"The last state-sanctioned public execution in the US occurred more than 90 years ago in Owensboro, Kentucky. Some 20,000 people gathered to witness the August 1936 hanging of Rainey Bethea, a young Black man who had been convicted of raping an elderly white woman." www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/u...

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Shout out to my friend Loredana Loy for this revelatory paper about the meat industry's coverup of its role in causing global warming. Important read! @loredanaloy.bsky.social

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ICE is murdering people. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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"In 2024, an Emory University professor, Stephen Nowicki, observed that his college seminar students felt less control over their lives than the average prisoner felt in 1966." www.nytimes.com/2026/07/23/o...

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"Sometimes you bite off more than you can chew, huh, Donald." Katie Phang breaks down the latest blow to Donald Trump in his defamation suit against the BBC, with a judge ordering him to hand over financial records and green-lighting subpoenas for his inner circle.

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