Finally MSM reporting this obvious and very relevant fact!
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Finally MSM reporting this obvious and very relevant fact!
Crime Festers in Republican States While Their Troops Patrol Washington www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/u...
JFC, crime is not down, a few weeks is not enough for a statistically significant comparative sample!
It’s idiotic that we didn’t open our borders to Honk Kong refugees when the crackdowns ramped up there a few years ago
Accepting that only Dems have agency and the Right are fragile unaccountable babies. Him indulging that right-wing hack Sean T is a good faith actor and not a Trump supporter is also not great.
+ only time in last 30+ years when crime went up was when Trump was President
Part of massive right-wing bias in media that even liberal pundits insist Dems must accept and indulge right-wing lies. Blue states and cities crime rates are at all time lows and red states have a massively bigger crime problem!
Not to mention crime is consistently highest in the reddest states!
Not to me to mention crime is consistently highest in the reddest states!
Crime is literally lower than it has been in the entire life of every single non-senior-citizen American. If you are under age 65 you have never lived at a time with lower property crime rates, lower violent crime rates or lower homicide rates. Never.
“Nobody cares* that Trump is purging all black ppl from the government” *I don’t care
Abbe Lowell should hire them
Didn’t read it, but hope they didn’t include the false and demobilizing boilerplate line about how this isn’t a partisan issue
This is a partisan issue though, GOP is pro-Epstein/Maxwell
Johnny Drama
MSM has a massive right-wing bias and it’s literally bringing fascism to this country
Ppl who cherry pick the occasional unrepresentative “criminal alien” need to be asked if they think Italian and Jewish immigration to America in the 19th and 20th century was a mistake and net negative
Lankford, like every senator who voted to confirm Kennedy, is a pro-cancer, pro-disease monster
Unreal how the media credulously parrots the ridiculous lie that there can be “stats” showing a drop in crime over a few weeks period
Unreal how the media credulously parrots the ridiculous lie that there can be “stats” showing a drop in crime over a few weeks period
Unreal how the media credulously parrots the ridiculous lie that there can be “stats” showing a drop in crime over a few weeks period
First read this as Marlo from the Wire on Snoop from the Wire
SCOTUS’ right wing hackery could play either way, do what Trump wants or protect Trump from himself. I think odds are 50-50
SCOTUS’ right wing hackery could play either way, do what Trump wants or protect Trump from himself. I think odds are 50-50
Given Zuck personally controls FB for life with his super-voting shares, seems like a good case for piercing corporate veil and holding him personally liable
Iowa Senator Joni Ernst is not seeking reelection in 2026: www.cnn.com/2025/08/29/p... Iowa swung hard to the right starting in 2016, but the 3 special elections that have happened in Iowa so far in 2025 have swung toward Dems by 22, 24, & 26 percentage points. Two seats have flipped blue.
Wow
It's really shocking that the NYT and WaPo have forgotten that Trump is a criminal who freed hundreds of violent cop assailants on his first day on the job. Every Single Story About Crime should lead with that.
Once again begging red state voters who want Dem policies to simply vote Dems into office
Bill Cassidy did this
Incredible how a decade in even the better outlets (and FT is among the best in the MSM) *still* give him the benefit of the doubt are every turn!
No, it’s that corporate America has accepted kleptocratic crony state capitalism
Have you considered the possibility that, like the overwhelming majority of his fellow Republicans, he supports Trump and likes what he’s doing? That’s my, imho very reasonable, assumption
Pretty much anyone can ride a big enough wave
What good were your customer service policies if they led you here?
In 2024, Donald Trump won Iowa’s first state Senate District handily, by 11 points. But in a Tuesday special election, the district swung blue. trib.al/RcZaQD6 The election was the fourth Iowa special election this year, all of which bode poorly for the GOP’s standing.
remember folks, we cant have gun restrictions because if we do the federal government will occupy our streets, imprison people without due process, ship dissidents to foreign gulags and things of that nature
Ditto if actual amount of foreign aid (pre-Trump II) was what people say it *should* be, never mind what they thought it was!
Covid was a major missed opportunity, all essential workers who worked through the shutdowns should’ve been given a fast track to citizenship
HUGE FLIP: Democrat Catelin Drey wins deep-red state Senate seat in Iowa, breaking the GOP's supermajority. Drey won by 11 points in a district Donald Trump carried by 11 points last year. It's another massive overperformance. The Iowa GOP should be very worried for the midterms. Our full writeup:
Hard to convince younger generations, but for decades, Republicans went on and on about how two of the worst things imaginable were (1) state intervention in the market and (2) DC using federal troops against US states; both so bad the people should be ready for armed rebellion in case it happens.
On a more serious note, remember SCOTUS’ fascist majority’s quoting ham sandwich cliche in their smug dismissal of grand jury check when asserting that Trump needs to be above the law
A reminder that this man faced nearly 100 felonies and almost was put away, but the U.S. Supreme Court delayed his reckoning for those alleged crimes and then said presidents are mostly above the law, and tens of millions of voters shrugged, so here we are.
Lost me at “bipartisan” you pathetic self-hating gimps
Yes it can and must be for as long as GOP states are gerrymandering to the max. In facts, that’s the only hope of ever getting a real enforceable national gerrymandering ban. Holier than though unilateral disarmament has brought us fascism.
I loved @vermontgmg.bsky.social's latest piece so much that I asked if I could republish it on The Handbasket and he so generously said yes. If you haven't read it yet, please do. It's essential:
TaRriFfs aRe jUsT a 1-tiME HiT tO pRicE LeVeL (this is the 4th brand new tariff announcement just in last week, by my count)
True, though milquetoast Dems back in power looking to put this behind us and move on for the sake of unity and bipartisanship can very much shield them forever
The prolonged public torturing of a single man because the state cannot admit to its errors is not something that occurs in a free country
If the state constitution is amended to specifically say it’s allowed, don’t see how the Court can possibly stop it.
So do it and at least have it in place for 2028, which is what Hochul is pursuing in NY. Standing pat is unacceptable and throwing us to the fascist wolves.
California has similar issue and they are stepping up and addressing it via a referendum
Can they amend the constitution?
Progress
When I was 12 I was flooded with Snoop singing about murder, drug dealing and treating women like shit (still a fan, btw)
Where are you on redistricting ahead of the midterms? Do you not see the urgency for our democracy?
When is CO going to redistrict ahead of the midterms?
TaRriFfs aRe jUsT a 1-tiME HiT tO pRicE LeVeL (this is the 3rd brand new tariff announcement in last 5 days, by my count)
Footage of Jan 6 should’ve been playing on a loop daily for 6 months in Harris ads
Some needs to mass produce blue “Kamala was right about everything” hats
Not the same, much worse, as this is government-backed and is actually torching the 1st amendment
Tiny margin that the “liberal” media insists was a historic landslide, whereas Biden’s victory by more than twice that margin 4 years earlier was basically a tie the lesson of which was we must defer to Trump voters
Also wonder what this seizing of the means of production means for the 1st amendment rights of the employees
They would love it if POTUS was a white far right racist (not a hypothetical btw, they do love it)
voting for trump got you... - higher prices on many/most goods - big manufacturing job losses - feds deploying military into the streets - the state "taking stakes in" the means of production - natl policy carveouts for gov's allies what would the 2010 tea party say?
Anyone who supports this hates the Constitution, freedom and America itself. Hope Dave Shore and Third Way allow Dems to say this.
Donald Trump berated NBC and ABC as “two of the worst and most biased networks in history,” adding he’d support the FCC in revoking licenses to their television stations.
Tech oligarchs oppose the idea of any supposedly undeserving person getting financial help from the government in 2025. But they want you to believe they’ll give *everyone* free money in the future. It doesn’t make any sense, but it’s the techno-utopian lie they will keep selling.
Somebody get Vance Toland’s “The Last 100 Days”
Perfectly cromulent word
Ok, but the close coordination, recurring calls, off-the-shelf briefs ready to go and etc are pretty specific claims (and fantastic if true!), but there is no tangible support for it anywhere in the article
Hi, I subscribed right after Trump’s 2025 inauguration but my login has literally never worked once and neither have all my many attempts to troubleshoot. Can I please get some assistance?
There’s not a single quote about this effort specifically, all quotes are taken from MSM outlets in other contexts and pretty general, and no, don’t see a single verifiable State action in there about this effort
I see that, but don’t know who that is and how much credibility he has
This sounds great, but no sources are cited and I have no idea who the author is
Did they mention she also exonerated Epstein
JFC, they are all gone, outside of ppl like you resurrecting them just to knock them
Ok, but time to get moving, we’ll see I guess
"He's occupying American cities with our soldiers. He's the kind of tyrant the Founders warned against." Say shit like a normal person!
His pet phrase “people over politics” makes my blood boil, it’s incoherent, dishonest, demobilizing nonsense
Reminds me of the parachute-jumping Christian missionary baby
+ Jeffries’ incoherent, non-sensical, dishonest and demobilizing “people over politics” catchphrase
Happen to be currently traveling through Lombardy, site of famous final “negotiations” with Mussolini
You think in the end Trump will also attempt to have him executed by a fascist mob?
This all sounds great, but who is this writer and what are the sources?
This sounds great, but who is this writer and what is the source ?
i think one issue is that this approach has proven to be a total failure. a partisan who sees the right as morally deficient will have had a better track record at predicting the events of the last few years than someone who is endlessly trying to demonstrate their nuance.
Meanwhile the sitting vice president talks about “Cultural Marxism” and “the Cathedral” and uses esoteric White Power jargon all the time but his language is not a liability
I hear you, but if he pulls off redistricting it’ll be the biggest win against fascism in a while and he’ll deserve the accolades. Other govs need to follow ASAP, even if it’s just one seat here and there
Redistrict now! We need the one additional seat in IL urgently!
I’m generally Team Pritzker, but he needs to catch up on urgent issue of the day, redistricting (yes, I realize it’s just 1 more seat there, but we need it)
The issue is that it’s lawless and arbitrary
I’m unironically with her, she’s locked in and on message. If more Dems were like that Harris would maybe be POTUS now.
In his defense, Cuomo is already finished in Dem politics, certainly if/when he loses this race (again)
You see, the two big problems with Zohran are (1) his affordable housing plan that was the centerpiece of his landslide winning campaign is too radical, and (2) he refuses to talk about affordable housing
… but win because they don’t have a 5th column constantly pumping out this false (well, accurate in their case) narrative about themselves
you cannot police what random ppl not at all affiliated with the party say, it’s impossible. So what this scolding is actually doing is reinforcing the false narrative that Dems say these things. Actual GOP leaders say far worse, from Trump on down…
Ok, but the point is that Dem politicians do not actually say these things you all keep begging them to stop saying
This example did not involve a Dem politician using the term
Was this professor a Dem politician?