i’m not leaving (yet), but i am noting that we’ve gone from bad to worse over the past week. and whatever’s happening this holiday weekend is even worse.
Today at @lawdorknews, I delve into the death penalty, looking at three stories — from Alabama, Missouri, and Oklahoma — that illustrate some of its many failings. lawdork.com/p/the-broken-a…
A look at “what happens when states put a single-minded mission of carrying out executions ahead of either humanity or justice.” lawdork.com/p/the-broken-a…
After a botched execution and two botched attempts at executions, including one last week, Alabama’s governor on Monday put a pause on executions.
It took way too long for such a step, and her rationale was bunk, but it’s a pause. lawdork.com/p/the-broken-a…
"I want to be around to see it. I plan to be. I hope to be."
Prior's closing speech, a Puck-like, fourth-wall-breaking ending, gets me every time I even read it. There is so much that Kushner, like Shakespeare before him, fit in here. So often, they're the words I need to read.
Tony Kushner's epic AIDS play can, immediately, feel of the moment, can be a prayer we say tonight. To ourselves, to our loved ones, to those we've lost.
"[T]he dead will be commemorated and will struggle on with the living, and we are not going away."
As I wrote today:
"It is, even if it feels like too much, yet another time for us to prove out Tony Kushner’s claim from Prior Walter at the close of Angels in America that 'the world only spins forward.'"
DEVELOPING: Reported shooting at a gay club in Colorado Springs tonight. Looks like nothing official out yet, but lots of evidence something has happened. Stay safe.
Another local station on the scene says any update on this is going to be “a bit longer.” My heart goes out to the LGBTQ community there tonight. Love to you all.
Rich couple from Ohio, per former anti-abortion pastor/advocate, were told the outcome of Hobby Lobby and Alito’s opinion authorship weeks ahead of time. They then told the anti-abortion leader, he says, and his org prepared accordingly. nytimes.com/2022/11/19/us/…
The former anti-abortion leader, whose work to influence the court has been covered in Rolling Stone and Politico in recent months, sent a letter to the Chief Justice in July about the Hobby Lobby leak — in reference to the Dobbs leak investigation. int.nyt.com/data/documentt…
Here’s the specific Hobby Lobby leak allegation. And Alito’s denial.