Your regular reminder that cops don't actually justify their existence or enormous budgets by solving much crime.
Approximately 11% of all serious crimes result in an arrest, and about 2% end in a conviction.
And then there's this...
Resource nationalism is rising across Africa, especially in the #Sahel.
#Mali, #Niger, and #Burkina Faso are moving beyond reforms to retroactive taxes, licence revocations, and even takeovers of #mining operations.
Read the complete analysis by @denistull.bsky.social here: t1p.de/pcblu
Trump's cruel immigration policies are costly for everyone; projected to reduce Federal tax intake by about 300B over a decade.
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/u...
âWhen the war..started on Feb. 28, Asia expected to see serious, gradual impacts from losing access to a huge portion of the worldâs oil & gas. But the conflictâs economic & social impacts have hit the region harder & faster than officials & experts expectedâ
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/w...
So much for the theory. Iran should allow fertiliser to pass through the Strait of Hormuz; America should not blockade urea shipments from Iran. Tragically, neither shows any inclination to do so. High petrol prices make biofuel more attractive to farmers, not less. And rich countries are in a selfish mood. Failure to act thus looks baked in. In the face of an avoidable disaster, that is shameful.
Fair but depressing conclusion from @economist.com - we could avoid some of the worst of the hunger, but we wonât
economist.com/leaders/2026...
âResearch⌠finds that if fertiliser prices rise from roughly $300â$350 a tonne to around $900â$1,000 and remain elevated, global food prices could increase by 60 to 100 per cent, pushing up to 100mn additional people into undernourishmentâ âšď¸
www.ft.com/content/27e0...
I truly think that if we resign ourselves to a middle-of-the-road centrist in 2028 we are blowing a once in a generation shot to make real change out of a mistaken fear of suburbia. We need a reformer, people are hungry for it.
Breaking: HHSâs ban on gender-affirming care is struck down. Rarely have I read a ruling this sharply worded.
âThis case is one of a long list of examples of how a leaderâs wanton disregard for the rule of law causes very real harm to very real people.â
www.advocate.com/politics/nat...
"Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial: Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later."
Trump is reported close to a "deal" with himself under which US taxpayers would pay him $10 billion.
I served in multiple communist and authoritarian dictatorships, but I never witnessed corruption on this scale or this blatant.
ANOTHER death in ICE detention.
It's criminal that the Rohingya genocide has been all but forgotten by the world while this is still happening
Iâm sure this is unrelated to the fact that last month data workers revealed they were asked by Meta to review video from Meta Ray Bans of userâs intimate moments like having sex or using the bathroom.
a map from 1918 showing the interurban network sprawling across Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio
One side obsession from my research into the 1920s is the extensive network of ELECTRIC trains that used to connect cities and towns across the central Midwest called the Interurban. We had this more than a hundred years ago. The things we had and the things we lost.
Kuwait has officially stripped citizenship from an astonishing 5% of its population - over 70,000 people - and a full 20% may be impacted. Good backgrounder on whatâs going on by Sultan Alamer and Fatimah Muhammad.
newlinesmag.com/essays/kuwai...
newyorkwarcrimes.com/against-the-... - this is powerfully written. Today is Palestinian Prisoners Day.
First group of migrants deported from the US âunder recent third country deportation with DRC have now been forcibly shipped off to Kinshasa. Deportees are originally from Colombia, Peru, Ecuador.
This deportation agreement follows a partnership granting US preferential access to Congo's minerals.
Genuine question: do most people not cook ahead in batches? I do this 2x weekly and then the rest of the week is sorted. (Admittedly may depend on cuisine - I mostly do vegetarian dishes which keep well in the fridge, whereas I can imagine meat might not keep as well.)
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My story, subject of the thread was published last week in Middle East Eye, co-written w/ Oscar Rickett. Sorry, not exactly a "short" thread.
Sudan's war is the worst ongoing conflict in the world, with widespread CRSV, mass displacement & genocide all documented.
May year 3 be the last.
Yesterday, Sudan was the topic at a major conference in Berlin, which saw major global powers attend & pledge around 1.3 billion euros in assistance.
The problem is, western states that organize these conferences never call out their partner in the UAE, rendering many gatherings meaningless.
wouldn't mind several orders of magnitude more of this
Read that again. This Louisiana bill forces homeless people to choose between jail and "treatment"âand if they can't pay for the latter, they will be forced to perform unpaid labor.
The historical precedents are clear: convict leasing, Black Codes, debtor's prison.
The is Zarbivâs full quote about Gaza demolitions: Gazans âwill be returning to nowhere. Tens of thousands of families are left without papers, without childhood photos, without ID cards, they remain with nothing. If they return, they will not know where their home is. All they will find is sand.â
People who are saying the US and Israel are being surgical in their air strikes against Iran are missing one major fact. The US and Israel have killed many more Iranian civilians in airstrikes since Feb than Ukrainian civilians killed by Russian airstrikes in all of 2025.
1/3 Leaders from Germany, the African Union, France, the EU, UK, &Â US meeting in Berlin on April 15, 2026, the three-year mark of ongoing conflict in Sudan, should commit to concrete, time-bound measures to protect civilians and to hold those responsible for serious international crimes to account.
Many, many brave people are fighting to stop this, and alsoâour collective failure to stop it from getting this far will haunt us for the rest of our lives.
Barrera said her husband said the smell of human feces in the toilet caused a fellow detainee to vomit and, in turn, created a chain of people vomiting. She said her husband is asthmatic and has not received medication to treat his condition. The lack of medicine and the stress of the overcrowded holding cell has left him short of breath and teetering on the edge of an asthma attack, Barrera said. ICE did not immediately respond to questions on April 10 about the conditions of the Mesa or Phoenix facilities. After the publication of this article, Barrera told The Arizona Republic her husband was transferred to the ICE facility at San Luis Regional Detention Center at about midnight. The San Luis Regional Detention Center is in Southwestern Arizona and has the capacity to hold 700 people.
This is horrific. A U.S. citizen describes the facility in Arizona that her husband was brought to while he waited to be put on a deportation flight. Dozens of people were crammed into tiny cells, there was a "chain of people vomiting" from filthy toilets, no medical care, and only one meal per day.
