These declines are MASSIVE. And the comparative silence in media coverage is absolutely DAMNING. “Why are ppl always so afraid of crime?” THIS is why. When crime goes up, media trips over itself to report it. Falls to pre-war (!!) levels? Just CRICKETS.

I count 10 cities in 2025 that are on track to have the fewest murders since at least 1970. Newark is on pace to have the fewest murders since 1956 (though only have data through Oct this year) and San Francisco is on pace to have the fewest murders since 1942.

Worth repeating this with every new Epstein document drop. The party of Denny Hastert is the party of Jim Jordan is the party of Matt Gaetz is the party of Donald Trump. Looking the other way and protecting child predators from the law is their brand.

🚨🚨 SCOOP @ms.now : The Department of Veteran Affairs has quietly implemented its abortion ban following a DOJ memo issued last week. This will affect 9 million veterans and their dependents, and has been a long time coming: It was outlined in Project 2025. Read/share 👇

In a 2020 email released by the Justice Department, a prosecutor informed colleagues that President Trump’s name appeared on the flight logs for Jeffrey Epstein’s private jet “many more times than previously has been reported (or that we were aware).”

Yeah, the problem is that this is very on brand with the White House. We know this. It’s shocking how quickly some of this racism and xenophobic language became normalized but it has.

On DOGE’s watch, federal spending did not go down at all. It went up. But is still led to cuts that closed offices, canceled programs and deprived people of food, medicine and other aid. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...

The DOJ is not even trying to hide that it functions as Trump's personal law firm

Thread of stories run by Bari Weiss's group blog that did not ask the targets of (frequently uncorroborated) accusations for comment, let alone give them a preemptive veto over the story:

Clueless US media understand Trump's shut down of Atlantic coast wind farms as just some vague national security thing about radar or as Trump's weird ideas about alternative energy. But in Denmark, this is immediately understood for what it is: a shakedown against two large Danish companies,

This is what the Asst AG for Civil Rights is doing. So many Amendments, so little time.

This man, @ricksteves.bsky.social, is a Washington and national treasure. The way he stays connected and engaged with his community and willing to give back in the most concrete, impactful ways, is so touching. Love him for so many reasons. Also, #fcancer!

… And just to be clear, the issue is whether to ostracize outright Jew-hating conspiracy hustlers. Nobody is suggesting any problem with high-profile Islamaphobes, queer-bashers, Hispanic haters, misogynists, or anti-government tinfoil-hat wackos in the movement.

In the summer of 1950 most US newspapers ran an AP story about how race had become the main issue in the upcoming Georgia governor's race. Segregationist Herman Tallmadge, governor from '47 to '55 and then a Senator until 1981 made a name for himself by refusing to "apologize for being a white man."

This is straight-up, unvarnished Klan language from the Vice President of the United States. We've had a lot of racist vice presidents and this one might be in the running for top of the list.

Whoa

A portrait of the kind of science we are losing, and for no reason www.statnews.com/2025/12/05/r...

This is stunning. Blanche is claiming, with a straight face, that the only federal prison where a convicted sex offender can adequately be protected from other inmates just so happens to be a minimum security prison that gives her puppy playdates. Truly preposterous.

In the days after the deaths of Michele Singer Reiner and her husband, the director Rob Reiner, relatives and friends painted a portrait of a devoted, relentless and ever-funny woman.

They’d better. If the GOP loses the majority it will be a mandate to put an immediate halt to the Project 2025 presidency and fecklessness of Congress.

The actor Michael Sheen used all his money to start a fake debt collecting business, buy 900 people in Wales's debt, and excused it. If Musk bought ALL $194 billion in medical debt in the U.S. and excused it in the same way, he'd still be the world's riches man by hundreds of billions of dollars.

2/ The Danish head of its CDC is like: are you fucking crazy? We are a small country with universal healthcare. You shouldn't do what we do. We should do what you used to do.

In the wake of the tragedy at Brown, online conspiracists rushed to pin the horrific mass murder on an innocent Palestinian student. One of them was Shaun Maguire, a partner at leading VC firm Sequoia Capital. www.fastcompany.com/91463942/seq...

CATO INSTITUTE: Despite DOGE slashing jobs, government spending in every month of 2025 “was greater than in every other year .. An observer who did not know when DOGE started could not identify it” on a chart. 🤡 www.cato.org/blog/doge-pr...

“A life destroyed and one less nurse.” What are we even doing?

♥️ 😳🇺🇸

one of four in a week www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/n...

This is some really bleak shit, folks. Take a hard look at your president.

Real wages (after inflation) were growing at 2.0% last year. Now it’s 0.8% — “clearly playing into what the majority of American households would define as an affordability crisis.” @joebrusuelas.bsky.social

Once again a reminder: We can have trans rights, bodily autonomy, gender nonconformity, and freedom of expression, or we can have none of these things. There’s no third option.

A new rule from the Trump administration prohibits certain classes of immigrants from obtaining truck driver’s licenses. The Transportation Department said the change is intended to make roads safer, but there’s no data to suggest that immigrants cause more truck accidents.

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com The Trump administration’s political rhetoric is fueling a rise in judicial threats, Judge Esther Salas warns. For her, the issue is personal.

Who could have imagined a year ago that the USA's biggest beefs in 2025 would be with Venezuela and South Africa?

Well that’s the least shocking news I’ve ever gotten

100%

The White House claims the vote to rename the Kennedy Center was “unanimous.” That is false. I was muted on the call and denied the opportunity to speak or register my opposition. That is not consensus. That is censorship.

wtf ??

FOUR new deaths in ICE detention. That puts the total this year at 30 people dead; the highest in ICE's history and worse than even during the COVID years. It's clear that the system is breaking down. Many of these are preventable deaths.

Just note how few of these states are led by republicans. Don’t tell me Democrats aren’t the party of the working class.

Trump's face droops as he struggles to stay awake during another on-camera event

The Kennedy Center name is established by federal statute, and therefore may be repealed only by federal statute. www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/...

These are the people who are willing to go on the record. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...

This is so alarming. But I have two people of the top of my head that should be investigated: Elon Musk and Melania Trump.

Do you remember when the broadcast networks declined to air primetime speeches by Obama and Biden they deemed too overtly political? Because I do apnews.com/20ccd7a90e43... www.washingtonpost.com/media/2022/0...

“When the German nation was, thanks to the inflation instigated and carried through by Jews, deprived of the entire savings which it had accumulated in years of honest work..when we were divested of the whole of our colonial possessions” Adolf Hitler, 1939 There’s not much difference

No. It’s a great time to be a violent criminal in America. Our most sophisticated law enforcement agencies are busy hunting landscapers & housekeepers.

Full on neo-Nazi conspiracy theories from the president tonight — the very same invasion and replacement conspiracy theories that have fueled a cycle of deadly violence targeting so many communities including immigrants, Jews, Latinos, the Black community, Muslims, and more.

Trump: “One year ago, our country was dead!” The Economist, one year ago: