The grand jury is so high on my list of “institutions no one expected to hold the line for the Republic.”
Dara Lind
Incredible line from a grand juror in the Broadview 6 case, who had just asked the prosecutors why they get "unlimited tries" to indict people they don't want to indict:
"I heard this case like last week and I thought it was a crock of shit then and I still think it is."
Tim Onion
It's maybe worth repeating that the DHS detention capacity and services have always been really bad, but that the system is being strained really hard right now by the federal government's new mandatory detention policy that courts keep striking down and that they keep doing anyway.
“‘Flows’ is the language of hydrology and logistics, the vocabulary of states treating migration as a problem of volume rather than a question of persons.”
Higher ed idea: Philly has ~10 Catholic colleges/universities; most struggling. Their sponsoring religious orders should collab on starting the new "Philadelphia Catholic College." Urban campus. One BA offered: liberal arts. Mission office incorporates the various charisms into college life. 💯
