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Michael Leo Owens

@milophd.bsky.social

A pluviophile, melomaniac, gardener, karaoke fiend, & academic, punching above his weight in any ring and on any street. Atlantan by labor; New Yorker by birth. Coauthor of Deadly Force: Police Shootings in Urban America (Princeton University Press, 2025).

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Like… Just turn off the lights, close the doors, and exit as you hand ALL the keys to the Capitol to Tyrantosaurus Vex. It’d be more dignified and make more sense than the utter cravenness the WHOLE world is watching.

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Has the US Congress EVER been so useless to America?

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Supreme Court Declines to Hear Hamdi Mohamud’s Case Against St. Paul Officer Who Framed Her - Institute for Justice Today, the U.S. Supreme Court deniedΒ a petition for certiorari filed by the Institute for Justice (IJ) on behalf of Hamdi Mohamud. The petition asked the […]

St Paul Police informant attacks group of random teen girls w a knife, cop arrives & realizes arresting him would ruin a case he's supposed to testify in so they arrest the girls instead. Judge finds the same cop framed at least 30 other people but they receive no punishment. ij.org/press-releas...

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ICE under Trump 2.0 built an unprecedented media operation - deploying videographers to raids, pumping out edgy social posts, swiping pop music for hype videos - and the main metric for evaluating its impact shows that Americans now hate ICE more than ever

www.washingtonpost.com/technology/i...

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And now… πŸ˜΅β€πŸ’«πŸ€―πŸ˜΅

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Emmanuel Damas in a patterned dress shirt and striped tie leaning against a metal railing on a sunny residential street with red brick rowhouses and flowering trees in the background.

Emmanuel Damas in a patterned dress shirt and striped tie leaning against a metal railing on a sunny residential street with red brick rowhouses and flowering trees in the background.

Emmanuel Damas, 56, died in ICE custody on Monday.

Damas came to the U.S. from Haiti seeking asylum. After six months in ICE custodyβ€”the last four at CoreCivic's Florence Correctional Centerβ€”he died from complications from a tooth infection.

A tooth infection.

1/3

tucson.com/news/local/b...

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3 Screenshots from the movie "Idiocracy" (2006): First, a barren landscape filled with mountains of garbage and a dilapidated vehicle perched on top, under a hazy sky. Second, a man in drab clothing stands amidst a pile of trash in a dimly lit room, appearing contemplative. Third, a magazine cover with bold text reading "HOT NAKED CHICKS & WORLD REPORT" dated March 3, 2505, featuring a woman's face.

3 Screenshots from the movie "Idiocracy" (2006): First, a barren landscape filled with mountains of garbage and a dilapidated vehicle perched on top, under a hazy sky. Second, a man in drab clothing stands amidst a pile of trash in a dimly lit room, appearing contemplative. Third, a magazine cover with bold text reading "HOT NAKED CHICKS & WORLD REPORT" dated March 3, 2505, featuring a woman's face.

Mar 3rd 2505 - The Great Garbage Avalanche of 2505. This awoke Joe Bauers from a long forgotten suspended animation experiment.

πŸ“½οΈπŸ“… Idiocracy (2006)

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Reports of Ukraine’s Demise Are Still Exaggerated Four years after Russia began its invasion, some pundits are still forecasting doom and gloom. Never trust a weatherman.

Russia "has captured some 1.4 percent of Ukrainian territory, most of it reduced to charred ghost towns; its total area of control in the country is around 20 percent, with much of that in Russian hands since 2014." That's...not Russian victory.

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β€œThe 11th-hour betting, which totaled about $855,000, β€˜makes you think it was someone who knew something about the timing,’ said Eric Zitzewitz, a professor of economics at Dartmouth, who has studied prediction markets.” πŸ€«πŸ€‘ www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/u...

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@bishtoons.bsky.social

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I don't mean to pick on this person, but I'm begging folks to recognize that Sec 2 does most of its work at the local level. While pre clearance was operative, 50% of all blocked policies were *local vote dilution schemes*. Congress matters but local politics are the ballgame here

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New Order - State Of The Nation [OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO]
YouTube video by New Order New Order - State Of The Nation [OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO]
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"Oh, the state of the nation (state on the nation)
Is causing deprivation
Oh, the state of the nation (state of the nation)
Is causing deprivation..."

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The Bloody Show In an unhinged State of the Union, Trump brought necropolitics to primetime

Johnathan M. Katz argues in The Racket that Trump's State of the Union speech was a form of necropolitics, invoking Achille Mbembe's work.
theracket.news/p/the-bloody...

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The war's limited objectives:
-Destroy nuclear program
-Degrade ballistic missile capabilities
-Bring the armies of the world together to fight at the End Times and bring about the return of Christ

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The Criminal Justice team at Arnold Ventures is looking for a pending/recent PhD with strong causal inference skills, for a remote, part-time consulting position.

This is a great opportunity for someone considering a transition from academia to the policy space.

Deadline: March 15

Please share!

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the state of public history, 2026:

with one eye on the Trump administration, NPS staff worries that describing the murder of an abolitionist "might denigrate the murderers"

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I'm not an economist, but I don't think it's good that the US markets seem to have largely adopted the "lol nothing matters" mindset.

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"American innovation" now refers to making a kind of atrocity cronut by combining insider trading with war crimes.

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Elena CeauΘ™escu cosplay

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The β€˜Board of Peace’ started World War 3 so fast.

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Operation Epic Distraction

anntelnaes.substack.com/p/operation-...

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Wars of choice kill those who have no choice. "Mistakes" like the reported strike on a girls' school that killed forty civilians are the predictable result of poor planning and execution.

For more on "Mistakes" in War, read this by me and @azmatzahra.bsky.social
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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Just as the Framers intended

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This map shows widely dispersed dots representing the guesses of US survey respondents about the location of Iran on a world map. 23% placed a dot in the correct area.

This map shows widely dispersed dots representing the guesses of US survey respondents about the location of Iran on a world map. 23% placed a dot in the correct area.

Where is Iran?
Each dot represents an American's guess.
pro.morningconsult.com/articles/can... 🌐

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Heinous man assassinated - and given the recklessness of his assassins seems fair to expect someone(s) at least as heinous will replace him.

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