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"Every day I have to marvel at what the billionaires and Fox News pulled off. They got working whites to hate the very people that want them to have more pay, clean air, water, free healthcare and the power to fight back against big banks & big corps."
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"gone, and also forgotten"
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alt text: a google “interest over time” graph for the term “charlie kirk” showing 0 interest at all and then spiking on the day of his passing (what even happened?) and then almost immediately went back to 0 interest. a tweet by Dana Gould @danagould that says: Thinking about Rush Limbaugh and how, now that he's dead, you never, ever hear about him. No one mentions anything he did. Because what he did had no value. It contributed nothing worthwhile to the culture. Nothing of lasting value. He just made anger. Every day. Rising, blooming & fading like a fart. Then he died & was instantly replaced by a fleet of little replicas, farting fake fury five days a week. Creating nothing of interest or artistic value to anyone. Seriously, what an awful way to make a living.
November 27, 2025 at 3:43 PM
originalist.bsky.social
"Republican-controlled states have higher murder rates"

Crimes per 1M trips
* NYC: 1.3
* Dallas: 38.0

"Texans 17% more likely to be murdered than Californians"

"being within California’s borders 40% less gun violence"

"Liberal policies, like California’s, keep blue-state residents living longer"
Mentions of crime relative to first six months of 2022 The figures below compare the average percentage of 15-second segments in a given day during a 10-day chunk of a month with the average percentage for 10 day chunks over the first six months of the year. Fox News MSNBC CNN JULY AUG. SEPT. ОСТ. NOV. Source: GDELT Analysis of Internet Archive caption data THE WASHINGTON POST SPIRIT CONSERVATIVE GUY SCARED OF CITIES SAW THAT THING ON THE NEWS TOO MANY OF "THOSE" PEOPLE THERE CAN'T PARK FORD SUPER DUTY NOT SCARED, BRO ADULT Size Costume ONE SIZE FITS MOST
November 5, 2025 at 5:38 AM
originalist.bsky.social
Higher overall taxes with all state taxes and fees (not just state income tax)

Texas property taxes are double California's

Higher homeowner insurance rates

"10 states with the poorest quality of life

Cato Institute ranks Texas 50th in personal freedom
www.freedominthe50states.org/personal/texas
Average homeowners insurance rates by state in 2024 ($) < 1529 1529-2476 2476-3423 3423-4370 ≥ 4370 Мар: Professpost.com • Source: insurance.com • Created with Datawrapper
November 4, 2025 at 12:36 AM
originalist.bsky.social
"I remember when Jake Tapper spent months defending an American soldier who was arrested in Japan for driving erratically and running over and killing a Japanese family

always fascinating where reporters choose to abandon the veneer of objectivity"

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Jake Tapper # & @jaketapper Follow GREAT AND BREAKING NEWS! This morning the US parole commission ordered the full parole and immediate release with no supervision of Navy Lt Ridge Alknois Here's a picture of the Alkonis family, reunited!!!
October 29, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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Chris Rufo "total product of right-wing affirmative action and you literally would never have heard of him if he was a liberal
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NYT powerful, biased, "centrist" editors who push "meritocracy" narrative yet mediocre hired each other with legacy privilege

Front page coverage:
Christopher F. Rufo X @realchrisrufo We launched the Claudine Gay plagiarism story from the Right. The next step is to smuggle it into the media apparatus of the Left, legitimizing the narrative to center-left actors who have the power to topple her. Then squeeze. Christopher F. Rufo X @realchrisrufo A drama in four acts. Beautiful. Christopher F. Rufo X @realchrisrufo EXCLUSIVE: @RealChrisBrunet and I have obtained documentation demonstrating that Harvard President Claudine Gay plagiarized multiple sections of her Ph.D. thesis, violating Harvard's policies on academic ntegrity. This is a bombshell. 2:25 PM - Dec 10, 2023 • 39.2M Views Christopher F. Rufo X @realchrisrufo We launched the Claudine Gay plagiarism story from the Right. The next step is to smuggle it into the media apparatus of the Left, legitimizing the narrative to center-left actors who have the power to topple her. Then squeeze. The New York Times OPINION JOHN MCWHORTER Why Claudine Gay Should Go Dec. 21, 2023 HARVARD PRESIDENT CLAUDINE GAY RESIGNS, SHORTEST TENURE IN UNIVERSITY HISTORY 15:31 • 02.01.24 from Earth • 76K Views 133 Reposts 20 Quotes 1,1K Likes 30 Bookmarks lan Miles Cheong @stillgray • 1h Perfectly executed. Who's next? Christopher F. Rufo X @realchrisrufo Replying to @realchrisrufo and @ConceptualJames The goal is to have the public read something crazy in the newspaper and immediately think "critical race theory." We have decodified the term and will recodify it to annex the entire range of cultural constructions that are unpopular with Americans. 3:17 PM • Mar 15, 2021 • Twitter Web App 30 Retweets 10 Quote Tweets 423 Likes
October 27, 2025 at 1:31 PM
originalist.bsky.social
"government money to pay ICE agents larger sums of money, yet teachers buy their own pencils

"Firing and demoralizing feminized jobs as enemies of the state while brazenly bribing men with violent jobs that instantly puts them into middle class
Fulfilling manosphere promise
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/datablog/2020/aug/04/new-york-police-department-allegations-complaints NYPD's 10 Most unWanted DANIEL SBARRA EARNS $189k 75 ALLEGATIONS OF ABUSE MATHEW REICH JOSEPH TALLARINE GARY MESSINA EARNS $144K EARNS $188K EARNS $201k 75 ALLEGATIONS 73 ALLEGATIONS 73 ALLEGATIONS CHRISTOPHE MCCORMACK EARNS $248K 72 ALLEGATIONS WILLIAM TAYLOR DAVID CHEESEWRIGHT MIKE CIVIL EARNS $199K EARNS $18SK EARNS $151K 65 ALLEGATIONS 63 ALLEGATIONS 56 ALLEGATIONS PAUL MCMAHON EARNS $175K 56 ALLEGATIONS MICHAEL RASO EARNS $195K 50 ALLEGATIONS SOURCES: NYC CIVILIAN COMPLAINT REVIEW BOARD AND NYC OPEN DATA Figure 1. The San Francisco Police Department’s rising budget and personnel accompany increasingly poor performance and worsening crime rates over the last decade, 2010-11 through 2020-2021 Police budget per resident Up 7% Police employees per resident Up 12% Reported crimes per resident Up 19% Police arrests per reported offense Down 60% Crimes solved (cleared) by police Down 33% The SFPD’s budget and staffing have risen both per city resident (Figure 1) and in absolute numbers (Table 1) amid ever-worsening performance. The San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) remains a liability to the city and a disturbing outlier among California police agencies. The department expends substantial resources while failing to hold itself accountable for vastly disproportionate arrests of Black people,1 plummeting crime-solving efficiency, and uniquely deficient data reporting. Compared to other big-city police agencies, the SFPD solves fewer crimes despite larger staffing per city resident and costs per area patrolled. The department also greatly over-arrests Black people, refuses to record the ethnicity of Latino arrestees, and flagrantly omits offense descriptions for a substantial share of arrests. The SFPD’s manifest failings harm San Franciscans and distort statewide crime information. https://www.cjcj.org/media/import/documents/san_franciscans_spend_more_get_less_from_their_police_dept.pdf Mentions of crime relative to first six months of 2022 The figures below compare the average percentage of 15-second segments in a given day during a 10-day chunk of a month with the average percentage for 10 day chunks over the first six months of the year. Fox News MSNBC CNN JULY AUG. SEPT. ОСТ. NOV. Source: GDELT Analysis of Internet Archive caption data THE WASHINGTON POST Gun Death Rate Rank (More Deaths) O WY O MS O AK O AL O MT O AR O NM O SC O TN O KY O MO O AZ O ID O KS O UT O OK O WV O NV O GA O FL O NC O IN O TX O ND O CO O MI O PA O SD O VT O OH O OR O DE O VA O MD O WA O NE O ME O IL O WI O NH O IA O MN O CA О СТ O NJ O NY O RI O HI O MA Gun Control Rank (Stronger Laws) 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50
October 5, 2025 at 1:03 AM
originalist.bsky.social
"Republican-controlled states have higher murder rates"

Crimes per 1M trips
* NYC: 1.3
* Dallas: 38.0

"Texans 17% more likely to be murdered than Californians"

"being within California’s borders 40% less gun violence"

"Liberal policies, like California’s, keep blue-state residents living longer"
Mentions of crime relative to first six months of 2022 The figures below compare the average percentage of 15-second segments in a given day during a 10-day chunk of a month with the average percentage for 10 day chunks over the first six months of the year. Fox News MSNBC CNN JULY AUG. SEPT. ОСТ. NOV. Source: GDELT Analysis of Internet Archive caption data THE WASHINGTON POST SPIRIT CONSERVATIVE GUY SCARED OF CITIES SAW THAT THING ON THE NEWS TOO MANY OF "THOSE" PEOPLE THERE CAN'T PARK FORD SUPER DUTY NOT SCARED, BRO ADULT Size Costume ONE SIZE FITS MOST
September 27, 2025 at 10:09 PM
originalist.bsky.social
Chris Rufo "a total product of right-wing affirmative action and you literally would never have heard of him if he was a liberal"
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NYT front page coverage all the time!

By powerful, mediocre editors who push "meritocracy" narrative yet hired each other with legacy privilege
Christopher F. Rufo X @realchrisrufo We launched the Claudine Gay plagiarism story from the Right. The next step is to smuggle it into the media apparatus of the Left, legitimizing the narrative to center-left actors who have the power to topple her. Then squeeze. Christopher F. Rufo X @realchrisrufo A drama in four acts. Beautiful. Christopher F. Rufo X @realchrisrufo EXCLUSIVE: @RealChrisBrunet and I have obtained documentation demonstrating that Harvard President Claudine Gay plagiarized multiple sections of her Ph.D. thesis, violating Harvard's policies on academic ntegrity. This is a bombshell. 2:25 PM - Dec 10, 2023 • 39.2M Views Christopher F. Rufo X @realchrisrufo We launched the Claudine Gay plagiarism story from the Right. The next step is to smuggle it into the media apparatus of the Left, legitimizing the narrative to center-left actors who have the power to topple her. Then squeeze. The New York Times OPINION JOHN MCWHORTER Why Claudine Gay Should Go Dec. 21, 2023 HARVARD PRESIDENT CLAUDINE GAY RESIGNS, SHORTEST TENURE IN UNIVERSITY HISTORY 15:31 • 02.01.24 from Earth • 76K Views 133 Reposts 20 Quotes 1,1K Likes 30 Bookmarks lan Miles Cheong @stillgray • 1h Perfectly executed. Who's next? Christopher F. Rufo X @realchrisrufo Replying to @realchrisrufo and @ConceptualJames The goal is to have the public read something crazy in the newspaper and immediately think "critical race theory." We have decodified the term and will recodify it to annex the entire range of cultural constructions that are unpopular with Americans. 3:17 PM • Mar 15, 2021 • Twitter Web App 30 Retweets 10 Quote Tweets 423 Likes
September 16, 2025 at 2:56 AM
originalist.bsky.social
"If ICE is mocking legal South Korean detainees with slant-eyed gestures, you'd think Congress should do something
and what is this org going to look like in a year?"
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"korean reporting nightmarish on the conditions Korean workers were contained in"
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Their waists and hands were tied together, forcing them to bend down and lick water to drink. The unscreened bathrooms contained only a single sheet to cover their lower bodies. Sunlight barely penetrated through a fist-sized hole, and they were only allowed access to the small yard for two hours. Detained by US immigration authorities for eight days, the workers and their families expressed shock, describing human rights violations and absurdities they could not have imagined as ordinary Koreans living in 2025. TV Chosun, a conservative cable news network, interviewed one of the detained workers. At about 1:30, he says about the guards: 인종차별을 하더라고. 눈을 찢는다든지. If your translation doesn't make sense, do an image search of this sentence. https://news.tvchosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2025/09/14/2025091490094.html https://bsky.app/profile/johnbrownstan.bsky.social/post/3lyszjtsmu22j
September 14, 2025 at 8:04 PM
originalist.bsky.social
"Faith voters" (but not most religious group Black Americans)

NYT editor Weisman:
John Lewis isn't really Southern

"Centrist" media editors with narrative power biased for their manufactured elite: "heartland" white farmers, macho police officers, billionaires, Ivies, fellow "legacy" mediocre men
(((JonathanWeisman))) @jonathanweisman Saying @RashidaTlaib (D-Detroit) and @IlhaMN (D-Minneapolis) are from the Midwest is like saying @RepLloydDoggett (D-Austin) is from Texas or @repjohnlewis (D-Atlanta) is from the Deep South. C'mon. twitter.com/_waleedshahid/.. Waleed Shahid @_waleedshahid "Free stuff from the government does not play well in the Midwest." - Claire McCaskill 1) @RashidaTlaib + @IlhanMN are also from the Midwest. 2) Medicare and Social Security are both technically "free stuff" and they play very well.
September 14, 2025 at 6:25 PM
originalist.bsky.social
Manopshere mediocre media poisoning young men (and democracies):

"If the shooter had killed a leftist podcaster, he would have a multi million dollar Go Fund Me to cover his legal fees tomorrow,

and an interview lined up with Charlie Kirk.

We don’t have to speculate,

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September 12, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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"Charlie Kirk spent his life‘s work and all of his energy and time targeting out-groups

while arguing for a world in which gun massacres would be easy to enact, plentiful, inevitable,

and he became famous and wealthy doing it,

and we’re now not supposed to mention that because it’s not polite"
Jason S. Campbell @JasonSCampbell Charlie Kirk calls for his audience to post bail for Pelosi attacker: "If some amazing patriot out there in San Francisco or the Bay Area wants to really be a midterm hero, someone should go and bail this guy out... Bail him out and then go ask him some questions" REAL AMERICA'S THE CHARLIE KIRK SHOW EMAIL: FREEDOM@CHARLIEKIRK .COM
September 11, 2025 at 4:09 AM
originalist.bsky.social
"people who mocked and made up shit about attack on paul pelosi have thoughts about decorum"

"Charlie Kirk life‘s work targeting out-groups while arguing gun massacres be easy and inevitable,

and he became famous and wealthy doing it

we’re now not supposed to mention that because it’s not polite"
Jason S. Campbell @JasonSCampbell Charlie Kirk calls for his audience to post bail for Pelosi attacker: "If some amazing patriot out there in San Francisco or the Bay Area wants to really be a midterm hero, someone should go and bail this guy out... Bail him out and then go ask him some questions" REAL AMERICA'S THE CHARLIE KIRK SHOW EMAIL: FREEDOM@CHARLIEKIRK .COM
September 11, 2025 at 1:44 AM
originalist.bsky.social
White "heartland" car dealership owners as true "working class" herrenvolk Americans:
"I have spent a lot of time in the last decade explaining to other people in media that a King Ranch F-150 costs quite a bit of money actually"

Senior NYT editor Jonathan Weisman:
John Lewis isn't really Southern
(((JonathanWeisman))) @jonathanweisman Saying @RashidaTlaib (D-Detroit) and @IlhaMN (D-Minneapolis) are from the Midwest is like saying @RepLloydDoggett (D-Austin) is from Texas or @repjohnlewis (D-Atlanta) is from the Deep South. C'mon. twitter.com/_waleedshahid/.. Waleed Shahid @_waleedshahid "Free stuff from the government does not play well in the Midwest." - Claire McCaskill 1) @RashidaTlaib + @IlhanMN are also from the Midwest. 2) Medicare and Social Security are both technically "free stuff" and they play very well.
September 5, 2025 at 12:14 AM
originalist.bsky.social
Republicans pushing proposals to reduce or even remove property taxes

Even in red states that use them to avoid taxing the wealthiest with state income taxes

Texans pay higher overall tax rates than Californians with progressive income taxes because of regressive other taxes and fees:
TEXAS - LOW TAXES FOR WHOM? TOTAL STATE AND LOCAL TAXES AS SHARE OF FAMILY INCOME BY INCOME GROUP Texas Tax Rate California Tax Rate Income Bracket 0-20% 13% 10.5% 20-40% 10.9% 9.4% 40-60% 9.7% 8.3% 60-80% 8.6% 9.0% 80-95% 7.4% 9.4% 95-99% 5.4% 9.9% 99-100% 3.1% 12.4% Source: https://itep.org/whopays/
September 4, 2025 at 7:33 PM
originalist.bsky.social
"Elite" Democrats (but not billionaires)

"Faith voters" (but not most religious group Black Americans)

"Working class" luxury pickup truck owners (but not POC)

"Heartland" real Americans

"Crime" right before elections (lower in blue states)

"High taxes" (lower for most in California than Texas)
"I mean, it wasn't just the fact that Trump was a gravy train. It's also juxtaposed (against) the most boring administration in modern history. You go from a circus with flaming chainsaws to ... what? An old man watching his dog?" "I loved covering Trump. It was a great and fascinating story. It wasn't just about him; it was about his movement and the institutions and America. The story was always so dramatic and had these larger than life characters. The stakes often felt very high. I like covering Biden, too, but it just doesn't feel as dramatic." "We're so back,"one reporter whispered to another. All of the chairs in the White House briefing room were filled, and reporters and photographers were crammed into every available nook and cranny. I was standing in TOP TEN BILLIONAIRE FAMILIES BY POLITICAL CONTRIBUTIONS IN 2024 DONATIONS SUPPORTING REPUBLICANS Mellon Family $172 MILLION Adelson Family $137 MILLION Musk Family $133 MILLION Uihlein Family $132 MILLION Griffin Family $102 MILLION Yass Family $85.7 MILLION Singer Family $57 MILLION DONATIONS SUPPORTING DEMOCRATS Simons Family $46.6 MILLION Bloomberg Family $45.1 MILLION DONATIONS SUPPORTING REPUBLICANS Koch Family $43.7 MILLION Mentions of crime relative to first six months of 2022 The figures below compare the average percentage of 15-second segments in a given day during a 10-day chunk of a month with the average percentage for 10 day chunks over the first six months of the year. Fox News MSNBC CNN JULY AUG. SEPT. ОСТ. NOV. Source: GDELT Analysis of Internet Archive caption data THE WASHINGTON POST TEXAS - LOW TAXES FOR WHOM? TOTAL STATE AND LOCAL TAXES AS SHARE OF FAMILY INCOME BY INCOME GROUP Texas Tax Rate California Tax Rate Income Bracket 0-20% 13% 10.5% 20-40% 10.9% 9.4% 40-60% 9.7% 8.3% 60-80% 8.6% 9.0% 80-95% 7.4% 9.4% 95-99% 5.4% 9.9% 99-100% 3.1% 12.4% Source: https://itep.org/whopays/
September 4, 2025 at 12:52 AM
originalist.bsky.social
"Republican-controlled states have higher murder rates"

Crimes per 1M trips
* NYC: 1.3
* Dallas: 38.0

"Texans 17% more likely to be murdered than Californians

"being within California means 40% less gun violence

"Texas has the fewest personal freedoms"
www.freedominthe50states.org/personal/texas
Mentions of crime relative to first six months of 2022 The figures below compare the average percentage of 15-second segments in a given day during a 10-day chunk of a month with the average percentage for 10 day chunks over the first six months of the year. Fox News MSNBC CNN JULY AUG. SEPT. ОСТ. NOV. Source: GDELT Analysis of Internet Archive caption data THE WASHINGTON POST SPIRIT CONSERVATIVE GUY SCARED OF CITIES SAW THAT THING ON THE NEWS TOO MANY OF "THOSE" PEOPLE THERE CAN'T PARK FORD SUPER DUTY NOT SCARED, BRO ADULT Size Costume ONE SIZE FITS MOST
September 3, 2025 at 8:58 PM
originalist.bsky.social
Local news media pushes talking point about transit not making a profit or shows rare breakdowns

But not costs of car ownership or roads (also operate at a loss and aren't meant to be profitable!)

Like biased coverage of "welfare" or crime

Graph showing mentions of "crime" before every election:
Mentions of crime relative to first six months of 2022 The figures below compare the average percentage of 15-second segments in a given day during a 10-day chunk of a month with the average percentage for 10 day chunks over the first six months of the year. Fox News MSNBC CNN JULY AUG. SEPT. ОСТ. NOV. Source: GDELT Analysis of Internet Archive caption data THE WASHINGTON POST
September 3, 2025 at 8:57 PM
originalist.bsky.social
"Republican-controlled states have higher murder rates"

Crimes per 1M trips
* NYC: 1.3
* Dallas: 38.0

"Texans 17% more likely to be murdered than Californians"

"being within California’s borders 40% less gun violence"

"Liberal policies, like California’s, keep blue-state residents living longer"
Mentions of crime relative to first six months of 2022 The figures below compare the average percentage of 15-second segments in a given day during a 10-day chunk of a month with the average percentage for 10 day chunks over the first six months of the year. Fox News MSNBC CNN JULY AUG. SEPT. ОСТ. NOV. Source: GDELT Analysis of Internet Archive caption data THE WASHINGTON POST SPIRIT CONSERVATIVE GUY SCARED OF CITIES SAW THAT THING ON THE NEWS TOO MANY OF "THOSE" PEOPLE THERE CAN'T PARK FORD SUPER DUTY NOT SCARED, BRO ADULT Size Costume ONE SIZE FITS MOST
September 2, 2025 at 5:34 PM
originalist.bsky.social
"Republican-controlled states have higher murder rates"

Crimes per 1M trips
* NYC: 1.3
* Dallas: 38.0

"Texans 17% more likely to be murdered than Californians"

"being within California’s borders 40% less gun violence"

"Liberal policies, like California’s, keep blue-state residents living longer"
Mentions of crime relative to first six months of 2022 The figures below compare the average percentage of 15-second segments in a given day during a 10-day chunk of a month with the average percentage for 10 day chunks over the first six months of the year. Fox News MSNBC CNN JULY AUG. SEPT. ОСТ. NOV. Source: GDELT Analysis of Internet Archive caption data THE WASHINGTON POST SPIRIT CONSERVATIVE GUY SCARED OF CITIES SAW THAT THING ON THE NEWS TOO MANY OF "THOSE" PEOPLE THERE CAN'T PARK FORD SUPER DUTY NOT SCARED, BRO ADULT Size Costume ONE SIZE FITS MOST
September 2, 2025 at 3:55 AM
originalist.bsky.social
Higher overall taxes with all state taxes and fees, not just state income tax

Texas property taxes are double California's

Higher homeowner insurance rates

"10 states with the poorest quality of life"

Cato Institute ranks Texas 50th in personal freedom
www.freedominthe50states.org/personal/texas
Average homeowners insurance rates by state in 2024 ($) < 1529 1529-2476 2476-3423 3423-4370 ≥ 4370 Мар: Professpost.com • Source: insurance.com • Created with Datawrapper
August 31, 2025 at 8:53 AM
originalist.bsky.social
Higher overall taxes with all state taxes and fees, not just state income tax

Texas property taxes are double California's

Higher homeowner insurance rates

"10 states with the poorest quality of life"

Cato Institute ranks Texas 50th in personal freedom
www.freedominthe50states.org/personal/texas
Average homeowners insurance rates by state in 2024 ($) < 1529 1529-2476 2476-3423 3423-4370 ≥ 4370 Мар: Professpost.com • Source: insurance.com • Created with Datawrapper
August 30, 2025 at 8:20 PM
originalist.bsky.social
"government can find money to pay ICE agents increasingly larger sums of money, yet teachers buy their own pencils

"Firing and demoralizing feminized jobs as enemies of the state while brazenly bribing men with violent jobs that instantly puts them into middle class is Fulfilling manosphere promise
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/datablog/2020/aug/04/new-york-police-department-allegations-complaints NYPD's 10 Most unWanted DANIEL SBARRA EARNS $189k 75 ALLEGATIONS OF ABUSE MATHEW REICH JOSEPH TALLARINE GARY MESSINA EARNS $144K EARNS $188K EARNS $201k 75 ALLEGATIONS 73 ALLEGATIONS 73 ALLEGATIONS CHRISTOPHE MCCORMACK EARNS $248K 72 ALLEGATIONS WILLIAM TAYLOR DAVID CHEESEWRIGHT MIKE CIVIL EARNS $199K EARNS $18SK EARNS $151K 65 ALLEGATIONS 63 ALLEGATIONS 56 ALLEGATIONS PAUL MCMAHON EARNS $175K 56 ALLEGATIONS MICHAEL RASO EARNS $195K 50 ALLEGATIONS SOURCES: NYC CIVILIAN COMPLAINT REVIEW BOARD AND NYC OPEN DATA Figure 1. The San Francisco Police Department’s rising budget and personnel accompany increasingly poor performance and worsening crime rates over the last decade, 2010-11 through 2020-2021 Police budget per resident Up 7% Police employees per resident Up 12% Reported crimes per resident Up 19% Police arrests per reported offense Down 60% Crimes solved (cleared) by police Down 33% The SFPD’s budget and staffing have risen both per city resident (Figure 1) and in absolute numbers (Table 1) amid ever-worsening performance. The San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) remains a liability to the city and a disturbing outlier among California police agencies. The department expends substantial resources while failing to hold itself accountable for vastly disproportionate arrests of Black people,1 plummeting crime-solving efficiency, and uniquely deficient data reporting. Compared to other big-city police agencies, the SFPD solves fewer crimes despite larger staffing per city resident and costs per area patrolled. The department also greatly over-arrests Black people, refuses to record the ethnicity of Latino arrestees, and flagrantly omits offense descriptions for a substantial share of arrests. The SFPD’s manifest failings harm San Franciscans and distort statewide crime information. https://www.cjcj.org/media/import/documents/san_franciscans_spend_more_get_less_from_their_police_dept.pdf Mentions of crime relative to first six months of 2022 The figures below compare the average percentage of 15-second segments in a given day during a 10-day chunk of a month with the average percentage for 10 day chunks over the first six months of the year. Fox News MSNBC CNN JULY AUG. SEPT. ОСТ. NOV. Source: GDELT Analysis of Internet Archive caption data THE WASHINGTON POST Gun Death Rate Rank (More Deaths) O WY O MS O AK O AL O MT O AR O NM O SC O TN O KY O MO O AZ O ID O KS O UT O OK O WV O NV O GA O FL O NC O IN O TX O ND O CO O MI O PA O SD O VT O OH O OR O DE O VA O MD O WA O NE O ME O IL O WI O NH O IA O MN O CA О СТ O NJ O NY O RI O HI O MA Gun Control Rank (Stronger Laws) 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50
August 30, 2025 at 7:30 PM
originalist.bsky.social
"Trump fans are much angrier about housing assistance when they see an image of a black man
In contrast, Clinton supporters unmoved by racial cues

"Texas has the fewest personal freedoms"

"Liberal policies, like California’s, keep blue-state residents living longer"

Even lower overall tax rates:
Gun Death Rate Rank (More Deaths) O WY O MS O AK O AL O MT O AR O NM O SC O TN O KY O MO O AZ O ID O KS O UT O OK O WV O NV O GA O FL O NC O IN O TX O ND O CO O MI O PA O SD O VT O OH O OR O DE O VA O MD O WA O NE O ME O IL O WI O NH O IA O MN O CA О СТ O NJ O NY O RI O HI O MA Gun Control Rank (Stronger Laws) 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 Don Moynihan @donmoyn Here's another secret about federalism: blue state taxpayers are subsidizing the lower tax red states 4:47 PM • Apr 30, 2023 • 33.4K Federal Aid as Share of State Budget 2017 Mississippi, Louisiana, Idaho, Montana, Tennessee, Kentucky, Missouri, South Dakota, Georgia, Maine Illinois Delaware California Kansas Minnesota Hawaii Nevada Connecticut Virginia North Dakota Source: Tax Foundation Mother Jones TEXAS - LOW TAXES FOR WHOM? TOTAL STATE AND LOCAL TAXES AS SHARE OF FAMILY INCOME BY INCOME GROUP Texas Tax Rate California Tax Rate Income Bracket 0-20% 13% 10.5% 20-40% 10.9% 9.4% 40-60% 9.7% 8.3% 60-80% 8.6% 9.0% 80-95% 7.4% 9.4% 95-99% 5.4% 9.9% 99-100% 3.1% 12.4% Source: https://itep.org/whopays/ FINANCIAL TIMES Even the way people on Wall Street talk and interact is changing. Bankers and financiers say that Trump's victory has emboldened those who chafed at "woke doctrine" and felt they had to self-censor or change their language to avoid offending younger colleagues, women, minorities or disabled people. "I feel liberated," said a top banker. "We can say 'retard' and 'pussy' without the fear of getting cancelled... it's a new dawn."
August 30, 2025 at 6:20 PM
originalist.bsky.social
Higher overall taxes in red states like Texas avoiding wealth income tax!

And "Liberal policies keep blue-state residents living longer"

"Republican-controlled states have higher murder rates"

Crimes per 1M trips
* NYC: 1.3
* Dallas: 38.0

"Texans 17% more likely to be murdered than Californians"
TEXAS - LOW TAXES FOR WHOM? TOTAL STATE AND LOCAL TAXES AS SHARE OF FAMILY INCOME BY INCOME GROUP Texas Tax Rate California Tax Rate Income Bracket 0-20% 13% 10.5% 20-40% 10.9% 9.4% 40-60% 9.7% 8.3% 60-80% 8.6% 9.0% 80-95% 7.4% 9.4% 95-99% 5.4% 9.9% 99-100% 3.1% 12.4% Source: https://itep.org/whopays/ Don Moynihan @donmoyn Here's another secret about federalism: blue state taxpayers are subsidizing the lower tax red states 4:47 PM • Apr 30, 2023 • 33.4K Federal Aid as Share of State Budget 2017 Mississippi, Louisiana, Idaho, Montana, Tennessee, Kentucky, Missouri, South Dakota, Georgia, Maine Illinois Delaware California Kansas Minnesota Hawaii Nevada Connecticut Virginia North Dakota Source: Tax Foundation Mother Jones Gun Death Rate Rank (More Deaths •WY O MS O AK O AL O MT O AR O NM O SC O TN O KY O MO O AZ O ID O KS O UT O OK O WV O NV O GA O FL O NC O IN O TX O ND O CO O MI O PA O SD O VT O OH O OR O DE O VA O MD O WA O NE O ME O IL O WI O NH O IA O MN O CA О СТ O NJ O NY O RI O HI O MA Gun Control Rank (Stronger Laws) 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 Mentions of crime relative to first six months of 2022 The figures below compare the average percentage of 15-second segments in a given day during a 10-day chunk of a month with the average percentage for 10 day chunks over the first six months of the year. Fox News MSNBC CNN JULY AUG. SEPT. ОСТ. NOV. Source: GDELT Analysis of Internet Archive caption data THE WASHINGTON POST
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