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Life in the ‘Horrible City’

After 13 people shot Wednesday, Milwaukee leaders say it’s time to ‘double down’ on violence prevention efforts [More]

Yeah, let’s do more of what can’t work!

I wish he had said it.

[Via Steve T]

Speaking of Real $h!+ Reporting

‘Total lie’: Trump campaign, GOP lawmakers blast report claiming he called Milwaukee a ‘horrible city’ – Multiple Republicans in the room said the former president was taken out of context [More]

I wonder how many of these people will bother to inform everyone they’ve misled.

Still… the original assumption had a point…

[Via WiscoDave]

Speaking or Real $h!+holes…

TRUMP TO HOUSE REPUBLICANS: “Milwaukee, where we are having our convention, is a horrible city.” [More]

DSM apparatchik Jake has a problem with the truth:

Rewarding a Democrat city that hates them is the best the RNC can do?

We’re the Only Ones Nondescriptive Enough

Activists who pushed for the policy argued police reports about transgender murder victims had repeatedly “misgendered” the victims by referring to their biological sex and “deadnamed” them by calling them by their names given at birth. [More]

So are they still going to misgender and deadname suspects, and will there be outrage?

And is it wrong to infer something unhealthy and self-destructive about choices going on…?

[Via Michael G]

Burying the Lede

Jackson said a customer approached the robber with a concealed weapon, and the rest of the diners took the opportunity to run outside. No shots were fired, she said. [More]

So an armed citizen ensured that violence was averted? Why did we need to read down to the next-to-the-last paragraph to learn that?

[Via Lawrence S]

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