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Decades of data show that sentence severity, including life in prison or the death penalty, does virtually nothing to reduce crime. Fact.

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Ed @edciting.bsky.social · 22h

This is not a mystery. Criminological research and empirical data from the US criminal justice system show virtually no evidence that capital punishment, life in prison, or sentence severity in general, acts as an effective deterrent to crime.

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Ed @edciting.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Scene: Superpower 1: Intervenes militarily abroad, burns immense resources, gets bogged down with meager results. Superpower 2: Intervenes militarily abroad, burns immense resources, gets bogged down with meager results.

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Ed @edciting.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I guess if I drank Martinis, I would order them dirty and very dry, much like this particular type of joke construction that really is my jam...

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Ed @edciting.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Roughly half the country gets 80 percent of the votes in the Senate, and the other half of the country gets 20 percent. Might not be optimal.

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Ed @edciting.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Overheard: "Is that guy at the next table listening to us?"

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Ed @edciting.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

We used to sell lemon cigarettes? #1974

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Ed @edciting.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Should we hate on these Muslims, too???

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Ed @edciting.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

People who have been forced into bestiality are incredibly vulnerable to blackmail leverage or other methods of coercion. Welcoming them into the ranks of federal law enforcement & creating clear targets for foreign handlers is a bananas decision. #KashPatel #FBI

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Ed @edciting.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

What kind of tortured logic do we use to believe that cats are clean animals after watching them bathe with their tongues, would you shake my hands after I washed them that way???

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Ed @edciting.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

American consumers expect choices and American companies claim they can compete. Government intervention in the first short-circuits the second. Economic reality doesn't bend to protectionism, it just passes the bill to the consumer. #BYD

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Trump says he would allow Chinese automakers to build cars in US

President Trump said Friday he would permit Chinese automakers to move manufacturing to the U.S. over the protest of American automakers. “If China wanted to come in and open a plant to build…

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Ed @edciting.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Is there such a thing as consequences to international military intervention?

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Ed @edciting.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Peppermint candies and Cinnamon candies need to pick different colors...

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Ed @edciting.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Current world population is 8,282,474,995 8,000,000,000 was in 2022 7,000,000,000 was in 2011 6,000,000,000 was in 1999 5,000,000,000 was in 1987 4,000,000,000 was in 1974 3,000,000,000 was in 1960 2,000,000,000 was in 1930 1,000,000,000 was in 1804

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Ed @edciting.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The 9/11 Commission spent $15 million of our taxpayer dollars (a crucial investment in civic ownership), took 20 months, interviewed over 1,200 people across 10 countries, and reviewed millions of pages of classified intelligence before issuing its final report.

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Wilco - Ashes Of American Flags (Lyrics)

YouTube video by Dalton Ray

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Ed @edciting.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

FYI, Pistachio is the best flavor of ice cream. #Fact

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Ed @edciting.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

What's that saying about the more things change, the more they stay the same? @kevinmkruse.bsky.social

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Ed @edciting.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Oh, you want to see what happens when you dial pure quirkiness past 11? Colin Farrell, Rachel Weisz, John C. Reilly with Yorgos Lanthimos at the helm... #TheLobster

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The Lobster | Official Trailer HD | A24

YouTube video by A24

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Ed @edciting.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Howcome bras and batteries use the same size scale?

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Ed @edciting.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Is Hegseth's job in jeopardy? Kinda sounds like it... Suboptimal when the US military is engaged in high-stakes overseas ops...lives on the line.

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Ed @edciting.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Maricopa County proves vote-by-mail can be exceptionally secure & transparent. From multi-tiered signature checks & bipartisan counting teams to automated status txts, voters know exactly where their ballot is. Every US voter should have access to vote-by-mail with this lvl of communication.

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Ed @edciting.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

"The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next." Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer and philosopher (1803-1882)

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Ed @edciting.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Don't forget to wash behind your ears!

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Ed @edciting.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Dictionary FTW today...

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Ed @edciting.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

The politics of leadership...

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Ed @edciting.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Madison Square Garden, 1939

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Ed @edciting.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Is this the soda guy or the boots guy?

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Ed @edciting.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Reality TV led the way, tilled the field, fertilized the land...then Idiocracy blossomed. We celebrated the reward of conflict, drama, and performative outrage over substance...which directly paved the way for politics to be treated as pure entertainment spectacle.

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Ed @edciting.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Can I use the same quote post setup twice in a row? Yes I can. When there were just one set of footprints in the sand...

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Ed @edciting.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

When there were just one set of footprints in the sand...

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Ed @edciting.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Fig Newtons are trash. end of message

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Ed @edciting.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Came across some sort of viral marketing effort for the upcoming Coyote vs. Acme movie on my morning walk today... #RoadRunner

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Ed @edciting.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

We invented a super-powered, super-human intelligence-technology-of-the-future, yes, but it is still too dumb to fully comprehend how we operate right now. #naturalintelligence

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Talosian from Star Trek

ALT: Talosian from Star Trek

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Ed @edciting.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Legitimate news orgs should post a US military casualty counter on their homepage until the Iran was is ended.

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Ed @edciting.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

BREAKING: Raccoons are one of a number of things that I am definitively neutral about.

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