Me before putting on a plate carrier for the first time: wow i hope i get to wear the cool bulletproof vest!!!
me after 10 minutes wearing plates in the summer: if i ever have to do this again i will just shoot myself and get it over with

wow i'd forgotten about this too but it holds up, i think, thanks for remembering

probably a good thing, folks are very upset with the headline. but really appreciate your insight!

Activists told me directly that these tactics were already in play during campus protests last year. Now it's clear they're going federal -- and they're going to pop up wherever the Trump administration sees dissent. newrepublic.com/article/1908...

The charges often aren't meant to stick -- just sit in the system, going through the endless wheels of bureaucracy. Meanwhile, the defendants are out on bail, but their ability to organize is crippled. Others are deterred from participation by the possibility of catching a felony charge

The playbook was simple: Hit a protest, snatch up everyone you can. Book them all into jail on felony domestic terrorism charges, even if they were simply walking in the street with a sign. When they get bailed out, slap them with conditions that mean their entire social life is destroyed

One thing that I saw often in Atlanta was the use of specific and extremely harsh bail conditions for defendants who were released from custody. Activists were barred, sometimes, from any communication or association with other members of a movement -- oftentimes people who were even their roommates

What we saw in Atlanta and can expect to see going forward: heavy use of the "domestic terrorism" charge, which varies widely state by state and federally. For non-citizens, we're seeing this coupled with visa or green card revocations. For citizens it's a bit different: (cont)

There are already clear parallels to what the Trump administration is doing to protesters like Mahmoud Khalil and what they did to activists in the stop cop city movement: indefinite pretrial detentions, overlapping sets of charges that aren't meant to stick, confused jurisdiction issues.

i think i will step up my rhetoric against Big Calculator this week