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I have just read Against the Day, and I will not be taking questions at this time. Chicago, he/him.
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Israel's government has approved a process to register land in the West Bank as "state property", drawing condemnation from Arab nations and critics who said it would accelerate annexation of the Palestinian territory.
u.afp.com/S6N8
u.afp.com
February 16, 2026 at 11:30 PM
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Evidently, something was broken with the other link. So, here, I've written about the right-wing attacks on PME and civilian educational institutions.

othermeans.substack.com/p/the-myth-o...
The Myth of the Warfighter
The Soldier and the Educational Institutions
othermeans.substack.com
February 16, 2026 at 9:59 PM
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Oh, okay. I'll bite.

The right to vote is enshrined in the Constitution.

The "right" of armed federal cops to arrest, beat, and kill people with anonymity is not.
Emmer: "Another reform they claim they want is they want ICE agents to identify themselves, to show identification. But they don't want identification for voters in elections. I mean, this stuff is just intellectually inconsistent."
February 16, 2026 at 9:25 PM
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Among financial hubs, Dubai stands out for its deep financial ties to Africa, not only through the presence of large emirati firms on the continent but also through the emirate’s role in illicit financial flows and commodity-based money laundering.
Asian financial hubs are reshaping Africa’s offshore economy - ICIJ
A new report shows how Dubai, Singapore and Hong Kong have courted African elites and companies with tax breaks, light regulation, and secrecy.
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February 16, 2026 at 9:57 PM
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Still processing this choice by @chicagomag.com. No matter how they couch it, they’re elevating an unapologetic bigot. There’s a lot of real estate between ignoring him and ranking him among the most powerful people in Chicago (ahem, Berwyn), and Chicago Magazine jumped over all of it, eyes closed.
Chicago Magazine named Nick Fuentes #7 in its list of Top 50 powerful Chicagoans of 2025.
February 16, 2026 at 9:53 PM
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It's kind of funny how Hayek's (mostly correct) argument against central planning because concentrating that much economic power in one place inevitably lead to totalitarian behavior is also a pretty strong argument against like, extreme concentrations of wealth and market power
pretty stunning chart
February 16, 2026 at 7:52 PM
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February 16, 2026 at 8:13 AM
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When I have spent 15 years suggesting that the Obama lawyers were inadequately committed to cracking down on elite criminality.... even I didn't envision that one of them was going to become a close friend of Jeffrey Epstein.
February 13, 2026 at 1:05 PM
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Parallel universes, mysterious collapses, divided worlds. These are among the interpretations of quantum theory’s relationship with reality. It’s no wonder that everyone still has questions.
Are the Mysteries of Quantum Mechanics Beginning To Dissolve? | Quanta Magazine
Columnist Philip Ball thinks the phenomenon of decoherence might finally bridge the quantum-classical divide.
www.quantamagazine.org
February 16, 2026 at 4:46 PM
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in other news, please post about something else than dem primary discourse. we cannot do 2028 dem primary discourse this early. dear lord.
February 16, 2026 at 3:34 PM
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Haven Watch is the group that meets people who are being released from Whipple (usually because they were illegally detained), often without coats or phones or any way to get home.
Haven Watch released an Amazon wish list that will help them continue their work. If you have the ability, please consider gifting one or more of these items:

www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...
Check out my list on Amazon
www.amazon.com
February 16, 2026 at 3:28 PM
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US Magnesium has operated next to the Great Salt Lake for decades, and has long been an environmental headache.
Why Utah bought one of its biggest polluters — and what it means for the Great Salt Lake
US Magnesium has operated next to the Great Salt Lake for decades, and has long been an environmental headache.
www.sltrib.com
February 16, 2026 at 2:57 PM
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Louisiana has refused to reconsider the convictions of 1,000+ mostly Black men sentenced by split juries, despite the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in 2020 that such convictions are unconstitutional and based on an inherently racist law.

By @richardawebster.bsky.social
What One Man’s 45-Year-Old Case Tells Us About the “Jim Crow Juries” Haunting Louisiana
Today, a split verdict would mean a mistrial. But in 1980s Louisiana, when nonunanimous juries were still legal, 19-year-old Lloyd Gray, a Black man, was sentenced to prison for life — even though the...
www.propublica.org
February 16, 2026 at 3:00 PM
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With sundown towns, census figures indicated that racial terrorism had taken place. We'll see a similar story related to the current atrocities.
February 16, 2026 at 3:03 AM
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Republicans handled the IRS surge from Biden by clawing it back to a nub. Democrats can do the same thing with immigration enforcement, and by Republicans' own admission it wouldn't threaten public safety. prospect.org/2026/02/16/i...
February 16, 2026 at 2:31 PM
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2026 Top 100 Prospects
The prospect team presents their 2026 Top 100 Prospects list, with reports for each player.
blogs.fangraphs.com
February 16, 2026 at 2:00 PM
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Andrew Bailey led the Georgia election raid. His Missouri record should be a warning missouriindependent.com/2026/02/16/a...
Andrew Bailey led the Georgia election raid. His Missouri record should be a warning • Missouri Independent
When the FBI carried out its controversial raid last month at the election headquarters of Fulton County, Georgia, Andrew Bailey was there.
missouriindependent.com
February 16, 2026 at 1:46 PM
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Exclusive: Ecuador prison deaths climb again despite Noboa security strategy, data shows reut.rs/4bY6Ulc
Exclusive: Ecuador prison deaths climb again despite Noboa security strategy, data shows
After hundreds of Ecuadorean inmates were killed in prison riots in 2021 and 2022, President Daniel Noboa made restoring order in jails one of the central pillars of his security strategy when he took office in 2023.
reut.rs
February 16, 2026 at 11:25 AM
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Predicting the next economic crash or financial crisis has always been more art than science. Today there’s an added complication — the increasing shortage of information about what’s really going on in the economy and financial system.

Read The Big Take: bloom.bg/4kJLf2u

🎨: Grace J. Kim
February 16, 2026 at 12:32 PM
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There’s also a progressive candidate running who HASN’T taken money from Palantir partners @mikesacks.bsky.social :

www.mikesacksforcongress.com
February 16, 2026 at 1:25 AM
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Will it be national news? Will it cause performative outrage? Will he be censured?

Nope. Forgotten by tomorrow.
February 16, 2026 at 1:19 AM
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Broadly speaking: reality tv is bad for democracy, influencers are bad for democracy, streamers are bad for democracy, YouTubers are bad for democracy.

Exceptions to all categories exist, but it’s astonishing how absolutely clogged our political and media ecosystems are with low-info narcissists
February 15, 2026 at 9:37 PM
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Paris region launched its Tzen 4 bus rapid transit line this week. The 14 km (9 mi), €123 m electrified route serves cities in the southern part of the metropolitan area; it's expected to serve 47,000 daily riders. It uses 24 m (79 ft) buses.
February 15, 2026 at 8:46 PM
I don't have a way out of this Platner thing, but left wing voters have been clamoring for new blood for years now, and the party came up with... a 77 year old. Difficult to see how they've improved the situation.
February 15, 2026 at 8:43 PM
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Yikes! Juan Rangel, the once-disgraced head of Urban Center, which promotes anti-Archer traffic safety project rallies, isn’t just “centrist” - he’s a full-on Trump supporter. 😬

@swcollectivechi.bsky.social @betterstreetschicago.org @chicritmass.bsky.social @atalliance.bsky.social @bikegridnow.org
Juan Rangel: How Latinos found their voice in Donald Trump
The election outcome was the culmination of concern over the direction of Latino values on family, faith and an aspiration for upward mobility.
www.chicagotribune.com
February 15, 2026 at 7:16 PM