Aggressive instigation of violence by the police is not a source of safety or comfort to the mentally ill, it is a source of danger and instability.

There’s no reason at all not to make that a positive incentive, and emphasize the way even small acts of participation can be understood as part of an effort to assert your worth, your control over your own life, and your ability to make positive change in the world.

police in rio de janeiro kill more in a year than the lapd does in a decade. that’s right. these people make american cops look like boy scouts.

but even in the middle of a pandemic, we are fighting back. anti-fascist marches planned for this sunday will be also protesting (god, and how many things there are to protest in this shithole) police violence and the genocide of the black youth.

while we are used to dealing with probably one of the world’s most violent riot cops (thanks to americans, i found out this week deploying teargas on a civilian population is actually a war crime, despite having inhaled it numerous times against my will), it actually is disheartening to see people in the first world think it’s a matter of changing hearts and minds.

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Instead it was someone rattling off the plot descriptions of tv/film horror with clowns in them, occasionally interjecting whether he liked it, with very little explanation as to why. His analysis almost feels like non-sequiturs, they feel so unconnected

He brings up "The Tale Of The Ghastly Grinner" from Are You Afraid of the Dark as bad example

Okay, that's fine, I've never watched the show! What's wrong with it? Well.

"This episode is troublesome because it's not a morality tale, there isn't a lesson to be learned here. The Ghastly Grinner enters these children's lives for no reason and it just kind of says that evil just exists, that there was nothing you did to bring this upon you but here it is nonetheless and you just have to deal with it. And for me, that's a very existential concept to play with in a children's show."

Now you might be asking "hmm, that sounds very interesting and cool and not at all 'troublesome.' Why does a lack of a lesson make this story bad? What does he mean by it being very existential?"

I don't know because after his summary and one sentence opinion, he starts talking about clowns on Seinfeld. That's it. He's done.

Interiors from Norco: Faraway Lights.

Shares of UnitedHealth Group Inc. plunged toward their worst day in nearly 9 years Monday, as the narrative around a potential Bernie Sanders nomination may have swung to negative from positive following the senator’s surprisingly big win in Nevada.

Other health insurer stocks also took deeper dives than the broader stock market in afternoon trading. Shares of Centene Corp. CNC, -5.73% , which provides programs and services to government-sponsored health-care programs, plunged 9.4%.

UnitedHealth’s stock UNH, -5.18% sank 7.8%, to pace the losers in the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, -3.15% , which dropped 1,032 points, or 3.6%. The selloff was the biggest one-day decline since Aug. 8, 2011, when it dropped 8.0%. The stock has now shed 9.0% amid a 3-day losing streak since it closed at a record $305.31 on Feb. 19.

Sanders’ resounding victory in Nevada, after winning New Hampshire earlier in the month, cemented him as the front-runner ahead of South Carolina’s primary on Saturday and so-called Super Tuesday next week.

Although Sanders is an advocate for “Medicare for All,” which would be a significant negative for private health insurers, his previous primary victories were seen as good for insurers, as Wall Street did not believe Sanders could beat Trump in a general election. But the manner of his victory in Nevada may have spooked investors.

“Are the rising odds of a Sanders nomination a negative catalyst for the sector (given his health-care views) or a positive catalyst as odds-makers boost Trump’s re-election chances?” wrote JPMorgan analyst Gary Taylor in a note to clients. “We think most health-care investors cite the latter but actually fear the former; which will render sentiment volatile and ephemeral over the next several months.”

Keefe, Bruyette & Woods managing director Brian Gardner said that while he agrees with the market’s previous assessment that Sanders’ surge favors Trump, he acknowledged that “conventional wisdom was against Donald Trump in 2016 much like it is sour on Mr. Sanders’ chances now.”…