Building transportation infrastructure that forces people to drive everywhere at a time when private equity has tossed aside all morality to bankrupt working people ... was bad, as it turns out
The problem is even worse for electric vehicle and luxury car owners, and over half of people think their car is worth more than it really is
Abortion bounties, book bans, forcing families with trans kids to flee their homes: Republicans are building a model of govt that forces people to live and act how conservatives want, enforced by the fear that anyone can be an informant. A Snitch State (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
In Texas and elsewhere, new laws and policies have encouraged neighbors to report neighbors to the government.
thehardtimes.net/culture/poll...
Ohio senator and vice presidential hopeful J.D. Vance is enjoying a high favorability rating from men who misconstrue the routine fulfillment of job duties by bartenders for flirting.
@gregdoucette.bsky.social Cops are great.
"The decision to step down was not related to the murder charges Stines faces, his lawyer said ... The shooting also took place days after Stines was deposed in a federal investigation involving a deputy who pleaded guilty to raping a female prisoner."
State’s governor had threatened to remove the sheriff from office after the shooting, which followed an argument
Using a sample of current and former NYC government officials, I've found that advocacy for "broken windows policing" is uncorrelated with city-wide crime rates, but highly correlated with election crimes among the sample. Weird.
God, we're half a scandal away from the NYT op-ed titled "Is it time for Trump to use the N-word? Some experts say the country is ready for it."
extrajudicial violence is not an example of executive power, and it does not impose *order*. It's extrajudicial violence that imposes fear, destroying accountability and legal recourse, clearing the way for further rights and democratic violations. NO.