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This time we asked for the next three months of the calendar: September, October, and November of 2011—a period when GOP presidential candidates battling for the nomination were railing against the White House.
The mayor’s office didn’t respond to our request to discuss Emanuel’s schedule. But once again, we found that his days were loaded with rich guys, campaign donors, powerful contractors, union busters, charter-school supporters, City Hall insiders, aldermanic brownnosers, and other favor seekers.
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But during these three months Emanuel found time for another type of visitor: major funders of conservative attacks on President Obama. As such, the mayor’s calendar offers a glimpse of what passes for bipartisanship in Chicago—and shows the ways in which wealth and access, at least as much as party identity or ideology, have come to command the attention of politicians, leaving everyday people out of the conversation.
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On Valentine’s Day weekend, my ex-boyfriend assaulted me and threatened to kill me. He’s 440 pounds and 6-foot-6. I’m 137 pounds and a foot shorter. But when I called the local police department, they arrested me instead.
Never mind my injuries. Never mind the overwhelming size difference. Never mind the clear evidence of assault — the open beer can my ex threw at my head, the knife he thrust at me, demanding I stab him in the heart.
None of it mattered.
Under the California Penal Code, officers must make an arrest in domestic violence cases when they determine probable cause. Enacted in 1986, this specific provision was meant to protect victims.
The problem? The law assumes officers are trained to identify the dominant aggressor, but research shows that training gaps and the code’s mandatory arrest provision often pressures them into rushed, surface-level decisions. Experts say this creates too much room for error.
That night, the evidence seemed clear. Yet, the officer focused on a cut on my ex’s finger, and believed his claim that I was responsible. He ignored my statement that my ex had threatened me with a knife and cut himself.
He also ignored a textbook sign of domestic abuse: my ex confiscated car keys before attacking me, sneering, “Try to get to the airport now.” Coercive control is a widely recognized abuse tactic.
Instead, the officer charged me with “corporal injury to a spouse or cohabitant” over the cut, and treated my attempts to retrieve the keys as a criminal act. The charge, a more serious offense than domestic battery, carries…](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hyfks4kq5mthfzbx7erydhy7/bafkreihujelrsgtmxgmsxibdyxldztngssawemah55yqjgxo3htl7vfknm)
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GUEST COMMENTARY
On Valentine’s Day weekend, my ex-boyfriend assaulted me and threatened to kill me. He’s 440 pounds and 6-foot-6. I’m 137 pounds and a foot shorter. But when I called the local police department, they arrested me instead.
Never mind my injuries. Never mind the overwhelming size difference. Never mind the clear evidence of assault — the open beer can my ex threw at my head, the knife he thrust at me, demanding I stab him in the heart.
None of it mattered.
Under the California Penal Code, officers must make an arrest in domestic violence cases when they determine probable cause. Enacted in 1986, this specific provision was meant to protect victims.
The problem? The law assumes officers are trained to identify the dominant aggressor, but research shows that training gaps and the code’s mandatory arrest provision often pressures them into rushed, surface-level decisions. Experts say this creates too much room for error.
That night, the evidence seemed clear. Yet, the officer focused on a cut on my ex’s finger, and believed his claim that I was responsible. He ignored my statement that my ex had threatened me with a knife and cut himself.
He also ignored a textbook sign of domestic abuse: my ex confiscated car keys before attacking me, sneering, “Try to get to the airport now.” Coercive control is a widely recognized abuse tactic.
Instead, the officer charged me with “corporal injury to a spouse or cohabitant” over the cut, and treated my attempts to retrieve the keys as a criminal act. The charge, a more serious offense than domestic battery, carries…](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hyfks4kq5mthfzbx7erydhy7/bafkreigf22vyyaqbjdhw5hcuitaxnctldtw34syzp4adlk2wrrsytnj2zu)
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How a well-intended California domestic violence law results in victims being arrested
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On Valentine’s Day weekend, my ex-boyfriend assaulted me and threatened to kill me. He’s 440 pounds and 6-foot-6. I’m 137 pounds and a foot shorter. But when I called the local police department, they arrested me instead.
Never mind my injuries. Never mind the overwhelming size difference. Never mind the clear evidence of assault — the open beer can my ex threw at my head, the knife he thrust at me, demanding I stab him in the heart.
None of it mattered.
Under the California Penal Code, officers must make an arrest in domestic violence cases when they determine probable cause. Enacted in 1986, this specific provision was meant to protect victims.
The problem? The law assumes officers are trained to identify the dominant aggressor, but research shows that training gaps and the code’s mandatory arrest provision often pressures them into rushed, surface-level decisions. Experts say this creates too much room for error.
That night, the evidence seemed clear. Yet, the officer focused on a cut on my ex’s finger, and believed his claim that I was responsible. He ignored my statement that my ex had threatened me with a knife and cut himself.
He also ignored a textbook sign of domestic abuse: my ex confiscated car keys before attacking me, sneering, “Try to get to the airport now.” Coercive control is a widely recognized abuse tactic.
Instead, the officer charged me with “corporal injury to a spouse or cohabitant” over the cut, and treated my attempts to retrieve the keys as a criminal act. The charge, a more serious offense than domestic battery, carries…](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hyfks4kq5mthfzbx7erydhy7/bafkreicl2vekubkea7bdmzjw4k5rldiutiy2h4zb5yqgpjxyip2wxitcfm)
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Complicated as this plot twist might sound, the story as it unfolds in the comics is even twistier. The Adventures of Cyclops and Phoenix, written by Scott Lobdell with art by Gene Ha, took the time-travel premise to its most metaphysical. In the six-issue series, published in 1994, Scott and Jean are brought into the future by Mother Askani — but seeing as their bodies could never theoretically make that trip, their consciousnesses are placed into new bodies, cloned from more recent descendants. Now known as Slym and Redd, Scott and Jean spend a short time with Nathan, training him in his powers, and eventually supporting him in his fight against Apocalypse.
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The Bulwark
Type of site News and opinion website
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Owner Defending Democracy Together Institute
Editor Jonathan V. Last
URL thebulwark.com
Launched December 2018; 7 years ago
Current status Online
The Bulwark is an American news and opinion website launched in 2018 by Sarah Longwell, with the support of Bill Kristol and Charlie Sykes.[1][2] It initially launched as a news aggregator but in 2019 was revamped using key staffers from the recently closed The Weekly Standard.[3] The Bulwark is owned by Center Enterprises, Inc., which operates under the trade name Bulwark Media.
The Bulwark has been described as a centrist to center-right publication; it has frequently published pieces critical of President Donald Trump and his allies.[4][5] The Bulwark editor Jonathan V. Last in 2025 self-described the publication's mission as promoting and protecting liberal democracy in the United States and internationally.[6]
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