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Diana Yung
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Exhausted and annoyed Chicagoan. She/They
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I was a social security recipient from the age of 12 through 18. That’s not some weird thing or corruption. It’s called survivors’ benefits. You don’t have to know this. You’re blessed if you don’t. But if you’re going to speak publicly abt the program you need to know this.
Jeanine: We found out there are people who are between the ages of one and four who are getting social security

Jessica: That's the benefit for kids whose parents are dead.
April 10, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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"You'd be hard-pressed to find any Valenzuelan in that country that would tell you tattoos mean gang membership. This is a very easy misapplication by the NYPD believing that if something was true in Central America decades ago, it's true in South America now."
NEW:

An investigation into how New York City's law enforcement officials pushed a narrative that a mysterious and deadly Venezuelan gang was running amok, despite little evidence to back it up, and helped the Trump admin invoke the Alien Enemies Act.

hellgatenyc.com/eric-adams-n...
March 23, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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Depends who you ask, but the unit cost of the F/A-18 they shot down by accident is something like $66 million—or $3 million more than the entire Gabriella Miller children’s cancer research program Elon Musk tried to kill.
The U.S. military said it mistakenly shot down one of its own fighter aircraft over the Red Sea early Sunday in "an apparent episode of friendly fire." Both pilots are safe.
December 22, 2024 at 4:19 AM
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How to filter out AI Images in Google Image Search.

Sharing this with my students so I figured I'd also share it with everyone here.

Hopefully this image is still relevant given Google's changes. Save this on your computer or phone and refer to it as needed.
March 27, 2024 at 3:11 PM
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Why didn't they just put the photos inside a glass case that only the manager can open
BREAKING: CVS removes photos of executives from its website in wake of UnitedHealthcare CEO’s assassination
December 6, 2024 at 6:50 PM
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If you’re following this guy or using his starter pack, you need to read this: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Is_Anyb...
December 3, 2024 at 4:28 PM
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It says something about the history of photography and the practices engaged in by photography editors that more of us haven't seen the full context of the landscape around Mount Rushmore.
When you view Mount Rushmore against the background of the sacred Black Hills site which it desecrated, you realize how hideous and pathetic it is. Truly a vulgar monstrosity.
December 2, 2024 at 2:07 PM
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1. The conventional explanation for food deserts—that these places are too poor or too rural to generate enough spending on groceries, or too Black to overcome racist corporate redlining — fail to grapple with a key fact: food deserts didn’t used to exist. My new piece in The Atlantic.
The Mystery of Food Deserts
They didn’t materialize around the country for no reason. Something happened.
www.theatlantic.com
December 1, 2024 at 2:06 PM
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Reiterating that there are more Gazans here and they are more persistent in posting their links because there has essentially been no flour in all of South Gaza for well over a week. It is also cold. Please treat them how you’d want people to treat you or your family in a famine.
November 23, 2024 at 3:43 PM
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Denver gave people experiencing homelessness $1k/month. A year later, nearly half had housing.

They also had fewer ER visits, nights spent in a hospital, and jail stays.

The report estimates that this reduction in public service use SAVED the city $589k.
www.businessinsider.com/denver-basic...
Denver gave people experiencing homelessness $1,000 a month. A year later, nearly half of participants said they had housing.
Participants in Denver's basic-income program reported having more-secure housing, though results were similar in the trial and control groups.
www.businessinsider.com
November 26, 2024 at 12:47 AM
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"We don't want to see any big cuts to the Police Department, obviously, but pretty much everything else is fair game.” –Ald. Brendan Reilly on CBS 2.

Periodic reminder that many alders are fine with the police defunding the city.

www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...
November 26, 2024 at 12:34 AM
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and yet still on active duty
November 21, 2024 at 11:51 PM
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“'Everything in my town is gone forever..I feel like I am a body without a soul, and I want to feel hopeful again.'

Before the war, Gaza had 813 schools that employed about 22,000 teachers...But by last week, more than 85% of those schools were damaged or destroyed"
www.nytimes.com/2024/05/06/w...
With Schools in Ruins, Education in Gaza Will Be Hobbled for Years
Most of Gaza’s schools, including all of its universities, have severe damage that makes them unusable, which could harm an entire generation, the United Nations and others say.
www.nytimes.com
May 6, 2024 at 11:51 AM