This would have been so timely when DQ sent it to me on Sunday, and I let it get buried, and I apologize. Details on ten policy solutions towards ending police violence. They are all things consistent with what we usually discuss, but it's a good resource with details.

On the first point, ending broken windows policing, I found out that this is the original Broken Windows article, from the Atlantic in 1982.

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Anyway, I really appreciate concrete policy reforms that I can advocate for locally, where I feel like I am most likely to be able to tilt the conversation.

U.S. police have attacked journalists more than 100 times in the past four days. Trump is basically threatening to unleash the military on protesters.

Are we looking at a long summer of protests and violence? Are we looking at martial law? I saw someone assert elsewhere that we should interpret Trump's words as though martial law has been declared. How is this going to play out, with such a vacuum of leadership? On the protesting side, is there a single entity that is emerging as an organizing force? Or is it still a local patchwork?

(Remember when we were worried that the election was going to monopolize the news all year long?)

In all seriousness, the combination of the protests, the pandemic, the shit-for-brains president, and the upcoming election is a pile of coincident events of stress and uncertainty that exceeds anything I've lived through, I think. The economic stress on the country should be in the list, too.

I did just hear that today is Black Out Tuesday, right before I posted, so I hope this isn't a breach of solidarity.

This is intended to be our system for checking in on imaginary friends, so that we know whether or not to be concerned if you go offline for a while.

Episode 22.

Should Obama get on the TV tomorrow?