Nobody reads this headline and thinks Trump is personally going to wheel out his mercury machine and start cranking it.
The headline could definitely read "Newsom admin to put more rapists and murderers on our streets", which I think would be equivalent.
My Lemmy experience has been better than Reddit ever was, but that honestly sounds like cope. Vast swaths of people couldn't even be bothered to figure out an instance to pick, now the few that bothered are having to migrate. I think this will be a big net loss for Lemmy.