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Jonquilyn Hill @jonquilynhill.bsky.social · 2 mo
Crime in the US is going down, but you would never know that if you watch the news or check out your neighborhood listserv. This week on The Weeds I talk to @abdallahfayyad.bsky.social about that disconnect, where it comes from, and the Panic! At the Drugstore. open.spotify.com/episode/7v2A...
Panic! At The Drugstoreopen.spotify.com Listen to this episode from The Weeds on Spotify. Do you think crime is on the rise? You aren’t the only one. According to Gallup, over 75 percent of Americans think crime is up from last year. The cr...
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Abdallah Fayyad @abdallahfayyad.bsky.social · 5 mo
Donald Trump has a lot of baggage, and unfortunately for him, it’s not full of cash. www.vox.com/24073920/tru...
Trump is suddenly in need of a lot of cash. That’s everyone’s problem.www.vox.com The former president was just ordered to pay $355 million in his New York fraud case, bringing the tally this year to nearly half a billion dollars in civil damages.
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Abdallah Fayyad @abdallahfayyad.bsky.social · 6 mo
As it turns out, shoplifting rates were lower by the end of 2022 than they were before the pandemic. So I wrote about one of America's latest moral panics—the shoplifting wave that wasn't—and how it's undoing years of progress in criminal justice reform. www.vox.com/politics/240...
The shoplifting scare might not have been real — but its effects arewww.vox.com It turns out shoplifting isn’t spiraling out of control, but lawmakers are pushing for tougher penalties for low-level and nonviolent crimes anyway.
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