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Camden had zero homicides this summer. City and county leaders credit the 2013 disbandment of its police department. As of Monday, the city has seen a 43% decrease in homicides compared to this time last year. And violent crime has reached a 50-year low.

Camden had zero homicides this summer. City and county leaders credit the 2013 disbandment of its police department.

Violent crime is at a 50-year low.

This is amazing.

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Putin on the Ritz

What do you mean "we," Kimosabe?

A woman and a man watch a painter finishing a poster depicting Zohran Mamdani as "Zohran Mancommie" wearing a beret in the style of Che Guevara. "Republicans red-baiting Democrats is just so lame and lazy!" exclaims the woman. The man, wearing a New York baseball cap as he looks at the painter, replied "Isn't that Cuomo?" cartoon by M. Wuerker in Politico

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No such thing as "ethics rules while enriching the president."

@alt-text.bsky.social

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I'm reminded of Congressman Larry McDonald, John Birch Society President and Georgia Dixiecrat, who died an inadvertant martyr the anti-communist Crusade he fomented.

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I for one cannot believe people are comparing textbook Nazism to Nazism!
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West Valley College unveils renovated cafe with universal free meal program West Valley-Mission Community College District launched their universal meal program with food service provider Thomas Cuisine on Tuesday with a ribbon-cutting ceremony and sample plates for guests…

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🧮 How Crime Rates Are Typically Calculated Most cities—including New York—calculate crime rates using this formula: Crime Rate = (Number of Reported Crimes / Permanent Resident Population) × 1,000 This means: The denominator is usually the number of permanent residents, based on census data. It does not typically include commuters, tourists, or day-trippers, even though they contribute to the actual number of people present when crimes occur. 🗽 Why This Skews Manhattan's Crime Rate Manhattan is a textbook example of how this method can distort reality: The residential population is around 1.6 million. But on a typical weekday, the actual population balloons to nearly 4 million, including: ~1.6 million commuters ~400,000 out-of-town visitors ~374,000 local day-trip visitors Thousands of students, patients, and others So when crime rates are calculated using only the 1.6 million residents, it can overstate the per capita crime rate, because the denominator is much smaller than the actual number of people exposed to crime.

They use 1.6M.

Bing's Copilot agrees with you.

SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional

ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool

Burger King hacked, attackers 'impressed by the commitment to terrible security practices' — systems described as 'solid as a paper Whopper wrapper in the rain,’ other RBI brands like Tim Hortons and ... Fast food firm quickly fixed vulnerabilities of whopping proportions, but didn't acknowledge the white-hat hackers.

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#$RBI #TimHortons #BurgerKing #Popeyes
h/t @tomshardware.com

ConsumerAffairs.com reviews for Pulte Homes: 13 5-star reviews 2 4-star reviews 11 3-star reviews 49 2-star reviews 452 1-star reviews

Trump Aide Stephen Miller, Meet Your Great-Grandfather, Who Flunked His Naturalization Test Trump Aide Stephen Miller, Meet Your Great-Grandfather, Who Flunked His Naturalization Test

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It’s time for Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries to step down | Mehdi Hasan This fascist moment, this age of Trump, demands outspoken, unrelenting and fearless opposition. We all deserve better

"It is past time for both Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer to step down and step aside. This fascist moment, this age of Trump, demands outspoken, unrelenting and fearless opposition... we all deserve better."

I make the case, in my latest for The Guardian, for new leadership:

Horst Wessel (1907-1930), martyr to SA (Sturmabteilung 'brownshirts'). #Babbit #HorstWessel

Ashli Babbit is MAGA's Horst Wessel.
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NRA Accidentally Forgets To Rise Up Against Tyrannical Government — The Shovel An embarrassed National Rifle Association says it totally forgot to do the one thing it has been saying for years it is solely there to do.

h/t to The Shovel (from Australia):

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She lasted less than three scaramuccis.

LOL, when US Congress "tables" a motion, it gets relegated to the Greek calends -- but when Commonwealth legislatures begin to consider a motion, they say the motion was "tabled."

Nixtamalization - Wikipedia

Grits are usually made from hominy (*nixtamalized*) corn. Nixtamalization increases the bioavailability of tryptophan and thereby, thiamine.

Wikipedia says the process improvess "flavor and aroma" of corn. (My wife, who comes from grits country, does not agree).

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"VIVA LA MUERTE" is written on a door with a skull-and-crossbones in the Basque municipality of Orduña (Urduña) following its 1937 capture by the nationalist army.

Franco's General José Millán-Astray first introduced the slogan "Viva la Muerte!" ("Long Live Death") in a 1936 speech.

Confronted by right-wing philosopher Miguel Unamuno's critique of his "necrophilous" oath, Millán-Astray then replied,
"DEATH TO INTELLECTUALS!! DOWN WITH INTELLIGENCE”

Mark and Patricia McCloskey threaten BLM protestors in St. Louis, June 28,2020. Patricia McCloskey brandishes a handgun with her finger on the trigger. Mark McCloskey holds an AR-15 style rifle with its muzzle pointed at his wife.

Don't look at this image solely in terms of 'number of firearms.'
It's also a salient counterexample of 'muzzle discipline.'

SPIKE THE DRINK, DON'T WATER IT!

California man sues Microsoft over Windows 11 upgrades : He wants Microsoft to keep supporting Windows 10 until its market share drops below 10%

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#Windows #LawSky

YouTube video by King of the Hill Dale INTERROGATES Himself in Court | King of the Hill

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Female tank - Wikipedia

British tanks used to come in two genders.

In 1918 the future Royal Tank Corps went woke, declaring that future British tanks should be hermaphrodites.

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ETERNAL SEPTEMBER: a calendar page for September in which every day is indicated by the infinity sign. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September

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