Don’t have exact stats on proportions of public to private prisons, but rather percantages of inmate population. Something like 92% of prisoners are in public prisons, while 8% are in private prisons. Private prisons make up a MUCH smaller share of prisons, versus privately-run immigrant concentration camps. According…

I was tryna be self-deprecating about Richmonders’ provincial perspective. Perhaps that wasn’t clear. Also, admittedly, Richmond is a hole. But, it’s our hole!

Counterpoint—from someone who grew up in Richmond and has dick of an understanding of NOVA except “durr, too many people, not VA”: is it plausible that migration into NOVA, DC, and MD has remade the fan base? Are there just too many transplanted Giants, Bears, and Browns fans living in that metropolitan shitshow for…

“White people left the neighborhood, there was white flight, and now they’re coming back and pushing us out,” Rae told Nwandu. “I’m moving back there—that’s what I want—but I’ve already seen the change. It’s disheartening.”

Thanks for that thoughtful response! And no worries, type is not the best medium for communicating subtle emotions. In fact, it’s pretty bad.

Turn of phrase, but thanks for the grammar lesson.😐

You and I both know that Temple has no real interest in building a jobs center, let alone providing work for the folks in North Philly. A jobs center — like all similar programs in the past, and especially in that neighborhood — serve the function of curtailing protest against Temple without changing the pressures…

Goering was the perfect match to write a show about life and death, love and sex, and how to keep laughing in a world full of suffering.

Dwight’s a dick. A very photogenic, allergy-prone dick.

William Henry Harrison was from Virginia. He was born at Berkeley Plantation, just south of Richmond.

As a fellow historian, (secret handshake, see you at AHA), I’m actually kind of convinced by some of the work on 17th-century indentures. There was a lot more overlap between indentures and chattel slaves than we generally think—e.g., the extension of indenturehood to children born to indentures. There’s a professor…

So, I’m sort of torn on the jungle gym aspect of the piece. I had avoided that in my original comment, but I’m glad to chat about it!

Where does the author ever say that he had adopted a Native perspective on the Dakota War?

I’m not saying there’s an easy answer here—these are thorny questions.

But that’s what the words “not your story,” quoted in the above article, mean. That’s somebody pulling some race essentialism b.s.

Americans love an oligarchy.

#businessgonnabusiness

Telling that, “maintaining a safe and secure campus community is the institution’s top priority.” You know, rather than providing an education. Yikes!

Ah yes, the power theater of the exploiter class!