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Pat Fuller @bannerite.bsky.social

Crime Festers in Republican States While Their Troops Patrol Washington Republican governors who have mustered National Guard troops for deployment in blue-state cities may re-examine their deployments if federal intervention significantly brings crime down. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/u...

sep 1, 2025, 9:49 pm • 21 11

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Mini @minerva-xk.bsky.social

It's important for there to be crime in red states or they will be skeptical, like blue state folks, that crime emergencies exist. Also authoritarians incl governors like crime as long as they have lots and lots of personal protection.

sep 1, 2025, 10:11 pm • 0 0 • view
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Norm @nberlin32.bsky.social

No they won’t.

sep 1, 2025, 9:50 pm • 1 0 • view