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any university president who signs a deal with trump should be required to have a daily press conference where they explain how cutting a $75m check to these guys "advances the mission" of the university
Border patrol is forcing rideshare drivers at the O’Hare lot to show proof of citizenship before they can exit the lot and pick up rides at the airport
December 17, 2025 at 10:51 PM
any university president who signs a deal with trump should be required to have a daily press conference where they explain how cutting a $75m check to these guys "advances the mission" of the university
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Border patrol under command of Greg Bovino running a checkpoint at the exit to the Uber lot at O’Hare airport in Chicago, asking drivers for proof of valid residency in this country
December 17, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Border patrol under command of Greg Bovino running a checkpoint at the exit to the Uber lot at O’Hare airport in Chicago, asking drivers for proof of valid residency in this country
they should invent a 'getting a first draft down' that's painless
December 17, 2025 at 8:58 PM
they should invent a 'getting a first draft down' that's painless
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If you have to read anything about the prospect of “automating scientific discovery,” “agents for science,” or integrating LLMs into scientific pipelines, please let it be this essay by Kevin T. Baker: artificialbureaucracy.substack.com/p/context-wi...
December 14, 2025 at 11:16 PM
If you have to read anything about the prospect of “automating scientific discovery,” “agents for science,” or integrating LLMs into scientific pipelines, please let it be this essay by Kevin T. Baker: artificialbureaucracy.substack.com/p/context-wi...
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people are trying to convince me that linux is real and good, but how could an all-loving operating system allow and create such suffering?
December 14, 2025 at 11:30 PM
people are trying to convince me that linux is real and good, but how could an all-loving operating system allow and create such suffering?
now is time of monsters and their cowards
BREAKING: Northwestern University has agreed to pay the U.S. Treasury $75 million, over the course of three years as part of an agreement with the federal government to restore funding and end investigations into the university
Full statement from NU below:
Full statement from NU below:
November 29, 2025 at 2:55 AM
now is time of monsters and their cowards
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The University Formerly Known as Northwestern dot Com
November 29, 2025 at 2:28 AM
The University Formerly Known as Northwestern dot Com
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And one more other thing I’m seeing now, that Northwestern unsurprisingly didn’t mention in its statement, effectively banning gender affirming care at NU school of medicine
November 29, 2025 at 2:32 AM
And one more other thing I’m seeing now, that Northwestern unsurprisingly didn’t mention in its statement, effectively banning gender affirming care at NU school of medicine
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in this agreement, NU formally says it will define "sports, locker rooms, and showering facilities" by sex assigned at birth.
November 29, 2025 at 12:47 AM
in this agreement, NU formally says it will define "sports, locker rooms, and showering facilities" by sex assigned at birth.
Abundance failed to consider that actually I don’t want to hear the construction of new housing in the lot behind us at 7:30am on Thanksgiving
November 27, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Abundance failed to consider that actually I don’t want to hear the construction of new housing in the lot behind us at 7:30am on Thanksgiving
which IL-09 candidate is going to fix device verification on Matrix???
November 20, 2025 at 3:39 AM
which IL-09 candidate is going to fix device verification on Matrix???
If I were building a messaging protocol that made cross-device verification a critical component of user identify verification i would simply make the verification work all the time instead of making it work none of the time
November 20, 2025 at 3:02 AM
If I were building a messaging protocol that made cross-device verification a critical component of user identify verification i would simply make the verification work all the time instead of making it work none of the time
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Rafael Veraza was trying to leave a Sam’s Club parking lot when a federal agent drove alongside a line of cars, spraying chemical irritants occupants of the vehicles through open windows — including his 1-year-old daughter, Ariana.
“My daughter didn’t have to go through this."
“My daughter didn’t have to go through this."
1-year-old, pepper sprayed by federal agent in Cicero: 'My daughter didn't have to go through this'
Video shows federal agents spraying chemical irritants from a moving vehicle at a line of cars waiting to leave a Cicero Sam's Club on Saturday morning. The action appears to violate a judge's restric...
chicago.suntimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Rafael Veraza was trying to leave a Sam’s Club parking lot when a federal agent drove alongside a line of cars, spraying chemical irritants occupants of the vehicles through open windows — including his 1-year-old daughter, Ariana.
“My daughter didn’t have to go through this."
“My daughter didn’t have to go through this."
Bike lane situation on Clark between Montrose and foster is one of the most unserious things I’ve ever seen
November 9, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Bike lane situation on Clark between Montrose and foster is one of the most unserious things I’ve ever seen
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At least 26 unhoused Chicagoans have been kidnapped by federal agents since September, including a man I'm calling Theo, a quiet day laborer who lived near Gompers Park. Two other people were also recently taken from this community. chicagoreader.com/news/ice-bor...
Many unhoused Chicagoans uncounted among the disappeared - Chicago Reader
The Latino Union of Chicago, via its Adopt a Corner initiative, organizes patrols to watch for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and other federal agents at intersections and landmarks wh...
chicagoreader.com
November 6, 2025 at 8:15 PM
At least 26 unhoused Chicagoans have been kidnapped by federal agents since September, including a man I'm calling Theo, a quiet day laborer who lived near Gompers Park. Two other people were also recently taken from this community. chicagoreader.com/news/ice-bor...
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The Chicago Police Department spent more than its City Council-approved budget in five of the last six years, costing Chicago taxpayers more than $501.2 million in unanticipated expenses, records show.
https://to.wttw.com/4ok8hxL
https://to.wttw.com/4ok8hxL
Chicago Police Department Overspent Its Budget By $501M Over 5 Years: Data
Allowing CPD to spend unlimited sums of taxpayer money is a “crazy way to run a city,” said Justin Marlowe, a professor in the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy, and the director of...
to.wttw.com
November 5, 2025 at 3:37 PM
The Chicago Police Department spent more than its City Council-approved budget in five of the last six years, costing Chicago taxpayers more than $501.2 million in unanticipated expenses, records show.
https://to.wttw.com/4ok8hxL
https://to.wttw.com/4ok8hxL
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The guy beloved by Celtics legends Larry Bird and Bill Walton?
November 5, 2025 at 4:22 AM
The guy beloved by Celtics legends Larry Bird and Bill Walton?
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I know the sandwich throwing trial is more "fun" but I hope folks will pay attention to this trial in Chicago today. People held at Broadview share details of the disgusting, inhumane conditions. A man said agents told him to sign self deportation papers and lied to him about what they were.
Now in Judge Gettleman's courtroom in Chicago, waiting for the morning hearing on this case - which alleges the Broadview, IL ICE facility is a "black hole" where detainees are deprived of legal counsel and subject to inhumane treatment - to begin.
Update: District Judge Robert Gettleman told the govt to return the immigration detainee plaintiffs in this lawsuit to IL by 4pm yesterday, as they had already been moved out of state.
I finally got word the plaintiffs were back in IL at ~7:45 am. A hearing in the case is set for 9:30 am today.
I finally got word the plaintiffs were back in IL at ~7:45 am. A hearing in the case is set for 9:30 am today.
November 4, 2025 at 7:34 PM
I know the sandwich throwing trial is more "fun" but I hope folks will pay attention to this trial in Chicago today. People held at Broadview share details of the disgusting, inhumane conditions. A man said agents told him to sign self deportation papers and lied to him about what they were.
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a local resident with the little village community council says street vendors are scared and local mom-and-pop businesses have had to close early.
but community members have also turned out to support one another. “we don’t have guns. all we have is a whistle. and we’re gonna fight back,” he says.
but community members have also turned out to support one another. “we don’t have guns. all we have is a whistle. and we’re gonna fight back,” he says.
October 25, 2025 at 5:47 PM
a local resident with the little village community council says street vendors are scared and local mom-and-pop businesses have had to close early.
but community members have also turned out to support one another. “we don’t have guns. all we have is a whistle. and we’re gonna fight back,” he says.
but community members have also turned out to support one another. “we don’t have guns. all we have is a whistle. and we’re gonna fight back,” he says.
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The incident is marks the third straight day that federal agents have deployed tear gas against Chicagoans and the seventh time in 22 days.
Video from a photographer for the @chicagotribune.com:
Video from a photographer for the @chicagotribune.com:
Border patrol agents deployed tear gas on the 3700 block of North Kildare where residents say a landscape worker, a resident, and a woman on a bike were detained. Video from a resident.
October 25, 2025 at 5:43 PM
The incident is marks the third straight day that federal agents have deployed tear gas against Chicagoans and the seventh time in 22 days.
Video from a photographer for the @chicagotribune.com:
Video from a photographer for the @chicagotribune.com:
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In Wrigleyville in Chicago right now—
ICE/CBP has reportedly been targeting laborers in the area all morning. A large number of neighbors are gathered outside a house where agents snatched a man. His lunch is still here on the ground.
Area is clear of feds for now, gas deployed earlier.
ICE/CBP has reportedly been targeting laborers in the area all morning. A large number of neighbors are gathered outside a house where agents snatched a man. His lunch is still here on the ground.
Area is clear of feds for now, gas deployed earlier.
October 24, 2025 at 5:38 PM
In Wrigleyville in Chicago right now—
ICE/CBP has reportedly been targeting laborers in the area all morning. A large number of neighbors are gathered outside a house where agents snatched a man. His lunch is still here on the ground.
Area is clear of feds for now, gas deployed earlier.
ICE/CBP has reportedly been targeting laborers in the area all morning. A large number of neighbors are gathered outside a house where agents snatched a man. His lunch is still here on the ground.
Area is clear of feds for now, gas deployed earlier.
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Oak Park resident Scott Sakiyama reports feds pointed weapons at him across from an elementary school today. They then arrested him and took him to Broadview. While in custody, he saw agents texting in a group chat called "Chiraq Team 2."
Full testimony: www.facebook.com/share/p/1GqB...
Full testimony: www.facebook.com/share/p/1GqB...
October 20, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Oak Park resident Scott Sakiyama reports feds pointed weapons at him across from an elementary school today. They then arrested him and took him to Broadview. While in custody, he saw agents texting in a group chat called "Chiraq Team 2."
Full testimony: www.facebook.com/share/p/1GqB...
Full testimony: www.facebook.com/share/p/1GqB...
he is a cheat who is good at baseball. The fans should not “realize what George springer has done for them”
they’re doing George springer hagiography on ESPN radio. let’s be serious
October 21, 2025 at 2:40 AM
he is a cheat who is good at baseball. The fans should not “realize what George springer has done for them”
they’re doing George springer hagiography on ESPN radio. let’s be serious
October 21, 2025 at 2:37 AM
they’re doing George springer hagiography on ESPN radio. let’s be serious