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· Aug 20
We focused on the rapid proliferation of license plate readers and adoption of real-time crime center systems, but police spent loads on other tech.
For instance, police in Oak Brook, Countryside, North Riverside, and Willowbrook bought handheld & vehicle-mounted StarChase GPS launchers.
For instance, police in Oak Brook, Countryside, North Riverside, and Willowbrook bought handheld & vehicle-mounted StarChase GPS launchers.
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They’re burying the weirdest part of this story, which is that this congressman’s twin brother keeps trying and failing to replace him in various jobs and is now hoping to replace him in this one
November 29, 2025 at 11:03 PM
They’re burying the weirdest part of this story, which is that this congressman’s twin brother keeps trying and failing to replace him in various jobs and is now hoping to replace him in this one
One of my favorite genres
Oh and at one point, one cop pepper-sprayed another cop. (Around the 12-second mark.)
November 29, 2025 at 8:05 PM
One of my favorite genres
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I mean, as fighting words as it gets here from a GOP official against the White House.
November 29, 2025 at 3:58 AM
I mean, as fighting words as it gets here from a GOP official against the White House.
Guy uses this card for everything
November 29, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Guy uses this card for everything
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The legal, media, and academic institutions capitulating to an authoritarian ordering payments for favorable treatment are damning themselves to irrelevance. They are destroying their institutions. They will be — and should be — shunned for failing in their most basic purposes for existing.
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 1:37 AM
The legal, media, and academic institutions capitulating to an authoritarian ordering payments for favorable treatment are damning themselves to irrelevance. They are destroying their institutions. They will be — and should be — shunned for failing in their most basic purposes for existing.
Are we sure editors didn’t add it
How did the @nytimes.com editors let this sentence appear?
"Critics have likened Mr. Trump’s approach to extortion, while others have chalked it up as a cost of doing business with this administration."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
"Critics have likened Mr. Trump’s approach to extortion, while others have chalked it up as a cost of doing business with this administration."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Northwestern University Nears Deal to Resolve Its Conflict With the White House
www.nytimes.com
November 29, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Are we sure editors didn’t add it
Such an absolute shame & embarrassment.
Fuck, Northwestern just caved. Reading the deal now. ( www.northwestern.edu/president/do... )
www.northwestern.edu
November 29, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Such an absolute shame & embarrassment.
Days since Greg Bovino was last shown to be a liar: 0
‘His word means nothing’: Dismissed case reveals dishonesty of Border Patrol commander, protester says
Cole Sheridan was charged with assaulting Gregory Bovino in Broadview, but prosecutors tossed the case after a video appeared to contradict Bovino’s account. Several similar cases have been dismissed ...
chicago.suntimes.com
November 29, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Days since Greg Bovino was last shown to be a liar: 0
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Holy moly - the Mayor's office cut capacity by at least 70%, from 5k to 1.5k people at a time & informed vendors just 12 hours before opening day, vendors call it "an existential threat to the Christkindlmarket" and the Mayor's office hasn't explained the change.
www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...
www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...
Christkindlmarket vendors ask Chicago to raise new capacity limits after seeing big drop in business
Christkindlmarket organizers are urging city officials to reconsider new last-minute limits placed on capacity for the popular Christmas market, saying their survival depends on the changes they are s...
www.cbsnews.com
November 28, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Holy moly - the Mayor's office cut capacity by at least 70%, from 5k to 1.5k people at a time & informed vendors just 12 hours before opening day, vendors call it "an existential threat to the Christkindlmarket" and the Mayor's office hasn't explained the change.
www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...
www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...
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This article says about 1500 people are now allowed in at a time, less than half of the 3500 allowed when COVID restrictions were in place, makes zero sense
City officials surprised vendors at Chicago’s most popular holiday market by imposing new crowd restrictions just hours before it opened last Friday.
City officials impose crowd restrictions on Christkindlmarket, creating uncertainty for vendors
chicago.suntimes.com
November 28, 2025 at 10:23 PM
This article says about 1500 people are now allowed in at a time, less than half of the 3500 allowed when COVID restrictions were in place, makes zero sense
I have more faith in the Bears rn than DC Dems
It's not often that "simple morality" and "effective politics" line up so perfectly, but we have to hope DC's Democrats are smart enough to seize the moment with both hands
November 28, 2025 at 10:09 PM
I have more faith in the Bears rn than DC Dems
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BREAKING: As part of his contempt inquiry, Judge Boasberg orders DHS Sec Kristi Noem and other officials to submit declarations by 12/5 attesting to their actions relating to the decision not to turn around March 15 Alien Enemies Act flights.
Background: www.lawdork.com/p/aclu-lawye...
Background: www.lawdork.com/p/aclu-lawye...
![United States v. Young, 107 F.3d 903, 907 (D.C. Cir. 1997) (quoting United States v. NYNEX
Corp., 8 F.3d 52, 54 (D.C. Cir. 1993)).
In conducting such inquiry, Plaintiffs submit that the Court should "require the
government to promptly file declarations) identifying all individuals involved in the decision not
to halt the transfer of class members out of U.S. physical custody on March 15 and 16, 2025." ECF No. 193 (Pl. Resp.) at 1. "[O]nce these declarations are filed and depending on what
information they disclose, the Court should then determine the appropriate sequence of witness
testimony, and the manner in which that testimony should be provided." Id. The Government
similarly notes: "If the Court believes any further information is needed for [its inquiry],
Defendants respectfully request an opportunity to provide that information to the Court by way
of declarations in the first instance (as even Plaintiffs agree is appropriate)." Def. Resp. at 1.
The Court will adopt the parties' agreement on starting with declarations; it will then
assess the need for witness testimony. It therefore ORDERS that by December 5, 2025, the
Government shall submit declarations from all individuals involved in the decision not to halt the
transfer of class members out of U.S. physical custody on March 15 and 16, 2025. Such
declarations shall detail their roles in such decision.
/s/ James E. Boasberg
JAMES E. BOASBERG
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November 28, 2025 at 9:55 PM
BREAKING: As part of his contempt inquiry, Judge Boasberg orders DHS Sec Kristi Noem and other officials to submit declarations by 12/5 attesting to their actions relating to the decision not to turn around March 15 Alien Enemies Act flights.
Background: www.lawdork.com/p/aclu-lawye...
Background: www.lawdork.com/p/aclu-lawye...
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The DC shooting story is really getting to me because we literally trained this man as a child soldier for a death squad in a forever war and Stephen Miller et al want to blame it on other cultures? It's our culture, American culture, that killed that woman.
November 28, 2025 at 1:40 PM
The DC shooting story is really getting to me because we literally trained this man as a child soldier for a death squad in a forever war and Stephen Miller et al want to blame it on other cultures? It's our culture, American culture, that killed that woman.
Eventually the story of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer is going to morph into him being a cop, protecting the packages.
Blitzen, of course, has always been a drunk cop.
Blitzen, of course, has always been a drunk cop.
It is absolutely wild to me that anyone in or around Chicago legitimately believes that Christkindlmarkt, a massive tchotchke emporium with overpriced mulled cider and glögg populated by nothing but the most holiday-pilled aunties from Big Ten country, is a security risk, requiring hundreds of cops.
The Christkindlmarkt thing is so funny top to bottom. America so starved for vibrant public spaces and events that this winter craft fair gets Disneyland-level regional demand, and this is seen as a problem to be solved with cops and security
November 28, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Eventually the story of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer is going to morph into him being a cop, protecting the packages.
Blitzen, of course, has always been a drunk cop.
Blitzen, of course, has always been a drunk cop.
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The Christkindlmarkt thing is so funny top to bottom. America so starved for vibrant public spaces and events that this winter craft fair gets Disneyland-level regional demand, and this is seen as a problem to be solved with cops and security
November 28, 2025 at 8:07 PM
The Christkindlmarkt thing is so funny top to bottom. America so starved for vibrant public spaces and events that this winter craft fair gets Disneyland-level regional demand, and this is seen as a problem to be solved with cops and security
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“violent fantasy became an obsession, according to former Trump administration officials…“Fucking kill them all,” Trump would say. “An eye for an eye.” Other times he’d snap at his staff: “You just got to kill these people…Other countries do it all the time.” www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Textbook war crime/extrajudicial killing
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 8:01 PM
“violent fantasy became an obsession, according to former Trump administration officials…“Fucking kill them all,” Trump would say. “An eye for an eye.” Other times he’d snap at his staff: “You just got to kill these people…Other countries do it all the time.” www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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ICE detained a Kurdish asylum seeker the day before his wife became a U.S. citizen: “We were following every letter of the law." blockclubchi.co/49MjNxC
November 28, 2025 at 8:00 PM
ICE detained a Kurdish asylum seeker the day before his wife became a U.S. citizen: “We were following every letter of the law." blockclubchi.co/49MjNxC
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The standard you walk past is the standard you accept
Every single congressional Democrat needs to be out there, right now, insisting that Pete Hegseth resign right now and announcing that he will be held accountable for committing war crimes.
If you do not demand accountability here and now, they will only become more emboldened.
If you do not demand accountability here and now, they will only become more emboldened.
Exclusive: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave an order to “kill everybody” in the first strike on suspected drug boats in the Caribbean. After two men survived, the mission commander ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions, according to two sources.
November 28, 2025 at 7:58 PM
The standard you walk past is the standard you accept
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ICE is arresting husbands & wives at their final green card interviews
They’re going to the immigration meeting to complete the final step in the legal process and leaving in handcuffs
One man had to take his crying infant from his wife’s arms as ICE forcibly detained her
This is cruel entrapment
They’re going to the immigration meeting to complete the final step in the legal process and leaving in handcuffs
One man had to take his crying infant from his wife’s arms as ICE forcibly detained her
This is cruel entrapment
Green Card Interviews End in Handcuffs for Spouses of U.S. Citizens
www.nytimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 10:20 PM
ICE is arresting husbands & wives at their final green card interviews
They’re going to the immigration meeting to complete the final step in the legal process and leaving in handcuffs
One man had to take his crying infant from his wife’s arms as ICE forcibly detained her
This is cruel entrapment
They’re going to the immigration meeting to complete the final step in the legal process and leaving in handcuffs
One man had to take his crying infant from his wife’s arms as ICE forcibly detained her
This is cruel entrapment
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"Because there is no legitimate war between the two sides, killing any of the men in the boats “amounts to murder,” said Todd Huntley, a former military lawyer who advised Special Operations forces for seven years at the height of the U.S. counterterrorism campaign."
Textbook war crime/extrajudicial killing
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 7:47 PM
"Because there is no legitimate war between the two sides, killing any of the men in the boats “amounts to murder,” said Todd Huntley, a former military lawyer who advised Special Operations forces for seven years at the height of the U.S. counterterrorism campaign."
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This rhetoric is indistinguishable from the stuff you hear coming out of white nationalists. Completely identical language.
Trump: “I will permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries … denaturalize migrants who undermine domestic tranquility, and deport any Foreign National who is a public charge, security risk, or non-compatible with Western Civilization.“
November 28, 2025 at 4:52 AM
This rhetoric is indistinguishable from the stuff you hear coming out of white nationalists. Completely identical language.
Indica infused tryptophan
November 28, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Indica infused tryptophan
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November 27, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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Snowy owl at undisclosed location
November 27, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Snowy owl at undisclosed location
“Right now he’s feeling like he doesn’t want to live anymore,” Arnaout said of Wael, “because they took the main reason that he’s fighting for.”
ICE detains Texas father as son’s health declines: ‘Don’t forget about me’
Maher Tarabishi was arrested at a routine visit despite decades in the US, leaving his son with Pompe disease
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 7:26 PM
“Right now he’s feeling like he doesn’t want to live anymore,” Arnaout said of Wael, “because they took the main reason that he’s fighting for.”