The sudden sympathy for a killer of children—her own children—is something that struck me too. It says a lot about society’s views towards race, class, and gender. If she was anything but a white woman from Deluxebury, people would be treating this a lot differently. Anyone who kills children is clearly mentally sick, but when it’s anyone else we don’t parse out diagnoses, we just call it f’ed in the head and they’re a monster undeserving of any modicum of compassion.

You need to call Channel 5, get ‘Team 5 Investigates’ on the case

I had a ~$2000 bike stolen off the street locked up. I filed a report just to cover my ass, even though it was obvious that the cops couldn’t have given less of a shit about it. I ended up tracking it down on FB marketplace and took the bike back myself. But I don’t feel like a pair of AirPods are worth even worrying about—just get another pair, maybe some cheap knockoffs this time.