That’s wild considering it had something like 8000+ upvotes.

Also… what is a Gr**per? Why is Pepe lonely? What does it have to do with volatility, political tension, and lots of guns? Another excellent explainer from TikTok via Reddit: www.reddit.com/r/TikTokCrin...

This post from @faineg.bsky.social from 7 months ago is more true than ever before. And, I’d add, get your @proton.me email account and toss in their excellent VPN.

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I am trying to reconcile this: “From its inception, Utah has aspired to be a sanctuary from the strife and sin and violence that scarred the rest of the country.” You didn’t gloss over, but ignored, the Utah Wars and the Mountain Meadows Massacre in particular, that took place not far from St George

I still have my sbcglobal account :)

No worries. There was a bit of ambiguity in my OP. I’m glad that I could clarify it.

In the early to mid 90s, Chicago had over 900 murders a year. There was a longterm decline that reversed in 2015. By 2016, up to 766 murders. Then 650 in 2017, ~550 in 2018. COVID spike interrupted declines and now we will lowest in decades. A truly remarkable effort.

Exactly. I was on a Biden transition committee focused on community gun violence. What we saw across the country was cities looking to restart their intervention work and struggling with the COVID police recruitment crisis. The Bipartisan Community Safety Act got $$ where it was needed.