The The Washington Post editorial board is calling for an end to prison phone fees.

'Lowering phone costs could save taxpayers money & improve public safety. State officials should continue to bring down costs for the incarcerated in whatever ways they can.'
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I was lucky enough to be included in Rachel Bower’s CBC documentary on the importance of diversity in crosswords. Check out this article about the project, which debuts in a few weeks! cbc.ca/passionateeye/…

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In other news, NCSL just put out a report on #RestorativeJustice & young people. The key audience is state legislators; however, there's useful info for prosecutors & anyone else interested in this effective alternative to the adversarial legal system.
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Today is a good day to consider becoming an organ donor.

Today's MGWCC (Matt Gaffney's Weekly Crossword Contest) is #750 in my series, which will end in 2027 at Puzzle #1000. I'm giving today's puz away for free; if you'd like to try it, email me at [email protected] with '750' in the subject line xwordcontest.com

Save the date! On Friday the 21st at 9pm ET there will be Hex-spooktacular stream at twitch.tv/bewilderingly. Solve Hex classics and get a look at the digitalization of the Hex archive. With Hex, every clue is a trick and a treat! Will Nediger Lukas Karlsson dan chall

At some point I hope Americans recognize that public service in a democracy requires a humanitarian philosophy and selfless orientation to the world that is antithetical to the ethos of today’s fame-hungry capitalist “success stories”

I don't know if my jaw has ever dropped so low from an AAM title

32 teams. 7x7. $1 million. Winner-take-all.

TBT is taking its high stakes tournament model to soccer, starting next summer with TST. espn.com/soccer/blog-th…

If you’d given me 1,000,000,000 guesses of things that would happen in 2022, “creator of Veggietales implying Bob the Tomato and Larry the Cucumber are trans in a Twitter thread where he’s asking other Christians how drone strikes are okay but abortion isn’t” wouldn’t come up.

As I’ve said before, no one should be in jail just for using or possessing marijuana.

Today, I’m taking steps to end our failed approach. Allow me to lay them out.

A parent at my school made this #BikeBus video. So cool to see these different angles of the ride.

The Yates report demands immediate attention and accountability. Instead, it has been met with silence from the teams, and inaction from the NWSL and the PA. We should not have to wait for the League to finish its report - which is NOT independent - to seek justice for players.

I wrote about how “crime” is socially constructed and why this fact isn’t just dorm room theory but manifest as routine mass violence leveled against the black and poor that our media and political leaders just accept as natural and unchangeable therealnews.com/media-indiffer…