What Is Fascism?
2023-02-02
A historian parses the origins of an ideology., Read MoreContinue Reading
Atlanta’s “Cop City” Moves Ahead After Police Kill 1 Protester & Charge 19 with Domestic Terrorism
2023-02-02
Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens announced Tuesday that a proposed $90 million police training facility known as “Cop City” is moving forward, despite growing opposition and the police killing of a forest defender. Just weeks ago, law enforcement officers — including a SWAT team — were violently evicting protesters who hadContinue Reading
“No More”: At Tyre Nichols Funeral, VP Harris, Rev. Sharpton Join Family, Demand Police Accountability
2023-02-02
We air excerpts from the funeral of Tyre Nichols, whose death on January 10 after a brutal police beating sparked protests across the country. “On the night of January 7, my brother was robbed of his life, his passions and his talents — but not his light,” said Nichols’s sisterContinue Reading
Headlines for February 2, 2023
2023-02-02
Kamala Harris and Rev. Sharpton Join Mourners to Pay Tribute to Tyre Nichols at Memphis FuneralBlack Lives Matter, Slavery Reparations & Queer Theory Stripped From AP Black Studies CurriculumFilipino Activists Protest Deal Granting Greater U.S. Military Access to BasesRussian Missiles Pound Eastern Ukraine, U.S. to Send Another $2B as WarContinue Reading
Interview: ‘We Were Having None of It’
2023-02-02
Katie Paris founded Red Wine & Blue in 2019 to help suburban women engage in politics. By the end of the 2020 election, it had grown into ‘a pretty passionate fight against rightwing extremism.’, Read MoreContinue Reading
Team Hakeem Wants Us To Believe That Progressives Can’t Win– Meet Sarahana Shrestha, Who Just Did
2023-02-02
Hakeem Jeffries pretends to be a progressive. He’s even a member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, which was once a signal of belonging to the progressive tribe. Hakeem Jeffries, though, is as far from the “progressive tribe” as anyone as corrupt and beholden to Wall Street, crypto-billionaires and Republican-financed AIPACContinue Reading
Murders in Texas increased 37% statewide in 2020, with Republican-led communities suffering the biggest spikes. But overdose deaths doubled murders. Are we focused on the wrong problems?
2023-02-02
Much attention has been given to the nationwide murder spike, but Texans were more than twice as likely to die from a drug overdose in 2020 than to be murdered. And like murders, overdose deaths saw a big increase during the pandemic. “More than 4,000 Texans died of drug overdoses in theContinue Reading
Arguments for Republican bail bill become nonsensical when debating rural jails
2023-02-02
I’ve gotta say, 2021 has been dispiriting on many levels, not the least of which is the partisanship injected into criminal-justice topics turning once-rational individuals into liars and/or idiots. Over the last week, Just Liberty has been walking around to rural members – almost all Republicans, since the Dems areContinue Reading
The Long Road to #StoptheShock
2023-02-01
For two decades, a Massachusetts school has been under fire for torturing disabled students with shock devices. Now, activist efforts to end the practice may soon pay off., Read MoreContinue Reading
Should The Left Embrace Preparedness Culture?
2023-02-01
A few days after a massive power outage in North Carolina in early December, Margaret Killjoy shared a thread on preparedness in response to the outages. Alongside the usual emergency supplies like extra water, batteries, medicine, heat sources, and food, Killjoy noted something not usually included in preparedness toolkits: “organizeContinue Reading
The 70 Somewhat Competitive House Seats
2023-02-01
There are 435 congressional districts. Most of them are safe seats for one party or the other. In fact I’m only seeing 70 districts where there’s any electoral uncertainty at all. There are 6 basically new districts with no incumbents that could go either way, 44 districts held by Democrats now thatContinue Reading
What if any changes to police deployment patterns might reduce violent crime? Hotspot policing vs. ↑ resources for detectives
2023-02-01
A friend emailed to ask my opinion of “hotspot” policing tactics being promoted by Houston PD. Here’s how I responded: There are SO many studies on this topic, many of them very micro-focused and not particularly useful, let me give you a big-picture, 50-year overview of the research findings onContinue Reading
Austin PD’s “early warning system” is a failed PR stunt, like pretty much all of them
2023-02-01
“Early warning systems” for police are one of those ideas that’s touted by institutional players in the wake of bad police misconduct episodes – doubling down on the idea that we just need to identify and oust a “few bad apples” – but IRL, your correspondent has never seen oneContinue Reading