The NYT style guide
02.03.2026 04:09
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The NYT style guide
After the arrests of powerful men across the world, you might be asking why the US has so much trouble holding its leaders accountable for lawbreaking. Since Nixon, all three branches of government have worked hard to ensure they can break the law with impunity www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
At least one cop in Kansas is going to demand that a driver pull down their pants, "just to check," before this is over.
A graph using reports from people over papers showing Numbers of reported kidnappings and activity from Minnesota, California, Florida, Texas, and then a combination of all other states. The highest Spike is in mid-January showing that Minnesota was reporting 500 incidents a day while California was reporting right around 100. Along this whole graph, Minnesota is showing at least double reports compared to everyone else with the exception of a time in very early January when California was almost on Pace with what we were seeing here. There is a small heading up top that says: immigration enforcement in Minnesota dwarfed the rest of the nation.
Seeing this visualization has been really impactful for me. There were times when people tried to come at us sideways for claiming this is *different* and massive in a way that we hadn't seen other places. But it really really has been.
This is the singular legacy of the Biden administration, the failing that preceeded all subsequent failings. What good there was (and there was real tangible good!) will have to be excavated from a legacy of failing while in power to punish the plotters and beneficiares of an attempted coup.
so what happens to all the collected tariff money?
A screen in s transit station that has scrolling information that block upcoming train times
The MARTA screens are dumb. The scrolling alerts block upcoming train times. This screen isn't even showing the next train arrival, this Doraville train is the second one coming. The number one thing a screen in the station should show is upcoming trains. #MARTA can you fix this? #transit #Atlanta
sadly i think they were cynical and ruthless enough to not use it. class solidarity with the rich perverts above all else
This article is way too credulous about the practicality and impact of eliminating property tax editions.ajc.com/shortcode/AJ...
Dear @ossoff.senate.gov and @warnock.senate.gov. It’s abolish ICE. That’s it. Not a penny for Trump’s criminal gang. Ever.
Cannot repeat the Obama-era dodge of saying "we tortured some folks" and not holding accountable the torturers and especially the chain of command. You want to stop state-sanctioned crimes? Trials not words are the only way.
Thankfully, there wasn’t that much road ice today in town. But that’s gonna mean basically everything will be open tomorrow, and people are going to need to get to work.
Marta is on an “inclement weather service plan” (down to 9 bus routes) today and tomorrow (Monday). I’m not sure the forecast supports that.
The media should cover sport the way they cover the state murder of civilians:
‘Jannik Sinner appeared to win the French Open yesterday after what supporters say was a comeback from being two sets down.’
RIP Bill Foege - a heroic American whose public health leadership has saved countless lives and will keep saving lives for decades to come www.taskforce.org/bill-foege-t...
if you were to add up spending on every police department that exists in the US, it came to about $135 billion in 2021.
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After beautiful bill ($76.9 billion): immigration enforcement spending is half the size of all state and local law enforcement spending.
www.kedits.com/p/immigratio...
I just want to say that 1) AltWatcher is doing the lord's work and 2) the altnps account, in my opinion, needs to be outright banned - and I don't say that merely because I loathe it, but because it's unbelievably unhealthy for this fake, plagiarizing, qanon-lite account to have this influence.
Everyone kind of knows this and I think it makes people insane. We’ve just got to better about justice for the most powerful actors.
ICE is a new extreme in lying about officer conduct. But this is the same behavior that outraged us and led to Black Lives Matter protests. We’ve seen law enforcement lie in the face of evidence because they expect to get away with it because they always get away with it.
All of our worst issues of the last 25 years have included villains who never paid any price:
* Iraq war (Cheney et al lies about WMDs)
* Financial crisis (banks bailed out, no consequences for leaders)
* Opioid crisis (Sacklers still super rich)
There has to be trials. IMO one of our biggest mistakes has not been holding powerful people accountable.
I know the idea of “better” policing is as old a demand as civil rights movements in this country, the impulse to call for it at this moment is so terribly cruel that it can only be understood as aligned with the terrorists.
Screenshot text: For perspective, a half-inch of ice on a 30-foot tree could add about 3,500 pounds of weight to it, Channel 2 meteorologist Ashley Kramlich explained. That is "equivalent to just over 400 gallons of milk," she added, "and then you factor in the winds, and it doesn't take much for these trees to come down."
oh yeah, 400 gallons of milk, now I get it
Unbeknownst to the public, a small group of officials from the city of Atlanta, the Atlanta Beltline and MARTA voted to stop all work on the Eastside Beltline light rail project more than six months ago: www.ajc.com/news/2026/01...
Everything I know about coyotes comes from www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRaF...
True, but there has never not been an off-ramp.
I mean, lots of the people that oppose Trump today, supported him before. Seriously. It's not even an issue.🤷🏿♂️
The issue is when people still want to hold onto the hate that lead them to support him, but want sympathy because they got burned too.
America has a housing shortage. Every single housing proposal you see that is not "build more housing" will have the primary effect of pushing up the prices of existing housing, and is therefore, in reality, a plan to enrich current homeowners. In conclusion, build more housing.
”Abolish ICE“ isn’t about “open borders” for most people, it’s about getting rid of an authoritarian secret police terrorizing cities.
But Smith’s first instinct is to imply we need ICE for immigration enforcement. Later he agrees we don’t!
Of course that can’t be it, we all know this country is a very long way from accepting open borders as a policy. My assumption is he’s playing defense against a bad-faith tactic that has been used against him.