The Marshall Project digitized hours worth of songs produced by Texas prisoners between 1965 and 1982.
You can find the full playlist here: youtube.com/playlist?lis...
“I need you on the outside to join us in this fight. Not to reform our cages. Not to make our suffering slightly more comfortable. But to tear this whole damn system down and build something actually life-giving in its place.” kwanetaharris.substack.com/p/we-cant-wa...
The last word in The Alabama Solution is Governor Kay Ivie's casual, unfeeling "sure" in response to a question about redirecting funding for public education to building more mega prisons. One of those mega prisons will reportedly be named the Governor Kay Ivey Correctional Complex.
What's the answer? Don't go leaving us hanging.
Our letter of dissent to the CU System's agreement with OpenAI has ~350 signatures; let's keep the ball rolling! Please share this letter and if you're a CU affiliate, sign if you feel compelled. This deal is unbelievably harmful.
docs.google.com/document/d/e...
the "just asking questions" to "legitimate questions about fairness in sports" to "the state doesn't have to consider us as real people" pipeline working exactly as designed.
I still remember that peer who told recruits it was "shockingly easy" to live off the grad student stipend yet failed to mention that their parents paid their rent.
"What happens--say, for example, with a drug war--when the government's actions are so extreme, so ineffective, and so damaging to democracy that the people cannot help but see their government as little more than a source of bureaucratically orchestrated state violence?"
- Stephen Hartnett
Ordered a small cold brew. Either I'm living in a Parks & Rec subplot or the barista took one look at me and decided I need the most caffeine.
It is very much a part of the rightwing’s anti-politics to declare the political a brute, emotive, non-cognitive zone of indistinction.
