"Tonight was not our night. Tonight was Assemblyman Mamdani's night. I called him. I congratulated him." —Cuomo

(I kept thinking I’d wait til the world was less awful to post this but am reminded that the world will always be the world and I find hope & meaning in imagining and working toward a better version of my little corner of it.) (3/3)

And ultimately argue that by focusing too heavily on how to shore up consent, we may miss opportunities to meaningfully reduce surveillance of race-class subjugated families. (2/3)

Thanks John!

Anyway. Beware that if you say something to me in court, I may turn it into a 50k-word article. (An honor, really!)

As we increasingly acknowledge that the fam. reg. system is part of a carceral web, we can see how this view augments agency power & facilitates agencies' pathologization & punishment of poor families, Black, Latino, & Native families, disabled parents, & immigrant families.

What I found was her view of her job isn't anomalous--plenty of family regulation prosecutors see their role as representing agencies, not the public interest, as if criminal prosecutors represented the police, not the public interest. (...I know, I know. But here, we do away even w/ the pretense!)

She sought to separate the family even as she acknowledged her position was legally quite weak and it went against her own judgment as to what was "right" for the family. A wild position! One that reallllly made me want to figure out what, exactly, the job of a family regulation prosecutor is.

And I also discovered today that they don't know who Jason Biggs is. American Pie, a forgotten cinematic masterpiece!

My favorite moment every year is when I have to describe what a "party line" is, and then disclose that in my rural childhood, my family had one...