Go work with @brandendupont.bsky.social @ New York Criminal Justice Agency (CJA) — if it’s not best job you’ve had I’ll listen to all your complaints. Research Manager $125-$150: job-boards.greenhouse.io/criminaljust... Senior Data Scientist up to $140k: job-boards.greenhouse.io/criminaljust...

Checking on coverage of the Philly DA result, & striking that there's 0 coverage of Larry Krasner's win this week. I'm comparing to the coverage of the results in Chicago & Los Angeles last year (and hypothesizing the story that'd a Krasner loss this week would have likely occasioned).

It took John Roberts more than a month to rule on this “emergency”—and to find this fig leaf to quietly nuke the NLRB/precedent: “The Federal Reserve is a uniquely structured, quasi-private entity that follows in the distinct historical tradition of the First and Second Banks of the United States.”

Coverage of the "progressive prosecutor" movement has often focused on its setbacks. ...Meanwhile, Larry Krasner just crushed his opponent in Philly. And, writes @taniel.bsky.social, reformers have lately racked up other big wins, incl. in MN, TX, MI, VT, FL, VA, CO. boltsmag.org/larry-krasne...

#ICYMI: Trump’s slashing of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health includes a team of workers who examined firefighter deaths. Probes into deaths at 20 fire departments are now unlikely to be completed, an investigator said.

they want us poor, sick and desperate

THREAD: The Trump administration's DOJ has removed a study from the NIJ website that found that immigrants, and particularly undocumented immigrants, commit crimes at significantly lower rates than U.S. citizens. The study is at odds with the Trump regime's propaganda about immigrants & crime. (1)

STOP AS YIELD PASSES 48-4 OUT OF THE ILLINOIS SENATE!!!!!!!!!! MAKING ILLINOIS THE 14TH STATE IN THE COUNTRY TO LEGALIZE THE SAFETY STOP!!!!! STOP SIGNS ARE SHAKING IN THEIR BOOTS!!!!

Here's Part 2 of 3 from me, @adambonica.bsky.social, @rfunkfordham.bsky.social, & @ernestotiburcio.bsky.social. All the publicly available data suggests 2024 non-voters leaned Democratic and pro-Harris. data4democracy.substack.com/p/did-non-vo... 1/n

NEW: Bronx DA Darcel Clark gave faulty testimony to justify rolling back discovery laws, one of the last sticking points in state budget negotiations. The mixup offers insight into a debate that has relied on prosecutors’ word against public defenders’.

Sotomayor: "The implication of the Government’s position is that not only noncitizens but also United States citizens could be taken off the streets, forced onto planes, and confined to foreign prisons with no opportunity for redress if judicial review is denied unlawfully before removal."

Chicago has a new program that lets police file felony gun charges without getting a prosecutor’s approval. Two of the police officers who have overseen many cases under this program have 59 misconduct complaints between them. boltsmag.org/cook-co...

Cuomo tells New York's Real Estate Board he regrets signing limits on rents increases into law as governor: www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

Englewood is one of the most heavily policed areas in Chicago. Now, it’s also the only district where police can file felony gun possession charges without prosecutor approval—fueling fears this policy will worsen racial inequities in the legal system. boltsmag.org/cook-co...

NEW: Bolts has learned that Chicago's new prosecutor has launched a program to further empower local police. It lets police bypass the usual 'review process' to file more felony charges directly, without a prosecutor's approval. It signals how new prosecutor will be a lot more trusting of police:

I wanted to share some background on the recent correction to Hall & Thompson's 2018 paper. This correction has significant implications. The conventional wisdom that moderate candidates perform better in general elections is not supported by the data when properly analyzed.🧵

ABC News has now fully taken down the old 538 website, including all interactive projects since 2014. Aside from erasing history this prevents access to publicly released data, including raw polls, averages, model estimates & story dta. Totally unacceptable for a company (allegedly) doing journalism

The former head of the Social Security Administration says he expects the agency to miss on some payments over the next three months, interrupting some people's benefits, for the first time in Social Security's history of eight decades: www.cnbc.com/2025/03/01/d...

You should know that a big part of 18F's work was to make sure multi-million to multi-*hundreds*-of-millions dollar contracts at fed *and* state level didn't go to shitty enterprise IT consultancies that *repeatedly* delivered tech that didn't work, was late, or didn't even do what it needed to

We’re revisiting a collaboration with @statesunited.org that tracks Election Deniers holding major statewide and federal offices that control, oversee, or are tasked with defending elections.

NEW: The Cook County State’s Attorney will no longer divert gun possession cases to the Restorative Justice Community Courts. This guts the caseload of the RJCC. 83% of it’s caseload are gun possession cases. news.wttw.com/2025/02/17/c...

Study of 390 US cities over 30 years: “Data reveal gradual and considerable municipal budgetary restructuring toward law enforcement between 1990 and 2019, with police funding growing 32% relative to social spending.” 1/2

For years advocates have tried to reform cash bail to ensure people aren't stuck in jail just because they don't have money. Now Illinois has abolished bail entirely, and so far it's working really well. www.thenation.com/article/soci...