Cellphones are not permitted, said Pabst Theater spokesman Andy Nelson.

It’s possible Chappelle will be using phone-locking pouches during his Pabst Theater run. In December, he partnered up with a company called Yondr that manufactures the pouches for a series of shows at Thalia Hall in Chicago. Showgoers are required to place their phone in a pouch; it automatically seals when they enter the theater, and unlocks when they step outside.

Conor Friedersdorf on collard greens, racial identity, and clumsy attempts to aggregate attitudes displayed via social media:

I often see journalists and activists attributing positions to “African Americans” or “black people” or “people of color,” as if such a consensus exists. Often, the view in question isn’t unique to a race so much as an ideology, an activist movement, or a small subset of black people who are treated as stand-ins for the whole community.

Social media might simply be too difficult for some journalists.

Today in crazy state legislators.

Sarah Palin, addressing her son’s arrest for domestic violence, blamed his actions on PTSD and a lack of presidential respect while campaigning for Donald Trump:

It makes me realize more than ever it is now or never for the sake of America’s finest that we have that commander in chief who will respect them and honor them.

As questionable as it is to blame domestic violence on PTSD, it’s truly next level insane logic for Sarah Palin to politicize her own son’s crimes by blaming Barak Obama for not supporting veterans.

Not that anyone should ever have expected something approaching logic from a speech by Sarah Palin campaigning for Donald Trump.

If you were to put something in a population to keep them down for generation and generations to come, it would be lead… It’s a well-known, potent neurotoxin. There’s tons of evidence on what lead does to a child, and it is one of the most damning things that you can do to a population. It drops your IQ, it affects your behavior, it’s been linked to criminality, it has multigenerational impacts. There is no safe level of lead in a child.

– Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha, pediatrician, Hurley Medical Center, Flint, Michigan

Kathryn Schulz writing for the New Yorker:

Dean Strang, Steven Avery’s defense lawyer, notes that most of the problems in the criminal-justice system stem from “unwarranted certitude”—what he calls “a tragic lack of humility of everyone who participates.” Ultimately, “Making a Murderer” shares that flaw; it does not challenge our yearning for certainty or do the difficult work of helping to foster humility. Instead, it swaps one absolute for another—and, in doing so, comes to resemble the system it seeks to correct. It is easy to express outrage, comforting to have closure, and satisfying to know all the answers. But, as defense lawyers remind people every day, it is reasonable to doubt.

Utter horror show.