Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

What's gone unsaid in all this talk about homeless people in DC is that so many in the Capital are veterans who are now having the military aimed back at them for the crime of being poor.

It’s not law. It’s not order. It’s just power.

I wrote about the 69-year-old man Tennessee plans to kill tomorrow. @theintercept.com

@sickoscommittee.org look who is at Dbacks game

@sickoscommittee.org has anyone corrected Jordan yet about Sam Boyd Stadium? It’s as off-campus as you can get. (Also, I miss it.)

A firing squad in South Carolina missed the target over Mikal Mahdi's heart during execution last, causing him to suffer a prolonged death: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

A Big East Pope!

“A picture is worth a thousand words.” My intent with this was just to depict the temporary interstate closure, but there is a lot going on here about our local/state politics and public policy.

Thinking about this thread I read earlier in the day, after on my drive home I saw that a portion of I-11 NB between Boulder City and Henderson/Vegas was completely shut to traffic. Apparently a fatal accident earlier. The presumption that driving entails safety and freedom is…weird.

At a AAA day game in Vegas for Jackie Robinson day. A father has been trying to point out to his child how the Aviators all wearing 42, but without being clear about *why.* Maybe the kid already knows. But it’s worth repeating.

BREAKING: Trump admin says it mistakenly deported a Maryland father who had *withholding of removal* back to El Salvador on March 15. Govt told court Monday it won't bring Kilmar Abrego Garcia back. "What.The.Fuck..." one govt attorney told me. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc... @theatlantic.com

I see human beings with dignity being used as a backdrop and it’s grotesque

There’s a code talker statue right across from the Arizona Capitol. Is that woke too?

First dem governor in EIGHT YEARS to oversee an execution. We’re going backwards. boltsmag.org/secrecy-as-a...

“This is the ultimate state power. Even if you believe the death penalty is appropriate in certain situations, the people have the right to know the law is being followed,” said @nicholascote.bsky.social of Conservatives Concerned. Read more in @bolts.bsky.social ...

This weekend I brainstormed something to write. @paulcrider.liberalcurrents.com got there first.

At the Old Idaho Penitentiary Site. This sign, sadly, could use an update.

Gulf of Mexico. That’s it. That’s the skeet.

🇨🇦 should throw Jordan Binnington his own parade

This American VGK fan of French Canadian heritage cheered a Connor McDavid goal. Times are weird.

IIRC in college many moons ago I ran a debate case for the line-item veto in which one argument was something along the lines of establishing it would prevent a future president from aggressively asserting impoundment power.

Watching the national championship at my dad’s. Although he watches college football often, he’s apparently been blissfully unaware of Pat McAfee until now.

Good to know, being a resident of Boulder City.

My colleague Nan Tolson breaks down reasons for “Texans across the political spectrum to confront the realities of capital punishment”

Love Hurley’s sweater, but love the score more. Friars up 12 at half!

Metaristocats

On the Mt Rushmore of former Providence Friars players who became coaches.

Simply in awe at that Beyoncé performance

🎄 Daily Walkoff ⚾️ Diamondbacks #116 "Big Christmas Energy" 🟢🟢🟢🟢🚀 dailywalkoff.com

Daily Walkoff ⚾️ Diamondbacks #116 "Christmas, (St)Eve" 🟢🟢🟢🟢🚀 dailywalkoff.com

Expressing “good tidings” shouldn’t be limited to the Christmas season

Kelley Henry, a federal public defender in Nashville, represents two of the men who had their federal death sentences commuted by the president this morning. She sent me this statement:

Great piece from @americalabs.org on decline of transparency orgs. Accountability is vital at all levels. In my work to end the death penalty, I see how secrecy leads to and covers up malpractice including cash transactions with unknown drug suppliers and states violating their own protocols.

President Biden has commuted the sentences of 37 individuals on federal death row to life without parole. This historic step builds on his commitment to ending the federal death penalty and advancing criminal justice reform. #EndTheDeathPenalty #CriminalJusticeReform

This is an important step toward ending an unfair system and policy failure. At both the state and federal level, the death penalty risks innocent lives, does not meet the needs of the families of victims, and wastes resources that could be more effectively spent improving safety.

This sicko gave back.

DUIs. Attacking a prisoner. Battery on a law enforcement officer. Violating prison rules. Guards on Alabama's execution team have been accused of violence and misconduct but were allowed to carry out executions, our investigation found: boltsmag.org/alabama...

Daily Walkoff ⚾️ Diamondbacks #114 "Route 66" 🟢🟢🟢🟢🚀 dailywalkoff.com

Daily Walkoff ⚾️ Diamondbacks #113 🟢🟢🟢🟢🚀 dailywalkoff.com

When incarcerated folks follow the rules and do what is expected of them, and go above and beyond that, but don’t receive the benefit promised for such actions, it significantly impairs faith and legitimacy in any system of rehabilitation

In 2021, California lawmakers passed a reparations program to provide $35,000 for people who were involuntarily sterilized while in state custody. But that program has compensated only a fraction of the around 800 women identified by a state audit. boltsmag.org/forced-...

My simple yet apparently controversial belief is that cults of personality are bad.

DBacks couldn’t match this? I was worried some desperate team would offer 4 years.

Glad I decided to watch volleyball instead of football tonight, but just finding out I missed a fair catch free kick?!?

Daily Walkoff ⚾️ Diamondbacks #111 🟢🟢🟢🟢🚀 dailywalkoff.com

Daily Walkoff ⚾️ Diamondbacks #110 "Familiar Faces" 🟢🟢🟢🟢🚀 dailywalkoff.com

The best story ever written about law will take you about five minutes to read (below is about a fourth of it) www.kafka-online.info/before-the-l...