In the middle of one late-August night in 1970, radicals bombed the Army Mathematics Research Center on the University of Wisconsin’s Madison campus. The blast killed a scientist who was in his laboratory to catch up on work before a vacation. In a letter published by the Milwaukee underground newspaper Kaleidoscope, a group calling itself […]
Back in March 2020, a dozen or so sheriff’s deputies wearing bullet-proof vests descended upon Waylon Bailey’s home in Rapides Parish, Louisiana, with their guns drawn, ordered him onto his knees with his hands on his head, and arrested him for a felony punishable by up to 15 years in prison. The SWAT-style raid was […]
In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, Waylon Bailey, a resident of Rapides Parish, Louisiana, made a joke on Facebook that alluded to the 2013 Brad Pitt zombie movie World War Z. “RAPIDES PARISH SHERIFFS OFFICE HAVE ISSUED THE ORDER,” he wrote, that “IF DEPUTIES COME INTO CONTACT WITH ‘THE INFECTED,’” they should “SHOOT […]