📚 New year, new reading list?

After 20+ years in criminal justice advocacy, I’m still learning. These 5 books changed the way I think about our systems — and who they serve.

🌱📖 Top 5 Books Every Judge, Prosecutor, Defense Attorney and Citizen Should Read: justbeckyk.substack.com/p/the-top-5-...

Stranger Things finale just broke me 💔♥️ #strangerthings #wecanbeheroes

Just finished Predators — the documentary about Dateline’s To Catch a Predator. It’s one of the best documentaries I’ve seen in a long time, and I can already tell I’ll be sitting with it (and processing it) for a while. #predators

This summer, we adopted Ziggy Doggo Stardust. 🚀✨ He’s 11 breeds including pit bull. In PG County, healthy dogs are still being euthanized under an archaic pit bull ban.

Today, the county council votes on whether to end it.

🐾 Learn more: www.petunityproject.org

I’ve read that the em dash is a tell-tale ChatGPT tic—so, for the record—I’ve been a certified-expert-level em-dasher for decades—at least....

What's the best book you've read this year? I'll start:

I can do hard things. But not without naps. 🥱

After I wrote about my brother’s murder, most people responded with compassion. But one man saw strategy where there was only grief.

I wrote about that — and about the way women’s stories so often get reduced, dissected, or dismissed.

justbeckyk.substack.com/p/your-misog...

Hi Bluesky 👋 I’ve never posted here before, but today felt like the right day to start.

The Baltimore Brew just published an essay I wrote to the teen who killed my brother 25 years ago.

It’s the most personal thing I’ve ever put out into the world.
baltimorebrew.com/2025/09/08/t...