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Julia the beautiful—murderous camp guard.

We dehumanize Palestinians like breathing.

John Fetterman is a psychotic extremist not a moderate

This should be Eric Adams' biggest scandal

Why is the New York Times campaigning for Donald Trump?

'How to glide into fascism,' featuring Democrats, Republicans, and our dumb media.

When the FBI made up a fake Black man to splinter the Left over antisemitism.

The "moderate maverick" What? F that.

And the Elise Stefanik award goes to ...

I'm resigning as president of Harvard.

Here's how to know you're on the wrong side of history.

"You can't murder a revolution."

'Island of Death': I went to the Gulag that doesn't exist.

When will Dana Bash unequivocally condemn sexual assault of Palestinian prisoners?

Man and his search for meaning on TikTok

Gigi Hadid forced to grovel for taking issue with kids in jail.

You judge a society by its prisons not its rainbow flags.

They stood up to Hitler and saved 50K lives.

The kids in Israeli military jail.

What really might swing the election to Trump.

TikTok challenge! TikTok users vs. Atlantic readers

Eric Adams would like for New York to have its very own Skid Row.

Bari Weiss's clash of civilizations.

Farewell post from Zach

Cops, cops, cops always more cops.

A Democrat just said something moral and smart.

We're policing speech with the literal police.

Congratulations, your smear got a public defender fired.

The kids are never going to forget.

For the love of God elect Elvis Presley's cousin in Mississippi.

It's the police who failed to stop the Maine shooter.

Is this the end of 'Lesser evil?' politics? Hope it was worth it, boomers.

Don't let right-wing freaks hijack the moment to bash refugees, please.

How's it going in the Bronx while Rep. Ritchie Torres yells about Israel on Twitter?

Bari Weiss: "True courage" is letting rich people decide who's allowed to come to college campuses.

You don't have a problem with migrants—unless you're a craven, lizard person politician

It's a small world after all! (white women in peril)

Dispatch from Egypt! (We're doomed).

Harmanli, Bulgaria: Refugees aren't the problem, they're the solution.

Cops drugging people with ketamine to fix a condition that ... doesn't exist

Are murderers cool if they're into drugs? An investigation.

Aramark, private equity, and gross prison sludge.

Yeah Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher aren't the problem here.

Yes, defund the fucking police.

Should people protesting asylum seekers burn in Hell for eternity? An investigation.

We don't have a migrant crisis we have a shitty politicians crisis

The 'Proud Boys' sentencing recommendations are insane.

Porn, sex work, serial killers.

Is Ron DeSantis the dumbest man on earth? An investigation.

Buy candy from a refugee.

Pamela Paul, it's OK to buy lube.

'After You Left': a poem by the father of Christina Yuna Lee

"Suck my d*ck!" The 'riot' in union square.

America cuts off its nose to spite its face

Reform DA = Everyone discovers crime.

Why the right-wing is so mad about Barbie.

Let's keep blaming reformers for everything and police for nothing.

Christina Yuna Lee and police inaction.

Hegelian dialectics and please shut up about "men in crisis"

Why is cocaine still illegal?

"Stranger Danger" and the decline of free childhood.

New NYPD commissioner's sordid history.

Brave Ron DeSantis bravely dares to go to San Francisco.

Yes, defund the NYPD—Here's what I mean by that.

Are cops the same everywhere?

Here's what happened when I made Tennessee cops mad and they put me in jail.

Scientology is awful. Rape is awful. 30 years to life for rape is not the answer.

Ron DeSantis is twisted. And yes, he'd be worse than Trump.

What would you do if you heard a woman screaming for help? Nothing, if you're in the NYPD.

NY Post: Are Daniel Penny's eyes cerulean or azure?

Her father went to prison for life for $20 of marijuana. Now she's homeless.

Who's the biggest 'Narc'? An investigation.

Ross Douthat is a loser narc.

Why you should carry dollar bills to give to homeless people.

Right-wing propaganda from CNN is exactly what we don't need.

A shocking idea to stop mentally ill homeless people from wigging out on the train.

Hey geniuses, cars are literally 100 times more dangerous than homeless people on the train.

How to make a Molotov Cocktail, according to the NYPD.

America's new War (of) Terror.

It was only a matter of time.

Texas shooting victims called 911 six times. No one came.

Maybe we should defund the police because they don't do anything.

Maybe Tucker Carlson should take a shot of bear spray to the face.

John Mulaney: Addiction is Actually Very Funny

Liberal spits on tortured kid's corpse to appease right-wing tabloids.

Watch: Crime dispatch #1: A conversation about depressing shit with Nancy Rommelmann.

US jails are torture factories.

Does Marjorie Taylor Greene care more about political advancement or helping her incarcerated constituents? An investigation.

Please stop platforming right-wingers with empty arguments.

NYPD starved of resources only gets fleet of robots.

The politics of angry white people with guns.

Watch: Maggots falling from the ceiling in US prison.

Great news! Bret Stephens figured out crime.

Ron DeSantis to campaign on waterboarding Minnie Mouse

Is the NYT Op-ed page anarchist performance art? An investigation.

The real monsters are at the NRA convention.

Why is David Brooks a moron? An investigation.

Man eaten alive by bed bugs in jail. WTF is wrong with America?

How's crime going in Jim Jordan's district as he frets about Manhattan public safety?

Watch cops just blithely torture a man to death.

"Sweeping" Homeless Encampments Leads to More Overdose Deaths, Study Finds

Right-wingers keep smearing San Francisco to invalidate progressive policy.

What's wrong with the Meth Poop Lady? An investigation.

Has judge Kacsmaryk ever watched porn in breach of the 1873 Comstack Act? An investigation.

No, San Francisco is not Thunderdome.

Yes, MSNBC sucks. So does Matt Taibbi. It's all a big pile of Trump derangement syndrome.

New York Times kinda, vaguely, sorta admits that maybe Willie Horton tactics don't always work.

I wish MeToo had become a labor movement.

Dispatch from the sad spectacle of Trump's "resistance" on his sad, humiliating day.

JFC a glass of wine isn't going go kill you.

The NY Post is Fox News for NYC and should be set on fire.

Yes, there is a viable vision for defund and abolish.

Let's treat everyone like the crazy MAGA knife lady.

Desperate DeSantis considers affair with Jenna Jameson.

The other war on US children.

Is the New Yorker on drugs? An investigation.

The erasure of US history is the second biggest national sin.

Is Sam Quinones on meth? An investigation.

What if we gave mentally ill people cell phones instead of putting them in jail?

You Can't Blame Homelessness on Addiction

Recall SF DA Brooke Jenkins!

Kids are going to do drugs. Let's keep them alive anyway.

The NYPD operates with even more impunity than before.

The magical thinking of police reform.

In Rehab, a Nurse Denied Me Buprenorphine

Why is Ron DeSantis letting murderers and rapists run wild in the streets?

Police, prosecutors, judge all knew they were sending the wrong man to prison for 25 years.

The War on Drugs Meets The War on Terror

"Soft-on-crime' right-wing AG goes after women's medicine and doctors instead of violent crime.

Some thoughts on "That's Just the Way It Is"

The ideological movement devoted to dehumanizing people struggling with addiction.

Check out the inspiring original Rainbow Coalition founded by Fred Hampton before the government murdered him.

Activist Tracey Helton Reflects on 25 Years Sober

$6 million is the price we pay so cops can beat and kettle protestors.

The GOP's fentanyl theory makes zero sense. And it's spread like wildfire.

The right-wingers in the bluest cities.

Why are we happy that more teens don't drink or have sex?

A Typology of Harm Reduction Critics

New York Times: "Won't somebody PLEASE think of the children buying bodega weed."

Alabama wants $13 million to prevent prisoners from talking to their children.

Why People Use Xylazine

Percocet Pigeons: The Alarming Rise of Animal Drug Addiction.

We can let most women out of prison with no threat to public safety.

Social panics never solve anything: a discussion about drug war propaganda.

Why are Kids Suffering so Much?

Cop who beat 14-year-old girl part of crew that fondled and beat women.

US gov't to solve fentanyl crisis with nifty slogan and war with China.

Where does Dazzle the goldendoodle get so much free weed? An investigation.

Sometimes you need drugs, not yoga.

The death penalty in its utter pointlessness.

The Fentanyl Withdrawal from Hell

Let's fix US policing with shorter vacations.

Eric Adams: We have to put migrants in storage lockers because we spent all the money on NYPD lawsuits.

Paramedic: EMS Acted as Agents of Police in Tyre Nichols' Death

Why do we have to watch police beat a man to death to know there's a problem?

The obscene funhouse mirror of US policing.

"This Aint Your Grandpa's Weed..."

Rethinking blue and red. Also more women, please.

Will the Tyre Nichols nightmare finally expose US policing as broken beyond repair?

Despair for All

Despair for All -- Will be Published Later

Eric Adams determined to confirm right-wing cliches about liberal hypocrisy.

The drug war, in one chart.

Whole town overdoses after accidental fentanyl exposure.

America's Drug War: 6 people, including a baby, killed "execution style"

What Will Scheduling Xylazine Accomplish?

Feeling lonely? Get a pen pal.

Joe Rogan is a total idiot—George Soros edition.

Enter the Void: Drugs & Vibes in America

"Joe Biden supports opium dens"

Rainbows and Xylazine

The Hanging Judge.

Capitalism at its most disgusting: parasitic private providers.

Cops cost city $165,000 for beating homeless man.

99 years for a murder he didn't commit.

Police to solve gun violence by prohibiting going outside.

Hooray, legal pot! Will cops stop arresting people for pot possession now?