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  1. @danielsugarman.bsky.social

    Have been sent an astonishing letter from the Met, excoriating in its view of the Early Release Scheme introduced this year by the Government. It highlights the case of a prolific shoplifter & sex offender, released on Thursday, who seems to have gone directly on a crime spree.

    As elected representatives and partners, you will be aware that the criminal justice system is under severe and growing pressure - which has built over the past few years under successive Governments. The impact of that, primarily on victims, is striking – they are increasingly likely to withdraw from the criminal justice process because of delays; the Crown Court backlog has more than doubled since 2019. They are also losing confidence in a system that is not handling offenders and suspects adequately: tagging orders are not being strictly enforced and dangerous people are frequently being released on bail. In this context, it is concerning that the Early Release Scheme, introduced through the Sentencing Act 2026, will place more people within the community to serve the remainder of their sentence. While recognising the challenges facing the Government over prison capacity, the Met has repeatedly raised concerns that placing more criminals within the community comes with significant risks to victims and places more costs onto policing. In this latest example, last Thursday, a prolific shoplifter and registered sex offender was released as part of this scheme from HMP Wandsworth. He was serving a sentence for shoplifting and breaching his criminal behaviour order and has subsequently been arrested following further offending within north-west London. This individual had been assessed as a high-risk offender by the Probation Service and had 16 previous convictions linked to more than 100 investigations, including multiple thefts, criminal damage and an incident of indecent exposure. While I am sure it is not surprising that someone with this history went on to reoffend, the speed with which he did so, and the impact on frontline policing, is astonishing. Just one day after his release, he was captured on CCTV stealing from two supermarkets in north-west London. When local neighbourhood officers visited the stores, staff reported that he had continued shoplifting …View full-size image

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    As elected representatives and partners, you will be aware that the criminal justice system is under severe and growing pressure - which has built over the past few years under

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    successive Governments. The impact of that, primarily on victims, is striking – they are increasingly likely to withdraw from the criminal justice process because of delays; the Crown Court backlog has more than doubled since 2019. They are also losing confidence in a system that is not handling offenders and suspects adequately: tagging orders are not being strictly enforced and dangerous people are frequently being released on bail. In this context, it is concerning that the Early Release Scheme, introduced through the Sentencing Act 2026, will place more people within the community to serve the remainder of their sentence. While recognising the challenges facing the Government over prison capacity, the Met has repeatedly raised concerns that placing more criminals within the community comes with significant risks to victims and places more costs onto policing. In this latest example, last Thursday, a prolific shoplifter and registered sex offender was released as part of this scheme from HMP Wandsworth. He was serving a sentence for shoplifting and breaching his criminal behaviour order and has subsequently been arrested following further offending within north-west London. This individual had been assessed as a high-risk offender by the Probation Service and had 16 previous convictions linked to more than 100 investigations, including multiple thefts, criminal damage and an incident of indecent exposure. While I am sure it is not surprising that someone with this history went on to reoffend, the speed with which he did so, and the impact on frontline policing, is astonishing. Just one day after his release, he was captured on CCTV stealing from two supermarkets in north-west London. When local neighbourhood officers visited the stores, staff reported that he had continued shoplifting …

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  2. @timcarvell.bsky.social

    I went to check on the latest House and Senate polls and hadn't realized I must still have a bookmark for the NYT's polling page from 2016, because this is what came up, and it's (a) an amazing jump-scare; and (b) honestly a pretty good reminder to approach polls with caution.

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    NYT's pre-2016 election polling page declaring Hillary Clinton has an 85% chance to win.

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  3. @basicbc.bsky.social

    Like Stockton led to Mayors for a Guaranteed Income. It just works. It works despite what they say. "They say a lot don't they?" Mia Marsellus "They certainly do, they certainly do..." Vincent Vega

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  4. @sampfeifle.bsky.social

    The huge amount of money being spent on races makes things almost impossible for downballot candidates. Knock on doors? There have been 10 Collins/Jackson canvassers there before me and now people are pissy. Send mailers? I literally got 9 of them in my mailbox yesterday.

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  5. @DecaturNature@theatl.social

    I'm still mulling the ballot question about nonpartisan judges races. I used to a real election-system nerd, so I wonder what this reform will get us. First, DeKalb and about 2/3 of GA counties already uses the nonpartisan option. I'm glad for that - partisan primaries are harmful in electorates that heavily favor one party -- the primary is the real election, and many voters are excluded.

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    However, in balanced electorates, primary elections let the general public contribute to narrowing the filed to two main candidates, rather than leaving it to party insiders. The runoff elections addresses that problem to some extent (it's not essential to coordinate a majority before the election). But even with runoffs, I wonder if the 'nonpartisan' election addresses the problems that it's backers say it does (avoiding incentive/perception of partisanship). I think I'd love to see a Condorcet system for electing judges. sgp.jhu.edu/primers/condorcet-… #Georgia #elections #judiciary

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  6. @jeffroushwriting.bsky.social

    I am hopeful that years from now the jurisprudence of Samuel Alito is pushed to the same corners as Plessy and Korematsu. His notion that “religious freedom” requires elevating a brand of Christianity above criticism turns the First Amendment on its head. abcnews.com/Politics/thr...

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  7. @IHender@mas.to

    I see on Facebook and other social media that some people are expressing concern that some Liberal MPs in Toronto (all 24 Toronto MPs are Liberal) have endorsed the right-wing candidate for Mayor, Brad Bradford, in the #TorontoElection. There have always been “Blue Grits” but by-and-large they kept their heads down when Justin Trudeau was the PM (eexcept to grumble about the deficit once in a while). I assume with Mark Carney in charge the wraps are off, and they feel safe stepping into the light of day.

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    I also assume that there’s some partisan feeling involved, as the incumbent Olivia Chow is NDP (don’t kid yourself, many Liberals despise the NDP and the same feeling often runs in opposite directions.) I understand that it’s a concern, but it should be no surprise that some Liberals are more comfortable with the prospect of a reactionary candidate like Bradford as Mayor than Chow. This underlines why the Liberal party can never be considered a genuinely progressive party. 1/2

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  8. @philsbodydouble.bsky.social

    A decade of successive governments sticking their heads in the sand regarding rising racism and extremism, giving them excuses by using cowardly words as legitimate concerns, or even stoking the flames with language not dissimilar to that of Germany in the 1930s And now we find ourselves here.

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  9. @joshuamzeitz.bsky.social

    I wrote this 3 years ago, and since then, the left has met my lowest expectations. Today’s remarks by Zohran Mamdani are clarifying. My thoughts today are with the Bibas family. Not the people who murdered them. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

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  10. @cazabon@mindly.social

    So Hungary's new Prime Minister, who replaced the dictator Orban in an election that was essentially a bloodless people's revolution, is proposing a wealth tax on 3-millionaires and above. Orban's orange fanboy-in-the-white-house-turned-circus must be losing his mind over this. And there's probably a whole lotta billionaires frantically dialing their ~~co-conspirators~~ accountants and investments people, telling them to hide their wealth. Well, hide their wealth *more*. If it can happen with a change-in-power in Hungary, there's no reason it can't happen elsewhere... #billionaires #oligarchs #OligarchChop #guillotine #IKEA #ShittingBricks #WorldPol #USPol #TaxAvoidance #TaxEvasion #TaxHaven

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  11. @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social

    Spare me Sen. Thom Tillis’s self-interested redemption book tour. When he had the opportunity to do what was right, he failed nearly every time. For example, he drew a line on Jan. 6 apologia, and then confirmed multiple people who crossed it, including Kash Patel and Jeanine Pirro.

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  12. @ChrisMayLA6@mastodon.me.uk

    The politics of 'end times' and the approaching AI-driven 'apocalypse' often seems to be driving a fatalism that there is nothing we can do. However, as Nicholas Guilhot suggests, nothing is written in stone & such doom laden predictions should encourage us to search for alternatives rather than accept the present-focussed enrichment regime of our political class. Some have already see this need, but the shape of any new social settlement is still unclear, as is the route there. #politics

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  13. @synlogic4242@social.vivaldi.net

    if democracy survives in US there are many fixes and upgrades we should do one of them, in my judgment, is to switch merit-weighted voting. no more "1 person, 1 vote, equal weight to each". each person's vote should have a different weight (using a points system) reflecting the objective merits of both the voter in question, and, the candidate they vote for would not be perfect, but much closer to it than what we have in place now, which is nuts, and has been abused, repeatedly

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  14. @benlockwood@ecoevo.social

    The “run government like a business” argument collapses when you actually think about it for a second. Imagine having to subscribe to a fire department. Calling 911 but you have to listen to an ad first. Public service announcements behind a paywall.

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  15. @mhoye@cosocial.ca

    Ontario is really backwards for a lot of reasons, and one of them is that we're talking about tearing out bike lanes when what's called for (in addition to transit, yes) is something like "low-impact-vehicle lanes" - lanes where bikes e- or otherwise, scooters, cargo trikes or any other light-electric vehicles can get around physically separated from cars. This is obviously needed in our cities, clearly a good idea, and will cause the car-brained among us to lose their god damn minds.

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  16. @didgebaba@c.im

    Marco Rubio lives in a fantasy world. Athens was defeated in the Peloponnesian Wars by Sparta following rebellions from states within the Delian League. Rubio's version of history is linear and rediculous, and in his revisionism he betrays his own lack of intelligence: "“We believe that Europe can awaken from its long slumber and rekindle the fire that was lit here millennia ago,” Rubio said, pointing to positive tendencies including increases in European defense spending, expanded manufacturing and production, and a “flurry” of new partnerships and programs.

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    To bolster his case, Rubio delivered a selective reading of history from antiquity to the present, saying that the values of the Ancient Greeks imbued those of later scientists and explorers, including some controversial choices including Christopher Columbus and the Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés, whose legacies are associated with the subjugation of Latin America. But Rubio said they, as well as many others, carried a frontier spirit that was born in antiquity. “The greatest Americans of every generation have carried the unmistakable features of their forefathers – born in Athens, formed by Rome, baptized in Christendom, hardened in the furnace of medieval Europe, endowed with the English genius for liberty, and then carried across the Atlantic to be reborn on the shores of a new world,” he said." His White Power rhetoric isn't even historically accurate. "From its inception, Athens became the League's biggest source of military power, while more and more allies preferred to pay their dues in cash. Athens began to use the League's funds for its own purposes, like the reinforcement of its naval supremacy, which led to conflicts with the less powerful allies, at times culminating in rebellions, like that of Thasos in 465 BC." Sound familiar.... theguardian.com/us-news/2026/o…

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