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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.
December 23, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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counterpoint: nothing you post on any social media platform will in any way combat the dangerousness of the right
IMO it's hard to combat the dangerousness of the right by participating in a platform where they aren't present.
I think the best way to explain the X vs Bluesky preference is whether a person thinks the left is more annoying than the right is dangerous.

The reason so many Noah Smiths end up on the X side of that equation is that while the left annoys them personally, the right mostly endangers other people.
December 15, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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December 8, 2024 at 4:08 PM
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My favourite Baldwin video:
November 28, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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"My mentor always tells me, 'Kim, dogs don’t bark at parked cars." They’re coming after critical race theory, 1619, intersectionality because these ideas mobilized people. They gave them the language to actually articulate what they were seeing with their own eyes," says Kimberlé Crenshaw.
November 25, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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Small Yorkie dog ate the four sticks of butter acquired for Thanksgiving cooking. Yorkie proceeded to be extremely greasy all over, seemingly extruding the butter through her fur, for *three full weeks*!
November 25, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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James Baldwin: "The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality."
November 13, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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70% of working age SNAP recipients work full time. The companies should pay them a living wage! SNAP is corporate welfare.
May I present a former clerk to Justice Gorsuch.
October 26, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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Reminder that Violent J of Insane Clown Posse has the correct response to a lot of the shitty things he said in the early days.
October 21, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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The reality of Kavanaugh stops: American citizens dragged, tackled, beaten, tased, and shot by immigration agents. Citizens held in the rain while in their underwear. A pregnant citizen's door blown off while Kristi Noem watched. Important story by @nicolefoy.bsky.social of @propublica.org
October 16, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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you should read the Bible because if nothing else it will give you a very full set of language to talk about religious hypocrites and the iniquity of the rich and powerful
we are whiting more sepulchers than ever! and tithes of mint, dill, and cumin are all up!
these metrics are not meaningfully connected to the claim
October 16, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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There are, of course, ways to save money in this business. Many US clothing factories run on what's known as a "piece rate" system, where workers are paid per operation, not by the hour. This system allows factories to skirt minimum wage laws.

It's also how we get US sweatshops
October 12, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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Mark Kelly: “lf you are undocumented in our country, you cannot get healthcare from the Affordable Care Act exchange. You are not eligible for Medicare. You are not eligible for Medicaid. They’re just making that up. They just like to blame brown people.”
October 4, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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What's your favorite Bluesky account that primarily posts about something other than current events/politics?
October 1, 2025 at 4:24 AM
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working on a new unified theory of american reality i'm calling "everyone is twelve now"
September 8, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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September 27, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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Harry Kane becomes the fastest player to reach a century of goals for a club in the top five leagues since 1992.

Two goals against Werder Bremen this evening secured the record for the Bayern Munich striker.

He now has 15 goals in just eight appearances this season.
September 26, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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Secure Dark Web Evidence Capture Guide

A detailed guide to setting up a VM and Tor, as well as automating investigations on the #darknet by OSINTtechniques

www.forensicosint.com/tor

#osint
September 23, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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Where the separate divisions of ANTIFA landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944:
September 18, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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Too bad the GOP effectively criminalized studying how information moves online and news orgs laid off and demonized all the reporters who covered the burgeoning online accelerationist performative death cults. All of that work was somehow "censorship" that needed to be stopped. Now we're here.
September 12, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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Can't be said enough that "Abundance" is a right-wing propaganda effort to rebrand standard slash-and-burn deregulation as savvy liberal politics. One tell is their many, many ties to the Koch propaganda networks, like FAI.

Here's more about FAI: www.inc.com/nancy-scola/...
At the House Natural Resources hearing, the Foundation of American Innovation's Thomas Hochman let it slip: constraining NEPA is about powering AI datacenters to fuel Silicon Valley's latest bubble.

Hochman was a speaker at last week's abundance conference, and FAI was a co-host
September 10, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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"Given the crimes Epstein was convicted of, I steeled myself before scrolling. Somehow, my internet-addled imagination failed me. This book is a nightmare." www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
You Really Need to See Epstein’s Birthday Book for Yourself
This time, the conspiracy theorists were right.
www.theatlantic.com
September 10, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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Today’s Supreme Court ruling is just more proof that no matter what’s in the constitution, code, or regulations, the bottom line is this: the law is what powerful people say it is
September 8, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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I just love capitalism.*

* The government paying private companies to perform a government function and then on top of that giving them a financial incentive to perform it maliciously and harm people.
What a cursed sentence (gift link)

“The A.I. companies selected to oversee the program would have a strong financial incentive to deny claims. Medicare plans to pay them a share of the savings generated from rejections.”
Medicare Will Require Prior Approval for Certain Procedures
www.nytimes.com
August 29, 2025 at 1:08 PM