Ugh. I know. I don’t mind this as much since I support raising awareness about the hard work of defense attorneys—and most importantly calling bad prosecutors on their bullshit. I hope this message isn’t at the expense of defense work generally and getting folks to understand that everyone deserves a quality defense…

This is one of the few projects I feel broadcast TV could work with. It’s not nearly as dark as some other stuff. I think it’s interesting that it doesn’t hint at all about the real meat of the story. I figure that trailer is just a fraction of the first part of the arc and then they really get into it?

Ever since he was on that show about public defenders willing to sport the most hilarious of ponytails, I figured I’d keep supporting that crazy kid. And the book is really good so I’m willing to give it a shot based on that (and not holding the other 2 books in the series against it).

This has been a target for a while. I remember going to a conference around 2011 or so where this issue was incredibly controversial with a vocal tension between law enforcement and privacy proponents and then the science community caught in between. That was more using DNA samples from arrests, but this is more…

This isn’t an issue of constitutionality. It’s about reconciling interpretations of federal statute. And yes, his position is in line with his aggressively pro-corporate judicial philosophy.

Agreed. The “adjacency to whiteness = success” narrative really needs to get unpacked from all angles and this from Al Sharpton doesn’t particularly help that. The way people talk about it in relation to pop culture is so incredibly disturbing, especially media representation.

However one feels about the identity issues that Meghan Markle conjures up, I think this occasion is mostly a positive optic for black visibility. I don’t look to her to inform blackness, but the conversation is generally going to be as messy as any high-profile person that gets propped up to that level of scrutiny.

Yeah, I agree. Firing Mueller really would be a step too far for a lot of folks that could make a huge stink. Best to just let him be, and badmouth from the bully pulpit—that does it’s own brand of damage in eroding trust in the special prosecutor no matter what comes of it.

Reading a lot really helps. TV can be tricky—as a conversational tool about content, it’s really only useful if other people watch what you watch. But as a conversation starter about general topics, it’s totally useful.

I never saw Mueller as some kind of messiah and I’m not a DC insider, but I care a great deal about the rule of law. Holding the government accountable is the main reason of why I got into criminal justice reform. There’s gotta be a middle ground between wanting people to understand and care about every attack we’re…

I agree it would be more trouble than its worth. The most troublesome issue is firing Rosenstein and appointing some yahoo who will stifle leads or micromanage. But even then, I think its too late to force that genie back in the bottle.

Spotting Gina Torres is the #1 reason to watch this wedding.

I don’t care about marriage, but I do like weddings so I’m into it. But I also think people across the board care about things that are odd to me (and vice versa). Like Kardashians or any show on BET or chicken and waffles or ... marriage.

When my mom watched my brother’s kids, she’d tell them straight up that they needed to act right so the white people wouldn’t get cage-y. And she’d put them in “God Bless the Black Child” t-shirts to fill out the narrative—which was hilarious. I’m surprised she didn’t adorn them in African regalia to really bring home…

NextDoor is such a cesspool.

Both of those neighborhoods trigger my cognitive dissonance too much to visit more than once a year.

Based on my love of Freema Agyeman, you get 1 episode New Amsterdam.

Or gin.

I agree, except that I think their sex, race, orientation, etc., matter a great deal. They’re just so seamlessly interwoven into the fabric of the show. That Holt is black and gay plays into what we understand about that character and that there’s a critical mass of women and non-white colleagues creates a setting…

I’m pretty chill about concert going (especially now that I opt for old people seats), but my biggest pet peeve is smokers in the pit. I’ve been literally burned too many times by jerks who are careless with the smoldering stick of fire they’re waving around my hair and limbs.