Mentioned in passing during the live show tonight that the Chicago Police Dept ran a black site where they disappeared people and afterwards a Black CPD sergeant came up to me and said that wasn’t true and that we should debate it
Just looked him up on the @ChicagoReporter police misconduct settlement database and sure enough: the city settled a lawsuit in which the aforementioned sergeant beat up a Black man at a store for no reason and planted drugs on the man to justify the arrest
Have you ever heard of SLABS? I hadn’t until last night.
it stands for Student Loan Asset-Backed Securities.
it’s exactly what it sounds like:
“There is little public awareness that when student borrowers sign their Master Promissory Notes (affirming that they will repay their loans and “reasonable collection costs”), their debts may be securitized and sold to investors.”
was talking to my gym partner who is moving in with her girlfriend and man. listening to her, i forget how much of healthy cohabitation, especially the early parts, is just overcommunicating. about every. single. fucking. thing.
let's say you say you both want a clean house. okay, that's dope!
but y'all are different people. something like "clean" means v different things — even for people who are objectively very clean people! does that mean a deep clean every Sunday? is everyday laundry day? etc
you may love your boo to death but before you move in together, most of your time together has some intentionality to it. when you live together, you suddenly have to talk through or work out stuff like alone time. or as my lady calls it, Secret Single Behavior.
if you read enough discoursing about crime and policing in big cities #onhere, you'll see lots of people point out that crime is at or near historic lows, and that year-over-year crime jumps are relative to those troughs.
then you'll almost always see someone say in response that bloodless stats are missing the point: who cares what the numbers are if people don't *feel* safer?
and the data show that USians are basically always primed for a moral panic around crime: a majority of people polled said over the last two decades they thought crime was going up or so even though it had been steadily falling.
If you're talking abt Kobe's Black Mamba persona or the hashtag GirlDad memorializing that greeted his death, you're REALLY talking abt a branding switch necessitated by his rape case; league/fan investment in that rebrand was/is so strong that it inflates his greatness
imma mute this bc it's Friday but: one example is Kobe's reputation as clutch, which is wildly disconnected from his actual iffy production. But if you say that, people will invite you to Temecula as if the numbers ain't right there.
Kobe’s numbers across his Finals appearances are either middling or inefficient: