RT @DeanBaker13: Arkadi Gerney and Sarah Knight lay out a scheme for going nuclear against the red states that are trying to destroy democr….

My account from Baltimore for @teamtrace:

Practical and evidence-based: Johnson City, TN considers shortening hours of alcohol sales to cut crime, a strategy Baltimore has adopted with success. @houkRobert

Kentucky has pioneered improvements in rural cancer-care. Now their progress is imperiled by the deepest Medicaid cuts in the country. My story out today about @UKMarkey in @statnews, supported by @NPCInstitute.

Startling it's come to this but arts mgmt. leader Brett Egan wonders aloud if it's time to give up on government funding of the arts. particularly if *public* funding—$5 per taxpayer per year—could more than fill the gap. @DeVosInstitute @Philanthropy.

Last year #burningman reached more people than ever—but it also fell $20 million short, and has never come closer to extinction. Read my story in @BW about the unique conundrum facing a utopian culture that eschews commerce but still has to pay its bills.

Powerful & painful reporting on police violence in rural New Mexico by @ZushaElinson.

RT @michaelkruse: . the number of journalists working in the US has dropped by more than 75% since the start of the century — from 40 jou….

RT @sahilkapur: TILLIS torches Trump’s big bill in a fiery Senate floor speech: “So what do I tell 663,000 people in 2-3 years when Preside….

This chart depicting how @ZohranKMamdani changed the NYC primary electorate is absolutely wild.

A refreshing, optimistic take by registered members of NYC's entrenched political class about how "Mayor Mamdani" could live up to his promises and defy his haters. (Typical of great takes in @VitalCityNYC.)

Whoa: new $25 million investment in gun violence prevention and research from @BlankFoundation, announced this week by @FundSaferFuture. That's among the largest single private contributions ever, up there with @JoyceFdn and @Arnold_Ventures.

And contemplate the other half of the equation: halving the imprisonment rate would translate into a couple million of people who do not experience a prison cell, just in the next decade. The ramifications for society cannot be understated.

Anyone whose even been brushed by crime knows these improvements in safety are life-changing. I still remember being mugged in NYC the first year I lived there (2001). In 2024, the city saw half as many robberies. Murders: also nearly halved.

"States should. be tearing down their most deteriorated and inhumane correctional facilities, confident that they will not need the space.".

A pair of vital articles by @KeithNHumphreys & Jeff Asher tell a neglected story of long-term import: the US is experiencing an unprecedented, generational drop in crime & (lagging it) incarceration. Up/down of COVID aside, and bigger than any city, agency, or intervention:.

RT @nealkwatra: Everyone understandably talks about the videos, his ubiquitous and infectious energy on social media and IRL, his messaging….

Enjoyed speaking with @thenewmexican about my reporting on alcohol in the Land of Enchantment.

Many scientists say US nutrition guidelines should be strengthened to warn people from consuming more than one alcoholic drink/day. But insiders say the Trump admin will throw out a daily drink threshold entirely. @EMRumney @JessicaDiNapoli .