Nick Wing

This (unsurprisingly) tracks with what @docjorich & @che_bullock laid out over 3 years ago in this article for @theappeal, based on direct conversations with the at-risk young men most directly impacted by this rising violence. https://t.co/k2DDvmXe3n

Alec MacGillis @AlecMacGillis

Really important, deeply researched new @BrookingsInst paper showing that the huge 2020-2022 homicide surge began in April 2020, before the Floyd murder and unrest weeks later, suggesting that pandemic stress and closures played a major role, even before onset of "Floyd effect." https://t.co/ThVLwwQy65

How do people think this would have gone, exactly? Kamala goes on Rogan, eats an eighth of shrooms, trips balls live on air, flips millions of votes and wins the election?

Anna Nicolaou @annaknicolaou

new: a Kamala campaign adviser explains why she didn't go on Joe Rogan: https://t.co/1OUv3lheJJ from @FTJFranklin & me https://t.co/OgKyLQVGax

Who would have thought that the genius political strategy of "trying to win on the strength of your *opponent's* ideas" would continue to fail so miserably for Democrats?

Jerry Iannelli @jerryiannelli

Wrote about how four years of “Fund the Police!” did zero for the Democrats except legitimize GOP talking points, depress Dem voter turnout, hand Trump a well-funded police state, and make the world a crueler, more violent place. An abject failure. https://t.co/MJuaXSJBCH

RT @theappeal: Today is the first day of NewsMatch, an @INN program that helps nonprofit newsrooms like The Appeal increase capacity. From…

tired: shithole countries wired: shithole towns

Acyn @Acyn

Trump: They do not speak a word of English. This isn’t what we are all about… Springfield, Ohio. We had beautiful little town and now it is horrible. https://t.co/4gAdmyd5YU

Force Majeure [2024]

Aren't these inflated Polymarket numbers just an obvious ploy by Elon/Thiel to hedge their Trump bets by finessing MAGA true believers into buying super high on Trump, ensuring a massive payday if Kamala wins? I can't be the only one saying this, right? https://t.co/2Pik3t2V4Y

RT @EthanSCorey: New from @elizabethweill (with assists from @megoconnor13 and I): More than 20,000 people are incarcerated in Florida pris…

Some personal news: Tomorrow is my first day at LEAP (@PoliceForReform) where I'll be strategic comms director. Lots of feelings about leaving full-time work in journalism again, but I'm an @theappeal stan for life and they're not getting rid of me that easily! More there soon.

But is America ready for a bearded VP?

A Secret Service source is reportedly now saying the shooter was "flagged in the security process" as he tried to enter the rally (with a rifle?), but that "officers lost him in the crowd as they tried to follow him." https://t.co/3AvEGRsdGA