💙📚 #Booksky As madmen and sots contemplate wag the dog adventures in Venezuela and Nigeria, following @phillipspobrien.bsky.social and reading War and Power seems almost a minimum requirement of citizenship.

A little shade that these winners need to deliver, but savor that >90% of voters in NYC voted for some form of Democrat, even the poopy flavored popsicle kind.

With Commissar Trump taking government ownership stakes in major industries, a nice socialist boy local mayor who wants some co-ops in food deserts seems pretty vanilla.

Ugly? In a checkout line behind a women with a little boy eying the candy display. She looks at him, takes one and presents her SNAP card. The cashier checks, in Georgia it’s okay. Trust me the kid was getting the candy, but ugly is what we did to the mom, and the cashier, and to ourselves

Ronald Reagan being a pain in the ass again this week. This year’s award recognizes work done in 1984-1985. Switch out the nuclear codes for a TV changer for the sake of mankind

I suspect an NDA here is about as enforceable as a vow of omertà or a pinky swear

Perfect sense WonderPAC analysis advice to Dems: “…frustrations with the status quo are not the same as a desire for socialism…” @mikemurphy1 on Hacks on Tap about Trump Administration taking ownership stakes in key companies: “(Conservatives) wanted orange and got Red.”

@gelliottmorris.com has the data. I quibble that if D’s don’t have the negative positions he notes they don’t reject them as party planks loudly enough to shed the accusations. Defunders vote, you know, don’t offend. I also wonder if $ubscribed media is reaching deeply into working class homes.

Ah well, if you feel like this then block

Thanks to @jeffasher.bsky.social a reliable source of data about crime realtimecrimeindex.com

What a twist. Millions turn out to support the rule of law, Constitutional norms regarding the separation of powers, individual rights, and disciplined government agencies. Making #NoKings the conservatives and MAGA the insurrectionists

#NoKings For all that were out and all who supported but could not attend, you can add to the impact. Go to www.usa.gov/elected-offi... and send a simple message, No Kings. Just that.

10,000 steps or hours - we love a goal, but it’s a range, an ‘ish target. 270 million in U.S. are voting age citizens or 16-17 now vice ‘26. Hand grenades and horseshoes - close scores. Above 7 million out and publicly supporting on media/polls, earth shakes. #nokings

The core of the problem in one introductory clause

Scalise and Johnson can schedule a Bow Down Americans rally, celebrating cutting healthcare to further enrich billionaires planning to build their own country, destroying American farmers to bailout Argentina, and making Hamburger Helper Great Again

It’s not too hard to follow, Tankus provides great maps

For more than the last millennia, what we are doing here would have been punishable by death and the ignominious disposal of our remains. Keep on Rockin’

Columbus Day is a meh holiday for me. The folks who tout the faith aspect miss that it was in no way their faith that was inspiring anyone. They’d have been burned. The lamenters miss the inevitability of contact and tragedy for which they offer nothing of use - save NASA’s admirable germaphobia.

💙 #BookSky ⚡️📚 #Mysteries&Thrillers Yes or no? Oui pour moi www.imdb.com/title/tt3335...

Elite/Effete “No more beards, long hair,” Hegseth explaining “warrior.”

ATF-DEA merger no longer in plan

Don’t let the shutdown delaying reports hide the MAGA war on data. For years a core NRA tactic has been to block data collection, prohibit sharing, and end publication. Without systematic data, what’s left is anecdotal argument, then “nobody knows; nothing can be done; Thoughts and Prayers.”

Real teamwork in public safety

💙 #BookSky ⚡️📚 #Mysteries&Thrillers Many woes in our world, but tonight Sir Gary Oldman and this. There will be cakes and ale.

Is your community using these tools? Many, perhaps most, are not. My view is that the likelihood of being apprehended is the best deterrent, not the severity of punishment for a single defendant.

Too true. But since 1980, Congress has enacted full Appropriations 3X, and that includes a bunch of annual CRs disguised as omnibus funding. A hard ass would score Congress as a failed institution on the basic National bookkeeping. Maybe a reform plank, or a reason to fire some long time incumbents.

💙 #BookSky ⚡️📚 #Mysteries&Thrillers Should we flood his inbox with photos of Sherlock Holmes?

Hi all, Some fun news...I have a new podcast coming out about why perceptions of crime rarely meet reality and what can be and is being done about it! Ep 0 was just released & Ep 1 will be released on Oct 1. Download & subscribe wherever you get your podcasts! jasher.substack.com/p/the-jeff-a...

Maybe, as you sit quaking in DC, behind the extra security of the Capitol Police, you could try something different. Envision the instrument of the threat that you see as most likely and do something about that.

New this week: the FBI will likely report the lowest murder rate ever recorded when its data for 2025 is released next year. I wrote about why I think this will happen as well as the chance that the record doesn't last after being revised. jasher.substack.com/p/the-fbi-wi...

💙 #BookSky ⚡️📚 #Mysteries&Thrillers Have come to this late, but so happily. A Pulitzer winner, but I think also at home here in our genre feed. Will try the mini-series. “O wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as ithers see us!”

💙 #BookSky ⚡️📚 #Mysteries&Thrillers Need more quirk? Does ballroom dancing detective, pet rats, conversations with a dead dance partner wife, herself a murdered officer, whose death is unsolved work for you? Through first two of this series, I found it did for me because of what’s under the quirk.

Jimmy Kimmel was not fired. ABC did not censor him before air. Start there. Go back to Twitter and Facebook and Trump. If this is about what was said, then we're not free-speech warriors. Kimmel and Colbert may well view this as the Golden Boot. Hope so. Focus on the FCC goon and prior restraint.

ABC has shamed itself. But ABC is the Catskills in the decade after Dirty Dancing. I suspect that the Old Fool may wish he’d left Colbert and Kimmel confined there.

Well here’s a money suck for DOGE. Less than performative National Guard deployments, but a penny saved y’know. In the ‘80’s, loners and small groups attacked abortion clinics claiming an Army of God. Great branding, no army. But for Feds assigned, money for nothin’. Your money.

Three thoughts: Apparently, more than thoughts and prayers are available to them. Some of them are relieved to have a reason not to have town halls. What would they come up with if they could not buy for themselves, with public funds, levels of security not available to the public?

💙 #BookSky ⚡️📚 #Mysteries&Thrillers What a time. To be in the midst of such good prose and greater perception.

CEO’s, political influencers , rights activists, politicians, you start down that road there’s not enough guns and time - even here. Celebrating a lynching puts you in the mob. Who writes home to Mom bragging on that? 31 and gone, and to me a fool, but I don’t grin in the crowd around the bridge.

New this week: I wrote about how people seem to always perceive that crime is rising -- a problem that goes back at least a century -- and what I'm hoping to do about it. Check it out! jasher.substack.com/p/what-to-do...

On the scroll of American patriots, four below Benedict Arnold and fading

Fox has always been voice cracking hysterical about crime.They were over the top in the late ‘80’s, when an original Fox O&O station in DC, foregoing the tags “Libel at 5,” and “Presence of Malice,” for “City Under Siege.” And those were high crime years.

💙 #BookSky ⚡️📚 #Mysteries&Thrillers But one can wander with great pleasure through this list, if head bowed, and not constrained by the shame of mother tongue or the four corners of the list. Thank you @nickharkaway.com for the repost that caught my eye

If you’re writing about crime (who isn’t these days), you need to follow @jeffasher.bsky.social, and subscribe to Jeff-alytics. This article alone can prevent common journalism malpractice.

I’m impressed. Today’s open container thug is tomorrow’s Al Capone.

What's a picture worth? Not on the Guard, but pizza deployment at Union Station is a long way from DC's high crime areas. Close to the heart of high visibility photo ops however.

Behind the Guardsmen cosplaying scarecrows and high dollar Feds diverted to walking around, the fact is that there is a long history of MPDC and Feds collaborating in a routine and less histrionic way on anti-crime operations. Lose the Kabuki and this stuff fills the WaPo morgue’s files.

@paulkrugman.substack.com.web.brid.gy I smiled at “…for most Americans, the word “inflation” invokes memories of the 1970s.” Rampant Boomer-centrism (Mark 1 mod O, myself). 75% of us were born after 1970. Great post, I guess those who don’t know history are doomed to again choose the wrong answers.

Mr. Secretary, this is Cuddles A Drop of Virus From a Monkey Kills a Researcher in 6 Weeks