Are you kidding? Mayor Zohran Mamdani just took several concrete steps at long-term preparedness and remembrance.

• Made September 11 an official NYC “Day of Remembrance and Service” every year. This is a new citywide designation. It calls for a moment of silence honoring both people killed on 9/11 and people who later died from 9/11-related illnesses.
• Encouraged city agencies to hold memorial ceremonies and educational programs and work with NYC Service to promote volunteer opportunities on September 11. The idea is to connect remembrance with the spirit of service that New Yorkers showed immediately after the attacks.
• Expanded the focus beyond people killed on September 11 itself. His announcement explicitly recognizes first responders, survivors, city workers, families, recovery/construction workers, and people who became sick from toxic exposure in the years afterward.
• Updated NYC's emergency-continuity planning for the first time since 2007. He created a new interagency Continuity and Mission Assurance Team involving emergency management, technology, city services and budget officials, intended to make sure essential government services can continue during a catastrophe.

Your side always talk a good game, but it's mostly a political point to hate Muslims and go to war. Remembering people who died is cheap, but recognizing the health damage of first responders, survivors, city workers, families and recovery/construction workers costs money. If it wasn't for Jon Stewart shaming Congress, they would have completely ignored all the people who are suffering health issues from doing their important work.
That is sickening.

To Americans: When you start treating virtually all your friends as enemies,
perhaps the problem isn't your friends.

Figure out the math.

Canadians are leeches.

Aint that the truth, let me tell ya.

Just another silly thing to distract yourself from what is happening.
Decades of fearmongering about what Democrats would do,
and then your side does it ALL, and you don't want to see it; blinded by tribalism.

• “Jackbooted government thugs” — warned that federal agents would become an armed occupying force; then put militarized federal agents and troops into American cities.
• “The Second Amendment protects us from tyranny” — warned that an armed citizenry was the last defense against government tyranny; then a legally armed American was killed by federal agents, with his possession of the gun invoked to justify the shooting.
• “When the people fear the government, there is tyranny” — warned that federal power would become something ordinary Americans had to fear; then expanded armed federal enforcement against Americans resisting government action.
• “Don’t Tread on Me” — warned against government coercion of individual citizens; then used federal power to crush resistance and override local authority.
• “States’ rights” — warned that Washington would trample the states; then threatened states with loss of federal money unless they complied with federal demands.
• “Small government” — promised to shrink Washington; instead concentrated more power in the presidency.
• “Executive tyranny” — warned Democrats would govern by executive fiat; then made extraordinary use of executive orders and executive agencies.
• “Government censorship” — warned Democrats would silence conservatives; then pressured broadcasters, journalists and media organizations that challenged Trump.
• “Weaponized DOJ/FBI” — warned Democrats would use federal law enforcement against political enemies; then pursued Trump's political adversaries through federal investigations and prosecutions.
• “The Deep State” — warned of an unaccountable bureaucracy; then purged career officials and replaced institutional independence with political loyalty.
• “Political prisoners” / “two-tiered justice” — warned that political opponents would be selectively prosecuted; then used pardons and presidential power to protect allies while pursuing enemies.
• “Big Brother” — warned Democrats would build an all-seeing government; then expanded government access to Americans' personal databases and information.
• “The surveillance state” — warned that government would track ordinary Americans; then expanded the use of facial recognition, location data, license-plate surveillance and other tracking technologies.
• “Election interference” — warned Washington would manipulate elections; then used federal executive power to impose election requirements and interfere with state election administration.
• “Federal takeover” — warned Democrats would use Washington to control hostile states and cities; then sent federal forces into jurisdictions whose elected governments objected.
• “Law and order” — promised equal justice; then increasingly used extraordinary federal enforcement against political and ideological opponents.
• “Protect American jobs” — warned that foreigners would take Americans' jobs; then embraced rapid AI deployment while resisting regulation that could constrain AI-driven job displacement.
• “Globalist elites” — warned that ordinary Americans were being ruled by an insulated elite; then concentrated extraordinary political influence among billionaires, corporate interests and wealthy insiders.
• “Drain the swamp” — promised to destroy the Washington insider class; instead gave the swamp a new business model: billionaires, loyalists and insiders with direct access to presidential power.
• “Nobody is above the law” — promised to hold the powerful accountable; then made political loyalty and presidential protection increasingly consequential to who faces scrutiny.
• “Epstein's child-sex-trafficking cabal” — promised to expose the wealthy and powerful people supposedly protected by the system; then the administration and Republican leadership became embroiled in resistance to demands for fuller disclosure while powerful figures fought congressional subpoenas.
• “End the forever wars” — promised to stop endless foreign wars; then launched/expanded major military operations while American forces remained deeply engaged overseas.
• “America First” — promised to stop sacrificing Americans for foreign adventures; then asked Americans to absorb the human and financial costs of another major war.
• “Lower the deficit” — promised fiscal discipline and smaller government; instead the national debt passed $40 trillion.
• “Freedom” — warned that Democrats would use government to control Americans; then expanded federal control over speech, protest, immigration, elections, information and personal data.

Yep, but these are 2023 numbers. The US was the world's #1 from around the 1990s until at least 2018. El Salvador's rate recently surged dramatically, during President Nayib Bukele's anti-gang crackdown. It might even go up, because the Trump regime started sending people to El Salvador in 2025.

Importantly, the U.S. prison/detention landscape is complicated by the fact that immigration detention is generally not counted as part of the conventional "prison population" rate.

The current World Prison Brief leaderboard makes Cuba look like a very current #2,
but that's misleading. Its data are six years old. The data for Turkmenistan is from 2021,
as Turkmenistan is an exceptionally closed country. However, it has made no meaningful progress on its already atrocious human-rights record since then.