TEASER: 154 - Folsom prison blues (4.30.2021)

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Folsom State Prison is showing all of us just how bad the prison guard culture in California (and beyond) is.

To put it bluntly, they're a state-sanctioned gang responsible for unspeakable acts.

Take, for instance, the guards being accused of conspiring to kill inmates. (There's video evidence of this, per sources.) Or the guard who was found dead after acting as a whistleblower on his colleagues' abhorrent behavior. Or the guards who covered up the 2016 killing of an inmate after a state employee tripped him while his hands were cuffed behind his back.

It's a rampant, systemic problem. So it should come as no surprise that the FBI is in town to investigate.

In other news, wild-eyed anti-vaxxer moms with ties to far-right anti-government movements are forming a militia. We've talked about the lady lobbing a volley of menstrual blood upon California legislators, and we remember anti-vaxxers disrupting state proceedings in recent years, so perhaps this is the natural next step. (Oh, and here's the Mamalitia's Instagram page, for those interested.)