i stan ⁦WIRED⁩ so fucking hard for this wired.com/story/why-we-d…

Big fan of Baby Has Got Back

Federal monitor: Correction Commissioner Molina is failing to keep jails safe (“The current rates of [officer] use of force, stabbing and slashing, fights, assaults on staff, and in-custody deaths are not typical, they are not expected, they are not normal.”) Mayor Adams:

.New York City Department of Correction Louis Molina just told the BOC that his media team stopped issuing press releases when detainees die b/c that's a more "humane" policy for families. To clarify: DOC press releases were only sent out after family members had been notified. thecity.nyc/2023/5/31/2374…

Location: 108th Precinct Complaint #485 Response Time: 6 mins "The Police Department responded to the complaint and determined that police action was not necessary." portal.311.nyc.gov/sr-details/?id… #NY_29825MB #NYPD108PctIllegalParking NYPD 108th Precinct cmjuliewon.bsky.social Queens Community Board 2

So, the president of Stanford and the head football coach at Northwestern lost their jobs because of the reporting of student journalists. Great job by the students. It makes me reflect on what is lost when local news coverage--of a campus, town, city or county--disappears.

Florida’s public schools will now teach students that some Black people benefited from slavery because it taught them useful skills, part of new African American history standards approved Wednesday. nbcnews.com/news/us-news/n…

Are we still doing bsky? Sarah.bsky.social.

Justice Alito doesn’t hold one of the six seats that Congress created in the Judiciary Act of 1789. His seat was created on March 3, 1837—when Congress created the Eighth and Ninth Circuits. Lucky for him that Congress had the power to regulate the Court’s size…

This is a piece about what we inherit and what to do with that inheritance. The print version, in this week's The New Yorker, is titled "The Gift." newyorker.com/magazine/2023/…

It’s my second week of college and I’m hiding in my dorm. This is nauseating. Students Demand Action

Genius idea to make Rahm Emanuel a diplomat

NYPD officers have made over *1 million* traffic stops since Mayor Adams took office. Black drivers were ~9x more likely to get searched than white divers. gothamist.com/news/nypd-has-…

“If it’s perceived as a Squad thing, and other members feel they can’t touch it, then so be it.” How the word “ceasefire” divided the left newyorker.com/news/the-polit…

If you have been wondering how, in congress, "ceasefire" became taboo but "humanitarian pause" snuck in, read this piece. It's a good piece.

You know, if I was an elected Democrat in Congress, I really might start to wonder why I should go to war with my own voters in defense of a far-right government that wants to elect Donald Trump, or why I should hand that government a virtual blank check to massacre civilians

I'm frankly afraid to fly now. It's unheard of and dangerous to fly without TSA and FAA protection -- or all the people Trump fired on his first day.

It took me 28 years to go from carceral feminist to abolitionist. Sarah Lustbader (@saaarah.bsky.social) tells that story here: newyorker.com/news/persons-o….

I wrote about a very unlikely radical.