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I distinctly remember reading law school articles in ~2007 about trans bathroom laws
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I distinctly remember reading law school articles in ~2007 about trans bathroom laws
Jo Cox was murdered by a man with a house full of neo-Nazi agitprop and this was then retconned into a vague narrative about social media abuse
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Now now... sometimes there were dusty rose and teal accents.
What people think they 80s were like versus what the 80s was actually like.
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I did a survey of people who know what a Pequod's is and...yeah we don't want Trump in Chicago
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Thank you!!!
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That isn't good but also...which coffee? Asking for a friend
Nearly all PhDs take 5 years--with finishing in 4 a rare outcome. This is deliberately designed to eliminate the international powerhouse that is US postgraduate training.
Morning at the Marina. Today's sunrise at Navy Pier Marina in Chicago.
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I've worked in downtown Chicago for years and I feel this so hard
Them: “Cities are all rotting hellscapes!” Cities:
I checked and @hypervisible.blacksky.app has not yet shared this so let me be the first to share it with him and you because this is some next-level cop sh*t. futurism.com/openai-scann...
We must all fight back against Donald Trump and RFK Jr.’s anti-science, anti-health, Make America Sick Agenda. The same way Director Monarez refused to resign, we must refuse to give in to their lies. Vaccines are safe. Americans should have access to them.
Trump's new executive order opens a 'vigilante portal,' essentially permitting civilians to aid in suppressing protests nationwide. It undermines our rights to free speech and assembly and recalls the darkest chapters in authoritarian history. https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-vigilante-portal
Jia Tolentino writes some really funny lines. " On social media, many of the most chaotic and emotionally lawless people you’ve ever known are posting on a regular basis about having at long last achieved inner peace."
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I love the county flags in Ireland though
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Chicago contains multitudes 😂
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Chicagoan here but I like this one!
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Why not skip the nonsense and call it Joe Rogan Academy this is taking forever...
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I was once on a family road trip where my grandma wanted to eat at a Cracker Barrel every day... 😒
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I am not a serious Taylor fan (not a hater either!) but I can name at least three more albums? I'm wondering if he knows anyone between the ages of 25 and 50.
These AI products are so not ready for prime time. And we are boiling our planet and pillaging the world’s intellectual property to let them loose on the world.
Just casually laying the groundwork for violent repression of the opposition
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I've worked in the city for over a decade and my biggest problem is that there is too much delicious food to eat and not enough space in my stomach.
The corruption of the US Supreme Court has arguably been the most serious single contributor to the US's transformation into autocracy
www.cbsnews.com/news/mississ... If women can't get continuous healthcare before, during, and after pregnancy, it is no surprise their babies are dying at higher rates. Leading causes of infant death in Mississippi include congenital malformations, premature birth, low birthweight, and SIDS.
someone alert these americans that third way said you shouldn't speak like thi
The Seattle Public Library offers a free service called "Your Next 5 Books" where you submit a form about what kinds of books you like + what you'd like to read, and a librarian writes back with their personalized recommendations. My librarian is Jane and she *gets* me on a molecular level
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If you come away from a podcast about the fanfiction with anything other than a disturbing amount of knowledge of werewolf anatomy, I'm not convinced you listened to a fanfiction podcast at all.
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If you are insisting that podcasts about fanfiction use Third Way-approved language... I really don't know what to tell you. You're going to language police the Omegaverse crowd?
Here is how the media should be reporting this morning's news. As part of a growing pattern of political retribution, Donald Trump's FBI has raided the home of a prominent administration critic. In this instance it happens to be John Bolton. The pretense is largely irrelevant.
May this portion of the dissent by Ketanji Brown Jackson haunt John Roberts forever and be the final word on his tenure as Chief Justice.
I don't think NYT is biased toward Trump. In fact, they're scandalously neutral on the question of whether our democracy survives. I think NYT spins stories in a counterintuitive manner ("Bad data is good news!") because they think it makes them look savvy and sophisticated.
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There should be some kind of back-to-back special series of The Worm Wars, BtB Zizians, and an explainer from that awful period where we all had to talk about William MacAskill's book
black lung disease was thought to be nearly eradicated 30ish years ago now it's an epidemic, and miners are again struggling to get the government to do something about it www.ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
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I saw them and I still don't understand
Last I recall, general checkpoint vehicle stops are presumptively unconstitutional.
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12 days in Japan and we went to an Outback Steakhouse (never go otherwise). Had a very happy kid that night.
As everything goes to hell, Trump will ramp up his authoritarianism. Might be too late to stop it, but I hope not. We have the numbers, but the establishment, billionaires, and corporate media are still paving the road for King Trump.
the lack of crispness in the detailing of this is so funny to me. truly Temu level shit Pic 1: Oval Office Pics 2, 3, and 4: Hôtel de la Marine
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Thanks!
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Ooh what scent?
illinois gov. JB pritzker responds to ken paxton's threat to arrest TX democrats who fled the state: "they're here in illinois. we're going to do everything we can to protect every single one of them."
Bunday Scaries
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And the soundtrack going all day long! 😂😭
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This movie has TAKEN OVER my family 😂
"The man who is not yet mayor is to blame for a shooting that happened under the watch of an ex-cop mayor who's thrown every available dollar at the NYPD," insists sex pest
The institutions we've relied on are falling in real time. It's time look beyond them because they aren't going to protect anyone anymore.
The double standard seems so unsustainable. If you were a Dem elected you could be forgiven for just doing relentless whataboutism with the press over this shit honestly.
maybe there's still some good left in this world after all
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I think about this all the time. Also, many people learn to think by writing and learning to structure their thoughts properly.
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I was just having this conversation about "lazy" produce that's pre-peeled or whatever. Do we want people eating fruits and veg or not?! Let people eat their sliced peppers in peace...
#ResistanceEarth #BlueEarth Our land masses are drying out due to climate change, threatening the availability of drinking water and our ability to grow food. Evaporating water is being redirected to oceans, causing more rapid sea level rise that threatens coasts. www.nbcnews.com/science/clim...
Powerful from Jason Sattler at @thefarce.org, including his suggested path to justice for Andry: The world must know what we did to Andry Hernández Romero open.substack.com/pub/thecause...
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Just got the slip-olins sandals and I'm in love
It is fucking insane that we had a decade of people complaining about the dangers of cancel culture, and now literally hundreds of thousands of people are being purged from government jobs for ideological reasons, but that is not cancel culture.
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I eat rice, frozen veggies, and whatever hot sauce or something I can find to make it tasty all the time. It's cheap, healthy, and filling (and fast).
* REUTERS POLL -- NEARLY 90% ECONOMISTS, 89 OF 100, SAY THEY ARE CONCERNED ABOUT THE QUALITY OF OFFICIAL U.S. ECONOMIC DATA, INCLUDING 41 SAYING VERY CONCERNED @reuters.com
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One queen sized bed + 3 people = no thank you. I like sleeping through the night.
You will wake up to some news about a really serious Microsoft bug (if it didn't already alter your weekend) therecord.media/microsoft-sh...
truly insane that while the NY times was trying to beat chris rufo the the scoop on mamdani's SAT scores, the murdoch owned wall street journal was uncovering evidence of trump's close ties to the leader of an elite pedo ring
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This is key - so much data isn't governed in a way that makes it useful to LLMs.
Maybe it’s just me, but I will say that I find the normal, Washington D.C. reportorial voice and attitude—worldly, knowing, ironic—off-putting when writing about a child rapist.
What a time for CBS to cancel Stephen Colbert’s “Late Show” and blame it on a “purely financial decision”: variety.com/2025/tv/news...
i don't think we should gatekeep the enormous 28 pound bunny that works as a service animal at giants games sometimes. i think we should share news of the 28 pound bunny with the wider internet
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More Bill and Cam podcasts, honestly
Andry José Hernández Romero, I remember you, even if I do not know how to articulate my horror, rage, & sorrow at your treatment by my government. No one has heard from you in 122 days. As vigil, I’m posting a photo or video of you every day until you are returned from El Salvador.
This is not the act of a legitimate government.
This is just kidnapping.
The NYT made a whole podcast about how to medically treat American trans kids and didn't speak with any American trans kids! youtube.com/shorts/f3mKy...
I … worked on this story for a year and she just … said it from the bench
HAPPENING NOW: Judge Xinis comes in hot this morning after DOJ fails to produce the ICE detainer to keep Kilmar Abrego Garcia locked up. She won't take DOJ's word for it that it exists. "You have taken the presumption of regularity and you’ve destroyed it in my view," she says.
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I showed my kid a three-hole punch the other day and you'd think I'd reinvented the iPhone
A woman opens up about how her father died because he wasn't given his life-saving medication after being abducted by ICE
"Despite Trump officially activating FEMA on Sunday, FEMA has just 86 total staff deployed at this point [to Texas], according to figures shared with staff Monday evening...In the past it would normally be in the several hundreds at this point in the disaster recovery process." My latest:
I know I’m late. Before I go in I’m checking the vibe
MAYOR BASS: “They need to leave right now. This is UNACCEPTABLE.” The mayor showed up as Trump’s Gestapo/ICE marched through MacArthur Park like an invading army. Ridiculous. They left. (h/t FOX LA)
“Conceived by a Kansas farmer and created by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, Food for Peace has sent burlap sacks of grain stamped “From the American People” to more than four billion people in 150 countries around the world. Now it is effectively dead.”
🏁 Man, what a race! Lando Norris wins the #BritishGP and Oscar comes 2nd. The biggest story of the day though, is Nico Hülkenberg on the podium! Very very happy for him. #F1 #formula1
76% of Americans think that democracy is under a serious threat, according to the latest NPR/PBS News/Marist poll. And their faith in political leadership in the White House and Congress is low.
SCOTUS's last term was marked by more than a few disturbing developments. LEAH LITMAN (@leahlitman.bsky.social) on the delegitimization campaign against the lower federal courts and how Republican justices are legitimizing & enabling a lawless executive branch. verfassungsblog.de/the-law-of-l...
Save this schedule folks. Pre-RFK jr vax schedule. Repost and pass it on to others.
Lisa Murkowski has repeatedly painted herself as pro choice, but that claim has always been a farce. Her vote for a bill that would "defund" Planned Parenthood and shutter hundreds of clinics across the country is the nail in the coffin. Me in @msnbc.com:
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I said the other day that while I wring my hands about child screen time, I spent my summers as a tween watching ER and Maury and eating Kraft Mac and Cheese and I turned out... functional...? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
A judge has granted Mario Guevara’s release on bail. And yet no one can find him. Not his lawyers, advocacy groups, journalists. This is a political prisoner disappearance. Even if temporary — this is absolutely unacceptable.
My teacher wishlist includes items for a department of over 20 educators. Anything and everything helps #clearthelist #teacherwishlist www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...
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I mean, I needed this video 🤷🏼♀️
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My grandma is almost 105 and she says the secret is friends and champagne, so this tracks 🥳
This is why they didn’t want him back: He is a witness.
Just added a rule to my inbox to automatically shitcan everything from Law360. This is categorically unacceptable.
There’s not one rule that says you can’t use kittens
Just heard Bill Kristol, former chief of staff for Dan Quayle, say he thinks ICE should be defunded and that the entire DHS should probably be disbanded, which puts him to the left of maybe the majority of elected Democrats. Truly wild times we’re living in.
i dont think the press should be goading the president into summarily deporting people who annoy him
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Every single major/minor I took at IU is essentially on the chopping block (and honestly makes it hard to want to donate since apparently the state finds my interests and contribution to society so beneath them...) My heart hurts for all the faculty and students.
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I'm facing a reality where my dad is slowing down because he's nearly 80 and my grandma is still alive so I'm really feeling this
News publishers have tried to fight back against AI, which some see as an urgent existential threat to their business. But their conversations with Alex Reisner reveal how much the deck is stacked against them.