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I wrote about the man Florida plans to kill tonight and how the death penalty impacts people in ways we might never imagine.
At 17, She Gave Up Her Son. Sixty Years Later, She Found Him on Death Row.
Richard Randolph, now Malik Abdul-Sajjad, is scheduled to die tonight. His biological mother will never get a chance to meet him.
theintercept.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:22 PM
I wrote about the man Florida plans to kill tonight and how the death penalty impacts people in ways we might never imagine.
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Zahn McClarnon is simply monumental in AMC's Dark Winds, which has quietly been one of the best dramas on TV for three seasons now. www.pastemagazine.com/tv/dark-wind...
MVP: Zahn McClarnon’s Volatile Grief Continues to Anchor AMC's Dark Winds
Zahn McClarnon is simply monumental in AMC's Dark Winds, which has quietly been one of the best dramas on TV for three seasons now.
www.pastemagazine.com
April 17, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Zahn McClarnon is simply monumental in AMC's Dark Winds, which has quietly been one of the best dramas on TV for three seasons now. www.pastemagazine.com/tv/dark-wind...
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Unlocking this one in full for today because it means a lot to me. Thanks for reading.
Here is an essay about female friendships and the ways our lives commingle and split apart. This is probably the most personal thing I've ever published online — a tough bar to clear.
lindseyadler.substack.com/p/my-friend-...
lindseyadler.substack.com/p/my-friend-...
My Friend Had A Baby
On Saturday mornings, my friend wakes up to the sound of a crying baby and pushes him in his meticulously researched stroller to the farmer’s market and into the children’s section of the public libra...
lindseyadler.substack.com
March 11, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Unlocking this one in full for today because it means a lot to me. Thanks for reading.
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Tennessee’s new lethal injection guidelines withhold key aspects of the process from the public.
State Executions to Resume Under New Lethal Injection Protocol
Reduced guidelines withhold key aspects of the process from the public
www.nashvillescene.com
March 11, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Tennessee’s new lethal injection guidelines withhold key aspects of the process from the public.
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A Tennessee attorney has spent years on research that he believes illustrates the arbitrary nature of the state’s use of the death penalty. Among his findings is that people convicted of multiple murders have often received lighter sentences than those who kill just one person.
Tennessee's death penalty lottery: Arbitrary justice - Nashville Banner
Tennessee's death penalty system is criticized for its arbitrariness, as many multiple-victim murder cases don't result in death sentences.
nashvillebanner.com
March 3, 2025 at 3:51 PM
A Tennessee attorney has spent years on research that he believes illustrates the arbitrary nature of the state’s use of the death penalty. Among his findings is that people convicted of multiple murders have often received lighter sentences than those who kill just one person.
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Kentucky has one of the worst prison and jail incarceration rates in the world. And in the last decade, jail deaths have gotten markedly worse.
Does this look like a system that can provide care for thousands of vulnerable people?
Does this look like a system that can provide care for thousands of vulnerable people?
February 27, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Kentucky has one of the worst prison and jail incarceration rates in the world. And in the last decade, jail deaths have gotten markedly worse.
Does this look like a system that can provide care for thousands of vulnerable people?
Does this look like a system that can provide care for thousands of vulnerable people?
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Speaking out actually does a lot. Naming the wrong that's being done to each other & in public & to the faces of those who are wronging is not the same as doing nothing at all. Often people do zero instead of even opening their mouths to say something. If you did that much you did more than many.
February 3, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Speaking out actually does a lot. Naming the wrong that's being done to each other & in public & to the faces of those who are wronging is not the same as doing nothing at all. Often people do zero instead of even opening their mouths to say something. If you did that much you did more than many.
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Transphobia is simply the belief that "woman" means "cis white skinny conventionally attractive femme woman who can have kids."
That's really it.
That's really it.
Just watched a judge misgender a cis woman lawyer multiple times even after I used her correct pronouns because she doesn't appear stereotypically femme.
Cool cool. 🙃
Cool cool. 🙃
February 3, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Transphobia is simply the belief that "woman" means "cis white skinny conventionally attractive femme woman who can have kids."
That's really it.
That's really it.
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Blogged about pumping at the ballpark and whether sexism is more like a feeling or more like a brick wall. open.substack.com/pub/somehard...
pumping part 2
the sexism is in the status quo
open.substack.com
January 31, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Blogged about pumping at the ballpark and whether sexism is more like a feeling or more like a brick wall. open.substack.com/pub/somehard...
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I like to say “I’m watching the YouTube” or “I’m going to the Target” like I’m 74 years old
January 21, 2025 at 12:37 AM
I like to say “I’m watching the YouTube” or “I’m going to the Target” like I’m 74 years old
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This was always the plan when these far right freaks started going after school board members and taking over meetings. I warned everyone: all of this has been an attack on our institutions of liberal democracy, which depends on accurate information in order to function
As more families opt for charter and private schools or homeschooling in the wake of the pandemic, cities around the country are shuttering schools. The effects fall hardest on majority-Black schools and special-needs students.
The Unequal Effects of School Closings
As more families opt for charter and private schools or homeschooling in the wake of the pandemic, cities around the country are shuttering schools. The effects fall hardest on majority-Black schools ...
www.propublica.org
August 26, 2024 at 5:36 PM
This was always the plan when these far right freaks started going after school board members and taking over meetings. I warned everyone: all of this has been an attack on our institutions of liberal democracy, which depends on accurate information in order to function
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These are the latter days of the internet.
the internet is rotting
June 14, 2024 at 12:00 AM
These are the latter days of the internet.
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they’re making it easier to kill houseless people on private property “animated by fears of a nonexistent crime wave”. HB 5 will pass the state senate w/a veto-proof supermajority criminalizing houselessness & decriminalizes the use of deadly force against individuals engaging in ‘unlawful camping’.
Kentucky Is About to Pass the Cruelest Criminal-Justice Bill in America
The state is making it easier to kill homeless people on private property—and that’s just one part of one of the most draconian crime bills in recent history.
www.thenation.com
March 17, 2024 at 1:36 PM
they’re making it easier to kill houseless people on private property “animated by fears of a nonexistent crime wave”. HB 5 will pass the state senate w/a veto-proof supermajority criminalizing houselessness & decriminalizes the use of deadly force against individuals engaging in ‘unlawful camping’.
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just discovered that Stuart Little is a human
March 1, 2024 at 8:10 AM
just discovered that Stuart Little is a human
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There's a centuries-old teaching tradition that has forged generations-long chains of resistance. Making progress decade by decade...
When a seed is planted, it has to be watered and nurtured. Cultivated. That's what educators do! It's our life's work.
That's why the Right targets education.
When a seed is planted, it has to be watered and nurtured. Cultivated. That's what educators do! It's our life's work.
That's why the Right targets education.
February 12, 2024 at 8:25 PM
There's a centuries-old teaching tradition that has forged generations-long chains of resistance. Making progress decade by decade...
When a seed is planted, it has to be watered and nurtured. Cultivated. That's what educators do! It's our life's work.
That's why the Right targets education.
When a seed is planted, it has to be watered and nurtured. Cultivated. That's what educators do! It's our life's work.
That's why the Right targets education.
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Tennessee has added new steps for residents who've lost their voting rights and want to regain them. The steps cost money.
A resident of Nashville would have to pay $159.50 to petition a judge to regain their rights.
A resident of Nashville would have to pay $159.50 to petition a judge to regain their rights.
Tennessee Puts Voting Rights at the Whims of State Officials - Bolts
Michael Moore has spent two years trying to regain the right to vote. He has worked to meet Tennessee’s byzantine list of criteria for having voting rights restored and filed... Read More
boltsmag.org
December 29, 2023 at 8:52 PM
Tennessee has added new steps for residents who've lost their voting rights and want to regain them. The steps cost money.
A resident of Nashville would have to pay $159.50 to petition a judge to regain their rights.
A resident of Nashville would have to pay $159.50 to petition a judge to regain their rights.
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Tennessee has added new steps for residents who've lost their voting rights and want to regain them.
The steps cost money. Resident of Nashville would have to pay $159.50 to petition a judge to regain their rights.
The steps cost money. Resident of Nashville would have to pay $159.50 to petition a judge to regain their rights.
Tennessee Puts Voting Rights at the Whims of State Officials - Bolts
Michael Moore has spent two years trying to regain the right to vote. He has worked to meet Tennessee’s byzantine list of criteria for having voting rights restored and filed... Read More
boltsmag.org
November 27, 2023 at 7:07 PM
Tennessee has added new steps for residents who've lost their voting rights and want to regain them.
The steps cost money. Resident of Nashville would have to pay $159.50 to petition a judge to regain their rights.
The steps cost money. Resident of Nashville would have to pay $159.50 to petition a judge to regain their rights.
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What’s really shocking when you first realize it is the degree to which the death penalty really is concentrated in no more than a dozen COUNTIES nationwide that account for the huge share of death sentences — not even states at large. It’s like a few DAs like this here and there filling death rows.
A DA in Western Pennsylvania, up for reelection in 10 days, is facing criticism on how often he pursues death sentences. His county makes up just 2% of the state's population, but it accounts for about a quarter of the state’s active death penalty cases.
Western Pennsylvania Prosecutor Makes His County an Epicenter for the Death Penalty
Washington County accounts for about a quarter of the state’s active death penalty cases under Jason Walsh, who became DA in 2021 and is seeking a full term this month.
boltsmag.org
October 28, 2023 at 11:00 PM
What’s really shocking when you first realize it is the degree to which the death penalty really is concentrated in no more than a dozen COUNTIES nationwide that account for the huge share of death sentences — not even states at large. It’s like a few DAs like this here and there filling death rows.
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If you wanted to read my story about men who play D&D on Texas death row, but stumbled on the NYT paywall -- here's a free version, on The Marshall Project - with even more photos and illustrations www.themarshallproject.org/2023/08/31/d...
September 1, 2023 at 5:44 PM
If you wanted to read my story about men who play D&D on Texas death row, but stumbled on the NYT paywall -- here's a free version, on The Marshall Project - with even more photos and illustrations www.themarshallproject.org/2023/08/31/d...
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New article by @keribla.bsky.social left this old D&D player speechless.
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2023/08/31/m...
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2023/08/31/m...
The Dungeons & Dragons Players of Death Row
For a group of men in a Texas prison, the fantasy game became a lifeline — to their imaginations, and to one another.
www.nytimes.com
September 1, 2023 at 1:19 AM
New article by @keribla.bsky.social left this old D&D player speechless.
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2023/08/31/m...
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2023/08/31/m...
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I wrote about scammers, junk mail, spam, and humanity https://holapapi.substack.com/p/we-could-be-good-friends
July 11, 2023 at 2:17 PM
I wrote about scammers, junk mail, spam, and humanity https://holapapi.substack.com/p/we-could-be-good-friends