Ainbthech

Democracy and violent crime | Brookings This policy brief points to current research that suggests that nations undergoing transitions from autocracy to democracy experience the highest homicide rates. Meanwhile, strong democracies and stro...

Strong democracies tend to be the safest places to live. They have low interpersonal violent crime. And you're much safer from state-imposed violence.

Never concede the lie that we must exchange freedom for security.

www.brookings.edu/articles/dem...

DoJ cases against protesters keep collapsing as officers’ lies are exposed in court String of embarrassing defeats for prosecutors as experts condemn DoJ effort to cast people as ‘violent perpetrators’

"In Chicago, of 92 people arrested for assaulting or impeding officers last fall, 74 cases have resulted in no charges; in 13 cases, charges were filed and dismissed; and five charged cases were still pending."

Every news story is now “State Senator Randy Pervert (R-Springfield) was indicted on 8 counts of lewd behavior with a child under 12 and has been put on paid leave from his two jobs as Border Patrol liaison and youth pastor at First Presbyterian (PCA) where parishioners say they were ‘blindsided.’”

Congress will vote to lower the age to prosecute minors as adults from 16 down to 14 in DC.

Let me get this straight:

Congress wants to prosecute 14 yr. olds as adults, but they don’t want to prosecute adults who sexually abuse 14 year olds?

Release the Epstein files.

Personally, I think it’s bad that a wildly corrupt pedophile with dementia is President of the United States and is trying to make himself dictator for life.

A heist in broad daylight

The American president is more insulated from accountability than a British royal.

Our political system provides the elite with immunity. It has to change.

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

A benefit of free buses I hadn’t heard enough about until this piece from @galvinalmanza.bsky.social

The $38.3 billion they are going to spend for interment camps could fund the annual budget of NASA, the EPA, and all clean energy R&D at the Department of Energy—combined.

How do people like this still have a platform? Like...what percentage of shitty people have to follow someone like this for them to keep on grifting and spreading their absolutely crap takes?

Sounds like an excellent start.

Rhetorial question but how is it ice's job to go after agitators

One giant leap backwards. One more disgusting thing this regime is responsible for. Fuck.

Hello! I see you've decided to conflate a human being being an evil fascist apologist committing crimes and perpetuating fraud with (checks notes) being a woman. Perhaps you would like to not do this.

It's infuriating that we even need to add this to a bill to remind them that's it's a constitutional requirement.

lying under oath good enough for impeachment? It's hardly the worst thing he's done, but it's nice and clear, right?

*facepalm* great. poor kids.

BREAKING: The Epstein survivors are releasing this ad on this Super Bowl Sunday to send the message that they will not “move on” from the largest sex trafficking scandal in the world. #standwithsurvivors

This collection is so good. Midnight jellies and Frog Friend are my particular loves, but they're all good.

this is so funny, god bless louise lucas, Hero of the Commonwealth

JD Vance was just ruthlessly booed at the Olympics during the Opening Ceremony when he was shown on the screen. But you would never know by watching the broadcast on NBC.

This one weird trick could stop US women from voting | Arwa Mahdawi The Save Act – which would do the opposite of its title – could have a huge impact on the midterm elections

The GOP blames women for undermining them on issues like abortion & ICE & thus hopes to pass the “SAVE Act,” which will make it harder for married women who changed their last names to vote. But they want you to think it’s about “election integrity”. 1/31/26 #HandmaidsTale 1/

I read the “SAVE Act” (the GOP’s new voter suppression bill) so you don’t have to. This is my one page summary. Jesus it’s bad. 1/

@milbrathdraws.bsky.social in solidarity with
@anntelnaes.bsky.social celebrating the cartoon heard round the world

Man, humble bundle’s really been targeting me with their recent book bundles. XD

This is one of the reasons I have said that protecting neighbors from being kidnapped or beaten without due process IS the strategy for voting. This isn't about "immigration" whatever they say.

It's about eradicating people of color from public life.

how much unchecked influence over society & government do they have to have before we quit saying billionaires and start saying oligarchs

😕