Leeds, 1954, photo by Marc Riboud.

Exonerations grind to a halt under Chicago's new prosecutor Eileen O'Neill Burke — despite a 77-page report documenting that Detective Brian Forberg and his partners allegedly coerced witnesses in 24 cases. All defendants are Black. 18 remain in prison.

JUST IN: Defense attorneys take another shot at ousting Bill Essayli from running US Attorney's office in L.A., say his own X post shows he's acting as 'inferior officer' without Congressional OK or presidential nomination www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

Link's perma ban is wrong and this should be fixed.

ICYMI: Jamaica’s peak tourism season is one month away, and officials in the hurricane-ravaged nation are rushing to rebuild from the catastrophic Category 5 storm that shredded the island’s western region.

The magnificent score by #EnnioMorricone for the third and final installment in Sergio Leone's Dollars Trilogy, "THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY" (1966) was regarded as among Morricone's greatest achievements

When the cameras have gone and relief has slowed down, what will you continue to do to support Jamaica 🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲

Jails too. What is depicted in Alabama Solution goes on every day in Los Angeles’ jails, especially Men’s Central Jail and Twin Towers Correctional Facility as well as Century Regional Detention Facility. [I inspect these jails as a member of LA County’s Sybil Brand Jail Inspection Commission]

And now, if you read the devastating piece about what Venezuelan deportees endured at the El Salvador torture prison, read what incarcerated U.S. citizens endure in Alabama prisons. State prisons in the U.S. that are massive systems of human rights violations. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

'It is about the structural failure of British justice when confronted with money and power.'

My God.

“AI views both suffering and care as computational problems.” 😮‍💨

“OpenAI is getting ready to run hat in hand to the taxpayer for subsidies.” After losing more than $13 billion this year, OpenAI officials are angling for a bailout. From @ryanlcooper.com: trib.al/CUazMCQ

“Now the city attorney says in a leaked memo the real problem is that “anyone can claim they are a Journalist.” Fine. Maybe those anyones shouldn’t get shot in the head, either.” www.dailynews.com/2025/11/06/l...

Bail reform not only made New York more just, it also literally made it safer. Too bad our elected leaders, public safety officials, and the overwhelming majority of the press are so deeply invested in a narrative entirely divorced from empirical reality. hellgatenyc.com/bail-reform-...

The nature of policing is to avoid accountability and responsibility. That is how it works, in the past, today, and in the future. (I’m not allowing responses because I don’t want to keep explaining. At this point if you tell me the police need to be more professional, I’ll just tap this.)

Buachaille Etive Mòr, commanding the entrance to Glencoe A mountain-shaped mountain

I wrote about Zohran’s victory. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

MISSING: 12-year-old Alya Harding was last seen on Oct. 9, 2025, in Bronx, New York. Have info? Call NCMEC at 1-800-THE-LOST (1-800-843-5678) or the New York Police Department at 1-646-610-5030.

“What is there to teach with respect to typing some text into a box and then mindlessly copy-pasting the output? Such a skilless relationship disregards our pedagogical commitment to foster a critical stance in our students and colleagues” — @olivia.science et al. (2025) zenodo.org/records/1706...

The Cuillin Hills of Skye, from Corran

New from me: The police are defunding our cities. In LA, LAPD’s growing liability lawsuits are costing taxpayers millions of dollars in payouts. $400m in payouts since 2019. The biggest culprits: protests, police shootings, and car collisions. More👇 lapublicpress.org/2025/11/lapd...

"Everyone in prison has a story to tell; you’ll just never hear any of them." — Tariq MaQbool, incarcerated writer in New Jersey

Submitting a motion to change ‘vibe coding’ to ‘pseudoprogramming’

Is that an eightsome reel? I love Scottish country dancing at a ceilidh. Best when only two people in your set know what they are doing and direct everyone where to go. It’s the epitome of community. And so much fun. What a great way to make international friends across cultures.

"One time I got to the hospital, but the doctor wasn’t there. Just the assistants saw me. When I got back to the prison, all they saw was that I went to the hospital."

New LA Pod episode is here! @awalkerinla.bsky.social @mikebonin.bsky.social guest co-host @reporterliz.bsky.social of @thelareporter.bsky.social discuss a secretive $2 million payout to LA County’s CEO, who claims she suffered “reputational harm” from Measure G... podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

As a first generation Jamaican-American, the impact of Hurricane Melissa hits differently. To say that Jamaicans are resilient is an understatement, the island will need help now and for a while. This is what you can do to help www.instagram.com/reel/DQW_h8D... #islandsky #Caribbeansky #Jamaicansky

Cheating with an LLM is the easiest thing in the world for a student to do, but it creates a massive, laborious headache for a prof, if you intend to take it seriously. There’s meetings, emails, discussions, moral dilemmas. It’s just incredibly burdensome, on top of everything else right now.

An LLM-produced essay is tangible proof that a student doesn’t care, and yet responding to it properly requires hour upon hour of careful work. It’s asymmetrical and overwhelming.

Come discuss Ten Years of Failed Law Enforcement Oversight in Los Angeles County. 12pm, Friday, Nov. 7, 2025 at Loyola Law School, 919 Albany St. Los Angeles LAs' oversight bodies are hamstrung by barriers created by law enforcement unions, LASD, and the County. Meanwhile, LASD remains unchecked.

The government of Jamaica has set up a portal for contributing to official relief efforts. I will update this thread if anything analogous opens up for Haiti, Cuba, or the DR supportjamaica.gov.jm

This must be what it’s like to meet Odin when you enter Valhalla. www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/...

For ‘adverts’, see also: ‘hospitals’, ‘the Cabinet’, ‘kindergartens’, ‘the England football team’ and, of course, ‘the country’. The only way you can miss this is deliberately. And just watch them try.

I am thinking of the people of Jamaica, and the many New Yorkers with loved ones there, as Hurricane Melissa — fueled by a warming ocean — grows into the strongest storm ever to bear down upon the island.

Off the top of my head, there have been four egregious examples of weapons grade public racism in the last couple of weeks - Jenrick; the Express hack; Captain Concrete & the Reform woman. The way they are treated by employers, punters & wider media, will directly influence how much more we see.

Los Angeles County Jail system announced its 40th death of the year today. A 42 year-old woman. That is almost a death every week.

There Is a famous sketch and incredibly popular gif about this very thing. It’s been around for years. It answers all the questions.

Nothing bothers white bigots more than how much we, as Black people, love ourselves. That's what baffles these idiots; how on earth can we face such hatred in the world and still find every which way possible to be fcking amazing…….. ✊🏾

Showing our support before kick off 🟥

Is pickleball like Temu tennis?

Law & Order and its various spinoffs have done more to erode the Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, and Eighth Amendments than the Supreme Court

This makes me so happy. My grandfather, a Jamaican immigrant, became a Jags fan in the late 1910’s and was a season ticket holder until he died at the age of 96. He was profiled that year in the Evening Times. We’re on our fourth generation of Jags fans. My kids love the games.

Show Racism the Red Card - Together We Are Stronger ptfc.co.uk/ptfc-news/sh...

In life is death. In death is rebirth. What then is life without death? Life unchanging, everlasting, eternal?-What is it but death-death without rebirth?

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

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