The Supreme Court just made an important and promising shift on qualified immunity in a case called McCoy v. Alamu- although they did it so quietly that you wouldn't notice if you didn't look closely. Here's the scoop, in a thread...

Is it possible to face death, to face a terminal illness without feeling fear? Check out my musings 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 #bcsm

Inspiring discussion of Nina Riggs' The Bright Hour (simonandschuster.com/authors/Nina-R…) with the UNC School of Medicine medical student palliative care interest group. Excited for Part 2 tomorrow. Thx @CambraySmith Catalina Berenblum Tobi, MD for organizing! @uncmed2024 Ashley Allen John Duberstein #hpm #hapc

The proper term for this is “superior mirage” or “superior looming mirage” but I have seen the term “fata morgana” used for a similar phenomenon also caused by weird kinds of light bending over the ocean.

Sympathetic Police Know What It’s Like To Have A Bad Day And Kill 8 People bit.ly/3ePnMwT

New license plate idea: Heartbreaking. Infuriating. Quotidian. North Carolina criminal justice. North Carolina sends 6-year-olds to court. Why some say it's time for change. | | journalnow.com journalnow.com/north-carolina…

"Over here we have our trunk of Batarangs. We have so many of these that we could end Gotham’s hunger epidemic twice over if we sold all of them." mcsweeneys.net/articles/alfre…

The international relations metaphors are busy writing themselves...

And this isn’t junk math, it’s human math— Minimum Wage Would Be $44 Today If It Had Increased at Same Rate as Wall St. Bonuses: Analysis - via Common Dreams bit.ly/2PleHkO

People living in congregate settings like prisons and jails are at particularly high risk of getting the coronavirus. huffp.st/eIOnCkv

Our shaved-meat demystification Oracle has spoken. 🙏 Steak-umm

In Greensboro, local media outlets had long been misinforming residents about the safety of this country’s largest historically Black college—until a group of student journalists decided to hold their professional colleagues accountable. scalawagmagazine.org/2021/02/greens…

OMG...drum roll, please! I can't believe this is real -- Going There! Writing this thing is the result of three years of labor, and yes it does feel like giving birth! You can preorder it now: amzn.to/3eHZ4y1. I can't wait for all of you to get your hands on it this fall!

Today, the UC regents are meeting to decide whether or not UC should permanently partner with health centers that allow discrimination against patients who need reproductive and queer-affirming healthcare. I hope they do not betray our values or patients. latimes.com/opinion/story/…

R.I.P. Gift of Gab, underground rap hero and half of Blackalicious. The Bay Area rapper was 50 years old and passed away from natural causes. He left an immeasurable impact on music through landmark records like ‘Blazing Arrow’ and ‘Nia.' bit.ly/3dfbkEY

If you're thinking about end of the year tax-deductible donations, please keep the Nina Riggs Poetry Foundation in mind. And if you'd like to donate as a gift in honor of someone, you can email Cave Wall and we'll send a note to let them know. fundrazr.com/NinaRiggsPoetr…

A statement from my colleague Robert Weisberg and me about public defenders:

Big thanks to everyone who donated to the Nina Riggs Poetry Award yesterday. We raised $580. In one day! You are awesome. We are giving away a bonus prize of Cave Wall #13, which contains this poem by Nina Riggs. Happy end of one year, beginning of another.

Just realized that in the Greek alphabet Pi follows Omicron, so the next variant will repeat endlessly. 😳

Read a Nina Riggs Award nomination that has me sitting here weeping. Weeping! For beauty. For life. For love. John Duberstein, this is why we do this. Nina would’ve loved these. (I now gather myself to go play with my kids but those poems were a hinge and this day has been changed.)