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1 Jan, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Philadelphia ended 2021 with 562 homicides, 62 above its all-time high, from 1990, when it had the same size population as it does now.

Among other cities setting records in 2021: Louisville (188), Columbus (201), Indianapolis (271), and Portland (90).
And the full nationwide context:
I was remiss in not including another record-breaker: Jackson, Miss. It had 152 homicides, in a city of only 166,000. That's up from the previous record of 130, set last year. clarionledger.com/story/news/202…
To put that stunning Jackson figure in perspective: if Detroit had such a high per-capita homicide rate, it would have 580 this year. (As it is, it had 309.)

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28 Dec 21
Three small moments of humanity observed while in transit in past day at a time sorely lacking in such:
1) A 40ish Texan, ex-Army, chatting up the Dutch couple across aisle of a NE Corridor Amtrak. "This is my first time riding a train in America. We don't have trains in Texas."
2) The young woman behind counter of a deli near Penn Station in NY buying large cookies from the deli counter to give to her two co-workers as a holiday gesture during a quiet moment before shift change. They are startled and visibly moved by her generosity.
3) The tow-truck driver in upstate NY, who did 10 years in a Puerto Rican prison for drug dealing etc. and is delighted to now own his own business, spending a 50-minute drive cheering up a guy with serious car troubles.
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23 Dec 21
President: 79
Possible 2024 GOP nominee: 75
Speaker of House: 81
House Majority Leader: 82
House Whip: 81
Supreme Court Justice: 83
Most influential Covid authority: 80
"Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world." --George Bernard Shaw
And let's not overlook:

Senate Minority Leader: 79

(h/t @TweetBenMax)
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2 Nov 21
Some context for the debate over why education became such a big issue in #VAgov: school closures in the state were among the most extended in the country, partly because the state gov't offered far less guidance than others (e.g. WV & OH) that set clear thresholds for reopening.
As a result of the state offering so little guidance, districts were left to own devices and many defaulted toward extreme caution, even though Virginia was blessedly less affected by virus than many other states. So there were lots of headlines like this: washingtonpost.com/local/educatio…
The NoVa disenrollment numbers in this @zachdcarter piece are eye-opening. You didn't necessarily need to rely on polling to detect the rising frustration and anger among parents. theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
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31 Oct 21
Sixty years ago yesterday, W. Germany signed the agreement with Turkey for 900K "guest workers." There's an amazing show of 1990 photos of the Turkish-German community (now 2.5 million strong), by Ergun Çağatay, in Essen. It's ending today, but will be in Hamburg and Berlin soon. Image
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3 Oct 21
The Schwebebahn, which carries people through the German city of Wuppertal upside-down over the Wupper River, is one of the greatest things in public transit and it was invented *120 years ago.*
And key point: it runs for more than *eight miles*. It isn't some tourist lark. It's the main transit through a heavily urbanized river valley.
This 1902 film of the Schwebebahn is extraordinary and captures its splendor so well. h/t @torylynn
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26 Sep 21
After having covered the US presidential elections of 2000 & 2016 it's pretty wild to now be witnessing another country's narrow outcome where the stakes are "what will the coalition be" instead of "who will rule everything and start wars and shape the Supreme Court for decades."
It's almost as if the US doesn't have the best constitutional system.
One side benefit of the lower stakes is TV election coverage that is comically more restrained and low-budget compared to the BOOM-KAPOW-YOWZA extravaganza in the US.
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