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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 26/09/2025

Camden had zero homicides this summer. City and county leaders credit the 2013 disbandment of its police department. Violent crime is at a 50-year low. This is amazing. www.inquirer.com/news/camden-...

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Camden had zero homicides this summer. City and county leaders credit the 2013 disbandment of its police department.

As of Monday, the city has seen a 43% decrease in homicides compared to this time last year. And violent crime has reached a 50-year low.

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Tribune @passchendaele.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

What do you mean "we," Kimosabe?

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Tribune @passchendaele.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

No such thing as "ethics rules while enriching the president."

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Tribune @passchendaele.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

I'm reminded of Congressman Larry McDonald, John Birch Society President and Georgia Dixiecrat, who died an inadvertant martyr the anti-communist Crusade he fomented. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_M... #KAL007

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Larry McDonald - Wikipedia

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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

I for one cannot believe people are comparing textbook Nazism to Nazism! www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk...

Charlie Kirk defends Elon Musk's antisemitism: “Some of the largest financiers of left-wing anti-white causes have been Jewish Americans”

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Tribune @passchendaele.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

They use 1.6M. Bing's Copilot agrees with you.

🧮 How Crime Rates Are Typically Calculated
Most cities—including New York—calculate crime rates using this formula:

Crime Rate = (Number of Reported Crimes / Permanent Resident Population) × 1,000

This means:

The denominator is usually the number of permanent residents, based on census data.

It does not typically include commuters, tourists, or day-trippers, even though they contribute to the actual number of people present when crimes occur.

🗽 Why This Skews Manhattan's Crime Rate
Manhattan is a textbook example of how this method can distort reality:

The residential population is around 1.6 million.

But on a typical weekday, the actual population balloons to nearly 4 million, including:

~1.6 million commuters

~400,000 out-of-town visitors

~374,000 local day-trip visitors

Thousands of students, patients, and others

So when crime rates are calculated using only the 1.6 million residents, it can overstate the per capita crime rate, because the denominator is much smaller than the actual number of people exposed to crime.

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Steven Mazie @stevenmazie.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

"It is past time for both Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer to step down and step aside. This fascist moment, this age of Trump, demands outspoken, unrelenting and fearless opposition... we all deserve better." I make the case, in my latest for The Guardian, for new leadership:

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It’s time for Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries to step down | Mehdi Hasan

This fascist moment, this age of Trump, demands outspoken, unrelenting and fearless opposition. We all deserve better

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Tribune @passchendaele.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Ashli Babbit is MAGA's Horst Wessel. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horst_W...

Horst Wessel (1907-1930), martyr to SA (Sturmabteilung 'brownshirts').
#Babbit #HorstWessel

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Tribune @passchendaele.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

She lasted less than three scaramuccis.

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Tribune @passchendaele.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

LOL, when US Congress "tables" a motion, it gets relegated to the Greek calends -- but when Commonwealth legislatures begin to consider a motion, they say the motion was "tabled."

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Tribune @passchendaele.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Grits are usually made from hominy (*nixtamalized*) corn. Nixtamalization increases the bioavailability of tryptophan and thereby, thiamine. Wikipedia says the process improvess "flavor and aroma" of corn. (My wife, who comes from grits country, does not agree). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixtama...

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Nixtamalization - Wikipedia

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Tribune @passchendaele.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Franco's General José Millán-Astray first introduced the slogan "Viva la Muerte!" ("Long Live Death") in a 1936 speech. Confronted by right-wing philosopher Miguel Unamuno's critique of his "necrophilous" oath, Millán-Astray then replied, "DEATH TO INTELLECTUALS!! DOWN WITH INTELLIGENCE”

"VIVA LA MUERTE" is written on a door with a skull-and-crossbones in the Basque municipality of Orduña (Urduña) following its 1937 capture by the nationalist army.

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Tribune @passchendaele.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Don't look at this image solely in terms of 'number of firearms.' It's also a salient counterexample of 'muzzle discipline.'

Mark and Patricia McCloskey threaten BLM protestors in St. Louis, June 28,2020. Patricia McCloskey brandishes a handgun with her finger on the trigger. Mark McCloskey holds an AR-15 style rifle with its muzzle pointed at his wife.

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Tribune @passchendaele.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

SPIKE THE DRINK, DON'T WATER IT!

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Tribune @passchendaele.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

British tanks used to come in two genders. In 1918 the future Royal Tank Corps went woke, declaring that future British tanks should be hermaphrodites. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female_...

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Female tank - Wikipedia

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Tribune @passchendaele.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal...

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Tribune @passchendaele.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Kessler's 'fact checks' weren't already sufficiently craven? bsky.app/profile/park...

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Tribune @passchendaele.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

I am so old that I remember when @senangusking.bsky.social still had a brain of his own. In 2023, the Hon. Josh Hawley wrote a book with the title "Manhood: The Masculine Virtues America Needs." On January 6, 2021, Hawley demonstrated his virtue in action. www.youtube.com/watch?v=d60T...

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Josh Hawley Running on January 6th yakety sax

YouTube video by Alfredo Martinez

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Tribune @passchendaele.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Axios refers to the Gulf of Mexico as the 'Gulf of America.' They're not journalists. They're stenographers for MAGA.

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Tribune @passchendaele.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Junior has NEPO disease, Non-Empathic Performative Onanism.

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Tribune @passchendaele.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

"Look at the schmuck on that camel!"

(June 2009, Egypt) Barak Obama, a photographer, and a camel handler stand while Rahm Emmanuel sits atop a camel. Rahm thinks the camel must be a male; when he rides it, people laugh and exclaim "Look at the schmuck on that camel!"`

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Tribune @passchendaele.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

In a 1902 speech, US socialist Daniel DeLeon likened the US Supreme Court to the Roman Republic's College of Pontiffs.

Finally, the Colleges of Priests. I said they represented the Judiciary. They did in this way: If a law or anelection distasteful to the ruling class was forced through; if, for any one of the thousand and one causes apt to arise wherever actual oligarchic power is draped in the drapery of democratic forms, the ruling class of Rome found it prudent to yield in Forum and Senate Hall; in such case the Colleges of Priests would conveniently discover someflatr in the auspices, some defect in the sacrifices. That annulled the election or the law, as "condemned by the Gods."

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Tribune @passchendaele.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

@conorlambpa.bsky.social‬ I do wish Mr. Lamb would post on Bluesky. He uses the fascist site almost exclusively. AFAIC, that proves he still doesn't 'get it'.

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Tribune @passchendaele.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

"Some party hack decreed that the people had lost the government's confidence and could only regain it with redoubled effort. If that is the case, would it not be simpler, If the government simply dissolved the people And elected another?" -- Bertolt Brecht (1953)

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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 11/07/2025

*I tried to give the president an iron fist on immigration policy and abrogate settled international humanitarian law. Republicans stopped me.* – this post, essentially

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Tribune @passchendaele.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

The sleep of reason produces monsters.

Francisco Goya etching c.1799 "El sueño de la razón produce monstruos"

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Tribune @passchendaele.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Robert Heinlein,"Friday" (1982)

Impossible?-the way the Mississippi winds around, like a snake with a broken back? But "impossible" is not a word one should use concerning the Mississippi River. There is one place where it is possible to make three short pontages totaling less than
ninety meters, float down the river in two bights totaling about thirty kilometers and end up more than one hundred kilometers up the river.

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Tribune @passchendaele.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

This is worse than Lysenkoism.

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