So many people lining up to see the new Margot Robbie movie. Which is fair enough. After all, summertime is...

[Lowers shades]

Barbie queue season

[Flees]

Good. The whole concept of cash bail is that people should be detained pre-trial based on how much money they have, instead of whether they're a flight risk or a risk to the community. It's an indefensible system. It should be abolished everywhere.

"The Illinois Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld a state law eliminating cash bail. Illinois will now become the first state in the nation to eliminate cash bail when the new law takes effect Sept. 18."
https://www.abajournal.com/news/article/illinois-supreme-court-upholds-far-reaching-law-ending-cash-bail

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This is a news story from 2023. This year. White residents won't let the duly elected Black Mayor take office.

https://capitalbnews.org/newbern-alabama-black-mayor/

We don't have a cancer drug shortage
We don't have an energy shortage
We don't have an insulin shortage
We don't have a housing shortage
We don't have a teacher shortage
We don't have a labor shortage
We don't have a food shortage

We have a billionaire excess who buy politicians to deny us our basic human rights.

The grand staircase of an abandoned resort

More on the lost resorts of the Catskills at: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-abandoned-resorts-of-the-catskills/id1619808235?i=1000560055870