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Mar Awa III, patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East, also born in Chicago, gave Pope Leo a Cubs jersey.
October 28, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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More of this. All the time. Every time they appear. Constantly. Fuck ICE.
More from the scene
October 25, 2025 at 11:19 PM
After a redesign, it will make a fine shelter for immigrants in a few years🇺🇸✊
The 90,000-square-foot ballroom will be 1.6x bigger than the White House itself. 😭

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October 23, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Personally I just listened to Elizabeth warren give a hell of a rallying call on the Boston common - we’re happy with our leaders in Boston ✊✊
This is correct. Participation was great, engagement and bringing in new people and teaching them about movements is great, and organizers literally telling people at the end to literally go home and have brunch is… the worst. So we just have to use the good parts as raw materials.
Yes it’s an absolute truism of these protests that the protests are good and the attendees are good and the leaders are bad. Just ignore the speeches! The people know why they’re here, even if too many of the organizers often don’t really seem to regard Trump as any kind of distinct evil
October 18, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Great stuff here from @gregsargent.bsky.social
This week, MAGA figures claimed Kristi Noem "stared down" violent antifa protesters in Portland. Turns out they were talking mostly about a guy in a chicken suit.

This episode opens a window into how MAGA propaganda works and MSM failure to handle it. 1/

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newrepublic.com/article/2016...
MAGA Implodes over Kristi Noem’s “Stare Down” with Man in Chicken Suit
A good New York Times piece on Portland nevertheless demonstrates how the conventions of objective reporting fail to accurately capture the bad faith driving pro-Trump propaganda.
newrepublic.com
October 11, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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ICE is running around Chicago harassing people for not being white.

Just a year ago, that was illegal in the United States and now it’s commonplace.

That’s not making America great again.
South Shore Residents Return To Ransacked Apartments After ICE Raid: 'It Looks Like Hell'
A "now renting" sign outside touts granite countertops. Inside, residents are trying to make sense of the raid that made their already neglected building even worse.
blockclubchicago.org
October 2, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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I’m not generally the sort of person to say “hahaha fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck you” BUT
www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general...
October 2, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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Seven years ago today, Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi was tortured, murdered and then dismembered. And any so-called comedian who can't stand up tonight in Riyadh and do ten minutes on that kind of hijinx and horseplay just isn't worth the Saudi blood money he's being paid.
October 2, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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yeah they're just murdering random people on these boats
I think the Trump admin assumed no one would try to find out who the people on the boats they blew up really were
September 29, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Scary and accurate comparison
You’re Comparing Trump to the Wrong Fascist Dictator
The “Is Trump Hitler?” debate misses his sinister parallels to another 20th-century European tyrant.
slate.com
September 28, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Here is how a democracy handles a criminal president
Sarkozy Sentenced to 5 Years in Libyan Campaign-Funding Case
www.nytimes.com
September 25, 2025 at 6:04 PM
I have nothing but praise for Ed Markey, but imho, 86 is just too old to run for reelection to the senate! On the other hand, anyone but Seth Moulton, please! Does Ayanna Pressley have a shot statewide? Any chance Deval would get back into politics? #edmarkey #sethmoulton #masenate
Moulton Readies Primary Challenge Against Markey in Massachusetts
www.nytimes.com
September 24, 2025 at 5:13 PM
So Europe finally decides to start its own rare earth refining, since China has 99% of this key market, and where do they put the factory? In Narva, Estonia a few feet from the Russian border. Interesting location for a strategic asset – are they insane?
The Race Is on to Make Rare Earth Magnets Outside China
www.nytimes.com
September 19, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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Did u guys see the Tesla robot video? I think it's dying
September 4, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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"Week after week, month after month, they embarrass themselves, undermine their colleagues and demoralize their voters. Theirs is a record of cowardice and capitulation."
"It is past time for both Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer to step down and step aside. This fascist moment, this age of Trump, demands outspoken, unrelenting and fearless opposition... we all deserve better."

I make the case, in my latest for The Guardian, for new leadership:
It’s time for Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries to step down | Mehdi Hasan
This fascist moment, this age of Trump, demands outspoken, unrelenting and fearless opposition. We all deserve better
www.theguardian.com
September 3, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Chuck Schumer needs to lose his next primary. What are the odds he doesn't run for reelection?
Chuck Schumer going door to door at the nursing home trying to recruit more elderly politicians to die in office
September 3, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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Trump REALLY, REALLY, REALLY doesn't want the Epstein files released.
military flyovers disrupt the Epstein victim press conference
September 3, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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14/ For Halimi and his family, those actions would have far-reaching consequences.

Read the full story by @chrisbing.bsky.social and Avi Asher-Schapiro:
DOGE Targeted Him on Social Media. Then the Taliban Took His Family.
Afghan scholar Mohammad Halimi, who fled the Taliban in 2021, had worked to help U.S. diplomats understand his homeland. Then DOGE put his family’s lives at risk by exposing his sensitive work for a U...
www.propublica.org
August 22, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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August 17, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Rescuing seriously injured children is not an Islamic invasion!😩
According to Loomer via the NYT, Rubio took this call from her last night — right after he accompanied Trump to the summit with Putin.
August 17, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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August 14, 2025 at 5:28 AM
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This.
When you strip away humanity
July 26, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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How do language models track mental states of each character in a story, often referred to as Theory of Mind?

We reverse-engineered how LLaMA-3-70B-Instruct handles a belief-tracking task and found something surprising: it uses mechanisms strikingly similar to pointer variables in C programming!
June 24, 2025 at 5:13 PM