Jessica Schulberg
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@huffpost senior reporter, covering prisons, jails and extreme sentencing • @huffpostunion + @wgaeast council • she/her • [email protected]
Joined December 2011
Holocaust remembrance day: no mention of Jews in WH statement.Passover: Hitler didn't use chemical weapons. What will Rosh Hashana bring?.
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Mike Pompeo was sharing Wikileaks documents on his Congressional Twitter account less than a year ago
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The Democrats quietly dropped abolishing the death penalty from their party platform. This is the first time since 2012 the platform doesn't call for abolition and the first time since 2004 there's no mention of the death penalty at all
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Josh McLemore, a 29 yo, needed medical help. Instead he ended up in the Jackson County Jail, where he spent 20 days in solitary confinement with no bed, sink or toilet, barely eating or drinking. He died of multiple organ failure due to lack of food/drink
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statement from Dustin Higgs' lawyer: "Dustin was a fine man, a terrific father, brother, and nephew . Rest in peace Dustin. Shame on all of those involved and all of those who have looked the other way."
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DHS revoked funding to Life After Hate, a group that works to de-radicalizes neo-Nazis, weeks before Charlottesville
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Hours after signing EO urging the dismantling of clean water regulations, Trump says he wants to work to "promote clean air and clear water".
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last week, with only a fraction of the votes counted, the Very Serious Consensus was that crime-terrorized CA voters had rejected reformers in favor of tough-on-crime candidates. now that more ballots have been counted, that narrative isn't holding up
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Mike Flynn, who is awaiting sentencing for lying to the FBI, is joining Nick Muzin's lobbying firm. Muzin stands accused of working with Qatar to hack Elliott Broidy's emails. Flynn's son, who thought Pizzagate was real, is also joining the firm. DC, man.
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So Trump deleted the first version bc he tagged the wrong Pompeo, not bc of the racism. Again, this is a blatant nod to white nationalists in South Africa. More context on the racist groups who hype farm seizures/the killing of farmers:
I have asked Secretary of State @SecPompeo to closely study the South Africa land and farm seizures and expropriations and the large scale killing of farmers. “South African Government is now seizing land from white farmers.” @TuckerCarlson @FoxNews.
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Organize your newsrooms. Today HuffPost was hit w/39 layoffs. Bc of our union contract, all have severance pay + time to land on their feet.
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those pro-trump caravans throughout the country — where participants been blocking voting sites, harassing people in Black neighborhoods, and closing off roads — were organized by QAnon believers using facebook groups (w/@JessReports/@nickrobinsearly)
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Adnan got out largely because a former public defender got a job in the prosecutor's office and raised the alarm about unreliable evidence that her colleagues had previously declined to review, despite requests in 2010 and 2014
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BuzzFeed paid its COO a $970k bonus on his way out the door. This is indefensible.
BuzzFeed is choosing to cut loose four members of our union — including the lowest-paid workers and women of color — without the safety net that everyone else will have. We’re not going to let that happen.
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Rudy Giuliani: Before Obama came along we didn't have any successful radical Islamic terrorist attack inside the United States.".
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lol he just came out and said it. "questioning support for the U.S.-Israel relationship is unacceptable.". ^^ that's what the fuss over Ilhan Omar is really about.
It is disturbing that Rep. Omar continues to perpetuate hurtful anti-Semitic stereotypes that misrepresent our Jewish community. Additionally, questioning support for the U.S.-Israel relationship is unacceptable. (1/2).
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Who's excited for the Jim Comey hearing tomorrow?
FBI Director Comey was the best thing that ever happened to Hillary Clinton in that he gave her a free pass for many bad deeds! The phony. .
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Congressman Steve King is a white nationalist and none of his GOP colleagues seem to care
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Former Reagan, Bush 41, Bush 43 official ➡️
We have a president who praises Putin and berates the mayor of London in the aftermath of a terrorist attack. What a sick state of affairs.
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COVID-19 infection rates at Rikers are 87 times higher than the US rate — and prisoners have no way to protect themselves. “I just feel like I’m sitting on death row, waiting to die,” said a 57-yo w/heart problems who's locked up for a parole violation
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BREAKING: NY DOCCS tells me it is rescinding its policy blocking incarcerated writers and artists from publishing their work, effectively immediately, following the excellent reporting from @chrisgelardi/@nysfocus
New York's prison agency is cracking down on incarcerated people's journalism and art. New rules ban:. - depicting prisons in a way that could "jeopardize safety or security";. - mentioning their crime;. - getting paid for their work;. - and more.
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Iraqi prime minister poking fun at the US president for clinging to a conspiracy theory
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He also texted his mom, "We're not the ones who need to be careful" with a picture of Hitler when he told her about his plans to go to Charlottesville.
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South African officials ask Trump to stop spreading racist conspiracy theorists
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Remember that DHS memo that sounded a lot like the white supremacist slogan, "The 14 Words? Heavily redacted FOIA docs show Katie Waldman was involved in circulating the draft
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a pro-cop vigilante is accused of murdering people protesting against police brutality and the cops are blaming the victims for being out after curfew.
Chief of Kenosha Police on last nights triple shooting that took 2 lives. #kenoshariots #kenoshaunrest #wisconsin #jakeblake #jacobblake #kenoshaprotests @tmj4 #tmj4
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parler claims to be a free speech-focused alternative to twitter but theres a big catch buried in its user agreement. by joining parler you agree to: . - pay parlers legal bills if they get sued over your posts.- forfeit your right to sue parler in court
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Threatening to throw your opponent in jail if you win is pretty classic dictator behavior.
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Picturing Comey at home, drinking whiskey, eating cookies baked by his 9-year neighbor, pondering which memo to push out next
Two sources told NYT that Comey created similar memos for *every* phone call and meeting he had with Trump
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When Kip Kinkel was 15, he killed his parents, 2 boys at school and wounded 25 others. He took a plea deal that resulted in 112 yrs w/o parole and has been held up as the reason to lock kids up for life ever since. I've been talking with him since August
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"vote!" is laughably insulting advice in the national context, where 60 dem senators is simply not going to happen — but @taniel (a national treasure) flagged local races where voters can choose prosecutors who won't pursue abortion cases and governors who will veto abortion bans.
I've been asked what specific local & state elections matter a lot in the wake of Dobbs, & what concretely they'd affect. With the caveats that the next steps need to involve mobilization, solidarity, & protests that aren't electorally focused, here are some thoughts. ↓.
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After being turned away last week, the Yemeni Aziz brothers, 19 and 21, arrived in Dulles, where they were reunited with their dad
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last wk a man incarcerated in Ohio asked me for an address to mail a donation for KY tornado relief efforts. I gave it to him and he wrote back that he sent "only $15, but me of all people know that sometimes even a little help can go a long way.". wages in prison are pennies/hr.
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I’ve spent the past several months reporting out how Harris County, TX, the execution capital of the US, built an indigent defense system that denies poor people facing the death penalty a fair shot at trial — and has steadfastly resisted reform
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32 yrs ago Donald Dillbeck was sentenced to death by a jury split 8-4 — a practice that's no longer legal. Last month, DeSantis floated changing the law to reinstate death sentences by non-unanimous juries. He signed Dillbeck's death warrant later that day
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3 mo ago, Trump accused HRC of a conflict of interest with Bahrain.Now Bahrain is hosting a party at Trump's hotel.
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Trump's transition team inquired about tanks/missile launchers for inaugural parade, got 20-plane flyover
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Bernie didn't run around telling his fans that Steve Scalise was the enemy of the people and should be locked up.
I didn’t blame Bernie Sanders when a Bernie supporter shot Congressman Steve Scalise. And I’m not going to blame President @realDonaldTrump for this nut job. I blame the individual(s) responsible –- not someone else.
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Its extremely rare for prosecutors to admit when they got it wrong. Often they prioritize "winning" the case over getting it right — there are rarely career consequences for ruining an innocent persons life. This anecdote from @larabazelon captures a horrifyingly common approach
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NEW: A neighbor tried to warn a D.C. cop who lived in Bloomingdale about the neo-Nazi in their neighborhood. Law enforcement didn't act until more than a year later after relatives told the FBI Jeffrey Clark was a dangerous, armed white supremacist
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Gab CEO Andrew Torba claims alleged Pittsburgh synagogue shooter Robert Bowers is not reflective of the platform. That is demonstrably false. Torba has spent years recruiting racists and looking the other way as Gab users posted death threats on the site
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Exclusive: FOIAs show Rex Tillerson flew around the county on military jets that cost $10,000/hour to operate. Several of the trips to his home state of Texas were specifically described as "personal travel" on internal documents
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what an unbelievably racist attack on @AkbarSAhmed, who has been delivering nonstop deeply reported scoops about the State Dept's Israel/Gaza policy
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Seb Gorka says McMaster's understanding of Islamic terrorism is limited bc he worked with Muslims in Iraq (18:00)
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Louisiana's been imprisoning kids in a former death row unit at Angola for the past 10 mos, where they've been held in solitary confinement, physically abused + denied access to educational/rehab services. a federal judge ordered their release by sept 15
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I have some questions
Sean Spicer: There’s no question the President respects the judicial branch.
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This "Maybe Ed Whelan was onto something" line of questioning is an insane self-own by the GOP's prosecutor.
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McLemore had been diagnosed with schizophrenia and was experiencing psychosis. "His condition was treatable, and his death was preventable," a complaint filed today by his estate reads
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My grandma, a Holocaust survivor, died a year ago. I miss her a lot but I'm glad she never saw the President of the US defend neo-Nazis.
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It's great that the FBI is taking Clark's case seriously. But he's spent years spewing Nazi propaganda, collecting guns, and threatening critics -- including one of my colleagues, who reported the threats to the cops. Law enforcement didn't act until Clark's family turned him in.
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Gorka successfully pushed to cancel a grant for Life After Hate — a group that deradicalizes neo-Nazis — because one of its cofounders tweeted "fuck you, asshole" at Trump
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WH did not consult with NSA before letting Russian state media org TASS into Oval Office, per NSA Director Rogers.
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Trump pretty much just admitted to committing a federal crime on TV today . If only anything mattered.
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Schiff doing separate presser shortly. That HPSCI heads aren't appearing together shows damage done to bipartisan cooperation on committee.
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Brandon Bernard is the 9th person scheduled to be executed under the Trump admin's end-of-office killing spree. 5 out of 9 surviving jurors now say he doesn't deserve to die, citing information that has come out since the trial
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this is a really fearmongery way to say a that state under court order to reduce the # of people in its overcrowded prisons is letting out some people who have already served long sentences and earned credit for good behavior/rehabilitative work.
With little notice, California is increasing early release credits for 76,000 inmates, including violent and repeat felons, as it further trims the population of what once was the nation’s largest state correctional system.
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I don't think I've ever asked a politician a question about healthcare -- but I sure am excited to start with Gianforte.
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The alt-right has tried desperately to distance themselves from violent neo-Nazis -- but Clark self-identified as a Nazi and went to Richard Spencer's alt-right events in DC + UTR rally in Charlottesville. He even teamed up with Jack Posobiec for a documentary on Seth Rich.
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Virginia just became the first southern state to abolish the death penalty, a practice rooted in lynchings that has disproportionately killed Black people
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PayPal is processing payments for Kyle Rittenhouse's legal defense fund
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Richard Spencer's wife says he physically abused her multiple times, including when she was pregnant. Racist men are violent men
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NEW: A neo-Nazi podcaster who called himself "Grandpa Lampshade built an online fanbase that included alleged Pittsburgh synagogue shooter Robert Bowers. Here's who he really is
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McLemore's time in jail is documented by hundreds of hours of surveillance footage, some of which is included in this story. It's excruciating to watch but it clearly shows how desperately he was in need of medical care.
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To be clear, polygraphs are garbage and should not be used. But in 2016, Kavanaugh wrote in an opinion that polygraphs are useful tools for assessing credibility. Now that Christine Blasey Ford's polygraph indicates she's telling the truth, he says they're unreliable.
Brett Kavanaugh is trying to have it both ways on polygraphs
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So the Nazis can tweet images of Jewish reporters in ovens but Rose McGowan can't call out a serial sexual assaulter
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the only DOJ probe of a police department since trump took office found that narcotics officers “repeatedly punch individuals in the face unnecessarily” and use “excessive force without accountability." . by @ryanjreilly, who is terrible at vacation
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I wrote about the exonerees who shared their traumatic experiences to help Oregon pass a bill to compensate those who went to prison bc of wrongful convictions . since the bill went into effect, the state's DOJ has fought nearly every compensation claim.
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Also arriving in Dulles from Yemen this morning: the al-Murisi family, w/5 adorable kids
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Brandon was 18 when he was involved in a botched car-jacking that ended in the murder of two people. He was barely old enough to be eligible for the death penalty, he was not present when the victims were abducted and he was not the one to shoot them.
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Anti-fascists, Tibetan Buddhists, Native Americans + punk kids crashed a secret neo-Nazi meeting in the Tenn. woods
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Biden campaigned on working w/Congress to abolish the federal death penalty and incentivizing states to follow. Earlier this year, Rep. Espaillat, the sponsor of one of the bills told me, “I wouldn’t say that the White House has been actively engaging people to support the bill.".
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Dem Senator on her support for Gina Haspel: we've never held anyone accountable for torture, why start now?
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Trump is about to face the complicated "day after" questions that made Obama want to stay out of Syria
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The reason Omar didn’t say “Jews” isn’t because she’s being coy. It’s because she knows there are a lot of Jews who don't like the U.S.’ unconditional support for Israel’s far-right government and its occupation of Palestine (hi) — and because there are a lot of non-Jews who do.
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NEW: Jeffrey Clark, the neo-Nazi Bloomingdale resident who said Pittsburgh synagogue shooting victims "deserved it," had deep ties to the alt-right/white supremacist community w/@ryanjreilly, @NickBaumann, @lukeobrien, and @Travis_Waldron.
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The Dems dropped the death penalty from their platform at a time when Republicans are planning another execution spree if Trump wins. During Trump's first presidency his admin killed 13 people during his final 6 months in office
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the ease w/which the WH asserts something they could not possibly know — that no U.S. official gave these quotes — shows how little credibility their claims deserve . I've worked with @AkbarSAhmed for 9 yrs — he's a diligent, trustworthy reporter and this WH smear is gross.
20 hours after my deadline—now my story has been read by >150k people—WH has sent comment. Spox Adrienne Watson: "This story is not true. Quotes attributed to US officials are made up.". Watson played no role in my interviews. My quotes are real. Biden team again echoing Trump.
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when people start blaming protesters for COVID-19, remember that the government deliberately blocked protesters from getting masks to limit the spread of the virus
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For those wondering if Trump knows what Taiwan is
Why is @BarackObama delaying the sale of F-16 aircraft to Taiwan? Wrong message to send to China. #TimeToGetTough.
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Pittsburgh shooting suspect Robert Bowers interacted on Gab with well-known racists like Jared Wyand, Patrick Little, "Jack Corbin," and Bradley Dean Griffin, per SPLC
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rather than apologize to @AkbarSAhmed for accusing him of making up quotes and retracting the baseless claim, the WH is now claiming they never made such an accusation?? we can read!!!
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as @schuy_ler reported, this is just one part of the Democratic Party platform's overall lurch right on criminal justice and immigration issues
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UPDATE: Mark Wilson, an incarcerated legal advocate whose litigation has helped thousands of prisoners, was granted parole and is coming home on 1/9/25, after 37 years in prison.
I wrote about how Oregon DOC — which claims to model itself after Norway's progressive practices — retaliated against its most effective jailhouse lawyer, firing him from his job and throwing him in solitary for 120 days, potentially delaying his freedom
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I'm gonna start posting every death threat I get from white guys and ask @repleezeldin which parts he disagrees with.
This new VM just came into my office. @IlhanMN, this is just another day in my world as an American Jew in Congress. Would love to know what part of this hate filled, anti-Semitic rant you disagree with? I disagree with all of it. Do you?
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Trump gets a folder of positive news stories and pictures himself looking powerful delivered to him twice a day
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i don't even know what to tweet about @lukeobrien's investigation into Clearview and the founder's myriad of connections to the alt-right bc there's like 100 scoops in here
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maryland looks on track to become the 20th state to legalize recreational weed, which would trigger legislation passed earlier this year to facilitate automatic expungement of low-level marijuana cases
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According to the White House, we now have two Defense Secretaries
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every time I cover an execution, I'm struck by the enduring myth that we only kill the "worst of the worst." . this country kills the poor and the abused over and over and over again and Michael Tisius was no exception
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this is a hard story to sum up in a tweet but the biggest takeaway is that science and lived experience shows us that people who commit crimes as kids —even absolutely horrifying crimes — should be treated differently than adults
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