Woman comes to US at age 6. Graduates nursing school. Work permit. No criminal record. Snatched and imprisoned by ICE for 6 months now. About to be forced back to Honduras. A life destroyed and one less nurse. Merry Christmas. www.nola.com/news/educati...

Costco Hot Dog Index as a measure of inflation and ppp - economy solved move over bigmac

There will come a time when people of good faith are empowered to uphold the law. When that time comes, Illinois will have the testimony and records needed to pursue justice to its fullest extent. The truth of what Trump and his masked agents are doing in Chicago will be told.

Scene from Border Patrol in Chicagoland: Agents yelled out the window of a van at a woman walking from her car to the Costco. The woman, of southeast Asian descent, said in a Midwestern accent, “They just asked me if I’m American. What the fuck?” chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

"ICE and CBP must be abolished" is the only reasonable position. We can debate the specifics of new agencies for immigration functions, but these agencies are simply too infected with a culture of impunity, racism, and fascism to continue. They're gangs with badges.

Unpopular opinion: Current code review tools just don’t make much sense for AI-generated code When reviewing code I really want to know: - The prompt made by the dev - What corrections the other dev made to the code - Clear marking of code AI-generated not changed by a human

AI as a normal technology gaining steam

there is a much easier solution to this problem

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

What a great idea

For reasons completely unrelated to any opinions about regulatory policy, a Day 1 executive order here in the US should be ending every government agency account on X. Just delete them all, plain as that. For the same reason the US government need not have accounts on Stormfront or 4chan.

@spacecowboy17.bsky.social one thing ive noticed in For You is repetition of posts that QT that same core post. Its creates a lot of redundancy - maybe a penalty on QT’s or something similar may prevent it? Or maybe when youre weighting based on likes you normalize per source post so QTs get less

getting kinda negatively polarized on self driving (waymo, not Tesla) bans. they do cost like the technology clearly works and is viable for at least intra-city transit, at a certain point the distracted, drunk, et. driving deaths are in fact actively on the people seeking to delay it's deployment

My theory, fwiw, is that Supreme Court Justices are not immune to Twitter brain poisoning. I suspect all six have horrific information environments and have therefore lost the ability to understand the people who don't agree with them.

Dude. Yes. Alito and Thomas are of course the standout examples, but all of the Republican justices have tells in their writing and their questioning indicating that they are, to varying degrees, marinating their brains in dumb bitch juice

i'd go even further and say there is a reason even nixon kept this kind of stuff to himself. you would have to go back quite a bit to find a point at which is acceptable for a president to say anything like this *in public*, to say nothing of in the oval office.

One of the lowest points in US history - the president going on unhinged white supremacist rants in public appearance after public appearance, targeting a specific ethnic group - but because it’s Trump our political class is incapable of perceiving what it is and reacting appropriately

Chief Bovino is not a political appointee. He is a civil servant, subject to the same requirements to be nonpartisan as any other employee. These messages are being broadcast from an official government account.

That begs the question: why has everyone lost their damn minds? And the answer I think is Phone x COVID x Neoliberalism = everyone is insane.

Why does Ventra accept credit cards at random - with more saying “insufficient funds”. Its really frustrating and seems either deliberate or system rot. The website says they all should work and its never been the case for me. Anyone can shed light? #chicago #cta

I didn’t want to overreact, and took time to read this. Having done so, I’m adding Northwestern to the list of places I won’t visit or speak. The concessions re: international students and gender-affirming care are not merely symbolic.

There are no terse excuses for moral cowardice, gullibility, and breach of fiduciary duty.

The reality, of course, is that Miller and a significant portion of Trump’s base are the ones who failed to assimilate to America’s post-WWII culture of multi-racial democracy & religious pluralism…and they are now using their power to destroy that once dominant (and still popular) American culture.

this is just gutter racism

Happy Thanksgiving!

So AI "water-use" is a red-herring. The numerate among us know this. But power? DCs are big, and indeed take up a lot of power (ask me about the time in ~2012 that Twitter tried to build its first DC and there was some confusion about "doubly redundant 5MW" meant...). and demand / supply => price

this is a bluesky bubble opinion. 800M+ people use chatgpt every week. I hate Facebook and Instagram and I wish they didn’t exist, but 3B and 2B people use them every month, respectively. it’s very hard to picture a mass or even a niche left backlash against them

just like in Chicago before, these folks in St. Paul are standing up to armed goons in full tactical gear in nothing but pajamas

There isnt clearer evidence the rule of law has been eroded than this. Pure contempt after judicial ruling saying not to do it.

Gregory Bovino’s deposition is out. Check here and @chicagotribune.com for highlights. Throughout, Bovino was evasive and combative. In this, while being asked about a photo showing him throwing tear gas, Bovino said: “You said canister. I threw two. That’s plural.”

Im all for stricter traffic enforcement in Chicago, but it’s kind of nuts tickets are TWO MONTHS delayed. How does that change behavior at all?

Absolutely incredible; after shooting Marimar Martinez 5 times and arresting her on claims that she rammed them and pulled a gun, prosecutors have now moved to dismiss ALL criminal charges against her and her codefendant.

An X user asks Elon Musk why they’re seeing tweets from left-wing lawmakers. Musk: “Because we are failing very badly with the recommendations algorithm. Doing my best to address this.”

Feds now claim a "system crash" that happened immediately after ICE was sued is the reason why 10 days of footage from inside the Broadview Detention Center has been lost. Unreal hearing on this earlier: www.404media.co/ice-says-cri...

Opening is love letter to chi

You are not immune to propaganda!

Once again astonished that Elon is building a propaganda machine in public, saying "hello, here is my propaganda machine", and the tech community continues to use it

I’m really excited about our release of Gemini 3 today, the result of hard work by many, many people in the Gemini team and all across Google! 🎊 blog.google/products/gem... Gemini 3 performs quite well on a wide range of benchmarks.

Pirates: arr Pirates with an MBA: ARR

US citizen Maria Greeley, a Latina who was adopted, was walking home from work downtown when masked agents zip tied her. They said she “doesn’t look like a Greeley.” This is how the government treats people under current deportation policies. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/15/l...

Everyone dunking on this should be forced to read machines of ever loving grace. It’s not insane to speculate in this way!

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei thinks AI could help find cures for most cancers, prevent Alzheimer’s, and even double the human lifespan. cbsn.ws/4oRZ8Nm

Having been on this website for a while, the idea of using another site that doesn't give you any algorithmic control feels somewhat repulsive

Theyre gonna radicalize the country city by city

This is so so disturbing. Trump is now pardoning January 6th rioters for unrelated crimes, just to reward them for their violence to keep him in power. The Republican Party is in the full time business of endorsing and incentivizing political violence. So scary.

16 out of 614. They arrested ~16 people with criminal records. They terrorized thousands, brutalized protesters, destroyed families, cratered businesses, tear-gassed a Halloween parade, traumatized kids in a day care, killed a man, & pepper sprayed a baby… for 16 people with criminal records.

NEW: The US has deported a longtime Oregon firefighter who was arrested by Border Patrol while deployed at a major wildfire in Washington state. José Bertin Cruz-Estrada, separated from his family, is speaking out from Mexico for the first time: “I feel betrayed ... What am I going to do now?"

The Magnificent Mile’s vacancy rate has gone down in recent years; among them, Uniqlo is opening a store at 600 N Michigan soon. The vacancy rate of the retail space in Trump Tower, a few blocks away, has always been about 95%.

Making fun of our neighborhoods and communities is disgusting. Greg Bovino and his masked agents are not here to make Chicago safer. As children are tear gassed and U.S. citizens detained, they are posing for photo ops and producing reality TV moments. blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/10/b...