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The CDC's batshit crazy advisory on "accidental fentanyl exposure" (that only impacts cops).
Arctic Blasted: Drugs & Dreams
Group to sell marijuana while drug testing poor people.
NYPD solves only 17% of larcenies but let's blame bail reform!
The US Right despises bravery because they're scared of everything.
Spoiled tech bros need a history lesson.
The five most disgusting prison meals.
What is even going on with cop 'fentanyl exposure' stories at this point?
The DEA is screwing all of us over.
Watch cops grab man's junk in NYPD propaganda video.
The stupid 'Twitter Files' show how wrong our priorities are.
NYC paramedic demolishes Eric Adams' dangerous new policy.
What happens when your Dad spends 25 years in prison for marijuana.
Justice and public safety go hand in hand.
What our politicians should learn from Michael Thompson.
Blood-Soaked Mayor Adams Announces Homelessness No Longer A Problem In New York City
Alcohol is the worst drug (when Americans drink it)
Alex Berenson: Dumb or grifter?
How police hold our democracy hostage.
Bodies bodies bodies: Happy Halloween from the New York Times.
Reform DAs—tired or wired? A debate with Nancy Rommelmann
The Real Reason for Colorful Fentanyl
A study in prohibition: Why world cup fans will be even drunker.
Elizabeth Holmes can redeem herself by exposing the cruelty of the system.
Russia is doing to Aleksei Navalny what America does to teenagers.
F*ck off Howard Wolfson: How "liberal" media hurts liberal causes.
Corrupt DEA Unit Laundered Drug Money
DEA: Drug dealers stuffing turkeys with fentanyl.
Eric Adams blames bail reform for everything—here are 4 cases where he was wrong or lied.
How many billions does NYPD need to catch rapists?
Midterms: Drug Policy Wins & Losses
Bad news for the "tough-on-crime" crowd.
People will literally die if Lee Zeldin is elected.
Our whole stupid discourse—liberal and conservative—summed up in one Fox News clip.
Why is MSNBC spouting Fox News talking points to get a Trumpist elected?
GOP and Dems unite to exploit grieving mother over bail and the "dangerousness" standard.
Blame Overdoses on Syringe Programs? Classic.
Dear NPR: Here's how to investigate crime instead of parroting what Republicans say.
After Halloween, Rainbow Fentanyl Disappears
The Vivitrol vs Suboxone Debate
There's no drug that makes you hit Nancy Pelosi's husband with a hammer.
I fixed the Democrats' messaging problem on crime.
Fewer cops. Better infrastructure.
NYPD needs another billion dollars to catch crazy guy with stick.
How Worried Should You be About Fentanyl in the Drug Supply?
HISTORIC DRUG BUST: Police seize enough fentanyl to kill every person on earth.
The Joker's Plot to Poison Halloween Candy
Oklahoma has more murders than New York.
Corporate media's drug and crime coverage sucks.
Are Republicans stupid about fentanyl? Or do they think voters are stupid?
Why are pundits obsessed with crime when voters aren't?
Why is nothing ever the police's fault?
The Economist: "Legalize Cocaine"
The Ferguson Effect is B.S.—Why do Smart People™ buy it?
What's Really Going on with Oregon's Drug Decriminalization?
Cowards on the 'left' and right unite!
We don't care about sexual assault.
Why hasn't 'Tough' DA Brooke Jenkins charged a man who attacked woman jogger?
Sentenced to 999 years for 1 robbery. Now he's dead.
Dank Brandon: a few questions about Biden's pot pardons.
Yes, Drug Users Are “Rational”
Beatings, stabbing, 'fentanyl sandwiches': Alabama's response to prison strike.
Alabama starving prisoners to end strike.
Are we wrong about the politics of crime?
Gavin Newsom: If I greenlight torture everyone will forget about the French Laundry.
Cops wait 3 hours to respond to 911 calls as a woman was being murdered. Media blames bail.
Why don't crim justice reporters talk to people in the crim justice system?
Critics of Drug Decrim and Forced Treatment
DEA: Drug dealers pushing deadly peanut butter fentanyl to children.
The Atlantic publishes 100,000th article about reform DAs.
173% jump in arrests for turnstile jumping under Eric Adams—feeling safe?
New White House Action on Drug Policy
Escape and Retaliation Inside Texas Prisons
"I'm a liberal, but ... " How rightwing lies have infested liberal crime discourse.
NYPD counter-terrorism spent millions saving Pineapple the dog this year.
This DA put a 16-year-old girl in solitary for a month for sending a selfie.
GOP presidential hopeful is a human trafficker.
Former progressive shakes fist at cloud, prison abolition.
The flat-earthers of crime discourse.
The flat-earthers of crime discourse.
Tough-on-crime DA let a man walk after rape and battery. He just beheaded his ex-girlfriend.
After gruesome beheading, critics wonder if the tough-on-crime DA movement undermines public safety.
CNN: Criminal justice reformers went back in time to coddle criminals who kill in the future.
Police are the biggest taxpayer rip-off.
Long prison sentences might cause—not prevent— violent crime.
Is NYPD lying about Rameek Smith's death?
The Rhetorical Pitfalls of Harm Reduction
Embattled DA Brooke Jenkins fails to prosecute drugged up, window-smashing vagrants
"Maniac" who went around assaulting "innocent people" placed in jail facility with kids.
"Progressive" outraged that homeless man got off too easy with $5,000 bail.
Behind Harper's, The Opioid Prescribing "Debate" and Other Stuff
Carcereal "Leftists?" No thanks.
The—truly—shocking reasons police are so bad at solving rape cases.
95% of NYPD use of force incidents are against young Black and Hispanic men.
Are dogs in San Francisco getting addicted to meth from poop? An investigation.
Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg commits to bringing back firing squads.
Dr. Carl Hart & The Case for Full Drug Legalization
The NYPD continues to arrest people (of color) for weed—despite legalization.
Congratulations, ghouls, you broke Chesa Boudin.
Will Dems campaign on repro rights or keep kissing up to police?
Fox news just blasting out anti-semitic conspiracy theories about George Soros now.
Female reporter way too hot to cover state murder
Eric Adams tasks NYPD unit accused of kicking a woman with a newborn baby with ending homelessness.
Walmart is Rejecting Prescriptions and Screwing Over Patients With Addiction
Joe Biden unites nation with police funding bill.
Weird—police abuse doesn't seem to stem violent crime.
Democrat and Republican strike rare bipartisan deal to blame everything on bail reform.
Trumpification of all politics: The Lee Zeldin mess should be a career ender. Instead it's a boost.
Congressman Lee Zeldin has PTSD flashback after seeing little girl's Hello Kitty backpack.
"Lucky to be Alive": Sheriff's Deputy Rushed to Hospital After Accidental Fentanyl Exposure
The faux progressivism of cities where real estate and cop unions rule.
SWAT officer overdoses during drug raid after touching elevator button doused in fentanyl. (Satire)
Black people are almost 7 times more likely to be roughed up by NYPD than white New Yorkers.
Now we get to murder women who get abortions.
"Progressive" DA so progressive Sean Hannity ❤️'s her.
Why are fascists like Putin and Tucker Carlson obsessed with drugs?
Zach on why cops are snorting Narcan like cocaine after bogus "fentanyl exposure"
That Time Freud Cured Sherlock Holmes' Cocaine Addiction
DEA head: We just seized the last batch of fentanyl in the U.S.
Why the drug war doesn't work, in one paragraph.
Will abortion bans make rich people care about our dystopian criminal justice system?
Why do so many buy bogus fentanyl exposure overdoses?
What happened when Switzerland gave prisoners heroin.
"Just One Touch": A Police Training Manual for Accidental Fentanyl Exposure
Maia Szalavitz on the toxic "cult" of tough love that's shaped addiction recovery for decades.
Off-duty police officer overdoses after grabbing bowling ball with fentanyl in the finger holes.
What Zach's Reading & Watching While Sick With Covid
"Heck yes!" Eric Adams responds to two fatal police shootings in one night.
New York man gets 30 years in prison after cops shoot each other in a 'friendly fire' incident.
GOAT Maureen Dowd's night out with Batman.
How did an anti-pot nitwit become an anti-vax nitwit? An investigation.
'Progressive' DA charges drug overdoses as murders, seeks 120 year sentence.
How the NYPD defines rape is bonkers—and so is their abysmal clearance rate.
'It was nice while it lasted,' homeless people on the return of law and order in San Francisco
Happy 4th! Man faces 3 years for throwing a hot dog at a cop.
Officer starts to scream and vomit after skin exposure to highly potent marijuana candy
Will police and prosecutors start treating pregnant women like sex workers?
Crime Stoppers reports a 333% increase in child murders!
How conservatives are exploiting fentanyl to trounce progressives and moderate Democrats both.
This graph shows just how much Missouri AG Eric Schmitt cares about 'innocent life.'
Police Lieutenant: Cops should have no role in personal health decisions.
Cop running for Congress: Rape can't result in pregnancy because I only saw it happen one time.
Women aren't safe anywhere right-wing DAs rule— even in the bluest states
The SupCo just greenlit a massive expansion of the carcereal state (and possibly civil war)
Remember when Mike Bloomberg tried to ban big sodas? Dems who want to ban Juul don't seem to.
Stoner beware: Marijuana is one million percent more potent than your father's weed!
Why is liberal 'prestige' media revolting against criminal justice reform?
There are at least 7 lies in this Washington Post editorial on criminal justice and Boudin
New research: Over 500,000 people could die of opioid overdoses by 2032
Can DAs be 'good at P.R.' without selling out?
What happened when my neighbors reluctantly called the cops
If you're so scared of the city move to the suburbs
Actually, Chesa Boudin was voted out in the richest, whitest areas of San Francisco
Media coverage of drugs and crime is atrocious—help us fight the mainstream narrative.
The message on crime is 'millionaires suck' and 'cancel your subscription to the Times'
It takes 59 seconds to look up crime stats—why don't reporters do it?
Real Time Bill Maher: Michael Shellenberger defends Uvalde police and forced institutionalization
Oh good, Elon Musk just endorsed a billionaire 'tough-on-crime' mall tycoon
DARE 2.0 is "Keepin' it Real" in US schools
'I've been beaten up by them': How police abuse sex workers they claim to save.
Cop Talk 101: A beginner's guide to police bureaucratese
Police prove they've still got it by shooting an unarmed pregnant woman 5 times
Democrat thinks cops don't have enough weapons
What if we diverted the billions we spend on policing on a massive gun buy-back program?
What's 'controversial' about overdose prevention centers?
Eric Adams thanks God he's mayor as second subway shooter eludes police and crime spikes
What if a 58-year-old woman drank as much as Johnny Depp?
What if a 58-year-old woman drank like Johnny Depp?
How did right-wing lies infect left-wing San Francisco?
The Atlantic publishes an idiotic hit job on Chesa Boudin ahead of recall
The falsehoods lobbed at Chesa Boudin are insane—if voters believe them we're all screwed.
Bari Weiss hones in on real victim of our racial politics: an old white man.
Finally! Jordan Peterson has figured out what causes addiction
Yes, Glenn Greenwald, Nancy Pelosi is an 'anti-police' radical
Why did the NYPD strip search a fruit vendor?
America's mass incarceration blind spot is a public health disaster waiting to happen
Shut up about San Francisco! Bill Maher is the latest to fearmonger about crime in the city
Is the NYPD lying about the police shooting of Rameek Smith?
Overdose Deaths Break Records in 2021 (Again)
Eric Adams' Broken Churros Theory
More Detective Olivia Benson, less Detectives 'Bullethead' and 'Assman' on police forces.
It's not just the New York Times op-ed page that sucks
What is "recovery" from drug addiction?
Florida put an innocent man in prison for 30 years because of his name and false ID
Our super pro-life Supreme Court refuses to stop two executions
The crazy ex-NYPD cop who turned violent Jan. 6th has a cleaner record than many top detectives
Why our new overlord Elon Musk is wrong about drugs
When 'rehab' sets people up to die.
Biden's clemency order is a lesson in how little we've learned to expect
Colorado House Democrats Vote to Make Fentanyl Possession a Felony
"You can't pull in air": When you walk into your child's bedroom and they've overdosed
"You can't pull in air": When you walk into your child's bedroom and they've overdosed
What is the White House doing about overdose deaths?
Is addiction really a lifelong brain disease?
Why doesn't Joe Biden just legalize weed?
Jury selection is wildly racist.
Catholics and the death penalty.
What critics of defund get so, so wrong about US police
US slams 'authoritarian' Cuba for poor prison conditions and solitary confinement.
Colorado House Democrats Vote to Make Fentanyl Possession a Felony
Wanna stop people from doing bad drugs? Give them good drugs.
Teenagers use drugs less, but more are dying from overdoses
Meet the DA charging a woman with murder for an alleged abortion
WWJD? Jesus definitely would terrorize homeless people
Imagine if a progressive lawmaker saw a 44% spike in crime in their city?
How the US Drug Supply Became an Ungodly Synthetic Cocktail of Death
Are drug induced homicide cases the most boneheaded response to the opioid crisis?
Police Panic: Why Fentanyl Gives Cops "The Vapors"
Mississippi solves the overdose crisis by sending one drug dealer to prison for 124 years
This prosecutor stole 25 years from two innocent men
This prosecutor stole 25 years from two innocent men
A Dangerous Shift in the Street Drug Supply: What to Know About Xylazine
The Drug Supply is Contaminated!
Committed police reformer Eric Adams defends cop who lied under oath to send a kid to prison
Help us fight disinfo about drugs and crime
Cops brazenly lied to put 16-yr-old in jail
Meet the NYPD officer with 100 civilian complaints
WATCH: Q&A with Maia Szalavitz
Q&A: "The Media Loves Itself Some Drug War"
"Jump out boys": Deep dive into the NYPD plainclothes unit
What everybody misses about 'tough-on-crime' prosecutors
New Study: Major Shortage of Naloxone in Nearly Every U.S. State
Your good friends the cops want to help you get back at your ex
Pain Patients and Doctors React to New CDC Opioid Prescribing Guidelines
The United States had 1,055 fatal police shootings last year. Britain had 1.
White House Caves to Right Wing Smear Against "Crack Pipes"
Drug ODs spiked in Norway during Covid, and they did something about it!
Watch: Debate with Manhattan Institute fellow Charles Fain Lehman
New York Times overcounts NYC shootings by 300 in a column praising Adams, bashing progressives
The lies fueling tough-on-crime hysteria would make Trump blush
The New York Times' subtle fearmongering might be worse than the trashiest tabloids
Crime Stoppers: NYC to stem gun violence by promoting snitching for cash
Bari Weiss is very, very wrong—and she's helping fuel the backlash against reform
Judge decries America's "off the rails" punishment regime
"Anarchy!" Conservatives lose their minds over moderate criminal reform
Conservative District Attorney slams progressive DAs—even as her own city drowns in crime
"Excited Delirium": Women's Murders Blamed on Sex and Cocaine
“Open Borders” & “China,” How Politicians Duck Responsibility and Cast Blame for Overdose Crisis
Eric Adams was beaten by cops from the 103rd precinct—what makes him think he can make them stop?
💉🍪🍁💩 The DEA Guide to Drug Emojis
“We’re doomed!” How panic over progressive DAs masks the poor records of conservative prosecutors