Ameretet
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A new pope already? I wonder if itโs that American from Chicago.
10 months ago
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Adam Serwer
1 day ago
Yoon and Prince Andrew wishing they had a friend like John Roberts.
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The Guardian
1 day ago
Yoon Suk Yeol sentenced to life in prison for leading insurrection in South Korea
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Yoon Suk Yeol sentenced to life in prison for leading insurrection in South Korea
Former South Korean president found guilty over failed martial law declaration in 2024 A South Korean court on Thursday sentenced the former president Yoon Suk Yeol to life imprisonment with labour over his failed martial law declaration in December 2024, finding him guilty of leading an insurrection and making him the first elected head of state in the countryโs democratic era to receive the maximum custodial sentence. Under South Korean law, the charge of leading an insurrection carries three possible sentences: death, life imprisonment with labour, or life imprisonment without labour. Continue reading...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/19/yoon-suk-yeol-sentenced-to-life-in-prison-for-leading-insurrection-in-south-korea?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky&CMP=bsky_gu
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A great essay about something else. But this is a breathtaking sentence.
lareviewofbooks.org/article/as-h...
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Letters of Note
8 days ago
Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin
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NBC News
9 days ago
NEW: All flights to and from El Paso airport in Texas halted for 10 days for 'special security reasons,' FAA says.
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All flights to and from El Paso airport in Texas halted for 10 days for 'security reasons'
The FAA notice covers the airspace over El Paso and the neighboring community of Santa Teresa, New Mexico.
https://nbcnews.to/4tl9h7E
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein ๐
12 days ago
There should be Congressional hearings over this
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NPR
13 days ago
The Factbook survived the Cold War and became a hit online. It mixed quirky cultural notes and trivia with maps, data, and photos taken by CIA officers. But it was discontinued this week.
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The CIA World Factbook is dead. Here's how I came to love it
The Factbook survived the Cold War and became a hit online. It mixed quirky cultural notes and trivia with maps, data, and photos taken by CIA officers. But it was discontinued this week.
https://n.pr/3Mq3Y6i
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23 days ago
If you are in or near Chicago and want to show solidarity with Minnesota, pray for our nation, consider this event Fri night. Tony Pizzo, OSA (provincial of the Augustinian Chicago province) will preside. Everyone welcome, its not just for Catholics. Please share.
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Bro she should go to jail
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24 days ago
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jamelle
about 1 month ago
i think it is simply true that for all intents and purposes stephen miller is the president of the united states
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The Wrath of Stephen Miller
The man who turns President Trumpโs most incendiary impulses into policy
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/01/stephen-miller-trump-white-house/685516/
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Wild Ramp Publishing
about 1 month ago
Rough Draft #10 is out now! Weโre talking 2026 resolutions: art as a side quest, learning without โdeluxe finished productโ pressure, midlife career pivots, being terrified all the time, bass guitar dreams, hula hoops, Chicago love, and more!
roughdraftwithkeidraandliz.podbean.com/e/rough-draf...
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Continvous Morger
about 1 month ago
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Cooper Lund
about 1 month ago
Itโs really too bad that Trumpโs cabinet are all spineless worms or equally crazy because โthe President has gone insane and is going to destroy the transatlantic alliance because they didnโt give him a Nobel Peace Prizeโ is kind of exactly the thing we have a 25th Amendment for
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Pavel
about 1 month ago
If you're looking for a sign to switch careers: this is the sign.
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depths of wikipedia
about 1 month ago
wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage
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jamelle
about 1 month ago
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New Year, Same Ashley
about 1 month ago
The good better best is going to be next level. Ben Johnson is going to ascend directly into Heaven like Elijah.
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rahaeli
about 2 months ago
Okay, I will preface this with the GIGANTIC disclaimer that I promise I know how this looks, and I *swear* this is not personally motivated: If you have an old
#LiveJournal
account, and it has things you still care about in it, download it or import it to Dreamwidth SOON. Details:
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Andy Diggle
about 2 months ago
โItโs bad luck Ghorman. We need what's in the ground, and when we're done, there won't be much left to call home."
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Hannah Arendt mention on the young and the restless
about 2 months ago
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Missing The Point
2 months ago
When not in use, the Rubio is powered down and placed in a corner.
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jamelle
2 months ago
i have said this before but if you are actually interested in influencing people beyond a narrow circle of too-online journalists you will be making direct to camera videos on tiktok, instagram and youtube. if you primarily post on text-based social media then you're just dicking around.
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Cape Cod Demon Hunter
2 months ago
Incredible timing that Sydney Sweeney and Amanda Seyfried are co-starring in a movie when the former's press quotes are like "I Googled racism last night and it turns out it's a thumbs down" and the latter's are like "Voltaire said we must strangle the last king with the bowels of the last priestโ
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derek guy
2 months ago
We are monitoring, thinking, and praying.
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Imani Barbarin
2 months ago
Thereโs something worse than Trump coming.
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Theres Someone Worse Than Trump
YouTube video by Imani Barbarin
https://youtube.com/shorts/EhsKwgP3UuY?si=tNaU23cPK8lvQifN
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Center for Political Studies
2 months ago
๐จFELLOWSHIPS AVAILABLE!
@umisrcps.bsky.social
has seven
#ISRNextGeneration
awards open to UM graduate students and postdocs advancing research on comparative politics, political opinion & behavior, and more. Explore, share with students, and apply by Feb 9!
cps.isr.umich.edu/fellowships/
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The Roy Pierce Scholars Fund
The Roy Pierce Scholars Fund provides summer support for graduate students in the University of Michigan Political Science Department to work with a member of CPS faculty. The Pierce Fund honors Roy P...
https://cps.isr.umich.edu/fellowships/
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David Doniger
3 months ago
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Amy Kaufman
about 1 year ago
๐งต On 6 December 1989 a man entered a mechanical engineering classroom at Montrealโs รcole Polytechnique with a semi automatic weapon. Separating women and men, he shot the women, screaming, โYou are all feministsโ 14 women were murdered. Today we remember their names and not his.
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Sarah Betancourt
3 months ago
โShe showed up as scheduled, and when she arrived, officers were asking everyone what country they were from, and if they said a certain country, they were told to step out of line and that their oath ceremonies were canceled.โ
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Immigrants kept from Faneuil Hall citizenship ceremony as feds crackdown nationwide
Trump administration is pausing naturalizations for immigrants from 19 countries.
https://www.wgbh.org/news/local/2025-12-05/immigrants-kept-from-faneuil-hall-citizenship-ceremony-as-feds-crackdown-nationwide
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Diedrich Bader
3 months ago
First thing he said to me after repeating my name was โthatโs good bloodโ
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NPR
3 months ago
The French electronic duo turns distressed dreams into symphonies plucked from cotton candy clouds. Yet to see Air's members perform live, everything looks so effortless.
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Air: Tiny Desk Concert
The French electronic duo turns distressed dreams into symphonies plucked from cotton candy clouds. Yet to see Air's members perform live, everything looks so effortless.
https://n.pr/4rANTdX
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Holiday home tours are so weird like I donโt want to see your house or your tacky furnishings
3 months ago
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#countdowntochristmas
Ernest saves Christmas
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Epstein Hegseth's order Withholding economic data Getting richer while president Questions about his health I'm probably forgetting a few. But the point is that ANY other administration in history would be called "scandal-plagued" if not already over. The only change is in what we accept.
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Patrick Wyman
3 months ago
I dunno man it just really seems like American universities have lost the plot over the past 30 years or so and while I too love college football and basketball, the people making key decisions at them don't seem to care about their educational mission at all
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#countdowntochristmas
in earnest this time. The Santa Clause
3 months ago
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how the grinch stole christmas (2018)
3 months ago
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Scrooged
3 months ago
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The Grinch from 2000
3 months ago
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Dear Santa (2024)
3 months ago
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Jingle All The Way the first two days was Home Alone and Mickeyโs Christmas Carol
3 months ago
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Who is Olivia nuzz? I admit I havenโt the foggiest clue who that is. I thought she was like a kardashian or a hadid
3 months ago
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Maggie Tokuda-Hall
3 months ago
It is genuinely incredible to me how much evidence there is to support investing in the public good and how much animus there is to do this simple, effective thing.
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Lex McMenamin (they/them)
3 months ago
those of us laid off from Teen Vogue were really fortunate to complete our fundraising goal โ the laid-off staffers at VIBE deserve the same support, as Black media outlets and journalists continue to be targeted and discriminated against in โausterityโ measures
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Taemin is gonna be on the Kelly clarkson show!
3 months ago
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Julie DiCaro
3 months ago
An interesting tidbit in the joint status report filed in the Broadview ICE facility case today: ICE says video from inside the facility "between October 19, 2025, and October 31, 2025, has been irretrievably destroyed" and can't be produced in discovery.
www.courtlistener.com/docket/71832...
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Em, midly
3 months ago
If anyone has connections in Charlotte, NC or any other city where ICE/CBP are ramping up operations or announcing intent, Iโd be happy to tap them into our Chicago whistle network. Please message me on Signal if youโre willing to host assembly events or receive supplies! emidly.08
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Mikki Brock
3 months ago
Maybe itโs just the Humanities professor in me, but let it be noted that events of today (ahem) have demonstrated the value of being able to assess a large volume of qualitative data and do careful textual analysis with deep attention to context.
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