REALLY important to note homicide has dropped sharply all OVER the place, in places that have a lot of diff policing tactics. That doesn’t mean that what the NYPD did was irrelevant, but also def means that you can’t simply say “we did x, then crime fell,” bc a lot of not-xs saw similar drops.

Never let a single goddamned person on the Right ever claim again that they’re the party of law and order without laughing in their lying face.

my main problem with the "british food is bad" jokes are that it's old and really dated material. it's not really true, but more importantly, it's hack

'British food is bad' has been untrue for like a generation and a half at this point but really sticks around in the U.S. U.S. supermarkets are inferior to their U.K. counterparts!

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another: during one of his 2016 rallies, he encouraged cops/security to rough up protesters and "take their coats," in the dead of winter in Chicago or someplace like that.

His whole crew was doing it, it was clearly a coordinated thing.

there are so many weird little things from the long trump years that stick in my mind, that will probably never be explained. like that presser where everyone referred to him as "President", rather than "Mr. Pres.", like it was a military rank.

this is how every outlet should refer to X

Both Maduro and his wife have submitted filings to get medical attention for injuries suffered during their capture (these filings are sealed). Also Bruce Fein is joining Maduro's team.

Would you guys be interested in math-communication threads about stochastic differential equations, the Hubbard-Stratonovich transform, the Legendre transform, and Feynman diagrams this semester?

The United States is behaving like a rogue state. The President has carried out an illegal act of war, kidnapped a foreign head of state, and is now threatening military action against NATO allies. This is a constitutional crisis. Impeachment must be on the table.

This is like that bit in Dave. Only real. And realistic in terms of scope. But real. It's choosing what's important, and then "what would it look like if we acted like this was important?"

Samuel Alito flew two flags used by insurrectionists. Clarence Thomas' wife plotted to overturn the 2020 election. Both justices refused to recuse themselves from SCOTUS cases related to the January 6th plot. It's a stain on our nation that this has effectively been forgotten.

The Senate Judiciary hearing on "Impeachment: Holding Rogue Judges Accountable" is back on tomorrow @ 2:30: www.judiciary.senate.gov/committee-ac... Witnesses: Will Chamberlain: georgetown.box.com/s/0ums4n8dij... Rob Luther: georgetown.box.com/s/zsi5pnxtpt... Me: georgetown.box.com/s/ti1i64kke0...

There we go. That there’s a headline.

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NEW: X/Twitters continue to freely use xAI's Grok to generate and disseminate nonconsensual explicit deepfakes of real women and underage girls. Neither X nor xAI have taken meaningful action to fix the issue. So we're following that inaction live: futurism.com/artificial-i...

We have to face the fact that “He killed my ma, he killed my pa, but I will vote for him” would be an effective electoral strategy in the United States

This is a direct response to the European statements. It’s an attempt at a palliative. It’s still the worst act the United States has pondered since the Mexican War and it think there’s an least a 50% chance it happens. NATO is basically over unless Senate Rs like Senator Kennedy build a barrier.

Note: Marco Rubio has been too busy plotting invasions and bombings across Latin America to meet with the Danes and Greenlanders.

The Wyoming Supreme Court just ruled to protect abortion rights! They struck down the state's two abortion bans (yes, two). I'm so thrilled for the people of Wyoming, but also for all of us—because the decision could actually help abortion rights everywhere. jessica.substack.com/p/breaking-w...

Trump is insane. His inner circle is insane. They want to burn the world so they can loot everyone else’s wealth, feel like big tough guys, and hurt all the groups they despise. But the thing breaking the whole world is how everyone feels obligated to avoid stating this fact directly.

“Acquiring”?????

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Amazing to live in a country where every day you can watch Republicans gin up issue salience out of nothing but attitude and 4chan posts and a sizeable chunk of people think Democrats' only power is to vote yes or no on bills placed in front of them

"Iron laws of the world"? Some of America's most important national accomplishments are about leading humanity away from this kind of bullshit. If we let ideologues like Stephen Miller drag us back into a world where brute force is all that matters, all of us will be less safe.

Zohran just went out and fixed the Williamsburg Bridge bike entrance. Just did it. No faffing, no nonsense. Bam. Fixed.

You can just do things

If you're writing 1800 words about how we failed to account for January 6 and DON'T mention SCOTUS (particularly if you're comparing with Brazil) or impeachment, you're simply doing propaganda for the GOP.

I think the big thing is that we need to win elections and then, once we have won elections, remind some of these tech oligarchs why they fear crowds and votes.

That’s right!

And it also ended up destroying the world.

Mark Zuckerberg had one good idea, once. And it wasn’t actually a good idea. And it wasn’t even his.

I feel I cannot stress enough how 'AI' products serve, intentionally or not, to reestablish the control of a very small group of people over language and expression, a new form of digital boot. One hopes the proliferation of open models may push back on this. Or the Butlerian Jihad. Either way.

Seeing as it’s the 5 year anniversary of Jan 6, & attempts to re-write what occurred continue unabated, I’m re-upping part 7 of my series about Roger Stone & his miscreants. It documents w/ screen shots & quotes much of what transpired. We cannot let them re-write history. @buckscountybeacon.com. 1/

Curtis Yarvin is beloved of people of mediocre mind and weak character. They want to go Nazi, but they don’t have the cobbles to do it without a gloss of mediocre pseudo-intellectual gibberish supporting it. /1

It's an MTV simulator with almost 30,000 videos, organized by decade, with special sections for Headbanger's Ball and Yo! MTV Raps. This is so good.

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The moment I decided to cancel Grammarly.

This is humiliatingly weak and pathetic. The dominant national ethos has become one of weak insecurity. It’s like if Frank Burns was a white nationalist.

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And, in fairness, there's historical precedent for this! America became rich, in part, because it used its navy and corporations to pacify and plunder throughout the Americas and in the Pacific. They genuinely think they've discovered the secret playbook to get rich again.

But, of course, the administration doesn't *actually* care about China — that's just a helpful stand-in to justify the expansion of empire. Because, fundamentally, the administration has become obsessed with the idea that all of America's ills can be remedied by expanding power in the region.

It's not a troll. The MAGA braintrust, particularly Steve Bannon, have been hitting this drum for years. They see Greenland as the frontlines of a sphere-of-influence battle with China. And they've convinced themselves that nothing short of annexation will be good enough.

“X, the deepfake porn site formerly known as Twitter” Thank you FT for presenting the directors running the circus. In clown face. www.ft.com/content/ad94...

Scarborough on what Trump told him during a phone call yesterday: "Joe, the the difference between Iraq and this is that Bush didn't keep the oil. We're going to keep the oil. To underline his point, Trump said his comments were no long on background."