This is remarkable. Context: Public defenders are *so rarely* appointed to state courts (Rachel Cohen wrote this whole piece on that: boltsmag.org/public-defende…)

Minnesota's governor appointed two former public defenders at once to the state supreme court: startribune.com/two-new-justic…

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“15 minutes to gather what you might need.”

New paper just accepted at Demography Journal with Regina Baker & Ryan Finnigan: “The Role of Single Motherhood in America’s High Child Poverty.”

The role is small or modest. The US would have HIGH child poverty even if there was ZERO single motherhood.

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Willfully and unrepentantly misrepresenting sentiments heard by millions of people live is not the moral victory you bizarrely seem to think it is.

Thinking about this, by Rebecca Traister this morning.

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I've come to believe that the Democratic Party's lack of action on the Comstock Act has parallels to Texas S.B. 8—they're just ignoring the threat until it predictably destroys people's lives

What happened in Michigan yesterday is what has happened throughout American history: Arab and Muslim Americans are anchoring themselves in the Democratic Party and making policy demands just like Black, Latino, Irish, Italian, Jewish Americans, and others before them.

This is

Don’t get spun by the hacks. Over 100k uncommitted votes in MI is a big f’in deal.

Looking forward to hearing what the people who said “Arab Americans are only 2 percent of Michigan’s population” will say

How would American media cover a Russian soldier self-immolating in Moscow to protest Putin?

It would probably mention a reason for the tragic act of defiance in the headline.

Published this profile of Tish James exactly two years ago. In the past few weeks, James has extracted massive wins from Trump and the NRA/Wayne LaPierre. nymag.com/intelligencer/…

AOC is an amazing communicator, a gift to the party. If Schumer and Pelosi cared first about fighting fascism they’d elevate and promote her.

But they are so afraid of the left and afraid of change that they marginalize her.

Imagine thinking it was the Democratic Party that warned about it and not activists and providers and researchers who’ve been warning about it for over a decade. Imagine thinking their commitment to the carceral system isn’t part of the problem for post-Roe America.

thinking about this Rebecca Traister piece today thecut.com/2022/05/roe-v-…

From One Year: 1942, I had the privilege of working on a little-known story of black Americans-many in the Midwest-who were hoping to form an alliance with the Japanese and Japanese-Americans during WW2 and sought to assist them during their internment. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/one…

Incisive, frustrating stuff from Rebecca Traister on the CA senate race, in which Schiff is convincingly compared to a cough drop, Porter refuses to take a side where it counts, and the inimitable and exemplary Barbara Lee helps us understand how power works.

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