A Baltimore police officer is now facing felony animal cruelty charges after he slit the throat of a restrained shar-pei dog. Another officer, as well, has been suspended for helping him commit the crime.

According to witnesses, officer Jeffrey Bolger also threatened to “gut” the dog.

“I’m going to [f–king] gut this thing,” Bolger said as he got out of the police vehicle, according to witnesses, documented in the charging document.

The dog was relatively small and unintimidating to all who knew her. 7-year-old shar-pei named Nala had escaped from her home at Sarah Gossard’s house on Saturday. She made her way out of an accidentally open gate after Gossard had let her out in the backyard.

From 2014, but still, these are your police officers, America

The White House announced on Sunday that Malia Obama, the President and First Lady’s oldest daughter, will attend Harvard. She will start classes in 2017, taking a “gap year” off between high school and college, as many students do. Malia turns 18 in July and will graduate from Sidwell Friends School this month.

Malia’s parents both attended Harvard Law — after matriculating at Princeton (Michelle) and Columbia (Barack) — but Malia was considering several other Ivy League schools. She visited many on the East Coast last year, causing months of speculation on which she would choose.

As the child of a President, Malia was unquestionably at an advantage when it came to choosing a college. But she is not alone. Many presidential children attended prestigious colleges like Yale (Barbara Pierce Bush), Radcliffe (Caroline Kennedy) and Stanford (Chelsea Clinton). Twenty-three presidential children attended Harvard. Malia is in good company.

Of course, the racists and other nasty haters took to social media to insult Malia and her family. The ignorant bigots proved to the world just how low they can go.

I thought children were off limits

Fox News Fans Found Out Malia Obama Is Going To Harvard, So They Called Her A ‘N*****’

Fresh after Bernie Sanders' call for a "a fifty-state strategy... to plant the flag of progressive politics" nationwide, new reporting on Friday suggests that Hillary Clinton's campaign won't be budged any further to the left.

After Clinton claimed more victories in Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, and Pennsylvania this week, Sanders said, "we are in this race until the last vote is cast," adding that his campaign would head "to the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia with as many delegates as possible to fight for a progressive party platform."

Steps forward on issues that would constitute such a platform can already be seen in the race, observers say. As Max Ehrenfreund writes at Washington Post's Wonkblog Friday,

In the course of fending off Sanders's challenge, Clinton appears to have conceded to him on a couple of major economic policy issues. The former U.S. senator and secretary of state has abandoned the centrist positions she previously held on trade and Social Security and taken stances closer to Sanders's views.

Forced to the left?