President #Biden has charged the Departments of Justice and Homeland Security with updating racial profiling guidelines. Faiza Patel & Hina Shamsi identify what's needed to close loopholes and fully ban profiling by federal agencies: justsecurity.org/86577/doj-and-…

Nafha Prison returned meals on Monday in solidarity w Walid Daqqa and against isolation. A search is disruptive at minimum, violent, and people lose possessions (including contraband). I’ve also seen family visits denied as punishment for returning meals. middleeastmonitor.com/20230516-israe…

Serious question that the 4 people who see this tweet are definitely going to ignore: is MS Word correct that you aren’t supposed to hyphenate words ending in -ly? Eg “maddeningly-unintuitive” or “possibly-gaslighting” It just feels like spellcheck is testing us

Dealing with wrongful detention is a really tough needle to thread - the more you give in negotiations, the more tempting it becomes for would-be hostage takers. Penalizing them in other ways is a good stick, where it’s possible. This piece is worth a read.

College kids on my Amtrak talking about using ChatGPT to do their psych finals (okay) and their workout plans (actually genius, stealing that)

Been radio silent prepping for this awesome double-header at #LSA2023 - cannot wait to do a deep dive into prison dynamics with the fabulous panelists!

Logged back into this platform to see if there were any updates on breaking news of the ceasefire agreement (there aren’t). Discovered that… everyone is still here. It’s like I left a party and it just kept going without me. Can’t believe all 53 of my followers didn’t notice.

Dr Al-Bursh’s death is one of 16 reported deaths since Oct 7 in Israeli prisons. That number excludes those who have died in detention camps in the south.