i'm sorry what www.wsj.com/us-news/trum...

LOL of course they endorsed him, he literally created LASPA after he got himself suspended from the existing union and tried to get it decertified

Even after an appeals court tossed out AG Bonta's charges against ex-Gascon advisor Diana Teran, Bonta KEPT pursuing the case, taking it all the way to SCOTUS - which denied cert last wk, finally bringing an end to what was always a bonkers case against a woman engaged in police accountability work

A small but growing movement has sprung up in Nashville that is radical in its simplicity: People are building wooden benches and placing them at bus stops where there is no other place to sit. nashvillebanner.com/2025/09/22/g...

For many years, I waited for someone to start a books to incarcerated children program in IL. It didn't happen. So I decided that I would start such a program. What were the steps to do so? 1. I spoke to people who ran Illinois Youth Prisons about whether they would support such a program.

wow, now up to 38 in custody deaths this year in the LA jails

amazing

When I toured the LASD history museum I asked about the weirdest murder the dept ever handled. The historian said it was the case of Major Lisemba, who used 2 rattlesnakes to kill his pregnant wife in 1935 - then became the last person hanged in CA. Story here: www.latimes.com/california/s...

This has gone too far

this has to be one of the dumbest reasons i've seen for a prison rejecting a publication

An inmate with a contraband phone sent me this. In case you have ever wondered whah folks do all day in prison with contraband phones… at least some of them read @scotusblog.com apparently. www.scotusblog.com/2025/09/is-t...

People tip the farmers market harmonica player in vegetables and I both love this and did not realize it was a thing

An LA sheriff's deputy justified repeatedly kneeing a handcuffed suspect in the head because: -punching him might *hurt the deputy's hand* -pepper spray could have hurt other deputies -he left his taser in the car -and all the kneeing after dude was handcuffed was just ~accidental~

My best friend, my new editor and one person I've been hooking up with all have the same first name. Stay tuned to this space for chaos and/or disaster.

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Hopefully I don’t regret asking the internet a question but do do the feds usually bother to prosecute prisoner for just POSSESSING a shank? I would have to expected just having it would be SHU time not worth criminally charging www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr...

One day after the LA jails got sued by the state for, among other things, the large number of in-custody deaths this year.... LASD just posted yet another. 37 deaths in 37 weeks.

IT'S A BABELFISH

I know the story here has been the multiple mortgages listed as primary residences but I just cannot get over the sheer number of homes the texas AG has www.houstonchronicle.com/business/col...

In what scenario did my phone find it helpful to autocorrect jack shit to Jacq shit

amazing headline on this

ICYMI, my ~last~ story for @houstonchronicle.com ran this week. It was ofc about Texas prisons - how much more unsafe they've become for prisoners over the past decade, by many metrics: More suicides, homicides, uses of force by guards, accidental deaths, assaults, and rapes.

If you have ever been overcharged for a records request... please take a moment to enjoy the SHEER AUDACITY here

oh neato I just got a partial response to my records request i made for 1421 materials in *checks notes* JULY OF FUCKING 2023

Lawmakers had tried an eleventh-hour push to revive a bill to regulate the largely unchecked industry. bit.ly/4nhaIQJ

Texas is the biggest state in the country to have a bathroom ban on the books, and aside from local news and a few national nonprofits, the coverage of it is pretty small. There are over 160,000 trans adults in the state of Texas

Initially i misread this to mean that they were all stoned when having their hours of discussion about this (and I kind of prefer to read it that way)

What an amazing and absolutely wild photo with this story www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/b...

came across this gem from a 1942 San Francisco Examiner...

looks like a win for the *checks notes* pro-child-drowning constituency www.npr.org/sections/sho...

I just got a (very kind) reader email complimenting my latest story and tell me I should... use chatgpt to learn more about Texas prisons. Again, this was a complimentary email but my gawd we are so cooked.

Trump deployment of military troops to Los Angeles was illegal, judge rules in blistering opinio www.latimes.com/california/s...

Apologies! You have reached the end of your free trial period of America

Only 75 degrees and 92 percent humidity feels almost exhilaratingly chilly rn 💀

Four deaths in two weeks: What’s behind the surge in violence at one Texas prison www.houstonchronicle.com/news/investi...

"Mr. Trump denied statistical reality last week when he was asked whether he might send federal forces into high-crime cities in Republican-led states. 'Sure,' he said, 'but there aren’t that many.'" www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/u...

i could play mad libs for like a year and never come up with half the headlines i see in any random week www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...

One of the deputies who was doing security work - which included committing crimes - for the 21 yo crypto "Godfather" of Beverly Hills (who, incidentally, used some of his ill-gotten gains on leg-lengthening surgery) has lost his license to be a cop in California. www.latimes.com/california/s...

When you look into the abyss…the abyss follows you on tiktok.

deadliest year-to-date death rate in LA county jails on record — worse than the height of the pandemic.

One of the elected felony court judges in Houston - a Democrat - has abruptly announced he's stepping down mid-term. Now, the Texas governor will get to pick his replacement... www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/hou...

Today the L.A. jails just posted their 36th in-custody death for this calendar year:

Arresting firefighters putting their lives on the line to protect our communities doesn't make us safer. This evil stunt is putting families in harm's way just so Donald Trump can score a Fox News hit.

This is telling: People I spoke to are talking about CDC in the past tense. www.statnews.com/2025/08/28/c...

Thousands of DC residents chanting “fuck Jeff Bezos” outside of the P Street Whole Foods

the texas ag just sided with me on a records request that is all. that's the tweet. too shocked for additional words.

The comments on the sandwich situation are really top tier

I’m sorry WHAT

Google news thought I needed poison, whales and @keribla.bsky.social today.