A Humboldt Park sub shop owner has been deported but his family vows "this is not the end." blockclubchi.co/49eXPBf

This is a helluva piece by local news reporters about the nightmare our city endured. Read every word about the violence & overreach, non-stop DHS lies, disgusting ICE/CPB photo ops, horrible impacts on families & communities & how local Chicago residents fought back.

We had congressional hearings when parents just suspected heavy metal was leading some kids to suicide.

A new report from researchers at the Yale School of Public Health warns that the U.S. government’s abrupt cancellation of funding for mRNA vaccine research could have devastating health and economic consequences for the nation.

Academic articles from authors using large language models are creating an ecosystem of fake research that threatens human knowledge itself.

Only 15? There are so many more moments (but these 15 were definitely doozeys). @mcsweeneys.net keeps a running count of horrors: www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/aug...

Why has it taken five years to make the audio public?

I cannot emphasize how serious an assault on democracy this is. Any effort by the Trump administration to engage in false claims of fraud or mass voter suppression relies on this as a building block. As importantly, there is no legitimate reason DOJ would want this information.

Again, I really wish more papers would get accustomed to the form “Trump unlawfully pretends to…” when describing things Trump says he’s doing but has no legal power to do.

I, for one, welcome our new Ultra–Capitalist Free–For–All vending machine overlords: (gift link) www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anth...

Melissa Hortman Died in a Shocking Act of Political Violence. This Is the Story of Her Life The Minnesota Speaker’s closest friends and family open up for the first time. Read @stephenrodrick.bsky.social's exclusive: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

I’m at the combination Pizza Hut and Kennedy Center.

those who predicted authoritarianism were both dismissed, & deeply misunderstood, by the media my latest for @newrepublic.com newrepublic.com/article/2042...

I'm only shocked that someone thought to check the citations at all. Their parent, Axel-Springer, has been laying off people left and right "citing an increased focus on digital operations and the use of AI."

The ACM Digital Library, where a LOT of computing-related research is published (I'd say at least 75% of my own publications), is now not only providing (without consent of the authors and without opt-in by readers) AI-generated summaries of papers, but they appear as the *default* over abstracts.

I've tried and failed a couple times to write a post explaining how serious this would be. NCAR is globally essential to our climate change response. This can't just be replaced. Every scientist in the world will be doing climate research with one hand tied behind their back for at least a decade

Another case of follow the money.

The kind .. you find … in a second hand store

Armed ICE agents trapped US citizens in a restaurant and demanded their papers. Federal agents walked into East African restaurants in Cedar-Riverside, MN. They closed and blocked the doors. Then they demanded to see everyone’s papers. Every person present was a US citizen.

To give you a sense of how big a departure this year, the government doesn't do this for wanted criminals.

Ok A.I. nailed this one, credit where it’s due www.mediaite.com/politics/tru...

It's bonkers that this isn't completely satire or notes on a fever dream.

Make sure two-factor authentication, recovery contacts, etc. are set up and up to date (relatively easy). Or leave Gmail (hard).

According to a new study, members of Congressional leadership perform 47% better in stock market trades than their rank-and-file peers, thanks to access to nonpublic information. Today would be a great day to ban ALL elected officials from trading stock, don't you think?

When he shows you who he is, believe him. www.usatoday.com/story/travel...

AI and academic research...what could go wrong? If the LLM models are hallucinating to create the research, then training itself on these hallucinations, it won't take long until nothing is real.

"I’d really like to see them suffer." “It’s just better for us to kill them in the ocean, make them shark feed, be done with it. Merry Christmas.” As lawmakers dig for answers about the Pentagon's strikes, some are celebrating the brutality. Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

It's the moment when he takes the medal out of the box and puts it on himself for me. That's one of the most pathetic things I've ever seen lol. He's so desperate to get it.

This is a million times worse than anything Hunter Biden was accused of doing in even the most fevered right-wing conspiracy dream

Join the fight against government regulations on the books that you and your family are allowed to read in the United States by signing the petition today. action.everylibrary.org/bannedbooks via @everylibrary.bsky.social‬

Kagan's dissent is all scorchers, but this is really frying me. As long as state legislatures wait until the last possible minute, according to the SCOTUS majority, they can *always* get away with rigging the lines—no matter how flagrantly—because it'll be the "eve of an election."

A startup backed by Donald Trump Jr.'s venture capital firm just got a $620M loan from the DoD, months after the Pentagon gave a major drone contract to ANOTHER Trump Jr.-backed company. This is what kleptocracy looks like. https://popular.info/p/update-trump-jr-backed-startup-receives

Generally speaking, it's not a great plan for getting away with war crimes to proudly share gruesome videos of your war crimes.

"The son’s location is currently unknown." Almost a week later.

I'm thankful for my ICE whistle.

Contrast these ledes. Left, NYT. Right, Reuters. www.reuters.com/world/us/off...

oh you GOD DAMN THINK?

BREAKING: Trump is again separating kids from families The govt isn't releasing info, but we found ICE has sent record # of kids to shelters. One family went to govt office , only to have parents detained while the children—aged 5, 11 and 1--went to shelters www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

Trump owes his corrupt and abusive reign to one man.

NEW: After ProPublica reported that the White House intervened on behalf of Andrew Tate, two senators say the behavior “raises grave questions regarding the independence and impartiality of federal law enforcement operations. By Avi Asher-Schapiro and @robert-faturechi.bsky.social

Marimar Martinez is a US citizen who was shot by ICE five times in Chicago. She was then arrested, labelled a “domestic terrorist” and slandered on social media. All charges against her have been dropped. In this interview she shows on of the seven holes the ICE agent put in her body.

The correct answer to MAGA outrage over the Dem video is this: Are you effing kidding me? Of course it's reasonable to warn that Trump might be giving illegal orders. The evidence is strong that he actually is giving illegal orders! I went through that evidence here: newrepublic.com/article/2035...

“Oxford University Library Launches Its Own Gin For Sale” www.infodocket.com/2025/11/21/r... #libraries

Updated US Lexicon: Violently attacking Congress to stop election certification then getting convicted of seditious conspiracy by a jury with full due process = not sedition Saying US troops made an oath to the Constitution and should ask a lawyer if they think an order may be illegal = sedition

From Thanksgiving through Cyber Monday, we’re saying “We Ain’t Buying It” and asking Americans to hit pause on buying from corporations that enable Trump’s fascist agenda: weaintbuyingit.com/?utm_source=ind_wabi

"... please trust us now when we say that what is happening in the Chicago area is wrong. It is not law enforcement; it is terror.” The biggest names in Chicago broadcast news condemn the violent attack on the city they love. I talked to the author, Phil Ponce. open.substack.com/pub/jennifer...

It is interesting to me how the media seems far less interested in Trump's Murder Memo than you'd expect. Only a few reporters seem to be even trying to get a hold of it, and very few commentators are talking about it. Contrast that with Bush's torture memo, which was a national obsession. Weird.

The operative word is "insurance"

Data-centers make Page One in Washington State. “.. they cost millions if not billions to build, consume vast amounts of water and power, and generally do not employ significant numbers of people beyond the construction phase ..”

I spoke to Mr. Kingsbury for this week’s column: “Every day there’s a new horror. And I don’t know how to process it unless I write.” www.cjr.org/laurels-and-...