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The Boer Must Go
The Boor Must Go, Too
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Really good Wikipedia page for the investment firm that owns Panera
November 19, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Really good Wikipedia page for the investment firm that owns Panera
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“Cruz, Dillion, and LaPointe all mentioned that it takes a single adult without children an average of 19 days to get into a city shelter.”
The city plans to continue to sweep northwest side encampments, but there's no emergency shelter in that area for single unhoused Chicagoans to go to. A tentative city-state partnership is looking to change that. I wrote about it for week's Make it Make Sense:
chicagoreader.com/news/make-it...
chicagoreader.com/news/make-it...
November 19, 2025 at 7:32 PM
“Cruz, Dillion, and LaPointe all mentioned that it takes a single adult without children an average of 19 days to get into a city shelter.”
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They need a new tent because the other one was destroyed
My heart is breaking today. My life and the lives of my kids have been destroyed. Our tent collapsed due to the rain and wind, and now we are homeless on the street, suffering from the cold and hunger. We need $300 to buy a tent
"We froze
Verified
@mommunism.bsky.social
chuffed.org/project/1574...
"We froze
Verified
@mommunism.bsky.social
chuffed.org/project/1574...
November 19, 2025 at 8:13 PM
They need a new tent because the other one was destroyed
right, the outermost limit of his futurist vision is "The Jetsons but Rosie the housecleaning robot is fuckable"
if you look at what Elon seems to want out of Optimus, for example, it’s very obvious that it’s something like “all-purpose robotic butler.” You can only really get that with a human shape.
November 19, 2025 at 8:13 PM
right, the outermost limit of his futurist vision is "The Jetsons but Rosie the housecleaning robot is fuckable"
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the actual reason for this is so that robots can be easily plugged into human roles. the more human-like a robot is, the more readily it can replace a human.
one of the things I really do not understand is why so much of the development of robots seems to be focused on making them bipedal like humans. Why? It's an insane allocation of resources when it would be much easier to give them three or four "legs" or come up with some new system
November 19, 2025 at 7:39 PM
the actual reason for this is so that robots can be easily plugged into human roles. the more human-like a robot is, the more readily it can replace a human.
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Melissa Tran came here on a Green Card at age 11.
She's since raised 4 kids, started a business, & is a beloved member of the Hagerstown community.
Trump is deporting her, despite a judge saying she poses no threat.
Is she the "worst of the worst"? Do you feel safer yet?
She's since raised 4 kids, started a business, & is a beloved member of the Hagerstown community.
Trump is deporting her, despite a judge saying she poses no threat.
Is she the "worst of the worst"? Do you feel safer yet?
Hagerstown mother and nail salon owner set for deportation to Vietnam
Melissa Tran’s six-month legal battle has highlighted the impacts of President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement campaign on longtime residents and their families.
www.thebanner.com
November 19, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Melissa Tran came here on a Green Card at age 11.
She's since raised 4 kids, started a business, & is a beloved member of the Hagerstown community.
Trump is deporting her, despite a judge saying she poses no threat.
Is she the "worst of the worst"? Do you feel safer yet?
She's since raised 4 kids, started a business, & is a beloved member of the Hagerstown community.
Trump is deporting her, despite a judge saying she poses no threat.
Is she the "worst of the worst"? Do you feel safer yet?
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if anyone remembers anything from the biden experience, it should be that electing blue no matter who isn't going to be enough to cut it in the fight against fascism. you need politicians suited for this moment. primarying them all is the most straightforward way to send that message
Primary Every Democrat
It’s exhausting to watch poll-tested, donor-beholden congressional Democrats continue to be too old, too cloistered, and too bumbling to do anything as the government burns.
newrepublic.com
November 19, 2025 at 7:55 PM
if anyone remembers anything from the biden experience, it should be that electing blue no matter who isn't going to be enough to cut it in the fight against fascism. you need politicians suited for this moment. primarying them all is the most straightforward way to send that message
fwiw Summers is yet another brick of the kyriarchy that Barack Obama helped cement into the edifice of what passes for "normalcy"
I know that at this point it's a subplot in the Epstein files drama, but I feel compelled to point out, once again, that Larry Summers HAS NO BUSINESS teaching students at ANY university ever again!
My latest cries into the abyss, in @thenation.com
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
My latest cries into the abyss, in @thenation.com
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
Why Is Larry Summers Still Employed?
The revelations about the economist’s attempts to pressure a women into a “relationship”—with guidance from Jeffrey Epstein—should finally disqualify him from teaching students.
www.thenation.com
November 19, 2025 at 8:07 PM
fwiw Summers is yet another brick of the kyriarchy that Barack Obama helped cement into the edifice of what passes for "normalcy"
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This is a related one. CAFE standards made it more profitable for automakers to make large SUVs and trucks.
See also: “Americans prefer large trucks and SUVs.”
November 19, 2025 at 1:14 AM
This is a related one. CAFE standards made it more profitable for automakers to make large SUVs and trucks.
SOUND ON, this has to be heard to be believed
Someone found an mp3 of the creepy "Jailbait" song Olivia Nuzzi released when she was 16 🫣
November 19, 2025 at 8:01 PM
SOUND ON, this has to be heard to be believed
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Of all the terrible things Roberts has done, this was the most shocking stat: "the right-wing majority has used the shadow docket to uphold Trump’s actions roughly 90 percent of the time, repeatedly bailing him out of any obligation to follow the law"
There’s one person squarely to blame for Trump’s corruption, authoritarianism & assault on democracy: John Roberts. He’s enabled so much of Trump’s lawlessness while somehow escaping accountability for it
New cover story from @pemalevy.bsky.social & me
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
New cover story from @pemalevy.bsky.social & me
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
This is all John Roberts’ fault
Trump owes his corrupt and abusive reign to one man.
www.motherjones.com
November 19, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Of all the terrible things Roberts has done, this was the most shocking stat: "the right-wing majority has used the shadow docket to uphold Trump’s actions roughly 90 percent of the time, repeatedly bailing him out of any obligation to follow the law"
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Wow this is so much better than just getting a Coke yourself
September 4, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Wow this is so much better than just getting a Coke yourself
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Did u guys see the Tesla robot video? I think it's dying
September 4, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Did u guys see the Tesla robot video? I think it's dying
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"Everyone will want their own C3PO and R2D2," Musk says, since the term "slave" is still a few months away from mainstream respectibility.
The Saudis seem to get it though.
The Saudis seem to get it though.
November 19, 2025 at 7:33 PM
"Everyone will want their own C3PO and R2D2," Musk says, since the term "slave" is still a few months away from mainstream respectibility.
The Saudis seem to get it though.
The Saudis seem to get it though.
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Bikes and Cars by Jen Sorensen
November 19, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Bikes and Cars by Jen Sorensen
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Jenna Maroney B Plot gag
Someone found an mp3 of the creepy "Jailbait" song Olivia Nuzzi released when she was 16 🫣
November 19, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Jenna Maroney B Plot gag
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I've stayed out of all of this white mess but this is just... so...
Someone found an mp3 of the creepy "Jailbait" song Olivia Nuzzi released when she was 16 🫣
November 19, 2025 at 7:40 PM
I've stayed out of all of this white mess but this is just... so...
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Most people, even very smart people, truly do not understand the extent to which car dependency was manufactured in the United States, and how decisions made 100 years ago are why cities and towns look the way they do today.
I'm really tired of people acting like car dependency happened organically when even a cursory look at history will make it clear that automakers pushed infrastructure and even zoning to juice car sales.
November 19, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Most people, even very smart people, truly do not understand the extent to which car dependency was manufactured in the United States, and how decisions made 100 years ago are why cities and towns look the way they do today.
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“The liberal who wants to keep every protest peaceful and non-disruptive, despite the severity of the situation, is not my enemy—not unless they try to wield the state against those of us who desire to act more directly. Which is to say, not unless they call the cops.”
November 19, 2025 at 5:59 PM
“The liberal who wants to keep every protest peaceful and non-disruptive, despite the severity of the situation, is not my enemy—not unless they try to wield the state against those of us who desire to act more directly. Which is to say, not unless they call the cops.”
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Honestly the more I think about this vile statement, the more it reminds me of the Old Left stalwarts who tried to wave away Stalin's atrocities well after they became public knowledge in the US. Feels like the same sort of moral blindness is opening up a similar rift in Jewish liberalism.
Sharing the video of this because it’s such a ghoulish thing to say that I’m honestly in disbelief that I even heard her properly
November 19, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Honestly the more I think about this vile statement, the more it reminds me of the Old Left stalwarts who tried to wave away Stalin's atrocities well after they became public knowledge in the US. Feels like the same sort of moral blindness is opening up a similar rift in Jewish liberalism.
🙌 it's a celebration 🥳
war's far from over but we're winning battles on the ground, hard as we can grind
war's far from over but we're winning battles on the ground, hard as we can grind
blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/19/4... 400 people to be released Friday because there wasn't cause to justify their detention by ICE/border patrol in Chicago
400 Arrested By ICE In Chicago To Be Released Friday, But Feds' 'Risk' List Remains Murky
A judge denied the Department of Homeland Security's bid to delay releases, saying ICE failed to justify detentions or show it would win on appeal. Questions remain around how risk is calculated by th...
blockclubchicago.org
November 19, 2025 at 5:09 PM
🙌 it's a celebration 🥳
war's far from over but we're winning battles on the ground, hard as we can grind
war's far from over but we're winning battles on the ground, hard as we can grind
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comparing al jazeera to nick fuentes is kind of astounding, too
Sharing the video of this because it’s such a ghoulish thing to say that I’m honestly in disbelief that I even heard her properly
November 19, 2025 at 4:53 PM
comparing al jazeera to nick fuentes is kind of astounding, too
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When ppl speak of elite impunity and a draw a direct link to complicit elite media, this is what we’re talking about.
November 14, 2025 at 6:23 PM
When ppl speak of elite impunity and a draw a direct link to complicit elite media, this is what we’re talking about.