Have you considered… not having the person executed at all?

The guy had AI write songs about his mistress and the prosecutors made the whole court listen to them. Brutal.

And also to people who can’t afford to skip work, or have no childcare, or who live 800 miles from a big city. Things are different here. Not to say we shouldn’t be organizing and activating, but it’s going to look different here.

Not just imprisoned, she’s been in solitary for 30 fucking years.

Palmer Luckey is Matt Gaetz’s brother-in-law.

There’s a great documentary called The Nature of the Crime about the parole process. Ostensibly the program exists to encourage good behavior and rehabilitation, but often the parole boards disregard the inmate’s good behavior and deny parole based on the nature of the crime - which will never change, so why even pretend?

Unfortunately I paid a stupid amount on Etsy for like a dozen stickers.

Same. I save them for when I’m out in the suburbs, or ideally for rural areas when I’m on a road trip.

That’s true, but in many cases these leaders bypass any democratic process, and instead use executive orders and military coups to force policy changes.

I highly recommend Naomi Klein’s book The Shock Doctrine. Milton Friedman trained these motherfuckers to pitch deregulation and privatization as the solution to economic issues. Without exception it accelerates inflation and poverty, and lets the government sell the country for parts. Chile, Argentina (again), Iraq, Russia. The US has gotten the shock treatment like 6 different times this millennium.

Thank you.

Regarding a conspiracy or prior knowledge, I don’t have strong beliefs either way, so I’m asking this question sincerely. What would it look like to respond appropriately to this information? Don’t these agencies have a list of 1000 potential threats at all times?

Exactly. The article doesn’t explicitly make that point, but it’s like… Lots of people are willing to pay higher rent for an apartment complex with a pool, even if their neighbors also get to enjoy the pool.

This seems like a good thing.

Alex Gibney has covered Enron, Guantanamo, Wikileaks, Scientology, Theranos, Netanyahu, etc. He has never played it safe and has very good lawyers.

No problem. It’s Episode 10 from 5/26/2020.

There’s an episode of the Drug Science Podcast about using MDMA to treat alcoholism. It was a small sample size, but the rate of sobriety at 1yr post-treatment was something like 85%, compared to 15% with treatment-as-usual.

Bless you for thinking of the music!

I’m imagining the scene in Succession where Kendall’s on the phone, trying to play hardball with an investor like his dad did. Turned out he wasn’t good at it, and the investor never appreciated being hardballed in the first place.

You’ll have to be more specific.