Easy - can't prop up the private prison industry without prisoners. Murdering them leaves beds open! I wish I was joking.

Sounds like a job for Jack Smith.

Exactly. In a district like that, you don't need to be a moderate.

Is there a face shield that *ISN'T* designed to protect from chemical splashes and flying debris?

The whole thing is an outrage, but acting like the face shields were something special is just stupid. If they were lacy and semi-transparent would ICE claim that protestors were trying to seduce them?

I love "Cathedral" too -- I gave one of my dogs the nickname "Bub" because of that story.

Skate Queen (from her collection Entry Level -- available from @autumnhousepress.bsky.social -- which is an absolute all-timer) was originally published at @anmlymag.bsky.social, and everyone should check it out: anmly.org/ap25/wendy-w...

Also, even though I'm not pausing or slowing down to jot down notes or anything like that, just the act of reading a story aloud to someone else that I didn't write is 1) a lovely act, and 2) making me think about these stories differently. Same was true of @wendywimmer.bsky.social's Skate Queen.

See now THAT is the first point I thought. The military and ex-military are NOT cops and other than MPs, have NOT BEEN TRAINED in de-escalation or enforcement.

So my wife is a pediatrician and works in some hospitals with high vaccine and intervention hesitation (suburban ones). She has found *tremendous* success by just letting the families know she will have to document the higher risk of specific, and often fatal illness, in the chart of their child.