Radley Balko
Journalist. Quattrone Center journalism fellow. Author: Rise of the Warrior Cop. Co-author: The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist. New podcast: Collateral Damage Substack: radleybalko.substack.com Signal: radleybalko.52
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New from me: For the Liberalism.org site, I wrote about the 30th anniversary of AEDPA, the worst criminal justice law passed in my lifetime. www.liberalism.org/p/how-the-an...
How the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act Made a Bad Situation Worse
By Radley Balko · liberalism.org · 6 min read
- RRadley BalkoBluesky@radleybalko.bsky.social · 23h ago
This is such utter horseshit that I hesitate to engage with it at all. But it’s worth nothing that this sort of bigotry always depends on who gets to define “anti-American.” Elon Musk is an “anti-American shit-stirrer.” He’s destroying our institutions. But they’re never talking about him.
221628RRadley BalkoBluesky@radleybalko.bsky.social · 23h agoAlso, purely anecdotally l, when I was in Moscow, I asked my hotel’s concierge for restaurant recommendations. He told me all the good restaurants were Georgian. I’ve only spent a week in both Moscow and Tbilisi, but if I could go back to either, it would definitely be Tbilisi.
- RRadley BalkoBluesky@radleybalko.bsky.social · 1d ago
Not the first such poll. Colom is also an excellent candidate and Hyde-Smith is a horrendous one. Given recent public support for Colom from Harris, Schumer, Warwick, and Obama, I’m guessing the internals are just as close.
157623 Ex-boss filed a $12 theft charge against an ex-employee because she got a restraining order in response to his creepy behavior. Charge was never prosecuted, but it gave ICE an excuse to arrest and detain her. Congratulations to the 58 Democrats who voted for the Laken Riley Act. You own this.
A disgruntled boss filed theft charges against her. When she went to court, ICE arrested her. | Baltimore Brew
By Madeleine O'Neill · baltimorebrew.com · 12 min read
You can now preorder the new edition of Rise of the Warrior Cop. Pub date is 11/26. It includes a new introduction, conclusion, and two new chapters taking the police militarization narrative through the start of Trump II. www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/radle...
Rise of the Warrior Cop
By Radley Balko · hachettebookgroup.com · 1 min read
