Jeremy B Jones

Why you might not know that 2024 was America's safest year since the 1960s An overwhelming majority of Americans, 64 percent, believe that crime increased across the country in 2024, according to a Gallup survey conducted late last year.

1. This week, the FBI released its comprehensive crime report for 2024, which revealed that both VIOLENT CRIME and PROPERTY CRIME reached their LOWEST LEVELS SINCE THE 1960s

This a massive story. But you might not have heard about it, even if you follow the news closely.

Here's why.

this work saved millions of lives in 2021, won the Nobel Prize in 2023, and is cancelled in 2025

Good week for world-class authors who happen to live nearby

An excerpt fron @thejeremybjones.bsky.social ‘s forthcoming book is on @longreads.com & @annettesclapsaddle.bsky.social’s Even As We Breathe was named the One Book for West Virginia.

An embarrassment of literary riches around here

Book review: An uncensored, unexpurgated version of American life two centuries ago One of my true joys is finding a good book and reading it slowly. A few pages at a time. Savoring it. Making it last. I obtained an early edition of “Cipher - Decoding My Ancestor’s Scandalous Secret ...

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When Blossom landed on Jeopardy, the fulfillment of the prophecy began. It cannot be undone.

A guy whose fraudulent university was shut down is telling the Ivy League what to do.

A guy whose businesses went bankrupt multiple times is telling the Fed what to do.

A guy whose best friend was a child sex trafficker is telling the DOJ what to do.

That it’s all the same guy is pretty wild.

The job market is showing signs of weakness as Trump's tariffs take effect U.S. employers added just 73,000 jobs in July, according to a report from the Labor Department Friday, as the unemployment rate inched up to 4.2%. Job gains for May and June were also revised sharply ...

Today's jobs report shows 24,000 factory jobs lost in the past three months.

Trump’s first term brought a manufacturing recession. Now his reckless tariffs are making Americans worse off, again.

Hey, academics – are you ready for Reply All season? Just around the corner

They ended cancer research for this.

Cracking the Family Codes - Longreads A stash of encrypted diaries raises questions about the secrets we carry, and how they are revealed.

"William is the history: a key to what’s inside me, to where I’m from. My cipher." New on @Longreads.com: An excerpt from @thejeremybjones.bsky.social's forthcoming memoir about his ancestor's encrypted diaries, and how the secrets we carry are revealed longreads.com/2025/07/31/c...

Exhibit 790

Exhibit 789 of “if Joe Biden has done this there would’ve been wall-to-wall coverage for weeks”

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Normalize saying “thank you for your service” to park rangers

One of the things about JD Vance is that he is completely 100% aware that what he is doing is evil and has made a deliberate, conscious choice to do evil to get power. He’s not self-deluded or dumb. He hasn’t drunk Kool-Aid. He’s decided to do evil for power.

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Oracle territory

YouTube video by Ambrose Chamberpot The Good Place Inaction

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Was consumed all day at work by the fact that trump tweeted "UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER!" at Iran, which from any normal president would be hugely consequential and it wasn't even a story because the media has just sort of deformed itself into nihilistic acceptance of the fact that he's insane

I just had a bowl of cereal for lunch. I am 43 years old.

So the guy who can singlehandedly set US tariffs on smartphones is launching his own US smartphone company do I have that right

I just don’t know what we do when half the country consume this “news” source and nothing else

An explosion just shook my house. According to online posts, it was a tannerite gender reveal.

We’re doomed.

Here’s a video of Trump where he proudly killed President Obama’s nuclear Iran deal as war breaks out in the Middle East.

All the people I still know in LA laugh and laugh when they hear that "Los Angeles is burning." I made a couple of maps to show just how tiny and localized the protests are. GOPers are working really hard to make an excuse for declaring martial law. People should be very wary of that.