Patrick Habecker
@seloriste.bsky.social
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sociology, fiction, history, research methods, substance use research, and other random things
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seloriste.bsky.social
This would be an excellent addition!
seloriste.bsky.social
This books was absolutely fantastic. Tripping on Utopia by Benjamin Breen. Loved all the suggested next reads at the end too.
Photo of the cover of the book titled Tripping on Utopia by Benjamin Breen
seloriste.bsky.social
Yeah the other characters kept me along more than MC
seloriste.bsky.social
Quite useful
sanho.bsky.social
I had the privilege of briefing dozens of Congressional staffers on Friday about Trump’s extrajudicial killings in the Caribbean. Thanks to the Progressive Caucus Action Fund for sponsoring the forum. You can watch my part of the event here:
My briefing to Congressional staffers about Trump’s Venezuela boat strikes
YouTube video by SKT DCA
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jeremymberg.bsky.social
Here is NIDA

They were relatively effective in maintaining R01 numbers with little or no multi-year funding, but substantially increased UG1, UG3, and U24 cooperative agreements.

11/n
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mguariglia.bsky.social
I spent the week at the police surveillance convention and let me tell you my biggest observation: The name of the game now is consolidating as much information as humanely possible from surveillance devices, the internet, other governmental data, and literally a million other places. 🧵
seloriste.bsky.social
Great piece on underreporting of overdose deaths in Nebraska.
flatwaterfreep.bsky.social
A new FFP investigation: Nebraska undercounts the number of people who die of drug overdoses, say state officials, experts and a first-of-its-kind Flatwater Free Press analysis. We’re dying blind. It’s costing us money, and lives. 🔗 buff.ly/WFcUih3
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erikloomis.bsky.social
This Day in Labor History: September 10, 1897. Luzerne County sheriff deputies slaughtered 19 unarmed immigrant coal miners striking outside of Hazleton, Pennsylvania. Let's talk about the Lattimer Massacre, one of the many uses of state violence against striking workers!
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sanho.bsky.social
“The rejection is at least the eighth time in the last month a grand jury has declined to charge felonies sought by US Attorney Jeannine Pirro’s office.“

Don’t try to shirk jury duty. We need you now more than ever!
jordanonrecord.bsky.social
BREAKING: A grand jury has REJECTED charges against D.C. attorney Paul Bryant, a West Point grad accused of assaulting and threatening to kill National Guardsmen.

Easily the most serious charges to get no true billed so far during the federal surge.
www.wusa9.com/article/news...
Grand jury rejects charges against DC lawyer accused of assaulting, threatening National Guard
Prosecutors accused Paul Anthony Bryant of assaulting and yelling threatening statements at members of the National Guard in D.C. as part of President Trump's surge.
www.wusa9.com
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colinwoodard.bsky.social
Took advantage of the summer lull to run the final, official tallies of the 2024 US prez election -- including Alaska this time -- through the #AmericanNations model. Bottom line: despite the astronomical stakes, it was very much like two elections before it.

www.nationhoodlab.org/the-2024-pre...
The 2024 Presidential Election and the American Nations, updated
An updated regional breakdown of the last US election to include Alaska results and the final results for greater New York City and beyond
www.nationhoodlab.org
seloriste.bsky.social
Local library had 6/8 of the Le Guin prize nominees for 2025 (they were all excellent), but now I need to figure out where to get the last two.

www.ursulakleguin.com/prize25
Ursula K. Le Guin — 2025 Prize for Fiction
www.ursulakleguin.com
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johnpfaff.bsky.social
It’s wild, absolutely wild, how for EVERY. SINGLE. CITY. Trump wants to militarize I can post data showing how crime is plummeting in all of them without any federal invasion…

… and the press KEEPS stenographing the naked bad-faith claims about “fighting crime!” in the headlines.

Infuriating.
johnpfaff.bsky.social
Giant YTD drops in Chicago for basically all crimes.

Huge 4-reductions in Chicago for all violence. Murders are down FIFTY PERCENT.

Property crimes are dropping, tho still higher than before. But MRAPs don’t stop theft.

This is all pretext. Yet the WaPo subhed frames it as a “crime” issue.
CPD CompStat showing huge drops.
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jessicacalarco.com
The argument here is that, unlike Right-leaning institutions, Left-leaning institutions have put professional identity and status ahead of values and ideology, and thus failed to socialize and cultivate the next generation of Left-wing political leaders.

I see a lot of truth in this, but I'd add...
"There is no parallel culture [of socialization and cultivation of talent] in American liberalism - a function, in part, of liberalism's longtime intellectual dominance. There wasn't much of a need for liberal donors to create programs to cultivate liberal thought, as people interested could simply go get a PhD or an entry-level reporting job. 

"However, these institutions were not avowedly liberal in character. They styled themselves as politically neutral, focused more on quality research and reporting, than as contributing to a particular ideological cause. This means that while liberals in such fields were in left-leaning environments, many were trained to see themselves primarily as professionals working on a craft. So while there are plenty of internships avaliable for young liberals, they're mostly focused on professional training (or coffee-fetching) rather than staying up late swapping ideas with big names. 

"More broadly, the liberal professional approach also produced a kind of intellectual siloing. If you were a young liberal interested in political philosophy, odds are that you end up going to a PhD program and pursuing a career in academia. If you're interested in policy, odds are  that you ended up studying set of applied skills (like law or economics) that prepared you for very specific policy discussions in your area of expertise. 

"But the conservative intellectual model bridges the philosophy-policy gap. It trains young people in the big-picture ideas, like conservative visions of political morality and religion, and teaches them to connect those things to everyday policy discussions.  You aren't learning about abstract ideas or concrete policy, but rather learning a comprehensive worldview that treats policy issues as downstream of specific values."
seloriste.bsky.social
Firefox on mobile supports ad and tracker plug-ins.
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jenniferdoleac.bsky.social
I spent last week in Sydney, giving a keynote on how to reduce recidivism (that should be online soon!) and then talking with a variety of researchers, practitioners, and lawmakers about what works to improve public safety. I learned a ton and am grateful to everyone who spent time chatting with me!
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angierasmussen.bsky.social
We just published an excellent commentary in Vaccine by @gavinyamey.bsky.social & Chris Beyrer breaking down how the current regime is laying waste to US vaccination programs & what we can do about it:
✅Congress must withdraw support for RFK Jr
✅Speak up...loudly
✅Study anti-vax movements
✅VOTE
seloriste.bsky.social
That is a great graph.
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covertshores.bsky.social
Ok, for each retweet I’ll provide one insight, fact, or opinion on unconventional naval warfare, like submarines, explosive boats, special forces or crazy ideas

0/n 🧵
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wrigleyfield.bsky.social
Very good essay

"Encountering a cop on the street might mean you are encountering a criminal and encountering an armed, masked man might mean you are encountering a cop. The line is blurry.

This blurriness between real and fake is the defining characteristic of the moment."
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scott-delaney.bsky.social
By most measures (suicide, depression, anxiety), U.S. mental health is deteriorating. Bad time to demolish our mental health infrastructure.

In a new preprint, @albeccia.bsky.social et al survey the damage from recent mental health grant cuts at NIH & SAMHSA.

Check it out: doi.org/10.1101/2025...