Julie Westfall

Politicians have spent so long being terrified of being labeled anti-cop that this administration is now getting away with shielding the identities of guys in quasi-legal rendition squads by pretending that *they* are the people at risk.

“I Have Been Here Too Long”: Read Letters from the Children Detained at ICE’s Dilley Facility Hundreds of children are currently being held with their parents at an immigration detention center in Dilley, Texas. In letters and drawings, eight kids convey the pain of feeling trapped with no end...

President Mandela said, "there can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children."

Trump suggests federal control of elections in ‘some areas’ In a lengthy interview with NBC, the president said he will accept the results of the midterm elections if they are “honest.”

This is an authoritarian power grab, full stop.

Nationalizing elections would put the executive branch in control of who votes and how. That’s how dictators rig outcomes, crush opposition, and assault democratic self-government.

This should alarm everyone: www.ms.now/news/trump-s...

And yes, I am on the newsroom's side. The newsroom creates a news org's most important product, full stop.

We work together to ensure that product is easy for journalists to make, is reaching its intended audience and is financially sustainable.

While it's true that product people like to hire product people, luckily I can report that the @inquirer.com is not like this and sees my ability to speak newsroom as an asset.

When I told an engineer at a news org I wanted to become a product manager, they said I would have a hard time because those on the biz side would think I'd always be on the side of the newsroom.

You just knew the beginning of the end of the world order was always going to about some dude being butt hurt

Don't forget eating snacks and leaning against walls in Union Station!

"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”

I hate to break it to you, but heavily-armed government militias are roaming unchecked through US cities and shooting human rights observers dead in the streets. That's happening in our country.

This continues to be real fucking life, somehow, that has made its way into workforce management software

If we've learned anything, it's that systems that rely on people acting in good faith will always be exploited under capitalism. That's why most countries strictly don't allow this.

Hospitals Cater to ‘Transplant Tourists’ as U.S. Patients Wait for Organs

This is very clearly nothing short of human body part trafficking. It should be illegal, and even though it's not, the hospitals making money from it should be shamed. AND the people who do it are just like, "Yeah, we traffic organs and we make a ton of money" and shrug.

"Our success will be used to discredit us, like a quantum theory of suicide: If democracy survives, then that is proof that it was never under threat in the first place."

As the Price of Beef Soars, Restaurants Are in ‘Code Red’ Mode

Beef, and most other meat, *should* be expensive

This applies even when teachers are on strike, or school is closed due to a pandemic. Kids can still go to school and get a bagged meal, no questions asked ever.

In Chicago, rich kids take advantage of free school lunches AND breakfasts because Chicago decided that it was an efficient AND moral idea to give all kids access to nutrition without fussing about tax forms.

Donald Trump and his billionaire allies are opposed to democracy everywhere.

They know popular control of government threatens their ability to rob from the people.

What does it say about this country that that the kind of open, rank bigotry Trump administration officials regularly express towards black immigrants apparently has no social cost because of the number of Americans who quietly agree or don't care.

Bad news for Hegseth, it turns out the Pentagon is a big bureaucracy filled with people who got there because they know how to fight bureaucratic battles and they will wait for you to lie about something then leak details about it. Who knew?

The reason we have laws* against bribery is that companies will absolutely bribe politicians at the very first opportunity if it is good for the bottom line, because they see it as a sound business decision, not a civilizational betrayal.

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Columbia Journalism Review recently interviewed Betsy Reed, editor of the Guardian's U.S. edition. www.cjr.org/the-intervie...

She says: "If we regard it, for good reason, as being extreme and out of line with basic humane values, we won’t treat it as part of the normal discourse in America."

60 Attorneys on the Year of Chaos Inside Trump’s Justice Department (Gift Article) Sixty former staffers describe an environment of suspicion and intimidation within the nation’s most powerful law enforcement agency.

This is a really important story but it's a lot of text and not a lot is done to mitigate that. I hope more is done with this story in other formats

Opinion | I Worked All Over Silicon Valley. This Is How It Lost Its Spine.

"For tech companies, courage doesn’t scale."

Unfortunately still true bsky.app/profile/adam...

If the National Guard is really in D.C. to protect federal
property, they should probably have been at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. two days ago

The president can't be prosecuted but he can get paid for past prosecutions. Okey dokey.