Ethan Brown

Great article from several months ago that pretty much exactly predicted what would happen here

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A Mississippi death penalty jury was seated with one Black juror - Mississippi Today The U.S. Supreme Court will hear an appeal this month from death row inmate Terry Pitchford who was denied relief by the Mississippi Supreme Court after his attorneys claimed Black people were illegal...

Later this month, SCOTUS will hear Pitchford's case. It has numerous issues, from jailhouse informants to undisclosed evidence. But at the heart of the case is Mississippi's failure to grapple with its enduring crisis of Black people struck from its juries. 7/7
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A Mississippi death penalty jury was seated with one Black juror - Mississippi Today The U.S. Supreme Court will hear an appeal this month from death row inmate Terry Pitchford who was denied relief by the Mississippi Supreme Court after his attorneys claimed Black people were illegal...

The @mississippitoday.org analysis also found that MS prosecutors struck Black people from juries for "strange hair," a bad "vibe," living in a "high crime area," or claiming (often w/o evidence) that a Black juror was a "known drug user" or an alcoholic. 6/7 mississippitoday.org/2026/03/12/m...

A Mississippi death penalty jury was seated with one Black juror - Mississippi Today The U.S. Supreme Court will hear an appeal this month from death row inmate Terry Pitchford who was denied relief by the Mississippi Supreme Court after his attorneys claimed Black people were illegal...

A @mississippitoday.org analysis of criminal appeals considered by the Mississippi Supreme Court between 2015 and 2025 finds that during that period the court hasn’t provided relief in a single claim where strikes of Black jurors were raised. 5/7 mississippitoday.org/2026/03/12/m...

A Mississippi death penalty jury was seated with one Black juror - Mississippi Today The U.S. Supreme Court will hear an appeal this month from death row inmate Terry Pitchford who was denied relief by the Mississippi Supreme Court after his attorneys claimed Black people were illegal...

But relief for Terry Pitchford+other defendants who claimed state prosecutors illegally struck Black people from their juries was elusive. In 2023, Justice Sonia Sotomayor blasted the MS Supreme Court for disregarding the SCOTUS decision in Flowers entirely. 4/7 mississippitoday.org/2026/03/12/m...

A Mississippi death penalty jury was seated with one Black juror - Mississippi Today The U.S. Supreme Court will hear an appeal this month from death row inmate Terry Pitchford who was denied relief by the Mississippi Supreme Court after his attorneys claimed Black people were illegal...

Evans became one of America's most notorious prosecutors+Flowers went to SCOTUS in 2019 where the court decided in his favor. “The State employed its peremptory strikes to remove as many black prospective jurors as possible," wrote Justice Brett Kavanaugh. 3/7 mississippitoday.org/2026/03/12/m...

A Mississippi death penalty jury was seated with one Black juror - Mississippi Today The U.S. Supreme Court will hear an appeal this month from death row inmate Terry Pitchford who was denied relief by the Mississippi Supreme Court after his attorneys claimed Black people were illegal...

From 1997-2014, Evans tried Curtis Flowers for the same murders six times, each time with an all-white or majority-white jury who sentenced him to death. But things seemingly began to change after the popular 2018 podcast about Flowers, "In The Dark." 2/7
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A Mississippi death penalty jury was seated with one Black juror - Mississippi Today The U.S. Supreme Court will hear an appeal this month from death row inmate Terry Pitchford who was denied relief by the Mississippi Supreme Court after his attorneys claimed Black people were illegal...

New: In 2006, Terry Pitchford went to trial in a capital case in Mississippi where prosecutor Doug Evans struck all about one Black juror. Since then Evans+the state have become notorious for striking Black people from juries+blocking post-conviction relief. 1/7 mississippitoday.org/2026/03/12/m...

A Mississippi death penalty jury was seated. With one Black juror. The U.S. Supreme Court will hear an appeal this month from death row inmate Terry Pitchford who was denied relief by the Mississippi Supreme Court after his attorneys claimed Black people were illegally struck from his jury. A Mississippi Today analysis finds that over the last decade the state's highest court hasn’t provided relief in a single such claim, allowing prosecutors’ strikes of Black prospective jurors to stand in every case it has considered.

A Mississippi death penalty jury was seated. With one Black juror.

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear an appeal this month from death row inmate Terry Pitchford who was denied relief by the Mississippi Supreme Court after his attorneys claimed Black people were illegally struck from his jury. A…

The Trump administration says American “terrorists” and “rioters” are assaulting immigration agents. A WSJ investigation found none have been convicted at trial. A WSJ investigation tracked the U.S. citizens caught in the crosshairs of an aggressive federal campaign to detain and demonize dissenters.

A WSJ investigation tracked the U.S. citizens caught in the crosshairs of an aggressive federal campaign to detain and demonize dissenters. on.wsj.com/3PoQMj5

The N.O. jail’s population limit is 1,250. It was above that throughout last year. New Orleans’ jail population remained well above its legally mandated cap in 2025. Is a recent decline progress—or an outlier?

The N.O. jail’s population limit is 1,250. It was above that throughout last year.

New Orleans’ jail population remained well above its legally mandated cap in 2025. Is a recent decline progress—or an outlier?

The N.O. jail's population limit is 1,250. It was above that throughout last year. - Verite News New Orleans New Orleans’ jail population remained well above its legally mandated cap in 2025. Is a recent decline progress—or an outlier?

News: In 2019, the New Orleans City Council capped the population of the city's jail system at 1,250 people. A new data analysis from @veritenews.org finds that excluding the height of the COVID-19 pandemic the jail has largely exceeded that cap—especially in 2025.
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Mahmoud Khalil has filed a brief before the Board of Immigration Appeals, challenging orders by an executive-branch judge his team says were rushed, procedurally irregular, inaccurate, and disregarded the Trump admin's retaliation for 1A-protected activity www.nyclu.org/uploads/2025...

Obviously reading any Pam Colloff piece is a must but also be on the lookout for Justine van der Leun’s outstanding new book, UNREASONABLE WOMEN, which will be published in June. Criminalized survival is a scourge.

They Were Convicted of Killing Their Abusers. A New Law Offered a Second Chance at Freedom. An Oklahoma law was supposed to help reduce the sentences of women who killed their abusers. Why are nearly all of them still in prison?

My latest, with @propublica.org + @nytimes.com:

An Oklahoma law was supposed to help reduce the sentences of domestic violence survivors who fought back -- women who are serving long sentences for killing their abusers. Why are nearly all of them still in prison?

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They Were Convicted of Killing Their Abusers. A New Law Offered a Second Chance at Freedom. An Oklahoma law was supposed to help reduce the sentences of women who killed their abusers. Why are nearly all of them still in prison?

NEW: The Victims Who Fought Back

An Oklahoma law was supposed to help reduce the sentences of women who killed their abusers.

Why are nearly all of them still in prison?

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Crime plunges in major cities despite Trump's crackdown rhetoric Big cities are safer and here's what the numbers show.

Violent crime dropped sharply across America's biggest cities in 2025, according to new data reviewed by Axios.

Medgar Evers’ killer was a Klansman, but Trump administration says stop calling him a racist The National Park Service has removed visitor brochures from the Medgar & Myrlie Evers Home National Monument. Among the anticipated changes? No longer calling his murderer a “racist.”

Medgar Evers’ killer was a Klansman, but Trump administration says stop calling him a racist

The National Park Service has removed visitor brochures from the Medgar & Myrlie Evers Home National Monument. Among the anticipated changes? No longer calling his murderer a “racist.”

The looming return of Jim Crow to America’s second Blackest state Louisiana’s political system could soon look more like 1966, the end of the Jim Crow Era, than 2026, and it’s time to acknowledge the full extent of the greatest threat to the American Experiment in decades.

The looming return of Jim Crow to America’s second Blackest state

Louisiana’s political system could soon look more like 1966, the end of the Jim Crow Era, than 2026, and it’s time to acknowledge the full extent of the greatest threat to the American Experiment in decades.

State prisons in US grew deadlier and more violent amid guard shortage, review finds The US locks away more people than any other nation, including about 1 million people in state-run prisons. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

DOJ: The death rate among state prisoners increased 47% between 2019 and 2024 ... The deaths include homicides, suicides and violence, and the report concluded that understaffing and high turnover “likely contribute” to the increase

Louisiana paroles its lowest number of prisoners in 20 years under Gov. Jeff Landry The state parole board freed 185 prisoners during Landry’s tenure, compared with 858 in the two years before he took office. Hundreds who would have been released under previous governors remain incarcerated with little chance of earning parole.

Louisiana paroles its lowest number of prisoners in 20 years under Gov. Jeff Landry

The state parole board freed 185 prisoners during Landry’s tenure, compared with 858 in the two years before he took office. Hundreds who would have been released under previous governors remain incarcerated with…

Alex Pretti, the man killed by federal agents today in Minneapolis, appears to have been a registered nurse, an athlete, a son and a brother, with ties to Colorado and Wisconsin.

Here is a photo he used for several accounts.

‘Like we’re starting all over again’; Chicago man acquitted on Bovino murder-for-hire charges now in ICE custody A day after a Chicago construction worker was acquitted by a federal jury of charges he offered money to kill Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino he found himself back in custody.

A longtime snitch with an armed robbery conviction told the government that a construction worker with no sheet is a high-ranking Latin King trying to kill Greg Bovino. The “case” fell at trial but the government is trying to deport the man anyway.
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Musk’s Chatbot Flooded X With Millions of Sexualized Images in Days, New Estimates Show

We set out to determine how many images of women and girls Grok created during its nudifying spree. What we found was “industrial-scale abuse,” experts said. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/t...

House Committee Presses NYU, Columbia Over Epstein Ties Victims say Jeffrey Epstein promised to help them get admitted and paid for them to study at the prestigious universities.

Exclusive: Jeffrey Epstein lured some of his victims in the 2000s by promising to help them get into New York University and Columbia University, then sometimes footing the tuition bills.

Predawn fire reduces parts of Mississippi's largest synagogue to charred ruins - Mississippi Today A fire heavily damaged Jackson’s only synagogue before dawn Saturday – the same house of worship that was firebombed by the Ku Klux Klan in 1967 because the rabbi had been an advocate for civil rights...

"A fire heavily damaged Mississippi’s largest synagogue before dawn Saturday – the same house of worship in northeast Jackson that the Ku Klux Klan bombed in 1967 because the rabbi supported civil rights." mississippitoday.org/2026/01/10/f...

Federal agents shoot 2 people in East Portland Two people were shot Thursday by federal officers operating in East Portland, according to the Portland Police Bureau. The victims were transported to a local hospital. It was not immediately clear th...

Federal agents have shot two people in Portland, just a day after ICE shot and killed a woman in Minnesota. Follow @alexzee.bsky.social for updates. www.opb.org/article/2026...

The woman killed by ICE today was a poet. She won the 2020 Academy of American Poets, University & College Poetry Prize at Old Dominion University.

(And this is Renee from confirmed socials- a photo of a different woman with red lipstick is going around, but that was a classmate.)
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31 years wrongfully jailed: Suit against Baltimore Police may lead to $14M payout Baltimore will likely pay a $14 million civil rights settlement to Gary Washington, who was wrongfully convicted of killing a teen in the city in 1986.

"Baltimore will likely pay a $14 million civil rights settlement to Gary Washington, who was wrongfully convicted of killing a teen in the city in 1986.": www.baltimoresun.com/2026/01/06/b...

Inspector general report finds serious failures led to an inmate wasting away from treatable cancer A federal inmate died of treatable colon cancer after waiting six months for an urgent colonoscopy. Medical neglect like this is widespread in prisons.

Latest: The Justice Department Inspector General released a report detailing a fatal case of medical neglect, where Bureau of Prisons officials let a man waste away from treatable colon cancer.

A federal judge held the BOP in contempt over its treatment of the man. reason.com/2026/01/06/i...