sentence, typing up a response to a reader’s comment when you realize: either this is going to be an obnoxiously long response, or I can just turn it into a whole separate essay… yeah… I think I’m gonna go with the 2nd…

It started with the Tea Party, and it will far outlast the legacy of its current namesake. — It has nothing to do with actual politics, but it’s a political ideology. For as much as they chanted “build that wall,” it wasn’t ever really about restrictive immigration policies either. …

If he’s not straight-up admitting his plan, he’s using his other modus operandi: projection. — You know that saying by the late great Dr. Maya Angelou, “When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time”? It seems such a valuable life lesson, one that only grows truer with the passage of time. I think she also used the phrase “when someone tells…