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I was incarcerated for 11 years but was 100 days away from serving 22. I was arrested right before Truth in Sentencing was passed. Had that law applied to me, I wouldn't be a professor today or have a family. Now, these laws are making a comeback. Read more here theconversation.com/states-that-...

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Including explicitly race-neutral programs that could still advance equity and diversity... because our government is opposed to those values now? www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/o...

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NOTICE: All news media stories containing statements from the Federal government and the White House now mean nothing. It's all propaganda. www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

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What was that movie called? I fell asleep watching a film. Now I can't recall the title. A poltical thriller, Russian bots tricked Americans into electing a convicted felon as president. The U.S. government was then run by clowns who betrayed our allies and eroded law & order. What was that title?

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Don't look away 👀

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How about Option 3? Round all prices to even dollars and just stop making coins. Any coins. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/u...

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They keep telling us... www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

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I'm sure once the MAGA folks read up on biology and the science of human development, they'll apologize for having used sex and gender as a divisive political tactic. Right? www.sciencenews.org/article/biol...

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Is it still appropriate to call the U.S. national government the "Administration?" I know that we've used that word for 200 years, but is it still accurate? Are our elected officials actually "administering" the government?

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Just got an official email from DOJ prohibiting us from asking about "gender" on surveys, limiting questions to the biological designations of male or female. OK then, since "race" is also not biological but rather a socio-political construct, we'll be dropping that from federal data too, right?

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I hope everyone does this

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done

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When a young person tells me they plan to apply to law school in the U.S., the first thing I say: Do not apply to Harvard, Yale, or any of those elite, private schools. They are investment fund managers using students and professors as reputational marketing tools.

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I'm old enough to have watched U.S. politics since JFK to LBJ to Nixon. I always suspected the GOP was faking patriotism & religous faith just to gain power from their ignorant/racist voters. Now, watching Bush, Quayle, Paul Ryan, et al. say and do nothing, I am quite certain I was right all along.

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@vitalcitynyc.bsky.social asked me what I thought about the role of research in public safety. So, I told em... www.vitalcitynyc.org/articles/bet...

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Thousands of U.S. Government Web Pages Have Been Taken Down Since Friday www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/u...

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Greeting an out-of-town visitor in the lobby of my office building this morning. As we waited for the elevator, I was saying there were a lot of CBS offices here & I often see famous people. "Really, wow," she said. Just then, the elevator door opens and John Oliver walks out, saying "yeah."

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Remember how we used to feel safe because we didn't live in a place like Russia or Iran? I miss that feeling. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/b...

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So, the memo that disrupted the entire country was never vetted by the White House... Project 2025? “Trump officials have never seen this document before and it’s pretty apparent it was generated before Trump was in office,” Cauley wrote to me in a text message." www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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Should cities spend $$$ on police or social services if reducing crime is the goal? I summarize the research on this question in this now-un-paywalled article. www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

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Reading this book. It describes early 20th Century efforts of rich industrialists and accommodating government officials to keep the working class poor by breaking unions & using obscenity laws to restrict access to birth control & sustain the supply of workers. Can you imagine living through that?

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OK, but other than that, how are we doing? www.nytimes.com/2025/01/26/u...

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The Jan6 pardons combined with his revocation of security details for some of his own former appointees really seem like Putin moves.

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I read this when I was 12 years old. I wish all American 12-year-olds had been required to read and discuss it.

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NY Post describes a "deluge" of people evading subway fares in NYC by hopping the pathetically ineffective turnstiles -- "10 in under tree hours"!! Haha, that's a trickle, not a deluge. I usually see 2 or 3 in the 20 seconds it takes me to walk 30 feet to the turnstiles. nypost.com/2025/01/17/u...

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Trump advisers begin to meet in Washington, DC.

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Told my wife I would buy milk on my walk home. But, as I was about to go into the store, Louis & Duke's "Mood Indigo" started up on my earbuds. ... I can buy milk tomorrow.

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Similar to our report from almost 7 years ago. Important to say it's not just Trump & other performative "conservatives" who perpetuate biased images of "urban" gun violence. Liberals do it too when they compile numbers from just those cities big enough to report data. johnjayrec.nyc/2018/05/24/d...

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Gee, it almost seems like there are things we could do to reduce firearm deaths. Who knew?

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See? You left-wingers who always criticize our criminal justice system for its class- and race-based biases, this proves that... Um, wait, never mind. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/01...

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JOB! NYC Office of Neighborhood Safety: Assoc Director for Community Activation. Manage the $86 million portfolio of street outreach, hospital violence intervention, & wraparound programs, known here as the Crisis Management System (CMS). Pays up to $180K cityjobs.nyc.gov/job/associat...

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Well, sure. Because who better to detect disinformation than purveyors of disinformation? www.nytimes.com/2025/01/07/b...

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It can be rewarding to awake before 6 a.m. in New York and open Bluesky, as it is several hours of European posts at that time.

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The President-Elect's upcoming criminal sentence for 34 felonies won't include any prison time. So, we're good, right? Proud to be an American.

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It’s early but the photo of the year contest is closed.

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Attn crime & justice research folks: Welcome NIJ Director Nancy La Vigne to Bluesky @nancylavigne.bsky.social

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I had an opportunity to tour the New York State Capitol a couple of weeks ago. youtu.be/6n66LY8A1Bk

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Saw the Shirley Chisholm exhibit at the Museum of the City of New York yesterday. I will keep this quote in mind over the next 4 years.

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The death of President Carter, the first president I ever voted for, makes me think about spans of time. It amazes me that when I was a little kid, the oldest people I knew were born in the late 1800s, while many little kids I know today will live to see the early 2100s.

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See? We enjoy a lot of nature in New York City. Hunting and whatnot ... www.nytimes.com/2024/12/23/n...

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