"As I've said repeatedly, refusing to provide full access raises serious questions about what ICE is trying to hide from public view.”

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. @wttw.bsky.social

Sunday’s suicide bombing near a railway track in #Quetta 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. 🔗 acleddata.com/expert-comme...

It's so easy to forget that people, even elected officials, can at any moment simply choose to do the right thing.

Carbon credits are the financialized version of recycling.

This piece by @himself.bsky.social is a banger. The implication of AI for management is not what management thinks. 🫣

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.

Saez and @gabrielzucman.bsky.social 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/...

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.

Jony Ive's signature move, a complete lack of signature characteristics.

The Israeli veto of any Iran deal may complicate things for this administration.

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.

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

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.

The tan suit was such a good look, I entirely failed to understand that scandal.

I submit to you that these are functionally equivalent.

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.

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

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.

Thanks to Dave for giving me something to write about today. badfaithtimes.com/there-is-no-...

Barbarism.

“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.”

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

Only a few chapters into Obscene Bird of the Night, but this book is as great as advertised.

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.

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.

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...

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

the "Thucydides Trap" shows how bad history can succeed if it serves a purpose

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. @micarosenberg.bsky.social

“.. $41.5bn as of Sunday night — or $316 per US household.” ⛽️ @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/32ff...

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) aeon.co/essays/young...

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.

We live in a wannabe theocracy.

“.. The unemployment rate for workers under 35 with a master’s degree has rarely been higher in the past 20 years ..” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/lifestyle/ca...

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.

here’s me on Tenet

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

Little louder Mike, for the folks in the back...

Chicago has flat population growth but an increasing number of households, which is a large reason housing is in such high demand

“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.“

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...

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.

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.

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.

They're going to try an abduct Castro, same as Maduro, sounds like.

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. www.dallasnews.com/opinion/comm...

Picking up math as a quasi-hobby was not something I ever foresaw for myself, maybe the library has my interlibrary loaned history book...

ok, deep breath… we're discussing *potentially* adding post editing to Bluesky this year.