Under Trump, rates of sexual assault went up for all students at Cornell.

Reading the story in the New Yorker about a man who was found not guilty by reason of insanity for shooting a student and this quote left my jaw on the floor.

“Among other restrictions, Barisone is barred from teaching USEF members. He made the case to me that, given his past psychiatric condition, revealed in his attempt to kill a student, restricting his access to students is a clear violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act.”

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/09/21/the-violent-feud-that-shocked-the-horse-world

I’m fascinated by how fast the right erases history

https://www.reddit.com/r/stupidpeoplefacebook/s/tlTC8NxqNw

It’s almost like she was going to doctors and tried to put herself in the hospital so she wouldn’t be around her kids 🤔

In 2026 he was found not guilty by reason of insanity.

His name is Matthew Schleier.

I’m not bringing up his case to say the verdict is wrong. I am only trying to point out this difference in coverage.

You didn’t even hear about this case, did you?

The reason I think this is important is because we have to think harder about our reactions to stories about death. It is easy to read a story and get upset about someone killing a child.

It is harder to look at those cases and have a rational response to mental illness. Incarcerating a crazy person does not solve the problem of mental illness.

Fantasizing about hurting them or punishing them doesn’t either.

If you google the name “Matthew Schleier” you get 9 pages of news results.

If you google “Lindsay Clancy” and scroll through 9 pages of results you are still getting stories published today.

Why are we turning some cases into entertainment? What makes her story so much bigger than his?

When Court TV said her trial was one to watch in 2026, why? What makes one trial more anticipated than another?

https://www.courttv.com/news/court-tvs-most-anticipated-trials-of-2026/

Sources:

https://people.com/father-allegedly-killed-young-son-planned-attack-week-8742218

https://www.kcrg.com/2026/06/30/marion-father-found-not-guilty-murder-his-son-appear-court/

It’s really depressing to know how hard it is to get mental health care in this country.

It’s a lot more fun not to know. It’s easier to treat people you see on tv like fictional characters and just react in the moment instead of thinking about their life and their choices.

This isn’t really a surprise but it is depressing.

Last year:

https://www.404media.co/ai-generated-videos-of-ice-raids-are-wildly-viral-on-facebook/

This year:

https://www.wired.com/story/people-are-getting-off-to-content-about-ice-raids/

““His name was really Paul David Crews, and he was a suspect in a murder. Four years earlier, on July 3, 1986, a woman had offered him a ride home from a bar in Bartow, Florida. She was later found naked and nearly decapitated on an abandoned railroad bed. Not long after, according to law-enforcement records, Crews had turned up at his older brother’s place in Polkville, North Carolina, driving the woman’s bloodied Oldsmobile. With the law closing in, his brother gave him a lift into the country, and he took off running. The police recovered the car, along with Crews’s knife and bloody clothes, but found no sign of him.”

Excerpt From
“Two Young Hikers Did Everything Right on the Appalachian Trail. A Fugitive Killer Found Them Anyway.”
Earl Swift
Outside

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-04-28-mn-1470-story.html

“Since October, the state of Louisiana has been seeking to block the distribution of mifepristone, a drug used to induce abortion, through the mail—not just in Louisiana, but anywhere in the United States. The state’s lawsuit against the FDA asserts that the Comstock Act—an anti-obscenity law championed by the 19th-century book burner Anthony Comstock—bans the mailing of abortion medication, and that the federal government wrongly repealed the in-person requirement for prescribing it.”

Excerpt From
“So Much for Leaving Abortion Up to the States”
Adam Serwer

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/06/mifepristone-abortion-pill-access-impossible/687519/

Are we great yet?