Daily Archive: August 8, 2020

Rafael A. Mangual has compiled a list of stories from multiple media sources regarding the murder rates of multiple cities hitting either record homicides or the largest homicide rates in decades.

The entire thread is harrowing:

Them: “Relax. Things aren’t nearly as bad as they were in the 1990s.”

Philly: “They’re worse, here.”https://t.co/w08ZjmhiyK

— Rafael A. Mangual (@Rafa_Mangual) November 29, 2021

The thread starts there and covers:
Philadelphia, Louisville, Cincinatti, Columbus, Baltimore City, Trenton, Indianapolis, Cleveland, Austin, Memphis, Tuscon, Minneapolis, St. Paul, Milwaukee, Kansas City, Portland, Jacksonville, Rochester, Tulsa, Seattle, Chicago, Denver, Colorado Springs, Albuquerque, Fort Worth, Fayetteville, Jackson, Greensboro, Wichita, Lansing, and Shreveport.

(Featured image is "Black and white .22 caliber bullet" by JinglyJon is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0)

President Biden has announced he will nominate Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell to stay at his post for another four years.

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3x Olympian and a 2x Grand Slam champion Peng Shuai has gone missing after accusing the former Chinese vice premier of sexual assault on social media before it was censored and she disappeared.

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