Why do crime researchers who should know better continue to mistake correlation for causation? If you type out the sentence “but the results are not as strong as the correlational data suggest,” maybe you should stop there.

Pay! The! Players!

this isn’t even all of them, we have the juice On Here

Vehicle burglaries in DC are falling in a manner that is very reminiscent of the COVID shutdown period.

Six months ago, this Stars team lost to the Pride 6-0. Today, they win the reverse fixture 5-2.

A fantastic bit of hold up play by Ludmila, followed by a great run and cross to another great run by Bea Franklin. Such a fun run of play!

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

FASTEST HAT TRICK IN NWSL HISTORY. ALL 3 GOALS IN LESS THAN 10 MINUTES 😱 🍿 📷: @nwslsoccer.com

In my dissertation (working on revising this chapter into a journal article atm) I address some of the issues John discusses in this thread. Here’s a teaser on what policies US adults said would most improve their personal safety from a wider selection of policies typically on public safety polls.

I take it back. I don’t know who said this.

Can Chicago forfeit? Cursed feels right. This game needs to end.

Delphine Cascarino is so fun to watch.

damn bro that sounds like a multitude of factors

Literal yikes. Hard to get the book more wrong.

This @today.yougov.com poll is why I'm going to become the Joker. The US murder rate in 2024 was likely down nearly 30 percent relative to 2020 and down nearly 50 percent relative to 1990.

Having to watch another penalty shootout

CHLOE KELLY - PENALTY QUEEN

Big weekend in the Summer of Soccer!!! Right now! WAFCON 3rd place match: Ghana vs South Africa 2PM CT TONIGHT! 7 Copa America Feminil: Brazil vs Colombia 7PM CT Tomorrow! WAFCON final: Morocco vs Nigeria 3PM CT Sunday SUNDAY Sunday: WEURO final: England vs Spain 11 AM CT

The CDC has now released provisional data on the nation's homicide rate through all of 2024. The data's subject to change, but homicide was down ~12.5% in the CDC data in 2024, largely returning to 2019's level.

It’s worse than “Gaza is being starved and destroyed and no one cares.” It’s that hundreds of millions *do* care and are powerless to stop it. We need a world where that can never happen, where the masses actually have political power.

This week, I’m hosting The Daily Show Tuesday through Thursday. It’s my first time hosting anything on TV. Ever. I’ve spent years writing behind the scenes, learning from truly great and talented people. Now, for three nights, I get to sit at the desk and do it myself.

Ann! Ann! Ann! Ann! Ann! Ann! Ann!

france/germany is an nwsl game, i dunno how long they can keep this up but i feel alive

"This would move the ultimate stamp of approval on the finished product (students) from the supplier’s (university) quality control staff (faculty, registrar) to that of the buyer (potential employer)" A part of my soul died from reading that

Hearing athletes discuss career ending injuries always makes me emotional. Especially when they happen to someone like Tobin Heath who loves the game so fiercely.

In his new musical video “NUEVAYoL”, Bad Bunny pays homage to the 30 Puerto Rican nationalists that in 1977 occupied the Statue of Liberty in protest against US colonization of Puerto Rico and in favor of Puerto Rico’s independence 🇵🇷

It's not just the US murder rate that is likely at or near the lowest level ever recorded. The data from the first 4 months of 2025 points to the possibility of the lowest reported property crime rate ever & lowest violent crime rate in decades. This week's piece: jasher.substack.com/p/its-not-ju...

May every single human being on this planet be safe. May every single person be protected from harm. May we bring into being a time in which we are all free from those who do evil— together, speedily and in our days.

Stay tuned for an article from me on the public safety opinion landscape in the US. There are layers to people’s preferences around public safety policy, and it makes for maps that look like this and defy people’s assumptions.

Indulging myself by adding Dr. to my name on here for a month or so to celebrate 7 years and one successfully defended dissertation. I chose a hell of a time to get a PhD, but I made it!

If there is that deep dive, I’d also love to hear from the people closest to the violence about what they think is behind the decline, not just city officials. Neighbors, but thinking especially of violence interrupters, victim advocates, street outreach, and hospital intervention staff.

In addition to his suggested* culpability in looking the other way on Paul Riley's abuses—and the fact that he only had the position because he was already running the men's team when the Courage came to be—Curt Johnson was also bad at his job in North Carolina. 🧵 *polite euphemism

URGENT: Please take a minute to comment on why Covid vaccines should continue to remain available for everyone under 65 years old. One day left to comment and you can do it anonymously www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...

Apparently, Eugene OR's CAHOOTS program has shut down. This is one of the more depressing things I've read lately in the non-police response space for a while. I would love folks w/ more info to chime in on whether this reporting is reliable. www.wsj.com/us-news/oreg...

ngl i'm kinda ragy about this one, this was a clear setup by the front office. they never backed him or his style of play, refused to do anything this offseason despite saying they had a plan. vile, cowardly behavior.

...restaurant owner hired a chef to make a cake, chef said okay but I'm missing a few ingredients, restaurant owner said make the cake anyway, the chef made the cake & it was okay but it didn't quite rise all the way, restaurant owner fired the chef... restaurant owner hired a chef to make a cake...

Among many other reasons Pauli Murray is an important figure, Murray is the person who came up with the legal strategy that Thurgood Marshall used when he argued Brown v Board before the supreme court.

Hello! We are a scrappy three-year-old civics blog based in Chapel Hill and Carrboro, NC. We just updated thegriffinlist.com, which contains detailed instructions for 65,000 NC voters whose votes might be thrown out in the state Supreme Court race. Please share!

im just saying that if someone wanted to build a soccer-specific stadium in the city, some great land might have just become available

Dozens more pregnant and postpartum women have died in Texas hospitals since the state banned abortion, our analysis shows. As the maternal mortality rate dropped nationally, it rose in Texas by 33%.

Yeah that’s probably why

Caring about others is the path to true strength and unity.

STOP EVERYTHING YOU’RE DOING AND WATCH THIS GOAL!!!! HOW DID SHE EVEN DO THAT?! SUPERNATURAL 😱🤯

‼️ THE COVID HOMICIDE WAVE HAS OFFICIALLY ENDED (at least in cities) ‼️ The quietly-released Major Cities Chief Assn violent crime data showed homicides fell by ~17%, to levels below those in 2020; higher still than 2019 (w 2 fewer agencies reporting), but lower than 2016 and 2017. This is BIG NEWS!

Remember this every time they say they're investigating trans people because they want to "protect women"

Exactly. It is white supremacy working how it has always worked.

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With the Trump admin deleting critical data from health agency websites, there are many independent efforts to archive the data. @maggiek.bsky.social is putting together a guide to help locate where all the data is being backed up. Use the form below to let her know about your efforts.

I liked TikTok because I got to be who I really am in my heart: a creepy little lurker who watches everything and says little.

Double digit drops in crimes like murder, robbery, and sex offenses (-9.9% for that last one, but we can round). There should be dozens of breathless above-the-fold articles on “OMG! What is Going Right? Why Do We See Such Improvement?!” But that isn’t what we will see.