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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.

6. Americans warped perceptions of crime “warp public opinion in ways that set back policy changes shown to improve public safety.”

We are spending billions of dollars constructing detention centers to house immigrants to combat a non-existent crime wave.

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.

Crime is down down down. Probably, as @jeffasher.bsky.social posits, because of huge investment during the pandemic.

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JUST IN: Judge Micah Smith blocks Trump admin attempt to allow fishing in Pacific Islands Heritage Marine National Monument, first created by President George W. Bush in 2009. Smith, a Biden appointee, says notice and comment was required
Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

I am quite alarmed that Trump will continue in office until the 29th century!

EPA eliminates $7-billion rooftop solar grant program The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said it will eliminate the Solar for All program designed to help low-income households install solar panels on their homes.

EPA eliminates $7-billion rooftop solar grant program

The start of California's fire season has moved up 6 weeks since 1990 thanks to climate change A new study shows that since 1990, fire season is arriving up to two months earlier across many parts of California.

The start of California's fire season has moved up 6 weeks since 1990 thanks to climate change

Canyon fire explodes to nearly 5,000 acres; thousands evacuated in L.A., Ventura counties Firefighters Friday were trying to make progress after the Canyon fire exploded to nearly 5,000 acres, forcing residents in northern Los Angeles and Ventura counties to evacuate.

Canyon fire explodes to nearly 5,000 acres; thousands evacuated in L.A., Ventura counties

Energy secretary says Trump administration may alter past National Climate Assessments Department of Energy Secretary Chris Wright indicated on CNN that the administration could alter previously published federal climate reports.

The Trump administration plans to review and potentially alter U.S. climate science reports.

Rachel Cleetus of @ucs.org: "This administration plans to not just bury the scientific evidence but replace it with outright lies."

By @hayleysmith.bsky.social @latimes.com www.latimes.com/environment/...

John Morales on NOAA's updated outlook and current disturbances in Atlantic It is still very likely that the 2025 hurricane season will bring at-or-above-normal storm activity.

"It is still very likely that the 2025 hurricane season will bring at-or-above-normal storm activity. This is according to an update to the seasonal outlook delivered by NOAA's Climate Prediction Center. Yes, somehow, that unit of NOAA still exists." My latest ➡️ www.nbcmiami.com/weather/hurr...

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Hello, some Senate Oversight is needed on the Ohio River!📣

I agree.

How is it that the Corp of Engineers said, “yes!” to this!?!?

This is NOT okay!
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Warming stripes for deep ocean to upper stratosphere

The Warming Stripes have now been extended downwards into the ocean and upwards into the stratosphere!

Collaborative paper which tells the story of how the stripes were developed, and discusses their extension across the Earth system, is now available in BAMS: journals.ametsoc.org/view/journal...

Deborah Martorell, a broadcast meteorologist from Puerto Rico, was a member of the latest Blue Origin crew on a sub-orbital flight.

She took the warming stripes to space. #ShowYourStripes

The insanity the world summarised in a headline on Canada:
Wildfires threaten Canadian oil sands
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/glo...

"Either their long-term game is there won't be free elections or we'll fix the election or we'll steal it or gerrymander it, or they're perfectly prepared for someone who they disagree with to be able to use those same tools at some point in the future."

Every Republican but one -- Sen. John Kennedy -- voted to put Katsas into his current, powerful judgeship. www.senate.gov/legislative/...

Katsas was Trump's deputy WH counsel in 2017 before Trump tapped him for this court seat.

He called Trump his "principal client" in his paperwork to the Senate Judiciary Committee, saying he gave Trump advice "on virtually any legal issue."

Trump routinely tried to violate the Constitution.

Trump Court Pick Who Blamed Women For Date Rape To Fill Brett Kavanaugh's Court Seat She's weakened protections for sexual assault survivors and has argued that women can avoid date rape by staying sober.

Before becoming a judge, Rao also denounced “special treatment for minority students” and called the fight for LGBTQ rights a “trendy political movement.”

Every Senate Republican voted to confirm her. www.huffpost.com/entry/neomi-...

BREAKING: The D.C. Circuit has vacated Judge Boasberg's contempt order over the Trump administration's decision to deport people under the Alien Enemies Act in defiance of his TRO.

Rao (Trump), Katsas(Trump) side against Boasberg

Pillard (Obama) dissents
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Attention fellow frogs in boiling water:

Here are two Trump-appointed federal judges -- both of whom were troubling judicial nominees to start with -- ruling that it was fine that Trump ignored another court's order.

EPA plans to end a program that makes solar power available to low-income Americans The Trump administration plans to end a $7 billion Biden-era program that helps low-income households get solar power.

The Trump administration plans to end a $7 billion Biden-era program that helps low-income households get solar power.

The first time I encountered spell check I also considered it miraculous, so I can sympathize with the desire to see ChatGPT and similar things in the same way, but spell check didn’t “think” and neither does ChatGPT and that’s an important line to draw.

Let history remember that this loathsome monster was inciting Rabin’s murder back in the day for trying to make peace.

Nobody can say they didn’t know, didn’t see, couldn’t have imagined.

This was as inevitable as all the steps that preceded it when he’s left unchecked.

No conscience.

We Are Eating the Earth From the author of New York Times bestseller The New New Deal, a groundbreaking piece of reportage from the trenches of the next climate war: the f...

Anyway, buy the book! Matt wrote a lovely blurb, but if he’s not climate-hawkish enough for you, so did
@jeffgoodell.bsky.social and @dwallacewells.bsky.social.
And if you're looking for a fun read, @bradmeltzer.com said it's "captivating storytelling." 18

www.simonandschuster.com/books/We-Are...

One more thing: When birth rates do fall in poor countries, they tend to become less poor. Which is awesome. But the first thing people tend to do when they stop being poor is to start eating meat, which eats much more of the earth. The world is on track to eat 70% more meat by 2050. 16

"The most desirable course of action from a strictly liberal-democratic perspective is to implement full reforms that provide comprehensive, effective, and legally unimpeachable solutions to discrete problems. However, this path is always likely to be slow."

muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/a...

Tactical lessons for us, from Poland —
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