My old job made me read "Mindset," which was compelling with the part of its message that smartness isn't something you are, it's something you do.

I've been turning it over in my mind ever since.

Damn. To be young, huh?

Very 😐 news indeed.

(2) ensuring mechanisms of community control, democratic accountability, and legal vindication for *every violation of the law* by powerful people or institutions without immunities or other procedural technicalities that now make it hard to have civil rights cases adjudicated on their merits.

(1) reducing the size and power of ICE and other repressive bureaucracies *across the board*;

Do not take seriously anyone who is not talking about and working toward simple solutions on each of these fronts:

The current state of the Democratic Party is failing miserably at the former, and our legal system has shown itself to lack the rigor, capacity, and integrity to ensure the latter.

The only coherent positions are (1) to reduce the size and power of these institutions--used by ruling class elites across the world to protect inequalities of many kinds--and (2) to enforce robust mechanisms for accountable vindication of basic human rights.

Oh, you mean the HBO Show with Bill Hader? I haven't made the time for it, yet.

I thought you were talking about the second Flash and was real confused.

You know, blah blah, capitalism is bad, but my weakness is always owning too many shoes