Harry Williams

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Prison-first policies for kids meet a new stumbling block: not enough cages for all the kids.

Conflict and confusion after state suspends intake for convicted juvenileswww.kuow.org There is concern and confusion in King County courts after a surprising decision from the state to suspend intakes of juvenile offenders at two correctional facilities due to overcrowding. Instead, yo...

Democrats need to start an Icons residency in Vegas. Instead of clinging to office, politicians can retire to bathe in the warm applause of adoring fans.

This post is so good: "the things we hate and fear about China are bound up with our own decision-making; we helped put China in a position to be the world’s factory and actively exploited (and benefited from) that fact until we changed our minds."

The China “Shock,” Militarism, and Capital Accumulationopen.substack.com Thinking about great-power rivalry means thinking about capital’s relationship to militarism

Kitty finds peace on the meditation cushion.

Hats off to this person. I have my own, less serious machinist-to-Yale-Law tale: After college, I worked in a machine shop. No computer controlled machines. Not the kind of high-level, high-skill work described in the article. wapo.st/3KVi7UD

Opinion | I went to trade school during law school. It left me stunned.wapo.st I believe in the untapped potential of skilled trades.

Headlines you see in any thriving democracy.

How Billionaires Are Reshaping the Presidential Racewww.nytimes.com Wealthy donors including Timothy Mellon helped Donald Trump’s campaign out-raise President Biden’s last month, but Democratic supporters are still spending.

Staff leave kids in solitary, where they must relieve themselves in plastic containers. No running water. In Washington state. In 2024. www.king5.com/article/news...

Petition alleges staffing shortages at Green Hill School lead to more isolation, insufficient bathroom breakswww.king5.com The King County Department of Public Defense filed on behalf of a client currently being held at the youth rehabilitation facility in Chehalis.

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Economic Nationalism Masquerading as Statecraftopen.substack.com Economic nationalism is bad for workers, bad for the environment, and bad for geopolitics.

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Who’s Afraid of Anti-Militarism?open.substack.com Some reflections on one of my public appearances in the US, and the political coalitions that resist taming geopolitics.

The NYT wants to makes a point about China, specifically Xi‘s China. Feels pretty universal. The Chinese “take entertainment too seriously and history and politics too lightly.” www.nytimes.com/2024/04/08/b...

"Why has Seattle lost so many police officers?" The answer is not that the Seattle Police Department was defunded.

Did Seattle defund the police? Five graphs explain this enduring mythwww.kuow.org In 2020, protests following the police murder of George Floyd started a movement to defund police departments across the U.S. – including Seattle. Four years later, what, if anything, has changed?

Sometimes when I am doing chores, and the cat sneaks up behind me, and I step on the cat accidentally when I turn — I say I am sorry to the cat, but I am kind of annoyed at the cat. Often, it isn’t a sincere apology.

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Falls sich jemand fragt, wie die NATO die bevorstehenden Herausforderungen einschätzt: "Climate breakdown and loss of biodiversity is the most consequential and, in the long-term, the most likely existential challenge"

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If these two cats can learn to share a blanket—#peaceispossible everywhere

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