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    Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social

    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.

    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.

    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.
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    Rebecca Fishbein @bfishbfish.bsky.social

    I believe one of the new mRNA vaccines was expected to treat colon cancer, and another had the potential to keep pancreatic cancer from recurring. That’s what they’re taking away.

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    David Noll @david.noll.org

    not everything that's wrong in the U.S. is the direct descendent of chattel slavery, but the resemblance to the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act, which paid commissioners $10 for rendering alleged fugitives to the south and $5 if they found the evidence is insufficient, is kind of hard to ignore

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    Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social

    The bonus program sent to ICE officers was a due process nightmare waiting to happen. Officers would ONLY get bonuses if the people they arrested were rapidly deported through expedited removal or by officers pressuring people into "voluntarily" agreeing to deportation.

    The bonus program that ended on Tuesday almost as quickly as it began had been described as a 30-day pilot, according to documents reviewed by The Times. Under its terms, ICE would hand out $200 bonuses for each immigrant deported within seven days of being arrested and $100 for those deported within two weeks, according to an initial memo signed by Ms. Castano that was sent to the directors and deputy directors of ICE’s field offices across the country. Editors’ Picks The Changing Politics of Masks Books for Kids Starting Preschool How Your Diet Influences Your Colorectal Cancer Risk It was meant to motivate officers to reduce a backlog of people awaiting deportation, “reducing overall removal costs and decreasing strain” on the agency’s detention resources, the memo stated. To “maximize” their bonuses, the memo instructed ICE agents to deport eligible immigrants through a fast-track process known as expedited removal, which allows immigrants without legal status to be deported without court proceedings. It also said that agents could offer detainees the option of leaving the country voluntarily.
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    SarahBCalif @sarahbca.bsky.social

    RFK Jr told his 2nd wife, Mary, suffering from depression & health issues, that she should kill herself.

    Mary committed suicide.

    A week after her funeral, in the middle of the night, w/o obtaining required legal permitting, he had her coffin dug up from Kennedy family plot & moved 700 feet away.

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    David Ho @davidho.bsky.social

    The first planned migration of an entire country due to climate change is happening! Tuvalu, a Pacific island nation, is at risk of being submerged under rising sea level, so it has signed an agreement with Australia to allow 280 Tuvaluans to settle in Australia as permanent residents each year.

    The Pacific island nation of Tuvalu could be submerged in 25 years due to rising sea levels, so a plan is being implemented to relocate its population to Australia.

    The First Planned Migration of an Entire Country Is Underway

    The Pacific island nation of Tuvalu could be submerged in 25 years due to rising sea levels, so a plan is being implemented to relocate its population to Australia.
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    ACLU @aclu.org

    BREAKING: President Trump signed an executive order directing states to criminalize and institutionalize people experiencing homelessness, addiction, and mental health disabilities.

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