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Ethan Brown

@ethansbrown.bsky.social

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Special Projects Editor @deepsouthtoday.org. Author: Murder in the Bayou, Shake the Devil Off, Snitch, Queens Reigns Supreme. ethan-brown.com

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Ethan Brown @ethansbrown.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

SS bolts, other white supremacist symbols found in employee-only areas of high security federal prison USP Canaan. oig.justice.gov/sites/defaul...

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Ethan Brown @ethansbrown.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

And crime analysts question if policing-for-possession—particularly in the era of permitless carry and courts that are increasingly scrutinizing restrictions on gun carrying—is a sound anti-violence strategy. 6/6

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Ethan Brown @ethansbrown.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

New Orleans: homicides w/firearm -58% YTD; Baltimore, 5 homicides in all of April; homicides way down in Chicago

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Ethan Brown @ethansbrown.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Fentanyl innumeracy in law enforcement is longstanding and far from confined to Pam Bondi. From @zachsiegel.bsky.social in 2022: newrepublic.com/article/1677...

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Ethan Brown @ethansbrown.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

The lead prosecutor in Bacote’s case described Black defendants in a capital case as “predators of the African plain" and made similar remarks even after being admonished by a judge. 2/3

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Ethan Brown @ethansbrown.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

News: North Carolina Superior Court finds that race was a significant, impermissible factor in the death sentence for Hasson Bacote, and in decisions by prosecutors in multiple counties to strike Black jurors from capital cases. 1/3

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Ethan Brown @ethansbrown.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

This is the one you're thinking of right. It's not Rove, but an unnamed aide. Which I've always loved because imagine coming up with the best cluster of quotes of the 21st century and not getting credit for it.

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Ethan Brown @ethansbrown.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

From @weisenthal.bsky.social's newsletter, Viktor Shvets on mass incarceration as a similar crisis to deteriorating health outcomes, a contributor to cycles of homelessness and poverty, and an aggravator of polarization.

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Ethan Brown @ethansbrown.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

New: North Carolina Gov Roy Cooper has commuted the sentences of 15 death row inmates to life without the possibility of parole. One person who received a commutation is Hasson Bacote, whose case is at the center of massive litigation around bias from state prosecutors. www.wfae.org/race-equity/...

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Ethan Brown @ethansbrown.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Virginia attorney who is seven months pregnant and works for indigent clients threatened with jail by judge for missing a court date she'd asked to postpone. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

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Ethan Brown @ethansbrown.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Michael Pollan on RFK, Jr.: "I think he's completely unfit" for HHS, likely to do real harm to the psychedelics assisted therapy movement. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

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Ethan Brown @ethansbrown.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

After hundreds of women were sexually assaulted by staff at FCI Dublin, a California federal prison, they were dispersed to BOP facilities around the country. About 60 are housed at FCI Aliceville in Alabama —and they're being sexually assaulted, again, by guards. (1/2) www.ktvu.com/news/lawyers...

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Ethan Brown @ethansbrown.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

"How prosecutors picked death penalty juries" in Alameda County, CA www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

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