Early this month, in the days after Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan said he’d be moving forward with a plan to require thousands of Detroit businesses to buy into a costly surveillance program intended to reduce crime, a sponsored post that looked favorably upon the program appeared at the top of our Facebook timeline. The linked…

You probably already know about Bobby London because of their incendiary blogposts like “Fuck Trump, but Fuck You Too: No Unity with Liberals,” published November 17, 2016. It begins:   A cop begins swinging his baton at the protesters in front of me. A riot line begins to form and push against the crowd as…

Serial rapist Larry Nassar has been convicted. Michigan Public Radio devoted some airtime to his trial today, and to the transparent, powerful testimony of so many of his survivors. I popped on the radio and heard a bit of the coverage this afternoon driving east on I-94. After having been on the highway about ten…

This time last year, tens of thousands (or more) put their hearts, minds, and bodies into resisting the inauguration of an increasingly fascistic regime—itself embedded in the genocidal logic of the origins of this stolen land called the United States. The violence of the state cracked down hard on some 220 of those people, kettling…

Maggots, rotten food, unsanitary kitchens, staff shortages, calorie shortages, sick inmates, angry inmates, drug-dealing kitchen employees, employees having sex with inmates, quarantines—these are the issues that documents show and inmates say are taking place in Michigan’s prison kitchens in 2018, which sounds just like what we heard about them in 2015. That and other issues…