Josh McLemore, a 29 yo, needed medical help. Instead he ended up in the Jackson County Jail, where he spent 20 days in solitary confinement with no bed, sink or toilet, barely eating or drinking. He died of multiple organ failure due to lack of food/drink huffpost.com/entry/joshua-m… McLemore had been diagnosed with schizophrenia and was experiencing psychosis. "His condition was treatable, and his death was preventable," a complaint filed today by his estate reads s3.documentcloud.org/documents/2377…

LA County just updated their election results page w/newly counted ballots and last week's consensus continues to be proven more wrong results.lavote.gov/#year=2022&ele…

https://twitter.com/jessicaschulb/status/1537888942309052416

Karen Bass increased her lead over Rick Caruso for LA mayor

last week, with only a fraction of the votes counted, the Very Serious Consensus was that crime-terrorized CA voters had rejected reformers in favor of tough-on-crime candidates

now that more ballots have been counted, that narrative isn't holding up huffpost.com/entry/californ… h/t to @boltsmag and @PiperSFrench who've done such great reporting on candidates and races that most ignore, including this profile of @EunissesH, an abolitionist organizer who is currently leading her city council race boltsmag.org/abolitionist-o…

the day after bipartisan talks on a police accountability bill collapsed, the House voted down amendment to restrict the transfer of military equipment to local police departments
huffpost.com/entry/house-vo… this was low-hanging fruit for a Dem majority legislature — a majority of Dem and a plurality of GOP voters support it. it's already passed the House as part of the (now dead) police accountability bill. Biden said he was going to do this via executive order (and didn't)

a federal moratorium on executions is a good first step, but it's still very far from biden's campaign pledge to work to abolish the death penalty on the state and federal level nbcnews.com/politics/justi… here's what biden said about the death penalty during the campaign joebiden.com/justice/

if you were moved by Kip's story, i'd encourage you to read these firsthand accounts of what it's like to grow up in prison theappeal.org/tag/oregon-jus…

https://twitter.com/jessicaschulb/status/1403715581417689093

Here's Seth Koch, who has known Kip for ~ 20 years. Here he writes about his own growth, his conversations with lawmakers about SB 1008, and the devastation of being excluded from the reform bill theappeal.org/i-was-a-child-…

When Kip Kinkel was 15, he killed his parents, 2 boys at school and wounded 25 others. He took a plea deal that resulted in 112 yrs w/o parole and has been held up as the reason to lock kids up for life ever since. I've been talking with him since August huffpost.com/entry/kip-kink… This is the first time Kip's spoken to the media. He told me about hearing voices for the first time, his increasing paranoia and obsession with weapons, his psychotic break, his intense guilt and eventually getting very effective treatment for schizophrenia

i wrote about how nevada democrats, which control both chambers of the legislature and the governorship, squandered a rare opportunity to abolish the death penalty huffpost.com/entry/nevada-d… 2 dem lawmakers w/a lot of power over the bill's advancement also work for the Clark County District Attorney, who testified against abolition and is currently trying to schedule the state's first execution in 16 years

i don't even know what to tweet about @lukeobrien's investigation into Clearview and the founder's myriad of connections to the alt-right bc there's like 100 scoops in here huffpost.com/entry/clearvie… Clearview AI founder Cam-Hoan Ton-That worked closely with Mike Cernovich, weev, Pax Dickinson, Thiel-associate Jeff Giesea, and Chuck Johnson

Here's what Katie Gorka has been up to at DHS huffpost.com/entry/dhs-viol… Gorka successfully pushed to cancel a grant for Life After Hate — a group that deradicalizes neo-Nazis — because one of its cofounders tweeted "fuck you, asshole" at Trump

NEW: A neighbor tried to warn a D.C. cop who lived in Bloomingdale about the neo-Nazi in their neighborhood. Law enforcement didn't act until more than a year later after relatives told the FBI Jeffrey Clark was a dangerous, armed white supremacist huffingtonpost.com/entry/white-su… Some new details: Jeffrey Clark appeared in court today and the judge ruled against pre-trial release. It came out in court that Clark's father was not one of the relatives who turned him in to the FBI

GOP fundraiser Elliott Broidy sued Qatar and lobbyist Nick Muzin for hacking/distributing stolen emails huffingtonpost.com/entry/elliott-… It's worth noting that Broidy's team has confirmed the authenticity of several of the emails, which contain newsworthy info about a wealthy, powerful person with close ties to the Trump administration