Reminder on why cigarettes matter (CW: SA, death, lynching, poison). In 2014 in Staten Island, Eric Garner was strangled by the pig Daniel Pantaleo on accusations Garner was selling otherwise-legal single cigarettes. Garner had been targeted for violence by pigs over cigarettes and their own opaque discretion multiple times in his life, including at least […]

When we say “crime is a social construction” we don’t mean that the harm done when someone is killed, robbed, or assaulted (including sexually assaulted) is subjective or all in your head. We mean U.S. cops execute an unknown exactly but thousand-plus people per year, and it’s never murder; it’s a “good kill” or, with […]