The application to be a federal corrections officer now has several essay questions, including one (#7) in which applicants are expected to explain how they would advance the president's executive orders in the role:

It's really weird to demand accountability from a NYC mayoral candidate for a deadly NYC shooting rather than the current NYC mayor, an ex-cop who campaigned on a "tough on crime" platform and promptly got indicted for crimes

The acting head of ICE couldn't believe that I would question his agency's use of masked, unidentified agents to sweep up student immigrants during *police week*. Have I no sense of patriotism????
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

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Erik Prince and other merchants of death are pitching a privatized mass deportation scheme in which the US would own and lease back part of the El Salvador concentration camp in order to bypass extradition laws and torture bans:
www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

this hed somehow undersells the story—eric adams complains that public urination is now legal (not true) and neglects to mention he supported turning it from a criminal to a civil offense while boro prez. and then! cops are issuing MORE criminal summons for public urination under his admin.

On the scene of the Amazon strike in Maspeth, the NYPD is trying to break the picket, engaging in arrests of union members and engaging in physical confrontations with workers and their supporters.

redesign of the piece that has gotten me restricted/suspended at least 4 times 😇

Trans women in Florida prisons now have to get breast exams to figure out whether their breasts are big enough that prison officials think they should get to keep their bras.

Wild reporting from @journo-beth.bsky.social : www.themarshallproject.org/2024/12/10/n...

Cruelty against criminalized people is, unfortunately, one of the only common threads holding the American electorate together

In his 2011 book, Ron DeSantis waxed apocalyptic about politicians like Jay Rockefeller who supposedly wanted to "shut down news organizations." Not only has DeSantis not said a peep about the Trump administration's statements, he was also lying about what Rockefeller said.

"The Florida Board of Governors eliminated Principles of Sociology from the core requirements...'They’re starving undergrad enrollment in our courses. The worry is they’ll then be able to take away whole programs and justify it by saying courses aren’t filling up.'"
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/u...

we also have a show this Wednesday in nyc ! www.ticketweb.com/event/dtela-...

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