This article does describes much of what we know now. I've never seen anything like it. What the California courts do now to investigate and to protect the integrity of our legal institutions will be important. www.sacbee.com/news/local/a...

In the coming weeks, I'm going to be talking about our civil rights work more. It's essential that people more fully understand what the punishment bureaucracy is doing and how, without extreme vigilance and care, it can be weaponized for authoritarian ends.

We are designing and bringing groundbreaking constitutional cases about pretrial liberty; due process and the evils of government detention without trial; debtors prisons; prosecutor and judicial misconduct; the rights of all families against forced separation, and much more.

We @civrightscorps.bsky.social fight constitutional cases to re-sensitize our society to the everyday brutality of the punishment bureaucracy. Support us, we need your help now more than ever because a lot of large donors are abandoning us. civilrightscorpsorg.secure.nonprofitsoapbox.com/donate

In my first book, Usual Cruelty, I talked about how grotesque injustices become normalized in our society. Every time I go into a jail or a prison, no matter how often, I am shocked to my core at the gap between our society's slogans on marble monuments and its daily reality.

Authorities are now tolerating massive corruption crimes and horrific brutality inside jails and pollution crimes killing hundreds of thousands and this is why they choose to do as “law enforcement”:

The same is true in civil cases, like huge recent verdict by a jury in rural Louisiana against a private jail. Establishment Democrats and Republicans have worked hard for punishment bureaucrats and big corporations to reduce the power of juries. bsky.app/profile/equa...

As even some people on the inside have admitted, this is about regime-change, natural resources, profit, politics, etc... The government itself has said virtually no fentanyl comes from Venezuela. It's just lawless murder in service of predatory domination. All whitewashed.

All of this normalizes some of the most dangerous, depraved, shocking, and fraudulent conduct that people in power can perpetrate. It's just normalizing the lies, and the very concept that routine drug interdiction could somehow morph into automatic process-free assassination.

Deja vu. bsky.app/profile/equa...

I will say it again: no one I’ve spoken to thinks drugs are the reason this is happening. What are we doing here? Absolutely pathetic excuse for journalism on the most consequential issues of our time from the same outlets who did this with WMD in Iraq.

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As I discussed below in one of the most important speeches I have ever given, these cases are vital moments of reaffirming our society's commitment to its values and to basic notions of kindness, solidarity, and truth. www.youtube.com/watch?v=trck...

Our cases allege that millions of children are barred from contact with parents who are jailed awaiting trial so that telecom monopolies and sheriffs can force them to spend more money on calls. www.nbcnews.com/investigatio...

My point, which is not controversial, is that it only actually passed because of the Israel concerns. This was acknowledged at the time. There were obviously people who supported it for various reasons.

As with Orwell, it's all premised on this ludicrous lie that extremely wealthy oligarchs in the U.S. care about privacy and sensitive user data from an evil foreign power. And so **they** must therefore be given unprecedented power to surveil and manipulate us. And the news goes along.