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Carceral Nation: Twenty Years from Blog Post to Book
In December 2006, I published an article on this blog about mass incarceration, racial disparities in the American prison system, and a concept I was trying to name: the carceral citizen, the person whose freedom exists in a state of permanent conditional revocation. The article was one entry among many in the Boles Blogs Network, which at its peak ran fourteen blogs across a range of subjects.
Our pick this week is a track from legendary English metal band Saxon, and it's probably not one of the tracks you're thinking of!
Give it a listen and see what we had to say about the band and the track itself, and don't forget to follow us as we showcase and blog about one hand picked tune from across the epic world of #rock and
1. This post is an incisive critique.
2. I’ve said before and I’ll say again that the only alternative to widespread popular violence is widespread empowerment through nonviolent mechanisms — not robbing people of power, that’s not an alternative, that’s a cause! — and if the oligarchs persist in their aggressive capture of power, Luigi Mangione is going to be not a curious aberration but a harbinger, and I don’t want that, I don’t actually want to live in a world where assassinations are a regular part of how things work, that’s miserable, that’s no way to live, and that’s exactly where we’re heading right now, and it’s grim and driving me to write egregious run-on sentences, please make it stop, thank you. https://wandering.shop/@aesthr/116381847228695045
Don Lemon's Lemon Media Network is expanding its newsroom and operations teams after surpassing 10M followers, with half of its growth in the past year alone (Stephanie Kaloi/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/media-platforms/journalism/…
Nvidia embraces its role as an AI investor in 2026, committing $40B to equity investments including a $30B stake in OpenAI, $3.2B in Corning, and $2.1B in IREN (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/09/nvidia-embraces-ai-investor-topping-…
Trump agrees to suspend attacks for ‘two weeks’ if Iran opens Strait of Hormuz
There was no immediate comment from Tehran,
and it was not clear whether or how either side had altered what appeared to be mutually exclusive demands.
In sputtering negotiations over the past week, Iran had rejected U.S. demands to shut down its nuclear and ballistic missile programs and reopen the strait, the vital Persian Gulf waterway through which an estimated one-fifth of the world’s ene…
#DonaldTrump and Netanyahu@have to be tried in The Hague for war crimes.
https://apple.news/AKRjmELugSTKcJ5WyEkuwEA