Soon-to-be Associate Professor of Law at University of San Francisco. Recreational essayist. Still technically a doctor (old books, not medicine).
Megan Wachspress
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**bi-coastal YIMBY sewer socialism intensifies**
Prison Tours: What @leftinthebay.bsky.social’s “Radical History of Alcatraz” teaches a college instructor at San Quentin about the spectacle of prison reform: www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/prison-tours/
We need to break the stranglehold petro-masculinity holds on our politics, not buy it off, and certainly not capitulate to it when coal executives leverage cultural pathologies to preserve their profits.
A "just transition" means massive public transit infrastructure investment so people don't need cars. A "just transition" means laws mandating air conditioning akin to those we have mandating heat. A "just transition" means legal status for slaughterhouse workers as we wind down big cattle ag.
This is where I depart from some of the Big Green shibboleths about "just transition." We are spending billions and jeopardizing the lives of millions on this planet to maintain not just the economic well-being, but gender status of a shockingly small number of Gen X men.
Worth remembering, as we debate what kind of corrective is needed for the latest Trump era, that Bovino is career CBP, and joined during the Clinton administration.
I wrote another piece for ORB which means I went long on my ambivalence about Bay Area progressive pieties.
