Rebecca Yung 🇭🇰✊😷

walking away from Omelas

[Rebecca Yung 🇭🇰✊😷 @SailorBeqa]

@OhNoPodcast Thank you for everything 💙 be well and best wishes for the future 💫

[Rebecca Yung 🇭🇰✊😷 @SailorBeqa]

“I don’t wish you were poor.
I wish you were here.”

— Anders Carlson-Wee, “Lay It Bare” from “Disease of Kings”

[Anders Carlson-Wee @AndersWeePoet]

Dreams do come true: It’s PUB DAY for my new book DISEASE OF KINGS!!! https://t.co/TUiV31ccZa 🥳🎉💥💫🎊✨✨

[Rebecca Yung 🇭🇰✊😷 @SailorBeqa]

@lemwake19 Yes, $0 payment and no next payment date. So, some time in October I guess?

[Rebecca Yung 🇭🇰✊😷 @SailorBeqa]

@lemwake19 👀brb

[Alyssa Leader @alittleleader]

When you’ve planned out an elaborate argument and printed all the case law but the court low key decides in the first 10 minutes they aren’t biting.

[Rebecca Yung 🇭🇰✊😷 @SailorBeqa]

@timeforjaya “So you’ve been publicly shamed” by Jon Ronson should be required reading. Mob bullying is not accountability. It just isn’t. Thanks for being willing to take an unpopular but much needed position.

[Rebecca Yung 🇭🇰✊😷 @SailorBeqa]

Latest ep of Amicus Podcast with @Dahlialithwick and Stephen Bright: 95% of the 2442 elected prosecutors in the US in 2019 were white; 73% were white men. White men make up 31% of the population

[Rebecca Yung 🇭🇰✊😷 @SailorBeqa]

@fodderyfodder 🙋‍♀️

[Paul Sherman @PaulMSherman]

The brief is available here: https://t.co/kCxPILfAUG

[Rebecca Yung 🇭🇰✊😷 @SailorBeqa]

@threadless @dinomikedesign @dinomikedesign do you sell this anywhere as a print? It warms my heart

[Rebecca Yung 🇭🇰✊😷 @SailorBeqa]

These lines still stay with me, and I suspect they will for a long time

[Rebecca Yung 🇭🇰✊😷 @SailorBeqa]

“How can I explain the things and things and things I did wrong? / I was never any good at telling the difference between / what wanted me and what wanted me gone.”

[Emir Han @RealEmirHan]

“Who hasn’t ever wondered: am I a monster or is this what it means to be a person ?”

Clarice Lispector

from The Hour of the Star

[Rebecca Yung 🇭🇰✊😷 @SailorBeqa]

@yashar Yeah, it’s gonna be a no from me. Professionalism, even having a friendship with opposing counsel, is fine, but posting photos chumming up while trial is still ongoing treats it like some kind of little league game and is disrespectful to the real people involved in the case

[Rebecca Yung 🇭🇰✊😷 @SailorBeqa]

Much in life is uncertain. But I’m certain that we, as a society, can do much better than this.

[Eric Umansky @ericuman]

NEW: We got something you rarely see: internal investigation into police killing, w/ audio interviews of officers

They don't tell truth: A cop repeatedly told his partner not to fire.

Police investigators never ask about that, even though it was on film
https://t.co/0jTk6TBO0N

[Rebecca Yung 🇭🇰✊😷 @SailorBeqa]

Appalling on every level. Texas’s juvenile justice system has been hell for decades now.
1. Raise the age of criminal responsibility to 18
2. No children in adult prison, period
3. Scorched earth level investigation into the current abuse at TJJD facilities
That’s my $0.02

[Texas Tribune @TexasTribune]

1/ As Texas’ juvenile justice system seeks to calm the chaos caused by severe staffing shortages, it is shifting more teens into the adult prison system.

Here's what's happening. https://t.co/Fud60Behbi

[Anna Arons @AnnaFinally]

This is absolutely not what prosecutors do in 99.9% of cases — they constantly overcharge to coerce pleas, charge after virtually no investigation, etc—and it’s absolutely wild, infuriating & irresponsible that @nytimes continues to run with this kind of narrative.

[Rebecca Yung 🇭🇰✊😷 @SailorBeqa]

@JeremySWallace Thank you for covering this

[Arnold Schwarzenegger @Schwarzenegger]

Thank you - I hope it helps people.