Calvin Jordan 🎈

Mostly tweeting about justice, housing, transportation, media and data. Firm believer that we can always do better.

[Taniel @Taniel]

California is facing a housing crisis. And there's a ballot measure in Sacramento to address it by ramping up policing & law enforcement, a window into the conflicts around criminalizing homelessness, @PiperSFrench reports: https://t.co/dtZlFvMuWb

[Derek Thompson @DKThomp]

I wrote about the 70-year history of how the UK became such a basket case.

Britain is a cautionary tale for the US. When a country embraces the dark triad of deindustrialization, degrowth, and denigration of foreigners, all of the paths forward are bad.

https://t.co/IySisNUotR

[Alyssa Katz @alykatzz]

Today’s @paulkrugman column wades into the crime-and-perceptions-of-crime referendum that is the NY governor’s race, astutely. https://t.co/10FoMoVeOi

[Akela Lacy @akela_lacy]

NEW: PA lawmakers will likely vote this week on impeaching Philly DA Larry Krasner. Cmte published a report today linking his policies to homicides by relying on a widely questioned study by a former Republican DA & adjunct fellow at Manhattan Institute https://t.co/zCbGMDkLaG

[Read Jackson Rising @JPHilllllll]

Paying a cop $100,000 a year to go around ticketing the homeless. I wonder how we could do this differently

[Calvin Jordan 🎈 @calvindef]

This shouldn’t be funny but it’s kind of funny

[PA Media @PA]

#Breaking Liz Truss has announced she will resign as Prime Minister

[Calvin Jordan 🎈 @calvindef]

I got way too excited when I realized that I could buy @SEPTA merch right next to my hotel #transittwitter

[Calvin Jordan 🎈 @calvindef]

“A look at the most recent consumer price index for September shows that the cost of shelter is among the fastest-growing line item on the American budget.”

We need policymakers to address increasingly devastating housing costs. They’re just unbearable.
https://t.co/afpowSNiln

[Radley Balko @radleybalko]

Yet another scientific body has debunked bitemark analysis. And the courts still won't care. on The Watch https://t.co/5hP19S8Yzs

[Calvin Jordan 🎈 @calvindef]

"[F]ree trade itself, which was supposed to foster peace between nations, became a system to be gamed by mercantilist nations and state-run autocracies, resulting in deep political divides at home and abroad."

Racing to the bottom always has consequences.
https://t.co/FJbOa4vgWE

[Brookings Governance @BrookingsGov]

"The court is losing the faith of the American people. Something must be done."
https://t.co/4X4BLPN64d

[Brennan Center @BrennanCenter]

What exactly is the “independent state legislature theory” and how will it affect your right to vote? Our new explainer video has the answers. Watch now:

[Calvin Jordan 🎈 @calvindef]

23:03 today ☀️

[Calvin Jordan 🎈 @calvindef]

Did my second @parkrun 5k today and clocked in at 23:22. Proud of myself 🏃🏾‍♂️

[Fair and Just Prosecution @fjp_org]

“The power to take away another person’s freedom is an immense responsibility. With that responsibility comes the imperative to correct & learn from past mistakes, with due recognition of the devastating consequences when these ideals are not met.” -@miriamkrinsky & @alyssakress

[Calvin Jordan 🎈 @calvindef]

Recently started taking German classes again and I am both impressed and ashamed at how much I remember.

[Fair and Just Prosecution @fjp_org]

Louisiana Gov. @JohnBelEdwards is pushing an unprecedented plan to move kids to Angola, one of the worst, most inhumane prisons in our country. No one belongs in Angola, let alone children. All of us are safer when we invest in our kids. Learn more: https://t.co/NDzBpI8sjD

[Fair and Just Prosecution @fjp_org]

To open up the black box of prosecutors' charging decisions – especially in cases involving violence – we partnered with @courtinnovation, @Arnold_Ventures, and @NORCNews in their national survey of prosecutors from more than 270 agencies. https://t.co/xekwVSadoH

[Scientific American @sciam]

Older prisoners will make up a third of the prison population in a decade, and many of them will develop dementia https://t.co/a5vVTlyVip

[Jay Rosen @jayrosen_nyu]

That an argument FOR newspapers continuing to endorse candidates was to demonstrate that you still have a pulse as the jaws of the private equity crocodile come crunching down is something I had not considered before. https://t.co/Jtb0r4nfX8