Robert Stewart

In 2011, I presented on students w/ criminal records & campus crime to a conference of university chiefs/LEOs. I made an offhand remark that if universities were actually serious about relationship & sexual violence, they'd ban frats. One said, "We would if we could," & every other chief agreed.

That always stuck with me. Campus sexual violence is in large part a policy choice, and unless we take that seriously, it's hard to see how meaningful prevention can be possible.

After Trump's term, someone needs to do a cost analysis of how much his vanity projects (ballroom, golf courses, arch, Kennedy Center, those weird banners, etc) have cost us, accounting not only for the construction-related costs but also the legal costs (eg, DOJ, fed judiciary).

Talked about the death penalty in my Politics of Criminal Justice class today. I mentioned the Fort Hood shooter's case and joked they'd livestream it. Welp.

The flag is unpopular among many people for very dumb reasons. But aesthetically, it is pretty basic. I would have preferred going with an expand d version of the center area of the seal. That loom is bad ass.

If Dazed and Confused was released today, it'd be set in the first year of the Obama administration.

This sure is a...choice, for several reasons. 1) It was built by the city of Appleton at the height of the early 90s prison boom as a economic booster. It was sold to CoreCivic in 1997. It was not built for its practicality; it was built to be provide jobs for the very small, rural town.

6) As w/ other private prisons, it doesn't have a great track record for safety and health. At least when it was a prison housing MN DOC people, there was a qualitative difference between the prison experiences in a DOC facility and in CoreCivic's Appleton.

This sure is a...choice, for several reasons. 1) It was built by the city of Appleton at the height of the early 90s prison boom as a economic booster. It was sold to CoreCivic in 1997. It was not built for its practicality; it was built to be provide jobs for the very small, rural town.

5) FYI, the Appleton prison has a history of this out-of-state incarceration practice. MN DOC started winding down its use of Appleton in the mid-2000s. To make up for the losses, CoreCivic contracted with states like Montana, Arizona, and Hawaii(!) to house their overflow.

This sure is a...choice, for several reasons. 1) It was built by the city of Appleton at the height of the early 90s prison boom as a economic booster. It was sold to CoreCivic in 1997. It was not built for its practicality; it was built to be provide jobs for the very small, rural town.

3 cont.) These are attorneys who are very familiar with the tactics and bad faith of current federal prosecutors. It'll be interesting to see what the release orders look like.

This sure is a...choice, for several reasons. 1) It was built by the city of Appleton at the height of the early 90s prison boom as a economic booster. It was sold to CoreCivic in 1997. It was not built for its practicality; it was built to be provide jobs for the very small, rural town.

2) Appleton is and always has been logistically impractical. It's 3 hrs from the nearest major airport (MSP) by county highways. The only way to get there is by car. No idea how people who may be released would get to the TC from there (considering what we've heard about detention ctrs in TX).

A lot of talk about how great party selection processes are over primaries. Meanwhile, I'm just sitting here thinking about the 12 hours I spent sitting in a MN district convention when @ilhanmn.bsky.social first ran for office challenging a 40+ year incumbent.

The convention ultimately ended in no endorsement, which was also an advantage for the incumbent because the district include a large proportion of college students who wouldn't be there in August for the primary. However, IO still won the primary by 12 points (then two years later ran Congress).

A lot of talk about how great party selection processes are over primaries. Meanwhile, I'm just sitting here thinking about the 12 hours I spent sitting in a MN district convention when @ilhanmn.bsky.social first ran for office challenging a 40+ year incumbent.