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I have just read Against the Day, and I will not be taking questions at this time. Chicago, he/him.
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Gabe Ortíz
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"As I've said repeatedly, refusing to provide full access raises serious questions about what ICE is trying to hide from public view.”
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Heather Cherone
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NEW: Chicago police responded 4 minutes faster to the most serious 911 calls for help in the 6 months after Mayor Brandon Johnson scrapped the city’s controversial ShotSpotter gunshot detection system in 12 South & West side neighborhoods, an analysis of Chicago crime data shows.
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CPD Officers Responded Faster to 911 Calls on South, West Sides After ShotSpotter Was Removed: UChicago Analysis
There is no evidence that Mayor Brandon Johnson’s decision to turn off the microphones that sent an alert to police officers every time the system picked up suspected gunfire slowed police response ti...
https://news.wttw.com/2026/05/27/cpd-officers-responded-faster-911-calls-south-west-sides-after-shotspotter-was-removed
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ACLED
1 day ago
Sunday’s suicide bombing near a railway track in
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is emerging as one of the deadliest attacks in Balochistan’s capital in recent years. Since 2023, ACLED records around 50 attacks by Baloch separatist militants targeting trains & railway infrastructure. 🔗
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Paul Crider
2 days ago
It's so easy to forget that people, even elected officials, can at any moment simply choose to do the right thing.
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Carbon credits are the financialized version of recycling.
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Abe Newman
2 days ago
This piece by
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Chicago Sun-Times
2 days ago
Legislation meant to keep the Chicago Bears in Illinois comes at a cost — one that the average Illinois homeowner may not find worth it, a new report from Cook County Treasurer Maria Pappas’ office suggests.
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Benefits of Bears’ megaproject bill ‘murky’ at best for Illinois taxpayers: Cook County treasurer analysis
https://chicago.suntimes.com/bears-stadium/2026/05/26/bears-stadium-megaproject-bill-cook-county-treasurer-analysis?utm_campaign=mrf-bluesky-chicago.suntimes.com&utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&mrfcid=202605266a15ca87b1604d1ec2f0c39a
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Jake Grumbach
2 days ago
Saez and
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on the CA billionaire tax 250 households (0.001% of the state) holds wealth equal to more than half of California’s entire annual economic output Their wealth grows 15% a year and is taxed at just 0.26% per year
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Opinion | The Case for California’s Billionaire Wealth Tax
Silicon Valley’s growth over recent decades has made California rich — and one of the most unequal places in America.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/05/26/opinion/wealth-tax-california-billionaire.html
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Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa
2 days ago
With most tech, I think we should ask ourselves, "What is the worst possible way this could be used?" and then just assume that's how it will be used eventually. Restrictions that based on stated intentions ("that's not the purpose of this product") will never hold.
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Jony Ive's signature move, a complete lack of signature characteristics.
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The Israeli veto of any Iran deal may complicate things for this administration.
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Anil Dash
4 days ago
Caste is such a powerful driver of dynamics within Silicon Valley that they were able to get Newsom to veto a bill banning caste discrimination in California even though it had widespread support.
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David Burbach 🇺🇸
4 days ago
We haven't had to fire any shots so it's not obvious but a blockade of this magnitude would generally be considered an act of war. We did not do this in the 1962 missile crisis, we allowed ships not carrying weapons to proceed to Cuba
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
4 days ago
Bluesky is a small echo chamber filled with mostly normal people that go feral at times and X is a complex of echo chambers filled with mostly normal people, celebrities, and powerful people, with rivers of blood leaching from the walls as a ravenous horde of demons tries to break through the wards.
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The tan suit was such a good look, I entirely failed to understand that scandal.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom
6 days ago
I submit to you that these are functionally equivalent.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD
5 days ago
In normal times, the fact that government officials at HHS blatantly lied to the public and got caught would be a scandal of unusual size. Everyone involved in this disinformation scheme against the people of the United States should be held accountable.
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No child deaths definitively linked to Covid shots, FDA says
The agency’s analysis contradicts claims made by former vaccine chief Dr. Vinay Prasad.
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/no-child-deaths-definitively-linked-covid-shots-fda-says-rcna346514?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma&taid=6a110a2da88c290001712dd3&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium
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Michael Derby
5 days ago
Trump may well be losing his Iran war: “His repeated claims of complete victory ring hollow, some analysts say, as the two sides teeter between uncertain diplomacy and his on-again-off-again threats to resume strikes.” Via Reuters
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Three months in, is Trump losing the Iran war?
Trump's repeated claims of complete victory ring hollow, some analysts say, as the two sides teeter between uncertain diplomacy and his on-again-off-again threats to resume strikes.
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/three-months-is-trump-losing-iran-war-2026-05-23/?utm_source=braze
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Kate Starbird
6 days ago
I’ve been thinking a lot about this… how initially the Trumpists tried to disown the violence/treachery of Jan 6 with conspiracy theories about Antifa and the FBI, but how later they embraced the violence and flipped the narrative, turning villains into heroes.
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Denny Carter
7 days ago
Thanks to Dave for giving me something to write about today.
badfaithtimes.com/there-is-no-...
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Barbarism.
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hilzoy
7 days ago
“A world-class Ebola lab in Frederick, Maryland, with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) was designed for exactly this scenario. … But that lab was shuttered last year, with staff laid off abruptly and their work – key for preventing and responding to outbreaks – ended with no notice.”
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US is ‘simply choosing not to stop’ Ebola outbreak after massive public health cuts, experts say
Hundreds of cases reported in the DRC after USAID has been dismantled and key scientific research canceled
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/21/ebola-outbreak-public-health
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Quinta Jurecic
7 days ago
I've been an impeachment 3.0 skeptic, but I think there's a fair argument here that the slush fund is so bad it's worth pulling that trigger for
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Only a few chapters into Obscene Bird of the Night, but this book is as great as advertised.
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Ed Burmila
8 days ago
In 1934 Hitler created a medal to give to everyone who participated in the Beer Hall Putsch, in case you want to know what's going to happen to all these people after Trump gives them a big check.
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I tend more towards, she's embarrassing, and it makes for unpleasant copy. There's no controversy really, we all can see who she is, so it doesn't sell clicks.
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Rebecca Spang
10 days ago
Comprehensive account of how current federal govt is hounding qualified researchers out of the USA. This is the most anti-science counter-Enlightenment administration this country has ever had.
www.indystar.com/story/news/e...
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How a mislabeled package led to a deportation and closed IU labs
Federal authorities have charged and deported several Chinese academics, including two at IU, for what critics claim are technicalities.
https://www.indystar.com/story/news/education/2026/05/18/how-a-mislabeled-package-led-to-a-deportation-and-closed-iu-labs/89538677007/?fbclid=IwY2xjawR4lKFleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETE1SkxJNWlhTURQMGg1WVdpc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHluUH5D5l9l51h68IzQweel1fGsWBIFo5nKFmiwQl0UKviafODRMYPkca724_aem_c09u8tg152wfXT3Do0xx3w
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making art
10 days ago
Hilario Dominguez, current CTU political director and prospective CTU Board President candidate, also has complaints from when he worked at The Resurrection Project and it's not good, actually it's bad
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Seva
10 days ago
the "Thucydides Trap" shows how bad history can succeed if it serves a purpose
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China's Favorite American Idea
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Charles Ornstein
10 days ago
During Trump’s first administration, a policy of family separation at the U.S.-Mexico border ended after widespread outrage. Now, the breakup of families is happening amid sweeps by immigration agents across the country.
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More Than 100,000 American Kids Have Had a Parent Detained in Immigration Sweeps, Report Estimates
Since the Trump administration doesn’t track how many children have been separated from their parents by immigration detention, a Brookings report tried to calculate it — and it cited ProPublica’s rep...
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-immigration-child-parent-separation-estimates-brookings
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Carl Quintanilla
10 days ago
“.. $41.5bn as of Sunday night — or $316 per US household.” ⛽️
@financialtimes.com
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Emily Herring
13 days ago
Recently, for *obvious reasons*, I've been thinking about what it means when anxiety and sadness are caused not by individual predispositions, but by the state of the world itself. This led me to early 19th-c. France and the notion of "mal du siècle" (sickness of the century)
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Louis
10 days ago
I do sincerely believe that the emerging American juristocracy is a disaster, that it ought be brought to heel by the popular branches of the government, and that the way to do so is not through some high-minded reform agenda but by picking and winning concrete political fights.
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We live in a wannabe theocracy.
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Carl Quintanilla
11 days ago
“.. The unemployment rate for workers under 35 with a master’s degree has rarely been higher in the past 20 years ..”
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Rep. LaMonica McIver
11 days ago
Detainees are telling us they are being treated brutally. Trump’s admin is trying to stop us from seeing it. And GEO Group has a 15yr $1B contract to run Delaney Hall. Detainees took a huge risk to tell us what’s happening behind closed doors. We must listen and take action now.
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Corey Atad
12 days ago
here’s me on Tenet
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I Can't Stop Watching 'Tenet,' And I Finally Know Why | Defector
I think it’s the drop that does it for me. It happens about three minutes into Tenet, when John David Washington, decked out in SWAT gear, gets ready to storm into an opera house in Kiev that’s being ...
https://defector.com/i-cant-stop-watching-tenet-and-i-finally-know-why?giftLink=530a73bbdaf7c420d9aab1248253ea7c
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Finbarr Bermingham
11 days ago
A sinking ship? Why the EU and China could be heading for a trade war Fiery clashes at a conference in Beijing reflect wider tensions that threaten to descend into economic conflict - my report on rapidly worsening EU-China ties for our weekend paper
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A sinking ship? Why the EU and China could be heading for a trade war
Clashes at a conference in Chinese capital reflect wider tensions that threaten to descend into an economic conflict.
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3353867/sinking-ship-why-eu-and-china-could-be-heading-trade-war
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Little louder Mike, for the folks in the back...
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Pass the BUILD plan
11 days ago
Chicago has flat population growth but an increasing number of households, which is a large reason housing is in such high demand
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Sanho Tree
13 days ago
“An outbreak of Ebola has killed 65 people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, according to African health officials. There have been 246 suspected cases of the deadly haemorrhagic fever reported so far in Ituri province, which shares borders with Uganda and South Sudan.“
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Ebola outbreak kills 65 people in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo
Concerns raised that cases were caused by a new strain of the virus as African health officials race to coordinate and contain the infection
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/may/15/ebola-outbreak-drc-africa-deaths
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Jay Rosen
12 days ago
The media empire built by former Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban's government is swiftly unravelling following an election last month that abruptly ended his rule... Senior figures at some of the most prominent pro-Orban outlets have been pushed out.
www.reuters.com/business/med...
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Orban's media empire crumbles after Hungary election defeat
The media empire built by former Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban's government, a key pillar of the nationalist leader's 16 years in power, is swiftly unravelling following an election last month...
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/orbans-media-empire-crumbles-after-hungary-election-defeat-2026-05-15/
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Michelle A. Rodrigues 🐒
12 days ago
This is terrible. ICE separated a single mother from her son, and deported her without him, leaving him in the care of her sister’s abusive ex. Who murdered him.
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Bo Thompson
12 days ago
Gerontocracy is how I still occasionally see people talk about AOC being too "young" and "inexperienced" for a presidential run despite the fact that in 2028 she will be 39 and have spent a quarter of that life as a US congressional member sitting on 5 different oversight and finance committees.
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Doug Gordon
13 days ago
A bunch of people held a protest about a traffic calming project on 72nd Street just last week. One of the complaints was that people might get hit by bikes.
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They're going to try an abduct Castro, same as Maduro, sounds like.
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Robert Wilonsky
14 days ago
Well. you can't say FIFA doesn't know how to Dallas properly. They came to town and immediately destroyed a beloved downtown mural painted in 1999 by a revered artist.
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Wilonsky: FIFA drowns Dallas’ giant, beloved whale mural beneath blue paint
The artist Wyland gifted his giant mural of six lifesized humpback whales to Dallas in 1999, but this week it was drowned beneath blue paint by FIFA.
https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/article/dallas-whale-mural-painted-over-fifa-world-cup-22259646.php
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Picking up math as a quasi-hobby was not something I ever foresaw for myself, maybe the library has my interlibrary loaned history book...
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alex benzer
13 days ago
ok, deep breath… we're discussing *potentially* adding post editing to Bluesky this year.
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