The logical and inevitable end of a system that worships at the altar of the "rule of law," where if you break the law you deserve what you get so it's okay to make prisons and jails as cruel as possible, is that the people in power will simply define certain people as breaking the law by existing.

We have allowed ourselves to believe that it's normal to have 4% of the world's population and 25% of the world's prisoners. We have allowed prisons that violate multiple basic provisions of international humanitarian law. Our prisons are filled with people being literally tortured.

I leave up the winter-y decorations (winter garland, silver tinsel), taking down the overtly Christmas-y ones (the tree, really)

it’s weird to say in 2024, but i think a lot of people still haven’t really processed how violent American police really are. watching them do crowd control just once will shake any residual trust in them out of you

Random people are going to say and do ill-advised things in a country of 330 million people. They just are.

Journalists can't control that but we can control which random people we dedicate attention to and which random acts we cast as representative.