No one should be in solitary confinement.

drinking shower water in a 5x7 cell if that they don't have a chair. They have like a concrete stub. I don't have the ability to turn the lights on and off. So, this is potentially an unpopular opinion, but I think their lawyer is right. Not because I think that Andrew and Tristan specifically shouldn't be in

solitary confinement, but because nobody ever should be in solitary confinement. We know beyond a shadow of a doubt and we've known for a long time that solitary confinement is physically damaging, it is psychologically damaging. And not just in the short term, those effects persist and it is also widely considered a form of

torture. And I do think that there's potentially an opportunity here because let's be totally honest, the people who are against the brothers being treated this way would not normally be opposed to the torture of incarcerated folks. They are the self-described law and order types who are normally very supportive of cruel and unusual

punishment. Maybe invoke interest convergence. A theory that describes how people who are marginalized and oppressed typically only achieve gains in society when those gains also benefit the people in the dominant or oppressor position. This article, for instance, notes how anti-death penalty advocacy has achieved a lot of gains by pointing out that the death penalty is expensive.

And allowing politicians to say that it will save their constituents money makes it much more palatable to eliminate the death penalty for both the politicians and the citizens at large. We can convince the people who are upset about this that the only way to avoid it is if no one receives this treatment. The only