In the criminal justice system, the people are represented by two separate yet equally important groups: the police, who investigate crime; and the pope, who prosecutes the offenders.

Time is running out to submit abstracts for Corrupting Justice, May 11-13, 2026 @uwinnipeg.bsky.social. Deadline is March 31. Info and details here: www.cijs.ca. Corrupting Justice brings together interdisciplinary scholarly perspectives on law, justice, crime, and corruption. Registration is free!

Crime hotspot analysis and mapping using geospatial technology in Dessie city, Ethiopia The problem of urban crime in most developing regions has increased, and spatial configurations tend to be consistent with social and environmental dy…

Yet another criminology article with hallucinated references published in an @elsevierconnect.bsky.social journal. I reported it over a month ago to the journal, but the paper is still online and not retracted
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This is good and all but I hope the NFL is ready for the tariffs. #badbunny

Canadian academics. Anyone interested in reviewing a book proposal on debating justice using foundational theories and Canadian controversies? Emond is seeking reviewers. It pays $$

Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio) YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

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Carney in Davos:

Read the full transcript of Carney’s speech to World Economic Forum - National | Globalnews.ca Prime Minister Mark Carney gave a forceful speech in Davos, Switzerland, on the 'new world order' and how middle powers like Canada can benefit by working together.

The Carney speech is worth reading in full: globalnews.ca/news/1162087...

@erinscafe.bsky.social rewatching the west wing and can’t stop thinking about the video of you singing the theme, but just using the words of the title of the show, over and over.
That’s not THAT weird right?

I admit that my rewatch of the West Wing is deeply strange at the end of 2025. At turns depressing, ridiculous, self satisfied, smug, etc etc. for example S3 is stark reminder of how Sorkin processed 9/11 and some of it gaspingly stupid. Yet, it is not as naive or American-centric as I recalled.

I think reliability is an under appreciated virtue. Predictable, boring, steady? Sign me up.

The whole point of throwing a subordinate under the bus is that you don't jump down there with them

Good morning. Danny Glover was only 41 when he declared he was too old for this shit.

Friends. You cannot appease racists and xenophobes. No amount of hard line immigration annoucements will ever be enough. Centrists will lose their soul by playing footsie with Farage.

If you want to be able to do something well, you gotta do it in such a way that it gets etched on your heart

One of the dangerous things about AI is it presents a deceptively easy way for folks to cut all of that out in a lot of fields

We remember them always.

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So this ad revenue metric is indicative of such a fascinating and weird set of business decisions by Google to inexplicably kill of SEO-- and I honestly don't get how they think this is going to pay off for them in the long run.

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Trump’s Epstein Humiliation Grows The president saw defeat and ran. But that doesn’t mean the fight over releasing the files is over.

Trump retreats on Epstein files. Three lessons:

1. It can be easier to fracture the MAGA coalition than get "responsible" Republicans to step up.

2. Democrats should fight rather than find reasons not to fight.

3. Dems need to be anti-elitist not just anti-GOP.

www.thebulwark.com/p/trumps-eps...

Many people are calling it the Trump Challenge

Just rewatched Don’t Look Up. Remembering how people panned it because US political leaders and big tech cronies couldn’t possibly be that selfish and stupid.

This is the ad that made Trump lose his mind on Canada YouTube video by The Bulwark

In case you missed the ad that Ontario put out concerning tariffs before Trump threatened his way to getting it taken off the air. I feel everyone should get to see it.

Trump ends trade talks with Canada after Reagan ‘anti-tariffs’ ad YouTube video by The Independent

Donny John hates this ad and Ontario is promising to take it down.

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October in Nova Scotia. The tomatoes are still tomatoing

White House East Wing will be torn ‘within days’ even as no plans filed for Trump’s new ballroom Demolition has drawn fierce backlash, with National Trust for Historic Preservation saying plans are ‘legally required’

I don’t really care about the White House given the various assaults underway but I can’t shake the feeling this is more than mere metaphor.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Motion to replace the saying “jumped the shark” in the American lexicon with “flew the poop airplane.”

UNY-PRC has developed a digital archive that helps bring together materials from system-affected people alongside hard-to-access state records on policing, alongside state records that are often difficult to access by researchers. Everyone is welcome to join.

Register at bit.ly/4mVbdAd
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New "How not to write a poll question" example just dropped. (Kids: Learn to not write horrible poll questions like this.)

Ta-Nehisi Coates and Ezra Klein Hash Out Their Charlie Kirk Disagreement YouTube video by The Ezra Klein Show

Today’s episode of The Ezra Klein Show

Ta-Nehisi Coates on Bridging Gaps vs. Drawing Lines

Ta-Nehisi Coates joins the show to discuss how the left should think about the work of politics and persuasion in this moment.
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I Took Bernie Into Deep Trump Country. Can He Win Them Over? YouTube video by More Perfect Union

@timmiller.bsky.social hey. Saw this about West Virginia. Maybe a counter point to the Manchin interview?

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If Democrats Want to Rebuild Trust, Start with the Epstein Files If we don't at least try to hold the rich and powerful criminals accountable, why should anyone trust us to fight for them?

"On both ethics and politics, this is the right fight.

If Democrats can’t find the courage on their own, they should borrow it from the survivors—who risked their privacy, their healing, and their safety to demand justice. We owe them the same level of resolve."

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