I do want to shout-out my fellow sociologists, who have collectively created a discipline so woke that not a single one of our introductory textbooks can make it past Florida's censors.

Great work everyone.

You see what is going on in the US, and the far right in Europe saying “this is specifically what we’d like to do here”, and the US govt saying “this is specifically what we want to make happen there”, and our approach to national security is to treat this as an inconvenient distraction.

Like, it’s just weird, even if your dad left home when you were 5/6 (me too, as it happens), if he was doing an MBA when you were 3, you don’t get to claim that he didn’t go to uni, & that you were the first person in your family to do so? I mean I don’t care but who’s this supposed to impress?

I simply can’t see how any conscientious, professional journalist can think what happened in Minneapolis is “a subject of sharply contradictory narratives” rather than a government blatantly lying in order to cover up a murder