you know who else had long flowing hair and they thought was down and out before making a comeback

GOT AWAY WITH IT AGAIN

sorry in advance to anybody who is sick of me talking about this, but man is this story doing a number on my brain and its hard for me to focus as much on other stories this dude shot kids! little primary kids!!! burned down the whole church and it could have been so, so much worse than it was.

For we wrestle against flesh and blood, on behalf of principalities, of powers. -Croesians 45:47

Imagine reading the story of Christ and believing that violating an earthly law is inherently sinful.

no better proof that we really and truly are operating in a post-shame society than "interim Arkansas head football coach bobby petrino"

Horrific and heartbreaking

With this ringing endorsement, if you'd like to understand what deeply evil nonsense the literal President of the United States is promoting now please do listen! on.soundcloud.com/0SJT1Mcqx8ks...

Ladies and gentlemen, the meritocracy

me, every saturday from late august through november

yeah i hate to be the fun police here but this can’t happen. we can’t subject players to this

Robert was sentenced to death for the tragic death of his 2-year-old daughter, Nikki. Prosecutors relied heavily on “shaken baby syndrome”— a theory now widely discredited. yet testimony re: SBS was the linchpin of his conviction.

one tude containers seldom make history

re: why i care

“why some people be mad at me sometimes” they ask me to remember but they want me to remember their memories and i keep remembering mine - Lucille Clifton [writing the most Black woman poem of all time]

Ivory tower elites doing unspeakable things to the common man.

Galveston's police union accused the local EMS agency of near-fatal neglect after an officer suffered a cardiac arrest in training. Everyone involved is tight-lipped on the facts, but clinical science paints a more complicated picture. My latest: medicineandjustice.beehiiv.com/p/police-uni...

Governor Abbott or the Court of Criminal Appeals can stop this tragedy before it happens. They can prevent Texas from executing an innocent man. The power to stop this injustice lies in their hands, but the pressure must come from ours.

The always stop-what-you're-doing-and-read-worthy Lee Hedgepeth drops another that might make my latest a little later-est today.

2000s network news execs looking to fill the mid-afternoon slot:

Let me express my deepest and sincere empathy for one group I haven't heard mentioned yet around Charlie Kirk 's murder. All the young people at that event are going to be badly traumatized by this. Given that they are the generation most exposed to public shootings it must be very hard on them.

The murder of Charlie Kirk was criminal, wrong, and should be condemned. And Charlie Kirk was a horrible, hateful man who spent his life radicalizing young people to embrace their worst demons by targeting women, people of color, immigrants, and the marginalized. I refuse to sanitize him.

nobody needs to hear this more than people who aren’t on here but: wait for a suspect and a motive

they just decide what they think we’re like and proceed as though

Let’s make one thing clear from the start: Charlie Kirk was the victim of a shooting in a country where he, along with other right-wing extremist influencers, have been inciting violence for years. — Kirk is neither a martyr nor a hero, he is a cause.

This is straightforwardly true. I think where I disagree is the implication: that attempts to revoke hate speech protections would empower our institutions to defend us more than it empowered cynical fascists to use far more extraordinary measures against far milder criticism.

@jesspected.bsky.social There's another angle to this that a substack just made me realize. How patriarchy really likes pushing the outside boogeyman pedophile threat to distract from how most are acquaintance offenders. And here it's real. open.substack.com/pub/strongwi...

I think people that loudly profess to follow Christ should probably suffer a greater social penalty for lying like, all the fucking time you're supposed to feel bad when you tell a massive lie in public! people are supposed to respect you less for it!

You can't deal with mass incarceration if you're only interested in mercy for people who did things that you don't think should be crimes in the first place.

Every time I post about sentencing I get people coming into my mentions who are like "but [whatever crime we're talking about] is bad" and I would like all of those people to know that they, specifically are the problem.

From Eric Fish, DVM: "PhD-level intelligence" reads EKGs less proficiently than entry-level paramedics. open.substack.com/pub/allscien...

Actually, Frankenstein is a doctor success at the Venice film festival

Nuns from a convent outside Waco have repeatedly visited the women on Texas’s death row—and even made them affiliates of their order. Lawrence Wright reports on a powerful spiritual alliance.

Today Taylor Swift accomplished something no AI researcher ever could (made an announcement without posting on X)

Paul House died this week, nearly 20 years after leaving death row. By then, untreated multiple sclerosis had robbed him of his ability to walk or perform most daily activities. I wrote about MS, family, and how exoneration is not enough: medicineandjustice.beehiiv.com/p/paul-house...

Don't want to sound alarmist, but I can think of exactly one idea that threads the "less housing support but fewer homeless" needle.

My feelings gave never been so mixed

Death penalty proponents like to claim the innocence problem doesn't exist because it rarely (that we know of) ends in execution. Paul House's case is another reminder that death row mutilates any innocent bodies and minds the death chamber doesn't. medicineandjustice.beehiiv.com/p/death-pena...

Blind recommend anything from Melanie.

DPI’s Podcast 12:01 The Death Penalty in Context: Florida Attorney and Researcher Melanie Kalmanson on Recent Developments in Florida’s Death Penalty #deathpenalty deathpenaltyinfo.org/dpis-podcast...

I'm going to work on being less condescending. (Condescending means talking down to people.)

Send me a pigeon that flies on some steak knives Make me a razor on a columbidae Just give me one thing a bloat can get cut on To believe in this livin just takes an honest day's wage

The way-too-early read is that Byron Black's implanted pacemaker/defibrillator probably didn’t cause his botched execution. That shouldn't excuse Tennessee's decision that being humane was just too hard. medicineandjustice.beehiiv.com/p/byron-blac...

I've decided to write about my experience as a medic at the unite the right rally in Charlottesville in 2017. I've written about it before, but this time I'm trying to focus less on the incident itself and more on what it's like to navigate post traumatic stress disorder of a politicized event.

Which of why I find LDS COVID anti vaxxers so inscrutable. What were you fasting and praying fo in 2020 if not a miracle vaccine that God’s representative on earth cleared you to take?!

Also really important to remember that any and all facial / head injuries bleed *a lot*. They very frequently look much worse than they actually are. This is not a lot of blood for a facial injury.

As a media witness to the last two executions, Tuesday's was different. Whether it was the Pentobarbitol causing pulmonary edema or the defibrillator that courts ruled did not have to be turned off, Byron Black was in obvious pain. “Oh, it’s hurting so bad,” he said minutes before dying.