Chris Orlic
@chris-orlic.bsky.social
Exploring the use of science & medicine to curtail crime in the 19th & 20th Century.
https://substack.com/@curingcrime
Also 20th history of biology (evolution, genetics).
Educator with focus on supporting teachers
& empowering students.
Visca El Barça
https://substack.com/@curingcrime
Also 20th history of biology (evolution, genetics).
Educator with focus on supporting teachers
& empowering students.
Visca El Barça
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When Trump wants to pardon a drug trafficker, befriend a terrorist, or praise a dictator because they did something to benefit him personally, when confronted with their past crimes he always either minimizes them or claims that they were treated unfairly. While Republicans just go along with it.
November 11, 2025 at 2:04 AM
When Trump wants to pardon a drug trafficker, befriend a terrorist, or praise a dictator because they did something to benefit him personally, when confronted with their past crimes he always either minimizes them or claims that they were treated unfairly. While Republicans just go along with it.
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The only political accomplishment out of this for Dems is that when health insurance skyrockets for 22 million Americans in 42 days, it will be clear to even low information voters that Republicans are the ones responsible. Whether that makes all this worth it remains to be seen.
November 10, 2025 at 1:30 AM
The only political accomplishment out of this for Dems is that when health insurance skyrockets for 22 million Americans in 42 days, it will be clear to even low information voters that Republicans are the ones responsible. Whether that makes all this worth it remains to be seen.
Good idea on the Dems
Democrats: Let’s reopen the government today, extend the health insurance subsidies for one year, then let the voters decide in the midterms if they want to extend them further or cancel them.
Republicans: HELL NO!!!
Republicans: HELL NO!!!
November 7, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Good idea on the Dems
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Good tweet-length summary from a conservative talk show host.
November 7, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Good tweet-length summary from a conservative talk show host.
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I don’t understand camps saying: Dems need to follow the Mamdani model to win the midterms; or Dems need to follow the Spanberger model to win. It’s a big country. Different approaches work in different places. Candidates who connect w/their specific constituencies is the model.
November 6, 2025 at 2:19 PM
I don’t understand camps saying: Dems need to follow the Mamdani model to win the midterms; or Dems need to follow the Spanberger model to win. It’s a big country. Different approaches work in different places. Candidates who connect w/their specific constituencies is the model.
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This is excellent on a rare example of Westminster success and what we can learn from it open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/h...
How to make government work
Lessons from a rare British success story
open.substack.com
November 5, 2025 at 9:21 AM
This is excellent on a rare example of Westminster success and what we can learn from it open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/h...
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On the ballot today:
-NYC: Mayor
-Minneapolis: Mayor
-VA: Governor, Lt. Governor, AG, and state House
-NJ: Governor
-PA: State Supreme Court
-GA: Public Service Commission
-TX: TX-18 U.S. House
-CA: Prop 50
This is a reminder of how crucial it is to vote up AND down the ballot.
-NYC: Mayor
-Minneapolis: Mayor
-VA: Governor, Lt. Governor, AG, and state House
-NJ: Governor
-PA: State Supreme Court
-GA: Public Service Commission
-TX: TX-18 U.S. House
-CA: Prop 50
This is a reminder of how crucial it is to vote up AND down the ballot.
November 4, 2025 at 6:03 PM
On the ballot today:
-NYC: Mayor
-Minneapolis: Mayor
-VA: Governor, Lt. Governor, AG, and state House
-NJ: Governor
-PA: State Supreme Court
-GA: Public Service Commission
-TX: TX-18 U.S. House
-CA: Prop 50
This is a reminder of how crucial it is to vote up AND down the ballot.
-NYC: Mayor
-Minneapolis: Mayor
-VA: Governor, Lt. Governor, AG, and state House
-NJ: Governor
-PA: State Supreme Court
-GA: Public Service Commission
-TX: TX-18 U.S. House
-CA: Prop 50
This is a reminder of how crucial it is to vote up AND down the ballot.
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A GREAT read. Please have a look…
“Most government policies remain based on hunches, what lawmakers say will work, rather than by testing various options to verify what works best. No experiments done, no evidence required.”
“Most government policies remain based on hunches, what lawmakers say will work, rather than by testing various options to verify what works best. No experiments done, no evidence required.”
Should we just give cash to homeless people? I wrote about what the evidence shows--and a London-based charity called Greater Change that has a simple, innovative way of making a difference:
Should we just give cash to the homeless?
A new charity is tackling homelessness with a simple approach. Does it work?
www.forkingpaths.co
October 29, 2025 at 7:22 AM
A GREAT read. Please have a look…
“Most government policies remain based on hunches, what lawmakers say will work, rather than by testing various options to verify what works best. No experiments done, no evidence required.”
“Most government policies remain based on hunches, what lawmakers say will work, rather than by testing various options to verify what works best. No experiments done, no evidence required.”
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Want to see how far right the Republican Party has gone?
Watch George H. W. Bush and Ronald Reagan answer a question about illegal immigration during a 1980 debate.
They wouldn’t even be allowed in today’s Republican Party.
Watch George H. W. Bush and Ronald Reagan answer a question about illegal immigration during a 1980 debate.
They wouldn’t even be allowed in today’s Republican Party.
October 26, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Want to see how far right the Republican Party has gone?
Watch George H. W. Bush and Ronald Reagan answer a question about illegal immigration during a 1980 debate.
They wouldn’t even be allowed in today’s Republican Party.
Watch George H. W. Bush and Ronald Reagan answer a question about illegal immigration during a 1980 debate.
They wouldn’t even be allowed in today’s Republican Party.
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It's this photo if you missed it, savaging the East Wing to make a vanity ballroom.
October 20, 2025 at 7:26 PM
It's this photo if you missed it, savaging the East Wing to make a vanity ballroom.
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Can you imagine if Keir Starmer got private companies that he had direct power over and rich donors who wanted deregulation to pay £250 million in donations to knock down part of Big Ben to make his own little special tower? Because that's what Trump is doing to the White House literally right now.
October 20, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Can you imagine if Keir Starmer got private companies that he had direct power over and rich donors who wanted deregulation to pay £250 million in donations to knock down part of Big Ben to make his own little special tower? Because that's what Trump is doing to the White House literally right now.
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If you come for my people, you come through me.
October 8, 2025 at 6:00 PM
If you come for my people, you come through me.
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Who knew that the British JAIL for History of Science was in the Leeds School of Philosophy? We'll keep you on the historiographical straight and narrow!
October 18, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Who knew that the British JAIL for History of Science was in the Leeds School of Philosophy? We'll keep you on the historiographical straight and narrow!
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“In what universe is the world’s richest Fascist funding the UK’s most prominent Fascist not a massive fucking story???!”
Well said, @sturdyalex.bsky.social
The lack of proper media coverage of Musk’s interference in British politics is a huge collective dereliction of journalistic duty.
Well said, @sturdyalex.bsky.social
The lack of proper media coverage of Musk’s interference in British politics is a huge collective dereliction of journalistic duty.
🏴 CAERPHILLY DOES IT
🧀 Caerphilly By-Election
🕵🏽 Chinese Spy Trial
💶 Nathan Gill bribes
✖️ Yaxley-Lennon's sugardaddy
🗳️ Senedd elections
With @sturdyalex.bsky.social, @pimlicat.bsky.social & special guest @lsrplaid.bsky.social.
🍊 open.spotify.com/episode/6A2o...
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🧀 Caerphilly By-Election
🕵🏽 Chinese Spy Trial
💶 Nathan Gill bribes
✖️ Yaxley-Lennon's sugardaddy
🗳️ Senedd elections
With @sturdyalex.bsky.social, @pimlicat.bsky.social & special guest @lsrplaid.bsky.social.
🍊 open.spotify.com/episode/6A2o...
🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/q...
Caerphilly Does It: Welsh Politics, Russian Bribes, & Chinese Spies
open.spotify.com
October 16, 2025 at 7:52 AM
“In what universe is the world’s richest Fascist funding the UK’s most prominent Fascist not a massive fucking story???!”
Well said, @sturdyalex.bsky.social
The lack of proper media coverage of Musk’s interference in British politics is a huge collective dereliction of journalistic duty.
Well said, @sturdyalex.bsky.social
The lack of proper media coverage of Musk’s interference in British politics is a huge collective dereliction of journalistic duty.
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my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements
we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)
www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...
we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)
www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...
Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports
CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.
www.consumerreports.org
October 14, 2025 at 4:37 PM
my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements
we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)
www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...
we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)
www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...
Many of the anxieties about #Italian #Immigrants in early 20th century America, sound eerily similar to some current anxieties about other immigrants.
They were said to be prone to criminality and other troubled behaviors.
www.curingcrime.com/p/old-fears-...
They were said to be prone to criminality and other troubled behaviors.
www.curingcrime.com/p/old-fears-...
Old Fears New Foes (4/5): The Onslaught of Criminals
Why Americans feared Italian Immigrants during the 1920s
www.curingcrime.com
October 14, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Many of the anxieties about #Italian #Immigrants in early 20th century America, sound eerily similar to some current anxieties about other immigrants.
They were said to be prone to criminality and other troubled behaviors.
www.curingcrime.com/p/old-fears-...
They were said to be prone to criminality and other troubled behaviors.
www.curingcrime.com/p/old-fears-...
These questions were part of an intelligence assessment.
I do not know the answers. I don’t think I anyone I know, would know (without looking them up).
I do not know the answers. I don’t think I anyone I know, would know (without looking them up).
October 14, 2025 at 8:15 PM
These questions were part of an intelligence assessment.
I do not know the answers. I don’t think I anyone I know, would know (without looking them up).
I do not know the answers. I don’t think I anyone I know, would know (without looking them up).
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Of all the excuses not to show up to work while still collecting a paycheck, refusing to show up for 2 months so you can conceal info about sex trafficking because the perps are wealthy and powerful can only be conjured up in the toxic mind hive of Trump & House GOP leadership.
October 13, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Of all the excuses not to show up to work while still collecting a paycheck, refusing to show up for 2 months so you can conceal info about sex trafficking because the perps are wealthy and powerful can only be conjured up in the toxic mind hive of Trump & House GOP leadership.
“We argue that pre-existing anxieties about certain immigrants and not concerns about their biological worth made the passing of this Act possible. Among these was the economic threat which Italian immigrants posed.”
www.curingcrime.com/p/old-fears-...
www.curingcrime.com/p/old-fears-...
Old Fears New Foes (3/5): An Economic Threat
Immigrant Radicals Take American jobs
www.curingcrime.com
October 12, 2025 at 1:14 PM
“We argue that pre-existing anxieties about certain immigrants and not concerns about their biological worth made the passing of this Act possible. Among these was the economic threat which Italian immigrants posed.”
www.curingcrime.com/p/old-fears-...
www.curingcrime.com/p/old-fears-...
1900s:
US Concerns about new immigrants were often rooted in a fear that America could not assimilate them.
- Italians lived in what Americans considered undesirable conditions.
- Italians seen as no intention of assimilating
#History #Immigration
www.curingcrime.com/p/old-fears-...
US Concerns about new immigrants were often rooted in a fear that America could not assimilate them.
- Italians lived in what Americans considered undesirable conditions.
- Italians seen as no intention of assimilating
#History #Immigration
www.curingcrime.com/p/old-fears-...
Old Fears New Foes (2/5): Immigrants Do Not Assimilate
Why were Italians seen as a “very degraded and ignorant population”
www.curingcrime.com
October 12, 2025 at 1:14 PM
1900s:
US Concerns about new immigrants were often rooted in a fear that America could not assimilate them.
- Italians lived in what Americans considered undesirable conditions.
- Italians seen as no intention of assimilating
#History #Immigration
www.curingcrime.com/p/old-fears-...
US Concerns about new immigrants were often rooted in a fear that America could not assimilate them.
- Italians lived in what Americans considered undesirable conditions.
- Italians seen as no intention of assimilating
#History #Immigration
www.curingcrime.com/p/old-fears-...
“During the 1920s, Americans became increasingly concerned abt the biological quality of immigrants, resulting in the most restrictive Immigration Act ever enacted. Earlier concerns were economic in nature,& the focus on biological worth demands an explanation.”
www.curingcrime.com/p/old-fears-...
www.curingcrime.com/p/old-fears-...
Old Fears New Foes (1/5): New Reasons to Worry About Immigration
Scientists provided biological arguments to justify rejecting certain immigrants.
www.curingcrime.com
October 12, 2025 at 1:11 PM
“During the 1920s, Americans became increasingly concerned abt the biological quality of immigrants, resulting in the most restrictive Immigration Act ever enacted. Earlier concerns were economic in nature,& the focus on biological worth demands an explanation.”
www.curingcrime.com/p/old-fears-...
www.curingcrime.com/p/old-fears-...
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BREAKING: Judge William Young, a Reagan appointee, delivers the most scathing legal rebuke of the Trump era, ruling that Trump and his cabinet illegally targeted pro-Palestinian students for deportation to "strike fear" into First Amendment protesters. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
September 30, 2025 at 5:03 PM
BREAKING: Judge William Young, a Reagan appointee, delivers the most scathing legal rebuke of the Trump era, ruling that Trump and his cabinet illegally targeted pro-Palestinian students for deportation to "strike fear" into First Amendment protesters. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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AOC: We should be clear about who Charlie Kirk was. A man who believed that the civil rights act that granted black Americans the right to vote was a mistake… His rhetoric and beliefs were ignorant, uneducated, and sought to disenfranchise millions of Americans.
September 19, 2025 at 4:19 PM
AOC: We should be clear about who Charlie Kirk was. A man who believed that the civil rights act that granted black Americans the right to vote was a mistake… His rhetoric and beliefs were ignorant, uneducated, and sought to disenfranchise millions of Americans.