There have been 2 NYPD shootings within 48 hours where police tried to use a Taser first and it "didn't work." It turns out, NYPD Tasers fail 40% of the time gothamist.com/news/tasers-fa…

The Gang of New York

This is your regular Tuesday reminder that the daily budget for the NYPD is $29 million.

The Gang of New York

If you're talking about Mississippi crimes, Senator, public data from your own state doesn't support what you claim. Instead, crime seems to be dropping here, even as more agencies become NIBRS-compliant and report additional cases each year. #TheMoreYouKnow

A Mississippi town has taken down a Confederate monument that stood since 1910. The figure was wrapped in tarps the past four years after the Grenada City Council voted to move the monument in 2020. mississippifreepress.org/grenada-remove…

What happens when you make a cop mayor of NYC? Police overtime goes from $4 million in 2022 to $155 million now. gothamist.com/news/nypd-over…

BREAKING US Justice Department announces massive federal investigation of the Rankin County Sheriff’s office for allegations of a pattern and practice for violation of civil rights.

Justice Department opens civil rights probe of sheriff's office in Rankin County, #Mississippi, after torture of 2 Black men by officers, including some who called themselves the #GoonSquad (from The Associated Press) apnews.com/article/2554c2…

He don't miss

S&P 500 up nearly 50% from this tweet. 🇺🇸

In non-indictment news: The NYC Council just repealed the city's law banning "jaywalking," a widespread practice that the NYPD disproportionately enforced against Black and Brown New Yorkers nyc.streetsblog.org/2024/09/26/mod…

The Lexington, MS police department allegedly ran "the kind of debtors' prisons Charles Dickens described," asserts the Department of Justice in a damning report filed today. They accuse the police of running a brutal campaign of racist extraction. mississippifreepress.org/mississippi-to…

Happening now: Students at Columbia University have gathered in the center of campus to protest Israel’s attacks in Lebanon and Gaza.

The Mississippi state auditor says our universities are bastions of terminal wokeness and DEI that must be smoked out. The Mississippi governor says our universities are refuges from wokeness that can save your kids from forcible gender transitions. FFS. 🤦🏻‍♂️

Alexander Cockburn when he started writing for the Nation.

Whoa, it’s true: The White House took money from FEMA and diverted it to spend on immigrants. Only it was Trump who did it.

It's incredible to me that, in right-wing circles, the "good guys" are the Confederates and the Nazis.

If the government won't make Geico insure my Cybertruck, I'm going to become an even bigger libertarian.

"In 2020 the Democratic Party fully embraced MMT. Ms. Kelton served as a top economic adviser to Sen. Bernie Sanders, runner-up for the party’s nomination, and later co-authored a report for the Biden campaign that served as a blueprint for its spending blowout. In 2021 MMT gave