Reposted by C.S.Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 03/10/2026It is centering HIM. That is not what restorative justice would do. 229310
Reposted by C.S.Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 03/10/2026People angrily demanding why he must be punished and why we can't restore him is the fucking opposite of restorative justice. 133918
Reposted by C.S.Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 03/10/2026Restorative justice doesn't mean "nothing bad ever happens to you." It means, "in determining what happens from here on out, we center the needs of your victim to repair what happened to them over your own needs." 1691170
C.S. @cephander.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Happy belated feast day of St Francis I just saw a wild rabbit in the street in downtown Baltimore 010
Reposted by C.S.Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 05/10/2026All prisoners should have the right to vote while in prison 7956781103
Reposted by C.S.Timbo @othertimbo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Made a cathartic post about the Mariners after not being interested in them for most of the season. Photoshop is my passiontimbosslice.substack.comThe Autopsy of Jerry DipotoThe season ended how I expected… yet somehow worse 184
Reposted by C.S.Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026Vacating a stay of execution, and without even a word, is in-sane and horrific (Yes I know they've done similar shit before, that was wildly fucked up too) 1432177
Reposted by C.S.Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 30/09/2026BREAKING: SCOTUS’s Republican appointees will allow Tennessee to kill Christa Pike tonight, vacating a stay of execution entered by the Sixth Circuit this morning. The three Democratic appointees dissent. 48740269
Reposted by C.S.Nathan HawkBlogger @nathanhb.bsky.social · 30/09/2026NEW POST: Zombie Light Bat scores a coup, as The New Yorker's Isaac Chotiner sits down for us to interview Seattle Mariners President of Baseball Operations Jerry Dipoto. thelightbat.substack.com/p/new-interv...thelightbat.substack.comNew Interview: Jerry Dipoto On The Culture Of AccountabilityThe Mariners executive explains why the blame falls on him first, why the consequences fell on everyone else, and why accountability is just a word without a standard. 2123
Reposted by C.S.Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 22/09/2026If one’s goal is to live in a more democratic society, removing duly elected officials via assassination or a military coup is highly unlikely to advance that goal. 1714316
Reposted by C.S.Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 16/09/2026"Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize." --Tom Lehrer 10713162
C.S. @cephander.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Portland has The soccer culture in the US and that soccer culture is a trans flag with the three arrows superimposed on it. They can fucking try 021
Reposted by C.S.Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 12/09/2026I would have gone out and found like an 8th generation Texan family who had an adult trans kid who fled Texas and cut an ad with them going "i voted the way i did to keep this texas family together, but Ken Paxton drove them apart. When the government reaches into the home, I begin to question it." 111067159
Reposted by C.S.Alison Fitzgerald Kodjak @alikodjak.bsky.social · 11/09/2026When the league proposed changes that would have eliminated early deals and made it more difficult for moneylenders to prey on baseball families, David Ortiz used his influence within the powerful players union to help block the reform. @propublica.org @mlb.com www.propublica.org/article/how-...propublica.orgHow the Dominican Baseball Factory Traps Young Players and Their Families With False PromisesTeams make handshake deals with players as young as 11 while moneylenders prey on their families. The industry is corrupt, but Major League Baseball and the players union have done little about it. 042
Reposted by C.S.Clarity Flowers @clarity.flowers · 11/09/2026makes "at least three" and "don't play games with me, kid" look pretty good by comparison 08610
Reposted by C.S.Cengiz Yar @cengizyar.com · 10/09/2026Baseball fan? You need to read this.propublica.orgHow the Dominican Baseball Factory Traps Young Players and Their Families With False PromisesTeams make handshake deals with players as young as 11 while moneylenders prey on their families. The industry is corrupt, but Major League Baseball and the players union have done little about it. 712139
Reposted by C.S.Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 10/09/2026And that, not to be cute about it, is ballgame 4107448
Reposted by C.S.Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 10/09/2026People get confused about the trans sports thing because at a glance it seems like a small issue that impacts a very small number of people and thus makes sense as a "reasonable" concession. But it isn't, because conceding that is accepting that a kid's trans identity is on some level fraudulent 422804745
Reposted by C.S.Shambling Corpse of Randy Herman @randyhermanlaw.com · 10/09/2026PA: I apologize that I apparently misunderstood my conversation with the other side. I thought we were all going to be adults here. Apparently we have a reading problem here. 616916
Reposted by C.S.Chris Morran @themorrancave.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Belfi Rivera was 14 when the Diamondbacks made a handshake deal that would pay him $1.8M after he turned 16. But he saw almost none of it. $630K went to a trainer who brokered the deal, and $950K+ went to a lender whose business partner is Red Sox legend David Ortiz. New, @propublica.orgpropublica.orgHow the Dominican Baseball Factory Traps Young Players and Their Families With False PromisesTeams make handshake deals with players as young as 11 while moneylenders prey on their families. The industry is corrupt, but Major League Baseball and the players union have done little about it. 421091
Reposted by C.S.Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 09/09/2026You really can't budge an inch on this stuff. It does nothing but validate their deranged hatred. This was a test of leadership and Talarico failed it 401980282
Reposted by C.S.A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Our society's unfathomable cruelty to homeless people is not just morally unjustifiable, but more expensive than housing people would be. Cruelty against the homeless is an unaffordable luxury. Abandoning homeless people to avoid offending the Protestant work ethic is an unaffordable luxury. 5058492037
Reposted by C.S.ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 05/09/2026ok look The Odyssey is very much a sequel 1053704426
Reposted by C.S.Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 03/09/2026It is a reflection of our carceral society that we so often ask why lawyers defend the guilty but rarely if ever ask why police and prosecutors charge and try the innocent. 1024469
Reposted by C.S.Charles Pulliam-Moore @charlespulliam.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Seen a lot of people responding to this with “I’m just going to pirate the show,” and I want to gently remind everyone that the central idea in this piece is that there’s no way to engage with the Potter franchise in any capacity that doesn’t benefit Rowling and her bigotry 21400426
Reposted by C.S.Micah @rincewind.run · 02/09/2026it's not an exaggeration to say that jk rowling is the world's most powerful and prominent transphobe outside of elon musk it's easy to not buy a tesla and it's easy to not watch the harry potter tv show 3368832224
Reposted by C.S.Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Months after my conversation with incarcerated journalist John J. Lennon on @openargs.bsky.social, I am still thinking about the thesis of his remarkable book: that the true-crime industrial complex is causing very real harm to his fellow prisoners, and all of us www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/b...nytimes.comA Journalist on the Inside Upends Good vs. Evil Criminal StereotypesIn his first book, John J. Lennon, who is serving a 28-year sentence, brings nuance and complexity to his own and other prisoners’ stories. 1305
Reposted by C.S.Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 01/09/2026I'll go one further: the true-crime industrial complex is a tool of fascism. People falsely believe that random violent crime is extremely common are much more likely to vote for "law and order" candidates. Also, only extending sympathy to people who claim factual innocence is extremely dehumanizing 313827
Reposted by C.S.Dun Jun @clustertuck.bsky.social · 25/08/2026-why is it the ONLY unforgivable sin?" And then she told me, "I finally figured it out. The Holy Ghost is that part of God that lives in everybody, and the way you sin against it is by not loving everybody with all your heart, for exactly who they are."youtube.comDolly Parton - Travelin' Thru [Official Music Video]YouTube video by NettwerkMusic 194038739
Reposted by C.S.Dun Jun @clustertuck.bsky.social · 25/08/2026RIP Dolly Parton ❤️ Here's a lovely Dolly story: We worked together on "Transamerica." She told me that the bible passage that used to puzzle her the most was, "the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men." She said, "How the heck do you sin against the Holy Ghost, and- 183176701
C.S. @cephander.bsky.social · 21/08/2026It feels like Oregon flips a coin on any given issue to decide whether to be incredibly opaque or incredibly transparent. So much GIS data and then… this 020
Reposted by C.S.Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 20/08/2026For another, it's based in vibes and feelings, not data. It's socialization and society that creates evil people. Nobody is *born* evil. But thinking otherwise is a comforting lie we tell ourselves because then we're not responsible for the evils our society creates. 1547
Reposted by C.S.Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 20/08/2026So much of carcerality is the belief that criminality is an inherited trait. "What do we do with the rapists/murderers/evil people?" necessarily presumes that evil is born, not made. But that's a really dangerous assumption. For one thing, it's based in racist, eugenicist ideas. 916555
Reposted by C.S.Travis @unraptured.bsky.social · 19/08/2026starting a magazine for normal sane ideas called the Pacific 1814
Reposted by C.S.Adam Sawyer @adamjst.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Manfred + the owners have to make it clear to the admin: 1) that Pirela must be released. 2) that they'll give the White House hell in the public square if this is how it's gonna go. www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...nbcnews.comSan Diego Padres minor-league catching coordinator detained by ICE in TexasOswaldo Pirela is a Venezuelan former pro who works for the San Diego Padres. Relatives say he is in the United States legally and demand his release. 1199
Reposted by C.S.Victoria Law @victorialaw.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Not one of the 122 prisons in the BOP network employs a librarian. Rather, “each designates an employee, typically the Supervisor of Education (SOE), to provide oversight of the leisure & law libraries.” 15024
C.S. @cephander.bsky.social · 09/08/2026Inadvertently proving my point that a significant part of the reason the gold man in OR looks so shit is that it’s bright yellow. I’ve called it “trump gold” before and I’m right 000
Reposted by C.S.Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 06/08/2026Anyway if you've ever found yourself wondering if you're "disabled enough" for a mobility aid: see if you can find a way to try it out. If it improves your life, then yes, it's for you. 1456109
Reposted by C.S.Brent Stecker @brentstecker.bsky.social · 05/08/2026This is brutal. Offense looks no different, new guys faceplanting, AQI is higher than the team's batting average for the night. 4185
Reposted by C.S.The Onion @theonion.com · 04/08/2026New Evidence Suggests Dinosaurs Had Quinceañeras theonion.com/new-evidence-suggests-… 303582802
Reposted by C.S.QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Tick-tock, just past seven o'clock. Today is August 4, 2026 in the city of Allendale, California. Today is Mr. Featherstone's birthday! Today is "There Will Come Soft Rains" day! This celebration has been scheduled in advance. This message will display even if none are left to read it. 15025
Reposted by C.S.Adam Rawnsley @arawnsley.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Today, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast. 10346171519
Reposted by C.S.Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 02/08/2026This paper shows that immigration enforcement can _increase_ crime. Undocumented immigrants already have the lowest crime rate, but tough-on-immigration policy makes immigrants less likely to report crime. So immigration enforcement worsens the problem it was ostensibly meant to solve 15947304
Reposted by C.S.Dolphin Pilot @theamitie.bsky.social · 02/08/2026I don’t think it’s too early to say this: the Los Angeles Queens are the greatest baseball team in history 422926
Reposted by C.S.WinRAR Earle @tommchenry.bsky.social · 02/08/2026FROM: agamemnon@hades.gov TO: orestes@atreus.house RE: bad news (mom) 08623
Reposted by C.S.lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 02/08/2026let's take a moment also to celebrate the first absolute meatball down the middle getting fucking crushed. the first woman in pro baseball league history to get her shit rocked 443579619
Reposted by C.S.Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 01/08/2026You are a mark if you are getting propagandized to build more jails and arrest even more people at a time when all of the governments OWN MEASURES show violent crime having significantly decreased over the past years. 230474