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The Knicks win resonates so broadly because it’s a much-needed reminder that the good thing about living in a time where anything is possible (doom) is the fact that anything is possible (magic).

bedtime creep is the leading cause of spiritual collapse in parents of small children.

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millennials are people pleasing their toddlers and calling it gentle parenting.

that horrifying ICE raid in Chicago? turns out it was really just about slumlords using the full strength of not only police but FEDERAL LAW ENFORCEMENT to forcibly evict people. www.propublica.org/article/chic...

the admin: " We've established a fusion cell to streamline two-way sharing of actionable intelligence and information within—DHS, DEA, FBI and local law enforcement partners.”

dems: ICE is bad, cops are good! cops will protect us from ICE. cops: Seattle Police Officers Guild President Mike Solan said of Wilson’s plan that “The concept of pitting two armed law enforcement agencies against each other is ludicrous, and will not happen.”

many of the tactics we are seeing right now are direct imports from policing. cops and ICE and law enforcement are part of the same political constituency and same project of state violence. the overlap in the communities they target is MASSIVE which we are seeing in this enforcement in real time.

not cops getting a PR glow up on the backs of disgusting ICE and CBP violence. two things can be true: this moment can be unprecedented/ uniquely bad without us unnecessarily drawing not very tight distinctions between ICE and cops that paint cops in a light they certainly don’t deserve.

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador. Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

like guys abeg it’s the fact that judges love locking Black people up that we *had* to push for legislative reform in the first place. and the most effective legislation in reducing incarceration rates *removed* discretion for judges in more cases and mandated release.

this narrative pivot from the field that’s like “public safety, not wealth, should decide who is jailed pretrial” vs “pretrial freedom all day every day” is really getting my goat.

when they say kids are expensive, they mean we bought $40 of fruit for *the week* at the farmers market this morning at 8:30am. reader, it is 7:33 pm on that very same day and i’m going to invite you to guess how many pieces we have left.

gives me chills that people can see somebody experiencing houselessness & feel that *they* are the victims of that story. and that the policy solution is ensuring that they no longer have to see or be proximate to that person, rather than addressing the conditions that leave people without housing.

the same man who immediately reinstated the use of the federal death penalty in his first term, who executed more Americans during that term than all the states combined and who rushed to kill three more Black men using the death penalty during the LAME DUCK period AFTER he lost the election.