This is an obvious lie in service of doing something indefensible. That prison and jail officials lie so blatantly and that journalists treat those lies as true is disgusting.

What happened in Portland in 2020 was so clearly an offensive political use of federal officers to prop up a sagging reelection campaign. It's too bad that so many have been swayed by the propaganda around it.
opb.org/article/2022/1…

55% of Republicans rate Trump as their top 2024 preference and nearly three quarters have him in their top three. About a third have DeSantis as their top choice.

2/3rds of Republicans believe America was better as an apartheid state, you mean.

Homicide is a leading cause of death in pregnancy & postpartum, killing 2x as many pregnant & recently pregnant people as hemorrhage, high blood pressure disorders or infection: reckon.news/family/2022/10…

Judging by the footprints, this pigeon is having a very tense telephone conversation....

We’re still learning about the long-term consequences, but COVID has been linked to:

- Lung scarring
- Diabetes in children
- Dangerous fungal infections
- Deadly blood clots
- Cardiovascular problems including heart attacks
- Kidney damage
- Neurological problems

“While the G.O.P.’s election strategy is all about blaming the Biden administration for inflation,” Paul Krugman writes, “the Republican Party doesn’t actually have any plan to reduce inflation.” nyti.ms/3gIRkiB

Impressive work by the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition
Linking policing, land, surveillance, data mining, incarceration and colonization.

And yeah, Mike Davis is in the convo along with coalition organizers/researchers/fighters

youtu.be/cqCn1SHngXw via YouTube

I expect Twitter to remain mostly the same under Elon except it’ll somehow get massive federal subsidies and occasionally burst into flames

Chicago friends - I'll be giving a talk 11/3 The University of Chicago Center for the Study of Gender & Sexuality sponsored by UChi Pozen Center. Come hear about the @AIDSquilt in prison. I can promise pretty cool slides.

I love you ⁦ProPublica⁩ but police “reform” wasn’t stopped by a spike in violent crime, it was stopped by a massive police propaganda campaign that preyed on people’s fear of violence. Police don’t prevent violence. So. propublica.org/article/why-po…

“We are now well past the point of plausible deniability,' writes charlos. 'And the fact there is still not a warning, in the face of overwhelming evidence of the prevalence & severity of long covid, is unconscionable.”
It could be you, too. sfchronicle.com/opinion/openfo…

Amazon's message to workers the day after a driver was mauled by a customer's dogs and died:

vice.com/en/article/wxn…