Trump pulled a lot of funding for programs like COPS that put more officers to work and reduce violent crime by engaging with at risk people. But cities like Baltimore and Chicago are getting their violent crime rates down in spite of Trump turning his back on them.
And she so readily accepts that National Guard troops are affecting the rate of carjackings in ways other than there are less people are going out because the federal takeover makes them feel unsafe.
DOTs love to point out that if people have to slow down to make a turn, it could cause a rear end collision, which of course is far worse than a collision between a car and a person.
He's atrociously bad. This could be used in high schools to illustrate how people attempt to argue when they have nothing.
The wishes of most big towns and cities is just erased. We need some sort of a proportional representation system.
So any paved street is gentrification.
I can't figure out if that question was to purposely set him up for that response or if it was sincere.
Nobody elected Trump and Vance to set interest rates.
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Many in the 55% only "somewhat" support the Guard "assisting" police. No definition of "assisting," and it does not include assistng ICE or fed agents. Not much to go on. Also, pretending that Trump is doing this to combat crime is unethical.
Looking at the poll, the largest group of respondents are: High school grads (no college), over 60, Republicans, in the south, in suburbs, white, Protestant. Crime being a strength for Trump is a fabrication of the headline writers. Not from the poll.
People are so stupid they think this about crime?
Chicago successfully got its murder rate down to a level not seen since the 1960s. Baltimore is also having great success using federal programs that Trump ended funding for. You're absolutely right. If Republicans will lie so brazenly about this, what comes next? This could not be more Orwellian.
Illinois is winning. Democratic run states will help defeat fascism if enough other people do their part.
That is a good reminder that cities are overwhelmingly Democratic in all states. Cities in Republican states suffer from more and more meddling by state governments, and tend to have worse social programs which is not good for crime.
She asks the question as if the current deployment of Guard troops to cities might be for legitimate reasons. Yes, it gave Moore an opportunity to explain how horrible it is, but the media need to do a much better job of framing these issues.
Not just down, but down to 1960s levels.
Yeah, there is a big difference between walking around looking bored and taking part in the Holocaust. I don't think National Guard troops are the enemy here. I hope it stays that way.
Wow, even the Economist thinks concerns about sewer capacity are valid. And the choice is between unsustainable sprawl and "New York." And I'll add that not respecting feeling is mutual.
They are worried about ICC looking into how they sent people to El Salvador to be tortured.
Except that actually a serious person.
It reminds me of the scene in Severance where a grown man has a twelve year old manager.
And we will throw that bottle right in Hudson Bay.
When my fifth grade son had a field trip to DC they stopped at Union Station for lunch, and the kids went off to wherever they wanted to get food. I thought it was a great place to build independence by getting lunch on your own. It was the highlight of the trip for him. More than the museum.
What on earth is a National Guard person going to do with an unhoused person? Give them a home?
Republicans also say making it easier to vote is a power grab.
Not by the choice of more than 40 percent of voters. That's millions and millions of people. People in red states are fighting on the front lines to save our democracy. They deserve support.
It's a good couple of days for Democratic lawmakers to take up skydiving, whitewater rafting and spend time at a nudist only resort.
Democrats are probably less organized and engaged. Turnout is everything. I bet if they knew the numbers they would feel less hopeless and get out the vote.
If you live in a town, you are likely a tower of blue, not just a dot. I'd like to see some 3D maps that show how population centers are (more likey than not) Democratic, red state or blue.
When advocating for safe bike infrastructure don't get bogged down in back and forths with bad faith arguers. Focus on positives and stories, not just stastistics. Talk about children and the future.
I've done that dance
He had better be ready to follow through. I don't want any bluffing at this stage in the game.
Most people already don't use AI.
People in red states have been on the front lines in the fight for our democracy for years. Blue state legislatures need to realize the national power they have now and exercise it.
Is this something they are really just figuring out? They aren't "warning" anybody because everybody has known for a long time what's happening.
Traveling to be seen is certainly nothing new. These people were needed a hundred years ago so they could die for Poirot and Agatha Christie mysteries.
Sewage should be higher on the list. And do they really need to use a snake vilifying graphic?
Does this idiot not know that every goddamned ethnic group brought their language, food and culture here and were often accused by the white Anglo-Saxon power structure of failing (or being unable to) assimilate?
Natalia Molano, the State Department spokesperson who claims the US is not responsible for these people's torture in CECOT knows perfectly well they were to be brutalized there. She knows they were sent there on flimsy pretexts with the real reason being a show of propaganda for the regime.
Tricia McLaughlin said people are criminals by virtue of being undocumented, so to be clear, they are calling all undocumented people an existential threat that needs to be hunted down.
The black screening you put up that said "Bonifant is open for business" completely obscured businesses like Cafe via Roma. Deliveries couldn't find them. Customers couldn't find them.
As a student renter in a college town I got the snotty "Do you pay taxes here?" a couple of times, as if people don't know where landlords get their property tax money from.
Me too. And automakers push larger cars on us because they make more money, not just because we have peculiar tastes. If they pushed smaller cars, people would buy more smaller cars.
I can't believe the county sidewalk program even used that wording in their letter. They need to just say residents objected to making it easier to walk.
If my doctor recommended an operation, and I said no because of [unfounded reasons], she would explain how these reasons are unfounded instead of just "whelp, he's afraid of rickets, guess we won't operate."
Why do so many Canadians like Poilievre? Why does Australia have migrant detention centers with human rights issues? Right wing parties are doing well in Europe. Italy? Brexit? They might want to check themselves and just let you enjoy your vacation.
I think people from Maryland are more afraid of winter than their own oppresive summers.
It's the constant guessing what track it will be and hopefully getting in the right line with other people who are also just guessing. The food is more expensive than Penn too, but I always get something from Threes Brewing for the road.
A mix of fear, race/classism stewing in misinformation. They're convinced their houses will be given to developers. They keep saying: But I need to drive, bus stop is too far away, not everyone can bike, as if the plan is to prevent driving. Yet two lanes from Wheaton to Denis is working just fine.
Ridiculously oversized pickup trucks? What do they weigh?
It says a lot about our society and prison system when it's said it might be surprising that prison staff would support not torturing people.
Republicans are truly broken.
Prisons are not jobs programs.
It doesn't even stop in Madison and still hits those numbers.
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The US and UK militaries have a very long history of men dressing as women for entertainment. I did it back in the eighties on a US Navy ship.
Yeah, I voted for Harris too.
It is nice having so much in walking distance, letting kids run free, and no cars
In many cases, that space we are "taking from cars," should never have been given to cars in the first place, and is really just being returned to pedestrians in the form of giving them back wider sidewalks and buffers between people and fast moving cars.
For oldhead bus riders like me, Better Bus means redrawing our mental maps so we can relearn how to reach the places we’re already going. We'll get over it, eventually
She saw a documentary about droids who know the binary language of moisture vaporators so can work the back forty of moisture farms.
Yes, and there are not blue states as much as states where the electoral votes happened to go Democratic.
No one should feel superior because they live in a blue state. They should feel lucky that they won't have a close election and be supporting the people fighting on the front lines for our democracy in red states.
Over 4.5 million Harris voters in Florida, about 42% of the voters. So, yeah, lots of people fighting for democracy. This needs to be better understood by the rest of the country.
It amazes me that auto designers purposely removed knobs, knowing that it would force people to take their eyes off the road to perform quick, simple tasks.
And most areas in the US don't see being best as even something to strive for. They are busy appeasing nimbys and not upsetting motorists.
Visiting Philly now and (like tons of other people), using the bus a lot. All these human sized streets would not work well with massive transit cuts.
And like you say, they don't see swamps as beautiful, ecologically sensitive places and alligators as endangered (or pythons as invasive but not agressive to people), but places to exploit and taunt people with. Democrats should get on this.
Alligator attacks are extremely rare in South Carolina. She is cruel and petty, but also dumb.
A stunning number of commenters here don't seem to realize there are just about five million Democratic voters in Florida.
They plan to play a lot of croquet in their spare time.
It's radical if the successful town owned grocery stores in Kansas that exist to fight food deserts are radical. Wisconsin planning one too. Radical midwesterners.
Seniors don't know about this and don't want it.
I can't believe they're not actively seeking a Four Corners location.
There are a heck of a lot more towns that need revitalizing. It only makes sense.
And one is opening in Madison this year. They clearly serve a purpose.
Small towns in Kansas have them to combat food deserts. Other midwest cities are planning them. It's silly to think trying them out in New York is somehow weird or unsavory.
The crybaby entitlement of these powerful wealthy victims is something to behold.
I think it's silly. Look out for that cyclist! Well, aren't you making assumptions.
The bomber crews could not care less about any of this. It has nothing to do with them.
To be fair, a lot of people call scooters mopeds.
As a suburbanite, this is a constant battle.
Does he realize he is calling Democrats the elite of Oklahoma?
Red state cities are generally heavily Democratic so that representation might not be GOP. Gerrymandering doesn't help though.
That is a detention facility. And how can people be detained for days with no beds? This place clearly needs oversight. Joyce is abusing people and refusing to allow Congress to perform their oversight function.
Cruz just couldn't say that Putin started his war. It would have been so easy, but he couldn't say it.
It's amazing so many were used by 1975 that they needed to be banned. I probably saw my first one in the eighties. And my first loud ones when we moved here.
How on Earth did life exist in the seventies without these stupid things? They're loud, damage soil, and cause air pollution. And why do people get the idea that every stray leaf needs to be taken care of? Because we have these magnificent tools and must use them? None of this makes sense.
I just saw this. Love the atmosphere, and that rabbit. My Star Wars obsessed son said Dad, did you know Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee were friends? Perfect cue to watch some old horror with him.
Trump stated very clearly that he wanted to deport people here legally like the Haitians that revitalized small towns in the midwest. He kept repeating it.
Okay, that's rural. And I know words like rural and suburban, etc. mean whatever people want them to mean, but isn't pretty much every college town rural if we define it by the countryside outside of town?
Do they really want me to get in a car and fight for parking in a congested "commercial center" instead of walking to a cafe in the first floor of a small apartment building on a nearby arterial street just to sit with a cup of coffee?
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Was there anything indicating that the people manhandling Lander were cops or ICE agents?
So, after watching the Brad Lander / ICE video... again we have a very very clear instance of ice doing something completely unlawful on camera. Obviously this is outside qualified immunity because they have no good faith reason to believe that what they're doing is legal.
And also staying out of restaurants and hotels...
Wheels and little heads will roll.