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newadrian.bsky.social @newadrian.bsky.social · 8h

Of course the really funny thing is when you look up who was Mayor when Trump says San Francisco was a ‘great city’…

a man is giving a speech in front of a sign that says " no day "

ALT: a man is giving a speech in front of a sign that says " no day "

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newadrian.bsky.social @newadrian.bsky.social · 8h

San Francisco’s homicide rate is on track to be the lowest since the 1950s www.sfchronicle.com/crime/articl...
Meanwhile in the real San Francisco…Actually the Chronicle is understating it because it isn’t accounting for population growth since the fifties.

San Francisco’s homicide rate is on track to be the lowest since the 1950s

Homicides in San Francisco are continuing to drop, according to city data, and could be the lowest they’ve been in decades.

www.sfchronicle.com

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newadrian.bsky.social @newadrian.bsky.social · 8h

Back in Oxford right now but it seemed to be quite peaceful in September.

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newadrian.bsky.social @newadrian.bsky.social · 8h

Making San Francisco what it was 10 or 15 years ago would actually mean more than doubling the amount of crime.

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newadrian.bsky.social @newadrian.bsky.social · 8h

Actually slightly understating the figures - felonies in San Francisco until end of September 2015- 47, 169, (CompStat) felonies up to 12 October 2025 21,819.
Maybe some relabelling one the margins but a very clear picture.

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newadrian.bsky.social @newadrian.bsky.social · 8h

Once again- crime this year in San Francisco is literally 50% of what it was 10 years ago. It has never actually been safer than it is today.

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newadrian.bsky.social @newadrian.bsky.social · 8h

10/10 Graun. No notes.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 13h

I went to Marina Abramović’s erotic, explicit new art show – and there was an awful lot to take in | Adrian Chiles

The ‘grandmother of performance art’ and I both have Slavic roots. But I didn’t recognise any of her 14th-century Dalmatian fertility rites – and neither did my mum, writes Adrian Chiles

www.theguardian.com

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newadrian.bsky.social @newadrian.bsky.social · 10h

YES!

Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 13h

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text:

Episcopalians on Facebook
Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h •
Exodus 8:2-6
"But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs...
The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

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newadrian.bsky.social @newadrian.bsky.social · 11h

You have got to be kidding.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Mike Johnson: "They berated a Capitol police officer, screamed at him. He was merely standing his post. It shows, again, their disdain for law enforcement, the Democrats, screaming, assaulting officers."

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newadrian.bsky.social @newadrian.bsky.social · 12h

There is a Fifth Monarchy man side of me that wants someone on Saturday to carry a ‘No King but Jesus’ banner- but I fear it would confuse the hell out of both sides. @jonathanhealey.bsky.social

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newadrian.bsky.social @newadrian.bsky.social · 12h

It wouldn’t even play well in a real monarchy.

Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 14h

No kings no paychecks is literally one of the dumbest political slogans I have ever heard.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 1d

Republicans' embrace of Hitler raises new questions about Zohran Mamdani's willingness to combat antisemitism.

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newadrian.bsky.social @newadrian.bsky.social · 12h

This is why driverless cabs are not in fact going to be the answer for urban traffic. Sufficient Waymos just to move the passengers using the 38 Geary in SF (for example) would create total gridlock.

Alex Wenzel @alexwenzel.bsky.social · 22h

A standard MTS 40ft bus seats around 30-35 people (60 with standing). Next time you’re completely stuck in traffic in San Diego, try to count how far ahead 35 cars is - if you can see that far.

Gordon Padelford @gordonofseattle.bsky.social · 1d

👀 "An entire lane of solo drivers on Denny Way between Seattle Center and I-4 can fit into one articulated Route 8 bus, and a dedicated transit lane would allow that bus to be over four times faster than driving along this section"

Cars just don't scale well, especially in dense cities.

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Natasha Simonova @philistella.bsky.social · 1d

ONLY migrants though, no one else is to study English because it's a rip off and a waste of time, am I getting this right.

András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 1d

Well this will certainly do it www.gov.uk/government/n...

Migrants will be required to pass A Level standard of English

Migrants will be required to pass tough new English language requirements under a law introduced in Parliament today.

www.gov.uk

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International Society for First World War Studies @fwwsoc.bsky.social · 14h

An excellent article in the Guardian from our founding President!

Pierre Purseigle @purseigle.bsky.social · 1d

Where I try to explain why France is not going through an ordinary political crisis but that the Fifth Republic is a regime in crisis.
🇫🇷 #france #politics
👇 👇 👇
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

@uni-of-warwick.bsky.social

France's political upheaval isn't temporary - it's a profound constitutional crisis | Pierre Purseigle

The old prime minister is back with a new team, but it can’t last: a democracy can’t have a president with the powers of a king, says French historian Pierre Purseigle

www.theguardian.com

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newadrian.bsky.social @newadrian.bsky.social · 13h

Every single Republican President since Nixon has had a recession start on their watch- Ford 1974, Reagan 1981-1983, G.W.H. Bush 1990-1991, G.W. Bush 2008. So Trump 2020? I think there is a decent chance that Covid covered a recession that was already building.

newadrian.bsky.social @newadrian.bsky.social · 13h

Sadly not in handcuffs. Yet.

Ally Sammarco @allysammarco.bsky.social · 1d

Noem Gets Removed From Airports

10.14.25

www.allysammarco.com

newadrian.bsky.social @newadrian.bsky.social · 15h

Yes - parasitic worms are usually associated with poverty rather than rich failsons.

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newadrian.bsky.social @newadrian.bsky.social · 15h

Fair point - the worm infection is more symptom than cause.

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newadrian.bsky.social @newadrian.bsky.social · 15h

I would take health advice from ‘every single person on the planet who had not managed to have their brain eaten by a worm’ before that guy.

En Buen Ora - "Hell Çid" 😈 @enbuenora.bsky.social · 16h

_“It ate just a little bit of his brain and died,” Hines responded...

The other women of The View were confused, seemingly not having heard of the famous Kennedy brain worm...

“Wait, what died?” asked an incredulous Whoopi Goldberg. “The brain died?”_

www.vulture.com/article/cher...

The Worm ‘Ate Just a Little Bit’ of RFK Jr.’s Brain

“And died,” Cheryl Hines assured The View.

www.vulture.com

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newadrian.bsky.social @newadrian.bsky.social · 15h

Five state prisons have closed in California under Newsom and current projections are another five could close in the next few years. Prisoner numbers in California have fallen from a peak of 165,000 in 2006 to 91,000 now whilst violent crime has plummeted.

newadrian.bsky.social @newadrian.bsky.social · 15h

Not much else makes sense- San Francisco violent crime is now 50% of what it was in 2015 and it is difficult to believe this is due to increased under-reporting.

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newadrian.bsky.social @newadrian.bsky.social · 15h

Strange thought. Could the current rightwing hysteria about urban crime be precisely because crime has been falling dramatically lately? Are threatened financial interests in carceral/enforcement activities the real reason behind this rhetoric and detaining obviously non-criminal immigrants?

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newadrian.bsky.social @newadrian.bsky.social · 16h

Yeah but real A levels with real properly dull books. It isn’t a proper A level without a big turgid Dickens. (Our Mutual Friend)

newadrian.bsky.social @newadrian.bsky.social · 16h

Doubling down on fossil fuels in the USA is also committing to what is obviously an increasingly inefficient and expensive form of power. The low hanging fruit is long gone.

Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 17h

Paul Krugman points out that Trump has ensured the United States will be second to China as a world power paulkrugman.substack.com/p/china-has-... The country will just have to learn to live with it, MAGA!

China Has Overtaken America

And Trump’s policies guarantee that we will never catch up

paulkrugman.substack.com