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Older than I thought I would be. More horrified than I thought I could be.
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Bill Grueskin
16 days ago
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words.
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Joey Politanoš³ļøāš
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Good statement from the US conference of Catholic Bishops
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NPR
16 days ago
Groceries saw their biggest jump in nearly three years last month, a worrisome sign for inflation-weary shoppers. Tariffs are contributing to higher prices for imported staples like bananas and coffee.
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Grocery prices have jumped up, and there's no relief in sight
Groceries saw their biggest jump in nearly three years last month, a worrisome sign for inflation-weary shoppers. Tariffs are contributing to higher prices for imported staples like bananas and coffee.
https://n.pr/4nPsISe
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Ben Berkowitz
19 days ago
* Most October layoffs since 2003 * Most Q4 layoffs since 2008 * Most YTD layoffs since 2020 * Least YTD hiring since 2011 * Least holiday seasonal hiring since 2012 The labor market has a problem.
www.axios.com/2025/11/06/l...
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October layoffs hit 22-year high as labor market wobbles, Challenger says
Employers announced 153,074 layoffs in October.
https://www.axios.com/2025/11/06/layoffs-jobs-labor-market-economy-challenger
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Mark Jacob
25 days ago
Dear people who don't live in the Chicago area, Trump's thugs are practicing their violence on us before they apply it coast-to-coast. Get active now, while you can. Help us defeat the fascists and save our country.
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So after the billionaires failed to launch themselves and their billionaire friends into space, with our tax dollars. They've decided to let their billionaire defense contractor friends build a "ballroom" with our tax dollars. Billionaires should've read a little world history.
#SheShed
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Pam Herd
4 months ago
If the government was a private company, it wouldnāt be paying $5 million a year for Voughtās personal security detail.
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Mar
4 months ago
part 2/2
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Mar
4 months ago
A U.S. surgeon trying to have a āpeer to peerā consultation with a doctor at a health insurance company who is hiding his identity as her patient gets denied coverage. And it gets worse from there. You have to see it to believe it. (1/2)
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Chicago Sun-Times
4 months ago
The Sun-Times has been tracking prices for 35 grocery items across four stores, since December. We found most stayed the same or increased, with our shopping cartās total price rising by up to $11. We plan to continue tracking prices and sharing results.
https://trib.al/KANj27U
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Supermarket super-pain: Trump's campaign promise to cut food prices falls short
The Sun-Times has been tracking prices for 35 grocery items across four stores, since December. We found most stayed the same or increased, with our shopping cart's total price rising by up to $11.
https://trib.al/KANj27U
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Rep. Sean Casten
4 months ago
There is plenty of fraud and grift in the White House. We do not need any more, and we certainly don't need to risk Americans' hard-earned savings just so that crypto billionaires can get richer. I'm voting NO on the CLARITY Act.
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Kevin M. Kruse
6 months ago
Hey, if the media is interested in a cover-up of a senile president who's not really in control of his White House, there's one going on right now?
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Jeff Lazarus
6 months ago
John Sununu got forced out of the cabinet for improperly spending $615,000 ($1.4 million today) on travel.
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kottke.org
7 months ago
Silenced Science Stories is āan illustrated series of portraits and stories of scientific experts whose work is being affected by federal budget cuts and mass firingsā.
[kottke.org]
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Silenced Science Stories
Silenced Science Stories is a collaboration between scientists and artists to tell the stories of scientific experts who have been affected by the Trump regimeās purge of their ranks. We are organizing an illustrate
https://kottke.org/25/04/silenced-science-stories
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Sean Casten
7 months ago
I've noted before that to become an elected Republican in DC requires you to be a fascist, a sycophant or a coward. There's something for all of their competing factions on the floor next week. But there is nothing to address the very real and urgent issues faced by those we are sent to represent.
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Sean Casten
7 months ago
Collapsing US equity markets as investors flee not only equities but also US treasuries leading to a weaker dollar, all self-inflicted by Trump's tariffs and a growing natsec crisis at DoD... and here's what the House GOP is prioritizing for the next 2 weeks.
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Sean Casten
7 months ago
This is really bad. The Trump WH is treating the health of the planet with the same ignorance and disregard that RFK Jr brings to the health of the American people. Being stupid and relying on quack cures while you stick your brainwormed head in the sand solves nothing.
www.cnn.com/2025/04/22/c...
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Trump administration minimized federal climate scientistsā findings of record CO2 growth | CNN
Levels of carbon dioxide ā the most abundant planet-warming gas in the air ā jumped up by a record amount in 2024.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/22/climate/noaa-co2-record/index.html
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@wgntv.com
good morning. Youāre doing your viewers a disservice by not including the fact the would be Trump assassin wanted to instigate a race war by showing chaos. He also is reported to be a fan of Neo Nazi philosophy. Iām unclear if he was a formal member of a group.
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Mark Carney Supporter
8 months ago
We will make national parks and historic sites free for all Canadians this upcoming summer.
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Jared Holt
8 months ago
Imposing tariffs that will make nearly everything more expensive to remake the US economy to include more... low/mid-wage manufacturing jobs? From people who fight against wage increases, regulations, and unions? Who coddle tech bros wanting to replace jobs with software/robots? What could go right?
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jamelle
8 months ago
if the democratic party had a functional propaganda arm it could make a lot of hay of the fact that a non-trivial number of MAGA personalities and politicians are child sex offenders
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Prof Katherine Schofield š¬š§š¦šŗšŖšŗ
8 months ago
This is fascinating - and also resonates with my last couple of months on X before the Musk-Farage race riots led me to delete X completely.
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Brendan Nyhan
8 months ago
Big Balls & Co. wreaking havoc in people's lives
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Victor Ray
9 months ago
The headline really sanitizes what they did to this guy. Getting stripped naked, inadequate food, sleep deprivation sounds more like war on terror ear rendition than "interrogation."
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David Waldman
9 months ago
And I don't know if anyone at the K9 unit has one, but remember that they can't even use a government credit card to buy dog food, since DOGE set their credit limits to $1. Officers will have to sneak in dog food they bring from home or otherwise pay for personally.
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Mark Copelovitch
9 months ago
Congrats to the 99 Senators who decided this man should be Secretary of State
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Sean Casten
9 months ago
McConnell abused the filibuster to make America worse. Schumer is refusing to use the filibuster to... accomplish what, exactly?
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Jon Cooper
9 months ago
OUTRAGEOUS: A Canadian woman was put in chains for 24 hours and detained by ICE in an āinhumaneā facility after trying to get her new visa.
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ICE Detains Canadian Woman and āWraps Her in Chainsā for 24 Hours
Jasmine Mooney tried to get a new visa. Moments later, she was locked up.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/ice-detains-canadian-woman-jasmine-mooney-and-wraps-her-in-chains-for-24-hours/?via=twitter_page&utm_campaign=owned_social&utm_medium=socialflow&utm_source=twitter_owned_tdb
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Mike Quigley
9 months ago
Trump's Acting SSA Commissioner just changed the agency's policies so when they make a mistake, beneficiaries pay the price. Their new default overpayment withholding rate means recipients could lose their entire check. It's cruel and just the beginning of Trump's plans to destroy Social Security.
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JB Pritzker
9 months ago
What happens after we have demonized everyone who doesnāt look, move, or pray exactly like we do? What happens when fascism takes over? We are not doomed to repeat our history. We can learn from it, and we can reject hate and authoritarianism.
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Sean Casten
9 months ago
Cowards all the way down.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/u...
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Republicans Quietly Move to Relinquish Power to Undo Trumpās Tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China
House G.O.P. leaders tucked the provision into a procedural measure needed to pass a government spending bill.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/us/politics/trump-tariffs-house-gop-vote.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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Is anybody else a little concerned that the tech whiz kids who have the keys to virtually all government systems and are canceling federal cyber security contracts experienced a paralyzing hack of their most recent employer?
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T. Greg Doucette
9 months ago
Grim thread:
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ProPublica
9 months ago
Over the last three years, the head of a small charter school network that serves fewer than 1,000 students has taken home up to $870,000 annually, a startling amount that appears to be the highest for any public school superintendent in Texas. By
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This Charter School Superintendent Makes $870,000. He Leads a District With 1,000 Students.
On paper, Salvador Cavazos earns less than $300,000 to run Valere Public Schools, a small Texas charter network. But taxpayers likely arenāt aware that in reality, his total pay makes him one of theā¦
https://propub.li/3QV3VxS
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Michael
9 months ago
wait, youāre telling me that by objecting to unanimous consent, a single senator can grind the body to a halt?
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Kathleen Romig
9 months ago
At 5 pm Fri, the Social Security Admin announced that it will withhold the *entire* Social Security benefits of overpaid seniors & people w/disabilities, even if not their faultāreversing a Biden-era reform that limited repayment to 10% of the monthly benefit. This will cause needless suffering.
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Pete Buttigieg
9 months ago
If Russia wants peace, they should end the invasion.
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Atrios
9 months ago
Stock manipulation
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Sean Casten
9 months ago
Why I'm not going.
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Anders Ćstlund
9 months ago
The idea is that Ukraine should trust Russia enough to make peace but the same people who push Ukraine to trust Russia are not willing to deploy troops to Ukraine to protect the peace, because they don't trust Russia.
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Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis
9 months ago
US Border Patrol doing a bang-up job, detaining a German tourist with passport & visa indefinitely because...she might tattoo here. Just one of countless horror stories... German tourist held indefinitely in immigrant detention facility
www.kpbs.org/news/border-...
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German tourist held indefinitely in San Diego area immigrant detention facility
The young woman had planned to spend a month with a friend in Los Angeles and then fly home to Berlin. But sheās been in federal custody since late January.
https://www.kpbs.org/news/border-immigration/2025/02/28/german-tourist-held-indefinitely-in-san-diego-area-immigrant-detention-facility
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Sean Casten
9 months ago
It is reprehensible that the President of the United States is abandoning the rules-based post-WWII order is abandoning it. Why is the party of Ronald Reagan unwilling to lift a finger to defend the United States against Russian assets?
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Sean Casten
9 months ago
Vance and Trump are, for all practical purposes, Russian foreign assets. Zelenskyy has more patriotism, decency and commitment to democracy than these two will ever know.
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Rep. Sean Casten
9 months ago
Imagine being so terrified of Elon Musk and Donald Trump that the only way you are willing to advocate for the HUMANE treatment of federal public servants is to do so *privately*.
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Sarah Posner
9 months ago
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
9 months ago
They need him to be a genius because they cannot handle what it means for them to be tricked by a fool.
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Sen. Adam Schiff
9 months ago
Donald Trump promised to let Elon Musk self-police his conflicts of interest. The result? Those investigating his companies have been fired. Cases against his companies have been dismissed. The corrupt self-dealing is staggering.
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Sean Casten
9 months ago
This is the right approach with Trump. He is a bully, and like all bullies, he is a coward. He only hits people who fold. Hit back and he moves to weaker targets. And if we all stand up, his narcissism will self-destruct on himself.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...
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Trump Clashes With Maineās Governor, Janet Mills, Over Trans Athletes
President Trump asked Gov. Janet Mills if her state would comply with the executive order he signed banning transgender athletes from womenās sports. He didnāt like her answer.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/us/politics/trump-maine-governor-transgender-athletes.html
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