This chart is really striking. It comes from a recent investigation by Calmatters into conditions at California emergency shelters. It makes me think about arguments that emergency shelter should be prioritized instead of furthering Housing First policies.

calmatters.org/housing/2025...

I was also fascinated to learn that jails in Southern Arizona held Chinese people forced out of Sonora, Mexico in the early 1930s. This is from Erika Lee’s The Making of Asian America.

For @suze.bsky.social's story about a California prison threatened by flooding, we talked to J. Carlee Purdum, a researcher who has studied how emergency management views incarcerated people.

www.themarshallproject.org/2023/10/24/c...

From the story about the 11-day power outage:

"She took that meat to the hotel and cooked it in a crockpot to share with the other neighbors at the Day’s Inn. ... The next few days, they pooled together a communal meal from $50 gift cards some residents requested from a nearby church"

This story does a great job of laying out the history of this kind of enforcement in Chicago.

There are lots of compelling things in this interview of Brittney Griner by Megan Rapinoe, including bits about how to be a supportive partner or finding a bit of joy out in the desert, but I was particularly interested in some of Griner's reflections on prisons. www.thecut.com/article/brit...

Now the historic lake in which the prisons in Corcoran are built is once again filled with water, with the future, both in terms of more water and extreme heat, looking dangerous.