@moseskagan @spencerpratt Murder is clearly down, but it seems like murder may have diverged from other crime indicators. Quality of life crimes seem rampant.
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Bob Finnerty
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@spencerpratt In the past few years, have had my kid's bike stolen off my front porch and my car broken into. I reported neither, bc what's the point?
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Crime isn't down. Angelenos like my friend Harvey Levin have simply stopped reporting crimes because they've resigned to the fact that under Karen Bass, the inmates run the asylum, and nobody will enforce the law. This is why LA is voting for me.
Los Angeles Times@latimes
L.A. is safer than it's been in decades, but crime is an issue dominating the mayor's race latimes.com/california/sto…
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speaking from the massively biased position of "I'm from the Restorationist heartland, grew up in the Restorationist tradition, and attended a DoC college for undergrad," i am incredibly interested in if somebody is able to tell the story of wtf happened to the DoC!!
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We treat this as common shared decline, but I think there's a lot to learn by trying to figure out why some of these denoms fell 30-50%, and some fell 50-80%.
That's, uh, sort of a really big difference!?!?
Ryan Burge 📊@ryanburge
The Seven Sisters of the Mainline 1987-2024 American Baptist: 1.6M -> 1.1M Disciples of Christ: 1.1M -> 206K Evangelical Lutherans: 5.3M -> 2.7M Presbyterian Church USA: 3M -> 1M Episcopal Church: 2.5M -> 1.5M United Church of Christ: 1.7M -> 666K United Methodist: 9.1M -> 4M
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@alexthechick @WayneR9421 The newer drugs are supposedly less disruptive in that regard.
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@WayneR9421 I have heard that some people have exactly those awful side effects. I am glad she is recovering.
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From what I understand of how the weight loss drugs work, it's just anorexia in a shot.
By which I mean, it makes it so you do not want to eat so you do not eat.
New York Post@nypost
Mindy Kaling shares the reason behind her ‘scrutinized’ weight loss journey trib.al/3Z2VzME
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@ProfDBernstein @senderowiczj LA has gone down this path and it’s appears to be a mess. @SinaiLawFirm @BarryRoland19
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I was already looking into converting the two residential units in my dad's old dental building, one vacant and one hopefully about to be, to commercial space. Now, it's almost ridiculous not to, tenants already get away with not paying rent for many months before you can evict them...
Democrats Deliver@DemzDeliver
🚨 NYC tenants will now receive quality free legal representation in eviction proceedings.
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@AmusedToDeath1 @constans Didn’t LIRR have that enormous disability scandal a bunch of years ago?
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Per Nolan Hicks, having the LIRR follow the same work rules at Metro-North would by itself save over $200 million a year. C'mon Governor Hochul, lock in. I believe in you
AmusedToDeath@AmusedToDeath1
They are paid well! That's the entire point. No one is saying slash their salaries. They were offered a reasonable raise on top of their excellent benefits and they went nuclear. They even make considerably more than their peers
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@Steve_Sailer @SHistorians @PGAChampionship Quaker Ridge has recently hosted some events but neither of those ones.
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@SHistorians @PGAChampionship Has a Jewish golf club hosted a PGA or U.S. Open since Brentwood gave up the 1961 PGA Championship to Aronimink? Jewish clubs hosted several majors in the 1920s-1930s, but I can't think of one since.
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NOT ALL GOLF HISTORY IS GOOD GOLF HISTORY.
What most of the golf media has glossed over this past week is that Aronimink’s first major, the 1962 @PGAChampionship was a controversial one.
The 1962 PGA Championship was originally scheduled to be played in Los Angeles, but was moved when State Attorney, Stanley Mosk said that the PGA could not host a major in their state with their “Caucasian Only Clause,” which forbid black golfers from playing on their tour.
Rather than repeal the clause, the PGA up and moved the championship to Philadelphia. Mosk did not end there - he started calling state attorneys across the country to ban PGA Tour events if the PGA continued.
Within less than a year Mosk & Charlie Sifford’s battle did end and the PGA repealed the Caucasian Clause (November 1961) prior to playing the 1962 PGA Championship at Aronimink.
#GolfHistory
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@dilanesper The improvement seems less dramatic as children get older
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let's hear it for Mississippi!
Jean Twenge (author of 10 RULES, GENERATIONS)@jean_twenge
Reading scores, 3rd graders to 8th graders, 2015 to 2025. This is a national tragedy.
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@bendreyfuss I think it’s mostly dry wall. Plaster might stop a bullet
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I was watching some show recently where there was a gunfight in a hotel and I kept thinking “are all these bullets just going into the other rooms and killing the other guests?” Because interior walls in hotels are just, like, plaster?
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In movies when cops are in a gun fight they always crouch down behind a car door, but I think the bullets will go through a car door? I wonder how many times in real life someone has crouched behind a car because of those movies and then just been shot.
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@ADeermount Are many prominent YIMBYs are left wing first and YIMBY second? Or, do they not think public disorder and hostility to landlords are important?
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Pratt is by far the most pro-housing candidate in the race because he’s focused on public safety, and everything in a city falls downstream of that.
Zoning matters but becomes far less relevant in a city that’s openly hostile to landlords and unsafe.
Matt Stevens@realmatt_re
YIMBYs should in theory love the idea of Pratt as mayor. He's talking about cleaning up the streets, solving LAs crazy squatters rights issues, and protecting property rights. These are all things that must happen to attract more development to any city!!! However, many YIMBYs are so far left they don't see the structural issues preventing development from actually happening. Solve the foundational problems preventing development, and you will see it actually happen.
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@PetMusicList @kausmickey Happened overnight to me. But it was a cold rainy night in LA.
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@kausmickey True, but usually only if the car sits for a long period. Regular use and moving the car keep the rats from entering.
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OVERLOOKED TREND: Rats eating cars. Like coyotes, this phenomenon has now spread all over the place in CA, including rich areas. They get under the hood and eat the wires. Cars get totaled.
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This concentration effect is well known within the field of gun violence reduction and true for almost every city in the US.
Crémieux@cremieuxrecueil
When the city of Oakland implemented a program intended to curb its gun violence, they also exposed this interesting tidbit: <0.5% of the population of the city does more than half of the gun violence. They later revealed this was ~0.3%, or a little under 1,300 people.
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is it actually going to go to LA?
60 Minutes@60Minutes
After building a passenger train between Miami and Orlando, Brightline now plans to build America’s first true high-speed rail. The line would connect Los Angeles and Las Vegas in just over two hours, a trip that can take five hours by car. cbsn.ws/4bTefBV
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but it IS what the average british person is like! 😂
Adam James Pollock@AdamPollock
This is what Americans think the average British person is like
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@dilanesper Aren’t the prices low because the Masters is a member owned non-profit that has various idiosyncrasies about how they execute The Masters?
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these prices are what they are precisely for the same reason the food in the first class lounge at the airport is free.
BaseballHistoryNut@nut_history
I know it’s impossible to get a ticket but why can’t teams charge for food or drinks like the Masters does? One of the most historical events ever charging $8.00 for beer and a chicken sandwich at most when a team 45 games under .500 charging you $54. Make it make sense. Make going to a sporting event affordable
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What an absolutely bonkers thing to tweet about federal officers enforcing longstanding immigration law.
The Alex Nowrasteh@AlexNowrasteh
If you act like an occupying army long enough then the local people are going to treat you like an occupying army.
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A strange fusion of conservative populism and progressive anti-growtherism has resulted in the creation of an untaxed, hereditary elite in California.
Charles Petersen@p_e_t_e_r_s_e_n
The American Dream in 2026: around 25 percent of all homes in coastal California are acquired via inheritance.
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@dilanesper I think the unlimited transfers are the issue with college sports.
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And there were no actual Cinderellas. No mid-major has won the tournament since UNLV. We're just arguing about which round they lose in-- they always ended up losing anyway.
Kendall Baker@kendallbaker
“NIL killed Cinderella” is really just nostalgia for a system where players couldn’t get paid and had no mobility. Of course mid-major stars stayed put back then… they had no choice. Now they do… and suddenly March Madness is “ruined”? It’s far more nuanced than that.
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@PrawfBainbridge @btfitzpat @vanderbiltlaw @UCLA_Law Who was the most recent conservative to depart UCLA? Eugene Volokh? Does he count?
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@btfitzpat is sad (and/or angry) that @vanderbiltlaw is down to “down to four [conservative faculty]—a mere ten percent or so of the tenure-track faculty—and two of the four are nearly 80.” I would kill for @UCLA_Law to have four conservative faculty. We’re down to one (me, if you hadn’t guessed) and when I retire 12/30/28, we’ll be at zero. Not a lot of intellectual diversity.
Justin Owen@JustinDOwen
Where have all the conservative law professors gone? My friend @btfitzpat takes a look. lawliberty.org/diversifying-t…
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