A remarkable trend that will come as a shock to you if your only info about NYC is from this Fox News. Homicides in NYC... 1990: 2,262 1993: 1,927 1998: 629 2001: 649 2013: 335 2019: 320 2021: 488 2024: 382 2025 (as of 12/28): 302

“The rate of deaths per year in the correctional facilities has been on the rise even though the number of people being held in the prisons has declined, the records show. Last year the death count hit 144 — the highest number in the past seven years.”

Shame on us. Gratis link: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/n...

My stance with the “never Trump” right remains: These are the people who fucking built Trump. Years of shit in service of Reagan, Bush, Romney, McCain paved the way for Trump. I don’t trust them. They’re rotten. I trust the people who opposed this shit all along.

New research found that wolves in the Midwest and Canada not only keep deer populations in check, but they also alter deer behavior in ways that help prevent car crashes and save human lives.

Pope Leo XIV used his first Christmas message as pontiff to call on world leaders to embrace peace talks and addressed the plights of refugees, the poor and exploited.

So I have the cover story in next month's TNR. I interviewed the heads of police groups; immigration defense attorneys, ex-judges and ex-prosecutors; former DOJ and DHS officials, and the former head of Border Patrol. They're all horrified at what we've seen, and they all fear what's coming.

CBS paid the president of the United States millions in bribe money and now they censor news reports so it does not annoy him. I don’t know how much plainer we can put this.

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

This is something else. Lots of respect for @60minutes.bsky.social reporter Sharyn Alfonso for defending the integrity of her work. What a disgrace for 60 Minutes. The Trump effect destroys every institution it touches. GIFT LINK: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/o... Maybe count David Brooks.

And in two weeks most states will reduce grocery bills by 300 percent.

Reeeeeallly dating myself with this reference, but I stand by it. :)

Arizona, the model for voucher programs across the country, spent so much money paying private schoolers’ tuition that it faced hundreds of millions in budget cuts to critical state programs and projects last year. (Published July 2024)

I had to grow up to appreciate Carroll O’Connor, but I was always a big fan of “Meathead.”Every time I put on one sock, then the shoe before putting on the other sock and the other shoe, it was Rob Reiner who made me feel normal.

Less than 48 hours after the deadly attack at Sydney's Bondi Beach that left more than a dozen dead, Australian authorities announced proposals for sweeping new gun laws. n.pr/48UTa7g

When you can’t say “sorry we capitulated to bigots” because you’re afraid the bigots might hear you, so you just throw some glitter around and hope for the best.

U.S. military spending is set to hit a record $1 trillion. Roughly half of defense spending goes to private contractors that routinely price-gouge the government. Meanwhile, the Pentagon has failed seven straight audits. This is the military industrial complex on steroids.

Ah yes however what this leaves out is that Dubya’s brother was the governor of the state of Florida at the time

its not bravery, its crass political calculation. there's a difference.

What will historians write about this in 100 years? How would the world be different if this had gone in Gore's favor? We will never know.

MINNEAPOLIS: “All I did was step outside as a Somali American citizen, and I got chased by a masked person, assaulted, kidnapped. It was inhumane. If this is what’s happening to a 🇺🇸 citizen on camera, imagine what could happen to your loved ones.”

This was the topic on local public radio today and the stance taken by a former GOP assemblyman and congress person, ousted because of his votes on healthcare. It is deeply offensive to keep pedaling trickle-down health care.

The authoritarian takover of the state bureaucracy might not *sound* like a big deal. But SCOTUS giving Trump the ability to fire the federal government is a God-King power, and represents a failure of the American Revolution. My latest in @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Literally all of the good things

Dr. Bill Cassidy’s legacy as a hepatologist, will be that he brought about more liver disease. Put that in his obit.

When Elie Mystal and George Will have taken the same stand, you know you are in deep trouble. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

The Republican Supreme Court justices believe that facts have a liberal bias

If the Supreme Court makes you mad keep in mind that within the last week Democratic senators have been voting for GOP judges to get on the federal bench

ah that explains it

The fact that a second strike like that in an armed conflict is definitely a war crime should not completely negate the fact that *there is no war* and ALL the strikes are cold-blooded murder. The whole chain of command are murderers.

I mean this woman is cooking!

Al Roker: Now for the fan favorite New York police marching band. Me: Fan favorite, Al? 13yo: Just because people are too afraid to boo doesn’t make them a fan favorite. Me: Nice one [Dad-boy high 5]

Im not voting for another Democrat at the national level until they come up with a plan as a party to stop this. “We’re not Trump” is not only not good enough, it is not even TRUE anymore on many issues. I’m NOT voting for this. Die mad about it. www.newsweek.com/democrats-wa...

When the prison guards went on strike, many inmates said they were doing so to preserve their ability to do things like this.

Results from our annual State Supreme Court Diversity report: - No Black justices in 24 states - No Latino/a justices in 39 states & DC - No Asian American justices in 42 states - No Native American justices in 47 states & DC Read more: bit.ly/3JW6lN6

If you start by saying how many people you are going to arrest, the entire operation should be enjoined. That’s not how anything should work.

The DOE just cut multiple fields from the “professional degree” list, shrinking loan access for future workers. Nursing, PAs, PT, OT, audiology, public health, social work, & education master’s all got dropped. And yes, they’re fields dominated by women. #ProudBlue www.newsweek.com/nursing-not-...

Just a reminder that Jamal Khashoggi was murdered because he was investigating (amongst other things) the fact that Jared Kushner allegedly was selling intelligence secrets to the Saudi Arabian government including the location of people disloyal to the Crown Prince Which is HIGH TREASON

Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged. Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.

This is really the only answer: abortion is health care. At every stage in a pregnancy, abortion is health care.

The Epstein files are important, but not releasing the economic data for October is damning. The economy has completely tanked and the Trump government is refusing to and or incapable of carrying out its basic functions. share.google/e726OJJXXxry...

[Cookie Monster] : "No, no, no, boss, it ok, you sit down, me write headline!"

the gulf between the swift brutality with which places like harvard treated students protesting genocide and the endless, endless latitude those same institutions have given people like larry summers tells you everything you need to know

when we talk about efforts to "erase DEI" can we be more precise and say "efforts to re-segregate workplaces and schools"

If they opened this to comments it would be mostly things like … Honestly… can’t wait until the headline is “J.D. Vance, Yes That One, Gets 2 Years in Prison …”

It was Miami Herald local reporter Julie Brown @jkbjournalist.bsky.social who actually covered the Epstein story and blew it wide open. She cared about the victims and Epstein's crimes, not access. National outlets not only didn't, they refused to. They thought it was tawdry and beneath them.

to be clear, i also do not think it is necessarily true that adopting a laundry list of progressive positions is an instant win either. i think you have to do the work of discovering what it is that voters want in a direct and engaged way. and i think that voters want moral leadership.

One girl said “it doesn’t matter if you ban a book because everyone can find that information online” and then I blew their minds by talking about how your search history can be monitored and sold to the government without your permission, but your library borrowing history requires a warrant.