RoseMarie
@rosesbloom24.bsky.socialFollow
Two Black mayors took cities that the country loves to write off and made them measurably safer. That’s not a fluke. That’s a blueprint.Chicago and Baltimore just posted numbers that should be front-page news. They’re not. We need to talk about why.
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http://www.theroot.com/opinion-blac…RoseMarie
@rosesbloom24.bsky.social
· 2h
In Chicago, Mayor Brandon Johnson just wrapped up three years in office during which homicides hit their lowest point in 60 years. Robberies are down 36%. Carjackings have been cut in half. Under Police Superintendent Larry Snelling, the homicide clearance rate hit 77%, (cont.)RoseMarie
@rosesbloom24.bsky.social
· 2h
the best it’s been in over a decade. How did he do it? Johnson didn’t just add police. He doubled the number of mental health crisis responders and expanded youth summer employment, making a direct investment in curing the root causes of crime – instead of just putting bandages on its symptoms.RoseMarie
@rosesbloom24.bsky.social
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In Baltimore, Mayor Brandon Scott — a man who grew up being handcuffed by police for what he calls “breathing while Black” — delivered the largest year-over-year homicide drop ever recorded in that city – 133 homicides in 2025, (cont.)RoseMarie
@rosesbloom24.bsky.social
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the fewest in nearly 50 years. That was the culmination of three straight years of double-digit declines. His Group Violence Reduction Strategy, built in partnership with State’s Attorney Ivan Bates, gives people at the highest risk a real choice: job training and mentorship, or accountability.RoseMarie
@rosesbloom24.bsky.social
· 2h
Two of our cities. Black mayors. Historic turnarounds. So why haven’t we heard about this the same way we’d hear about a single carjacking or robbery? We already know the answer.RoseMarie
@rosesbloom24.bsky.social
· 2h
The research supports what we already feel in our bones. Gallup calls it “local positivity bias” — national media highlights the rare and the violent while burying the actual trend line. Studies show suspects who look like us get news coverage far outpacing our actual share of crime (cont.)RoseMarie
@rosesbloom24.bsky.social
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and arrests, and that heavy news coverage alone increases negative associations of Black people, no matter what a viewer believed walking in.RoseMarie
@rosesbloom24.bsky.social
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That’s not accidental storytelling. That’s intentional indoctrination. Bad news about our people and our cities has been profitable for decades. Good news about our leadership solving the problem doesn’t fit that narrative, so it doesn’t make the cut.RoseMarie
@rosesbloom24.bsky.social
· 2h
But the numbers don’t need network ratings to be true. Two Black mayors, backed by Black leadership and community partners who never stopped showing up, took cities the country loves to write off and made them measurably safer. That’s not a fluke. (cont.)RoseMarie
@rosesbloom24.bsky.social
· 2h
That’s a blueprint. And it deserves the same headlines as every story that tried to convince us that these cities – and our people inhabiting them – were beyond saving.
https://bsky.app/profile/rosesbloom24.bsky.social/post/3msycvlabx426
THANK YOU FOR THIS INFORMATIVE THREAD
Bryan Dawson
@bryandawsonusa.bsky.social
Ted Paxton and Donald Trump are not the only poster children of Republican criminality, corruption, and hypocrisy. Byron Donalds’ drug charges were dismissed. He later faced felony bribery charges, pleaded no contest, and got probation. Republicans expunged his record.
https://bsky.app/profile/bryandawsonusa.bsky.social/post/3mtc2iung6s2g
This one hurt..I have at least 20 in my freezer right now.
Taking everything from me!!!
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@HQNewsNow
Outshine popsicles have been recalled nationwide due to potential glass contamination.
The affected flavors are strawberry, watermelon, grape, tangerine, and black cherry.
https://x.com/HQNewsNow/status/2089786414481191337
Marc Elias
@marcelias.bsky.social
🚨BREAKING: 4th Circuit STRIKES DOWN South Carolina law that only allows voters to vote absentee if they are over the age of 65 or fall into several limited categories for violating the 26th Amendment by denying the right to vote to many voters under 65. http://www.democracydocket.com/cases/south-...
https://bsky.app/profile/marcelias.bsky.social/post/3mtenegcnu22l
The Senator is STAYING ON HIS NECK!!!
YES!!!
Aaron Rupar
@atrupar.com
Ossoff: “Mike Collins needs to release every communication — email, text message, phone record, encrypted chat — between his office, his chief of staff, and those white supremacists, and he needs to release those communications today … there is no place for white nationalism in the Senate”
https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mteqdib4li2x
FactPost
@factpostnews
Buy now, pay later lenders are allowing customers to take out loans to pay for utilities, phone bills, health insurance, and rent.
https://x.com/factpostnews/status/2089737360317493570
in response to those whining about who covers the WNBA.
Jemele Hill
@jemelehill
Latest stats:
— 83 percent of sports editors are white men
— 75 percent of assistant sports editors are white men
— 82 percent of columnists are white men
— 67 percent of sports anchors are white men
— 68 percent of sports analysts are white men
— 65 percent of sports producers are white men
C’mon, Ric. This is deeply unserious.
https://x.com/jemelehill/status/2089453844623495591
UH HUH
UH HUH
Brett LoGiurato
@BrettLoGiurato
So this is pretty wild: A polling firm that came out of nowhere to show Francesca Hong with a 23-point lead over David Crowley in the Wisconsin primary has shut down and said its whole operation was bogus
https://x.com/BrettLoGiurato/status/2089549375664013768
UH HUH
UH HUH
DEALING FROM THE FRAT HOUSE.
Don Salmon
@dijoni
Drug dealers at Penn State University.
https://x.com/dijoni/status/2089585778599039281
CLAP CLAP CLAP
Anonymous
@opdeatheaters.bsky.social
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A federal judge just ruled that Ghislaine Maxwell’s Epstein grand jury records must be made public, rejecting every objection she raised. Congress’s Epstein Files Transparency Act overrides grand jury secrecy rules. #OpDeathEaters
http://www.yacnews.com/maxwell-lose...
https://bsky.app/profile/opdeatheaters.bsky.social/post/3mtdaecv6ys2b
UH HUH
UH HUH
Claire Heddles
@claireheddles
NEW: Mike Caruso — one of DeSantis’ closest allies in the state legislature who he appointed as Palm Beach County’s clerk of courts and comptroller last year — has been arrested on child sex abuse charges.
w/ @BrittanyWallman @ShirshoD
https://x.com/claireheddles/status/2089697120894714281
Aaron Rupar
@atrupar
Enten: “Hispanic men on Trump — in 2024 he won by 10 points. Look now where his net approval is — minus 41 points! That is a 51 point switcheroo against the president … these numbers are bonkers.”
https://x.com/atrupar/status/2089358728944603164
Chris Original Black Navy Vet
@Chris4Perkins2
White men are back in charge of everything. The entire federal gov. All three branches.
So why aren’t we doing better? Why is inflation rising? Why is the food making us sick? Where are the jobs? Why is fuel and gas prices rising? Where’s the health-care? Why are we at war?
4:57 AM · Aug 17, 2026
https://x.com/Chris4Perkins2/status/2089290607864807922
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@HQNewsNow
Mass surveillance company Palantir paid zero US federal income tax despite reporting a record $1.657B profit in 2025.
https://x.com/HQNewsNow/status/2089384265112817908
The United States versus Elon Reed Musk
@Needle_of_Arya
Do all of you see how Jon Ossoff is it *running against* Trump, because Trump is obviously already a lame duck, but openly mocking him? If you’re a Republican you really don’t want Ossoff to logically mock you, because he speaks in a way that has non-MAGA conservatives listening.
10:37 AM · Aug 17, 2026
https://x.com/Needle_of_Arya/status/2089376201370665036
That bill at the gas pump isn’t something a Fox News Lie can paper over:
Ronald Brownstein
@RonBrownstein
87% of pick-up truck drivers are men, 85% white, 74% married, most non-college. 60% identify as Repubs. And they are now paying $100 or more to fill up their 20 MPG tanks. “The pain point is hitting big-iron driving Republican-leaning men more than anybody else,” says @murphymike
https://x.com/RonBrownstein/status/2089375194767040581
Democracy Docket
@DemocracyDocket
BREAKING: Harmeet Dhillon said in an interview with Bloomberg News that the DOJ will be sending 1,000 election monitors to polling locations for the midterms.
“[The DOJ] has sent monitors to election hot spots, polling places to increase voter confidence to troubleshoot problems and we are doing that now,” she said. newsletters.democracydocket.com/anchor-twitter
https://x.com/DemocracyDocket/status/2089425374748835979
Acyn
@Acyn
Manley: I’m not a supporter of open borders but also not a supporter of having an agency kidnapping Americans off the street… The data doesn’t show that there are mass amounts of immigrants killing people. Some people show anecdotes and one off incidents but the fact is that we had good bipartisan regulation that they tried to get passed through congress and unfortunately Donald Trump killed it.
https://x.com/Acyn/status/2089441563378385297
Marc E. Elias
@marceelias
🚨BREAKING: Federal Court REJECTS Department of Justice lawsuit seeking to compel Minnesota to provide access to its statewide voter registration data. Another victory for my firm and our clients.
DOJ is now 0-23. ELG is undefeated.
https://x.com/marceelias/status/2089423908545917232
Because, of course….
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@HQNewsNow
The Republican-majority city council in Edgerton, Kansas has sued residents who petitioned to ban data centers from being built near the town.
https://x.com/HQNewsNow/status/2089416995863228776
International Cyber Digest
@IntCyberDigest
‼️ BREAKING: Journalists hid an Airtag in a rare book shipment and confirmed Amazon to be one of the buyers behind the bulk orders destroying rare-books to feed their AI.
They tracked it to Amazon’s LAS8 warehouse in Las Vegas, home to VGT3 (see logo below), a scanning operation feeding Amazon’s AI training data, where workers say they cut the bindings off books to scan them faster.
Amazon won’t say why the books are destroyed.
https://x.com/IntCyberDigest/status/2089373881773498747
Chanteezy! ♉️💛
@iamchanteezy
There’s a grave amount of Anti- Blackness happening on this app from White Leftist (including non Black Leftist & even White Centrists) in the Democratic Party. It’s starting with Speaker Hakeem Jeffries.
12:49 PM · Aug 17, 2026
https://x.com/iamchanteezy/status/2089409254868336778
INSANE STORY
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Kacee Allen
SocialSight
@KaceeRAllen
This might be the best case to ban all ALPR Cameras after flock cameras just ruined an innocent Florida woman’s life.
Cops used one ALPR hit to pin a triple-fatal hit-and-run on 23-year-old Lindsey Isaacs. Seized her undamaged black Durango, claimed “damage,” then arrested her 6 months later after she sued to get it back.
She sat in jail 13 days facing life in prison.
They ignored the maroon paint transfer, the partial plate that didn’t match, the airbag that never deployed, and witnesses. Just took the first Durango Flock flagged.
7 months of hell. Charges finally dropped when they got the actual driver.
https://x.com/KaceeRAllen/status/2089201199023075402
👑 Mr. Weeks 👑
@WonderKing82
Bernie Sanders has been in office 30 plus years and never produced anything on Medicare for all…. he hasn’t done anything by himself but rename two post office…. the squad has been there 8 years and nothing on Medicare for all. Its a political gimmick to get votes.
10:38 AM · Aug 17, 2026
https://x.com/WonderKing82/status/2089376381784175049
MR. POP
@MrPopOfficial
Beth Chamberlin, who played Hayden Panettiere’s mother in the soap opera ‘Guiding Light’, honors Hayden on Instagram.
“Hayden played my daughter for 3 years. She was the most brilliant child actor l’ve ever seen. The things she could do, the way she could remember 20+ pages of dialogue, day after day. Even on days where the director would come out between dress and tape and make huge cuts to the scenes, Hayden, never once forgot a line or missed her blocking. The adults would, but not Hayden. I felt blessed to work with her. And always perfect in her playing of the scene.”
https://x.com/MrPopOfficial/status/2089405634655433017
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Josh Rogin
@joshrogin
“The [CIA] has been gutted as part of a deliberate plan, the director of the Office of Management and Budget once boasted, to put the people who defend our country “in trauma.” Analysts have been fired in public or questioned by the FBI; decade-old assessments have been denounced by the CIA director in the press. The president calls analysis “virtual treason” when it contradicts his preferred reality, and uses the CIA to undermine public confidence in American elections.
Fear has done its work. Irreplaceable officers with crucial language and technical skills, and decades of experience, have walked out the door. Those who remain within an agency built to deliver hard truths are being muzzled.”
Read this piece by Julia Curlee, a trans woman who served in the White House and CIA at the highest levels until she was driven out for being trans @TheAtlantic
theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/…
https://x.com/joshrogin/status/2089350712803066096
Spencer Hakimian
@SpencerHakimian
JUST IN: Donald Trump says “it’s none of your business” when asked how Barron Trump’s net worth increased $150,000,000 in a year.
8:51 PM · Aug 16, 2026
https://x.com/SpencerHakimian/status/2089168269672411434
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NickFrank40
@NickyFrank30
I said before.
To far leftists, they expect blacks to be their strongest soldiers (and pike men) because their idea of blackness is Black Panthers, Assunta Shakur and Angela Davis. It is a profound disappointment to them that blacks are mostly normal moderates.
https://x.com/NickyFrank30/status/2089409870701142256
Christopher Webb
@cwebbonline.com
The timing…
Congress blocked enforcement of a food-safety rule designed to help the FDA quickly trace contaminated food back to its source. Until July 2028.
Christopher Webb
@cwebbonline.com
· 5h
The Food Traceability Rule covers higher-risk foods like leafy greens, eggs, soft cheeses and nut butters, requiring better records so outbreaks can be traced faster.
This rule was mandated 15 years ago and was finally supposed to take effect in 2026.
Christopher Webb
@cwebbonline.com
· 5h
Instead, the Trump administration delayed it 30 months, and Congress has now prohibited the FDA from using appropriated funds to enforce it before July 20, 2028.
https://bsky.app/profile/cwebbonline.com/post/3mtbtwa7utc2s
Marc Elias
@marcelias.bsky.social
NEW EPISODE: Trump’s Desperate DOJ Eyes Supreme Court to Get Your Voter Data After Losing 22 Straight Cases. youtu.be/vFA1qFL4MsE?…
https://bsky.app/profile/marcelias.bsky.social/post/3mtcaqdf6vk2h
And, that’s a large part of the reason why we, ‘ the Establishment’ voter, doesn’t want to have shyt to do with these people.
Natalie Winters
@nataliegwinters
EXCLUSIVE: DSA Steering Committee member Cliff Connolly says the quiet part out loud:
“Our hatred of the United States Constitution.”
He calls the Constitution “the obstacle” socialists must “get over to have a revolution.”
https://x.com/nataliegwinters/status/2089370258771775706
Jamie Metzl
@JamieMetzl
I have been a Democrat all my life. I have served our country in the White House, State Department, and US Senate and run for Congress. I believe the health of our democracy depends on political parties that believe in America and strive to live up to our highest ideals.
That is why it gives me no pleasure to say that I believe the DSA is ultimately an anti-American hate group.
Don’t take my word for it. Take theirs.
I invite you to read this documented list of statements and actions by Darializa Avila Chevalier, the DSA-backed Democratic nominee for Congress in New York’s 13th District, and judge for yourself.
If you agree that these sentiments are hateful, extremist, and deeply hostile to American values, I invite you to sign our petition calling on Democratic leaders to condemn them and oppose her election:
change.org/p/stand-up-for…
1:48 PM · Aug 17, 2026
https://x.com/JamieMetzl/status/2089424133717127567
The Intellectualist
@highbrow_nobrow
Trump Says Smithsonian Exhibits Need Correction President Donald Trump ordered warning signs outside the Smithsonian telling visitors its exhibits need renovation and
correcting what he calls inaccurate American history. …eintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/trump-orders…
https://x.com/highbrow_nobrow/status/2088868455504114026
Christopher Webb
@cwebbonline
THIS IS IMPORTANT What’s being proposed here is unconstitutional and illegal. This is being floated because Trump’s SAVE Act will not pass. Trump can’t declare a “national security emergency” and suddenly take control of our elections. The Constitution gives states and Congress authority over federal election rules, not the president.
https://x.com/cwebbonline/status/2089027241841987815
Aaron Rupar
@atrupar
WELKER: Do democratic socialists belong in the Democratic Party?
JEFFRIES: What I can say is I do not support defunding the police, I do not support open borders, I do not support abolishing the Senate. We’re focused on actually solving the problems hard-working American taxpayer want us to solve, which is to lower the high cost of living in a situation where life is far too expensive in this country. That’s the Democratic agenda.
9:31 AM · Aug 16, 2026327.7KViews
https://x.com/atrupar/status/2088997179251658993
Armando
@ArmandoNDK
Hakeem Jeffries will not be challenged for Speaker. And he won’t be challenged in a primary. Anyone telling you otherwise is stupid AF.
2:30 PM · Aug 16, 20261.2KViews
https://x.com/ArmandoNDK/status/2089072245662486809
The evil never stops
Democracy Docket
@DemocracyDocket
Marc Elias explains why the GOP is going after nursing home voters: older Americans have gotten more likely to vote Democratic — and right on cue, the party turned on them. “It’s really a shameful episode in a party that is filled with shameful episodes.”
https://x.com/DemocracyDocket/status/2089087414450991273
zellie
@zellieimani
A leaked document reveals Flock Safety planned to turn roughly 350,000 Uber, Lyft, and delivery vehicles into a mobile network of license plate readers, dramatically expanding its surveillance system beyond fixed cameras.
6:51 AM · Aug 16, 202659.2KViews
https://x.com/zellieimani/status/2088956741538992592
Ana Lucia Araujo, PhD
@araujohistorian
While you were sleeping. Northwestern University is shutting down is 80-year-old program of African Studies as a research center. African students and students of African History come to @HowardU
https://x.com/araujohistorian/status/2088948566983090485
they/them might be giants ☭
@babadookspinoza
11h
People warned me when I was younger to pursue high-paying fields. I always shrugged them off. I thought, “I’m not a materialistic person, I don’t need luxury—I’ll be fine with a modest salary. Money’s not important to me.” Turns out you need a shitload of money just to be broke.
https://x.com/babadookspinoza/status/2088969191508316363
Acyn
@Acyn
Ossoff: Mike Collins literally gets so scared, you can see his hand shaking at the podium until he just flees. A crumbling little bigot, and the sad spectacle of a collapsing campaign.
https://x.com/Acyn/status/2089093133732884861
Aaron Rupar
@atrupar
Ossoff says Republicans spent most of last year trying to cover up for Epstein while Trump raked in billions
https://x.com/atrupar/status/2089088366427943199
• Acyn
@Acyn
Ossoff: Now, I know many of you are here today because you just can’t stand what’s been done to our country. Our government made a tool of one man’s vengeance, power, and wealth. Prices soar while the president rakes in billions. Cancer patients lose insurance while the rich get another tax cut. We’re plunged deeper and deeper into another reckless war. Private prisons full of families grow in size and squalor. The Justice Department and even our intelligence agencies are twisted to serve this president’s vendettas. But in eight weeks, Atlanta, in eight weeks, we can cast our ballots and say, “Enough is enough.” In eight weeks, we will vote to rebuke him so decisively that no president will dare such abuses again for centuries.
3:32 PM · Aug 16, 202640.5KViews
https://x.com/Acyn/status/2089087803892326598
Ron Filipkowski
@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social
For the first time in US history, America betrays South Korea, one of our closest allies for over 75 years. These exercises in various forms have taken place every year since 1974.
https://bsky.app/profile/ronfilipkowski.bsky.social/post/3mta4uzurks2i
I remember her beginning on Guiding Light.
RIP
Far too young. :(
Phil Lewis
@phillewis.bsky.social
Actress Hayden Panettiere has died, her representative confirms. She was 36 abcnews.com/US/hayden-pa…
https://bsky.app/profile/phillewis.bsky.social/post/3mtapgsxwks2a
Reggie B.
@reggiebblue
Hunter Biden dismisses claims of a rift between Joe Biden and Barack Obama.
“My dad’s service as vice president of Barack Obama was one of the greatest honors of his life beyond being president himself. Their friendship and love for each other is deep and real. Our families are intertwined. My girls and the Obama girls are best friends. There will never be a time in which their legacies are not completely and wholly intertwined. As a Biden, I can’t think of anything that’s more incredible than that.”
https://x.com/reggiebblue/status/2089315847122600207
Jason Koebler
@jasonkoebler.bsky.social
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Exclusive: A rare bookseller suspected his books were being bought by AI companies. He stuck an AirTag in a book and we tracked it to a secretive Amazon facility in Las Vegas where they scan and destroy books called VGT3:
http://www.404media.co/we-tracked-a...
https://bsky.app/profile/jasonkoebler.bsky.social/post/3mtbu54jolc2f
Kyle Griffin
@kylegriffin1
Emails revealed in court:
As Trump publicly condemned Colorado for incarcerating convicted felon and election denier Tina Peters, the White House organized an urgent “brainstorm call” with five federal agencies — with the goal of exploring ways to curtail federal support to Colorado.
The next day, federal agencies announced they were canceling hundreds of millions of dollars in federal grants for Colorado projects.
ms.now/rachel-maddow-…
https://x.com/kylegriffin1/status/2089376733925429716
Ossoff: While the sailors on the Lincoln fight his war, while he fruitlessly drains our munitions and oil reserves, the president sleeps through his meetings. He golfs and trades stocks. So he doesn’t want to do the job. He wants to build his ballroom and travel with Natalie on… pic.twitter.com/6KqephHAd3— Acyn (@Acyn) August 16, 2026
President Trump confirms to Fox News there is a backchannel with Iran Revolutionary Guard officials, says he’s in “no hurry”, and warns, “If Oman gets in the way, we’ll bomb the s— out of them”— Shipwreck (@shipwreck75.bsky.social) 8:30 AM · Aug 17, 2026
Good Morning, Everyone😊😊😊