Jeffrey Butts

YouTube video by Randy Rainbow It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like F This - A Randy Rainbow Song Parody

The holidays are here!
(actual song starts at 2:40 in...)
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Chart from Pew Research Center showing that, by a variety of measures, young adults in the United States are less religious than their elders.

"On average, young adults remain much less religious than older Americans. Today’s young adults also are less religious than young people were a decade ago. And there is no indication that young men are converting to Christianity in large numbers." www.pewresearch.org/religion/202...

George Retes is an American citizen and veteran who was unjustly pepper-sprayed, arrested, and imprisoned for three days by ICE.

Yet he won't be intimidated by this lawless administration. He's speaking up and telling his story as part of a new $250k @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social campaign. 👇

YouTube video by Jeffrey A. Butts 2025 Holiday Greetings from NYC

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YouTube video by MS NOW What happens when billionaires try to take over politics? 'Revolt' and 'civil war': Elson warns

Really important.
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YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert "Join ICE" - Jesse Welles (LIVE on The Late Show)

new favorite song
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This guy owns Time Magazine. One more thing I never have to buy or read again.

Here's something Trump did that I like. At VP Cheney's funeral, it is truly comforting to see Biden, Bush, Gore, Harris, & Pence set aside any political differences to celebrate Cheney & his family with kindness and humor. Trump wasn't invited. His extremism highlights what remains of our culture.

Us and Them On this episode of Us & Them, host Trey Kay and his guest, Jeffrey Butts, consider what data really tell us about the level of violence in our country.

I appeared on this public radio podcast to discuss how politicians use, and more often misuse, crime data.
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Floyd Dark Side

Agree. But then, I'm even more of a curmudgeon.

hey! shush ... all deadlines are flexible, we have to adhere to that as a core principle

How NYC’s Next Mayor Can Lead on Public Safety and Justice Reform  Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani can improve New Yorkers’ well-being by prioritizing proven crime-prevention policies.

Here are the proven crime-prevention policies that NYC Mayor-elect Mamdani can implement in order to improve life for all New Yorkers: bit.ly/47nKnLO

🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

Exactly.

"Just because President Trump has an idea, the Democrat Party’s visceral reaction is just to say no,” Scalise said during a press conference last week.

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Wow

A few hours following publication, the Times of London got rid of the article “after discovering that our reporter had been misled by an individual falsely claiming to be the former New York mayor,” per a statement from the newspaper obtained by the Times.

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Bail reforms have led to less recidivism, report finds — Queens Daily Eagle Recidivism and re-arrest frequency for people charged with nearly all crimes have significantly declined in the five years since cash bail was prohibited for misdemeanors and nonviolent felonies, a ne...

I admire my John Jay College colleagues who dream that elected officials will support public safety policies that actually improve public safety, rather than simply using public safety to play election games. I share their dream, but I've also been awake a long time.
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crowd gathering

We're ready.

the policy clearly depends on who exactly is triggered

Rutgers professor flees U.S. for Spain, claims he received death threats Mark Bray said his views have been under attack since he wrote "Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Playbook"

Rutgers professor flees U.S. for Spain, claims he received death threats - CBS New York share.google/EKIqo50ugecM...

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Join our interdisciplinary consortium of cybercrime researchers for your PhD journey!

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We look forward to your applications! #EconSky

YouTube video by MSNBC Lawrence: Trump reveals he’s considering pardoning convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell

Wow.

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Here's my radical note to bureaucracies providing something of value (e.g., healthcare, insurance, finance). Please test the efficacy of your client communication. Do people understand the information? Do they read it all? Does it avoid useless jargon and prevent error? If not, who are you serving?

YouTube video by MSNBC ‘Acting like jack booted thugs’: Gov. JB Pritzker slams Trump’s Chicago military deployment 

I once lived in Chicago. The Governor makes me want to go back.
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Opinion | The Comey Indictment Plunges the Country Into a Grave New Period

If America really does come to an end, this will be a key chapter in the official history.

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Amazon to Pay $2.5 Billion to Settle Claims It Tricked Prime Customers

Wait. So Amazon has to pay $2.5B for using misleading info to entice customers into signing up for something online, and then making it difficult or confusing to cancel it? Um, hello, most other online businesses... and newspapers!

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playbill image, Waiting for Godot

Seeing Bill & Ted's Excellent Beckett this evening.

YouTube video by MSNBC 'Unconscionably irreconcilable': Justice Sotomayor RIPS colleagues in fiery dissent

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I'll promise to stop posting snarky criticisms of his ignorant behavior if he'll name me Ambassador to New Zealand. Or Norway. Yeah, I'd also take Norway.

When people say crime is a big problem, are they really talking about crime? Sometimes, but not always

Polls show most Americans think crime is rising because 'crime' is a catch-all term. But, there are dozens of evidence-based ways to reduce disorder and fight crime, and many of the most effective approaches do not involve the police. open.substack.com/pub/johnkrom...