Violent crime in U.S. cities is way down, and Trump is taking credit
Fresh statistics show violent crime in major U.S. cities dropped sharply in 2025 from the previous year, and U.S. President Donald Trump is claiming that his get-tough policies are the reason. The inconvenient truth for this Trump administration is that violent crime was already in sharp decline before he returned t...
#crime #politics #UScities
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/us-violent-crime-statistics-trump-9.7087435?cmp=rss
#USCities
Two states dominate the 2026 'Best Places to Retire' list, but the top city isn't in either of them
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/2026-best-places-to-retire-top-states-and-top-city
Why Minneapolis has become such a flashpoint amid ICE deployments
The Trump administration has deployed federal troops to several U.S. cities in the past year — mostly Democrat-led, mostly under the guise of unsubstantiated claims that illegal immigrants are terrorizing those cities with crime. But Minneapolis has seen the largest troop deployment and ...
#ICE #Trump #crime #violence #Minneapolis #UScities
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/minnesota-minneapolis-ice-how-we-get-here-9.7062336?cmp=rss
7 House #Democrats Vote With #GOP to Give #ICE More Money Despite Deadly Invasions of #USCities
“The billions in funding in this bill will only embolden ICE and CBP to continue arresting our neighbors—immigrant and US citizen alike,” warned one ACLU attorney.
Jessica Corbett
Jan 22, 2026
Excerpt: "Democratic Reps. #HenryCuellar (Texas), #DonDavis (NC), #LauraGillen (NY), #JaredGolden (Maine), #VicenteGonzalez (Texas), #MarieGluesenkampPerez (Wash.), and #TomSuozzi (NY) joined all Republicans but Rep. Thomas Massie (KY) for the 220-207 vote that sent the legislation to the Senate—where the GOP also has a majority, but it’s so narrow that most bills need some Democratic support to pass.
"House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) notably refused to pressure members of his caucus to oppose the bill, even though voters clearly oppose federal operations featuring violence and lawlessness by agents with Customs and Border Protection (#CBP) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (#ICE) everywhere from California and #Illinois, to #Minnesota and #Maine."
Read more:
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-administration-ice-funding
#USPol #Gleichschaltung #2026Elections #USElections #ICEOut #CutICEFunding #ICESucks #UselessDemocrats #NaziRepublicans
the city where only black people live in the US #uscities #uscity #mapvi... https://youtube.com/shorts/4AXyk0iyxHA?si=mE0fs0yU2uycSUMm via @YouTube
1082 #ClimateSolutions #Cities #UrbanDesigner #QnA [2]
A couple [or more] handy and doable solutions for #CarInfested #UScities
"Urban Designer Answers More City Planning Questions | Tech Support | WIRED” [21:45 min]
by Wired
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0pT04XALkM
Quote by W:
“Nov 12, 2024
Former Chief Urban Designer of The City of New York Alex Washburn returns to WIRED to answer another round of the internet's burning questions about city planning. How should cities accommodate electric bikes? Can urban planning mitigate over-gentrification? How can urban planning prevent crimes? What does the future of public transportation in urban centers look like? Can a city ever reach population capacity? How's it possible for a city to run out of water? Alex Washburn answers these questions and many more on City Planning Support, Vol. 2.”
time stamps
0:00 City Planning Support Rd. 2
0:15 How to accommodate electric bikes in cities
1:05 Gentrification
2:29 Living in the sprawl
3:43 Can urban planning reduce crime?
4:08 Booooring
4:58 Trees
5:51 If you build it will they come?
6:42 The future of public transportation
7:25 The Big Dig was a Big Dub
8:24 Sustainable cities
8:59 Why do taxpayers subsidize stadiums?
9:59 Hyperloop/Maglev
11:02 Concrete was a poor choice
12:23 Windmills on every building
13:08 Superblocks/Tartan Grid
14:40 Looks familiar!
15:31 Can a city reach capacity?
16:14 Favelas
17:12 please bro, just one more parking lot
18:22 NYC housing costs
19:25 Congestion pricing
19:58 Hall of Fame: Brasilia
20:55 Running out of water
#TakeCareForLife #TakeCareForEarth
#StopBurningThings #StopEcoside #StopRapingNature
#EducateYourself on #ClimateBreakDown
1081 #ClimateSolutions #Cities #UrbanDesigner #QnA [1]
A couple [or more] handy and doable solutions for #CarInfested #UScities
"Urban Designer Answers City Planning Questions From Twitter | Tech Support | WIRED [11:35 min]
by Wired
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldtUrIco_rk
Quote by W:
“Aug 27, 2024
Former Chief Urban Designer of The City of New York Alexandros Washburn joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about city planning. How does the New York City Subway compare to others worldwide? What are the pros and cons of rent control initiatives? Which city can lay claim to being "smartest" in the world? Or has the best airport? What challenges will the urban designers of tomorrow need to meet? Alexandros Washburn answers these questions and many more on City Planning Support.”
Time stamps
0:00 Urban Planning Support
0:15 Safer bike lanes
0:37 How does the NYC Subway compare to others worldwide?
1:26 The pros and cons of rent control policy
2:33 Sorry, Boston drivers
2:56 Green Singapore
3:43 …featuring the best airport in the world
4:29 P A R I S
5:09 Smart cities
5:39 Car go vroom
6:24 Converting empty offices into housing
7:30 The challenges facing urban planners of tomorrow
8:17 Library Late Nites
8:50 Why pay tolls?
9:49 How to survive summer Dubai heat
10:49 “Fixing” Los Angeles traffic?“
#TakeCareForLife #TakeCareForEarth
#StopBurningThings #StopEcoside #StopRapingNature
#EducateYourself on #ClimateBreakDown
Trump’s Military Occupations of U.S. Cities Cost $473 Million and Rising https://theintercept.com/2025/11/11/cost-trump-national-guard-military-occupation/ #uspoli #trump #MAGAts #USMilitary #TrumpEconomy #TrumpDebt #USCities #NationalGuardDeployment #FreeSpeech
Seeing Things – The Trump And Hegseth Show: Toxic Masculinity – Liza Donnelly
The Trump And Hegseth Show: Toxic Masculinity
And use US Cities as military training grounds
By Liza Donnelly, Sep 30, 2025
Today, Pete Hegseth and Trump gathered 800+ Generals, spending millions to bring them to Virgina just so he and Hegseth could have a photo op. It was a joke, Hegseth looked riduculous. A former FOX talk show host talking to 800 men and women who have risked their lives for our democracy. I don’t really want to spend too much time on it, but it really annoys me. Their effort to ram a toxic brand of machismo down our throats is offensive.
Hegseth: “No more climate change worship, no more division, distraction or gender delusions,”
There are no words to describe this Not My President. –DrWebHe wants to get rid of facial hair in the military.
He wants everyone in the military to be really “fit.”
He defended his firing of more than a dozen military leaders, many of them people of color and women: the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr., who is Black; the first woman to command the Navy, Adm. Lisa Franchetti; and the U.S. military’s representative to the NATO military committee, Vice Adm. Shoshana Chatfield.
Walking around stage, he said he wanted to change the military’s “stupid rules of engagement” that he claims limit war fighters in the field. Hegseth had fired the top lawyers for the Army, Navy and Air Force in an effort to “remake the military into a force that is more aggressive on the battlefield and less hindered by the laws of armed conflict.”
He wants his “Department of War” (what Trump wants the Defense Dept to be renamed, but Congress has not approved it) to be able to play dirty, I guess.
Trump followed Hegseth, and try as hard as he could, he could not get the military leaders to laugh or even applaud. It is customary for miltary personal to remain non-partisan in situations like this, much to Trump’s chagrin. NY Times reporter Maggie Haberman wrote, “It was striking how many times President Trump tried to get the assembled military leaders to break character, or laugh when he mocked his predecessors or used his typical political lines. It was also striking how often they resisted before Trump finally threw in the towel.”
In his rambling delivery, repeating so many of his grievances to the assembled group of high ranking professionals, he brought up tariffs, Joe Biden and the autopen, the southern border, CNN, his feelings about Putin and his desire for a Nobel Peace Prize he feels he deserves. “I think we should maybe start thinking about battleships by the way,” he said at one point, pausing to bring up a 1950s documentary series about naval warfare. “I used to watch ‘Victory at Sea.’ I love ‘Victory at Sea.’”
Trump said he told Hegseth that “we should use some of these dangerous cities as training grounds for our military,” referring to urban areas in the US.
This man is crazy and dangerous.
The goverment is close to a shutdown, which will furlough many and stop services. Speaker Johnson has set it up so that this will happen: he canceled votes earlier this month after Republicans in his chamber pushed through a stopgap spending measure to fund the government through Nov. 21. That was a bid to “pressure Democrats into accepting the Republicans’ proposal, but they refused, blocking the measure in that chamber, where the bill is currently stalled, awaiting the 60 votes it would need to move.”
Continue/Read Original Article Here: The Trump And Hegseth Show: Toxic Masculinity
#Admirals #Crazy #Dangerous #Democrats #DepartmentOfFools #FacialHair #Generals #LizaDonnelly #MilitaryTraining #PeteHegseth #Republicans #SeeingThings #ToxicMasculinity #USCities #USMilitary #WastedMoney
I won't post about all the shootings. Seems like the #MAGACivilWar has started, and the #FascistsInCharge want to blame the left for *everything*! Be aware folks. With a looming #GovernmentShutdown, and military invasions of #USCities, and vaccines either restricted or not mandated, it's not looking good people...
3 Pillars of Trump’s Power—Including Tariffs—Head to Supreme Court | TIME
President Donald Trump attends a cabinet meeting at the White House on August 26, 2025 in Washington, DC. Trump’s authority on tariffs, deportations and sending the military into U.S. cities are at stake in major court cases. Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images)Sep 10, 2025, 4:00 AM PT
3 Pillars of Trump’s Power Are Tested, as Pivotal Cases Head to Supreme Court
By Brian Bennett, Bennett is the senior White House correspondent at TIME.
The Brief September 10, 2025
The Brief September 10, 2025
Editor’s Note: Audio on the linked article/site. Not available to embed.
In early September, President Donald Trump’s White House sent out a press release laying out ways Trump has been “delivering historic results.” It outed $158 billion in tariff revenues coming into the U.S. since Trump took office. It said that Trump’s border crackdown has led to a 97% drop in northward migration from Central America and that his use of the military for law enforcement in Washington DC is a “model” for other cities.
It was just the latest example of the Administration highlighting how Trump is following through on his campaign promises to aggressively deploy tariffs, ramp up deportations, and send the National Guard into U.S. cities. But a recent drumbeat of court rulings have called those three central actions of Trump’s presidency into question. Lower courts are repeatedly finding that Trump has exceeded his powers as President under the Constitution. In just the last two weeks, federal courts ruled that most of his tariffs are illegal, that he violated a law prohibiting the use of soldiers for law enforcement inside the U.S., and that many of his most high-profile deportations were based on a faulty reading of law.
The White House is challenging all of those decisions, setting the stage for the Supreme Court to ultimately determine if if Trump may have to rein in his efforts in those areas The high court, where conservatives hold a 6-3 majority thanks to the three justices Trump hand-picked during his first term, has so far taken an expansive view of Trump’s ability to act.
Here are three major actions Trump has taken that are in jeopardy and appear destined for the Supreme Court:
Issuing Tariffs
A federal court ruled in late August that most of Trump’s tariffs are illegal because they were imposed without Congressional approval. But that lower court held off on enacting its order to give the Trump Administration time to appeal to the Supreme Court. On Tuesday, the high court announced it was expediting the tariff case, demanding briefs from all sides from the government and the plaintiffs by Sept. 19 in order to hear in-person arguments in early November.
The case was brought by a group of small businesses that said the tariffs Trump imposed so far “amount to an average tax increase of $1,200-$2,800 per American household.” The business owners argued that issuing those tariffs were beyond the President’s powers under the Constitution. Article I of the Constitution empowered Congress to “lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises” and demands that bills for raising revenue “shall originate in the House of Representatives.” (CONTINUED)
Editor’s Note: Read the rest of the story, at the below link.
Continue/Read Original Article Here: 3 Pillars of Trump’s Power—Including Tariffs—Head to Supreme Court | TIME
#2025 #America #DemocraticStates #DonaldTrump #Education #Health #History #Libraries #Library #LibraryOfCongress #NationalGuard #Opinion #Pillars #Politics #Resistance #Science #SpeedingDeportations #Tariffs #Three #Time #TimeMagazine #Trump #TrumpAdministration #TrumpSPower #USCities #UnitedStates
Funny. Los Angeles, Chicago, and Washington, D.C. are not even in the top ten! And 7 of the top 10 have Republican governors!
1. Memphis, TN
2. Detroit, MI
3. St. Louis, MO
4. Baltimore, MD
5. Cleveland, OH
6. Birmingham, AL
7. New Orleans, LA
8. Little Rock, AR
9. Kansas City, MO
10. Milwaukee, WI
https://northamericancommunityhub.com/cities-with-highest-crime-rates-us/
Supply Constraints Do Not Explain House Price, Quantity Growth Across US Cities
https://www.nber.org/papers/w33576
#HackerNews #SupplyConstraints #HousePrices #RealEstate #Economics #USCities
#Living Is #Cheapest In These #USCities
From #carinsurance to #mortgages, here's where #Americans spend the least each month.
https://digg.com/data-viz/link/most-affordable-cities-US-america-cost-spend?encoded_id=G9Ge9
It was 10 years ago that #seattle raised the #MinimumWage to $15.
Right wingers were yelling that Seattle was doomed!
Yeah, not so much.
New data shows #violentcrime dropping sharply in major #UScities
https://www.axios.com/2024/08/12/violent-crime-harris-trump-election
340 #ClimateEmergency #UScities #Flooding
There's something wrong with our statistics !
Or rather the way our governments are using the old, feel safe,. ones.
And that's dangerous and very very costly ! And it's getting worse fast !
And completely in US tradition, there's a [racial] wealth gap in counter measures. Rich & White => measures taken saving damages 8 times the costs. Black & Poor => no or stingy measures taken saving not successful and costing 1.3 times the money.
And it's not easy, all those figures and consequences.
Once in a 100 yrs events occur now every 35 yrs ! There's not really more rain it's more of the same rain per second.
And there are ways to deal with it. And there are ways to prevent it.
"Floods are increasing WAY faster than we expected" [13:06 min]
by PBS Terra
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDIpbXjCtyg
Quote by PBST:
"30 apr 2024
Flooding is getting worse, and not just from hurricanes or rising tides, but from increased heavy rainfall. In this episode, we dive into the changing landscape of flood hazards. First, we journey to New York, to visit Hoboken, New Jersey, and Hollis, Queens, two communities facing different flood challenges. Then, we explore First Street's groundbreaking new risk map, pinpointing high-risk areas. Want to take action against flooding in your area? Watch this episode for insights and solutions.
Weathered is a show hosted by weather expert Maiya May and produced by Balance Media that helps explain the most common natural disasters, what causes them, how they’re changing, and what we can do to prepare.
Link First Street -> firststreet.org/ <-
Direct link to the First Street Study -> assets.firststreet.org/uploads/2020/06/first_street_foundation__first_national_flood_risk_assessment.pdf <-
Thousands of U.S. Cities Could Become Virtual Ghost Towns by 2100 https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/thousands-of-u-s-cities-could-become-virtual-ghost-towns-by-2100/ #urbanlife #cities #uscities
Trump calls on supporters to 'guard the vote' in Democratic-run US cities
#Trump #GuardTheVote #DemocraticCities #USCities #Supporters #ElectionSecurity #Politics #News
Trump’s Got Himself Some Jury Trouble: The former president is demanding a change in trial venue, for the same reason he demanded that votes not get counted in certain U.S. cities.
https://newrepublic.com/article/174891/trump-jury-trial-west-virginia
#TrumpJuryTrouble #ChangeInTrialVenue #DemandingVotesNotCounted #TrialVenueChange #VotesNotCounted #USCities #Politics #News
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