01
Aug
Shall Not Be Subject
7 min read
More News That Will Likely Piss you off
29
Jul
Nothing To See Here
Twenty weeks of training to get the badge. After that, no obligation to record what you do with it, and no external mechanism that will notice a pattern unless someone already knows which pattern to look for.
12 min read
25
Jul
The Doors Were Locked From the Outside
9 min read
22
Jul
The Marion Massacre of 1929
8 min read
20
Jul
The Call Is Coming From Inside The House
The Victim Was Michael Jordan's Father. The Sheriff Was My Great-Uncle. The Jury Wasn't The Only One Kept In The Dark.
14 min read
13
Jul
The Election Won by a Dead Man
Julian Pierce would have been the first Lumbee Superior Court judge in the county's history. The voters elected him anyway, ten weeks dead, by two thousand votes. The county has been waiting thirty-eight years for the verdict that was supposed to follow.
8 min read
08
Jul
The Woman in the Photograph
7 min read
01
Jul
The Cluster is the Cover
The mechanism succeeds precisely because it looks like tragedy rather than procedure. Because the person being eliminated is never made to understand they are being eliminated. Because the narrative supplied by the institution becomes the default explanation.
12 min read
01
Jul
How Intelligence Becomes Propaganda
6 min read
27
Jun
When Courts Stop Enforcing Law
6 min read