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Steve McCluskey
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🇺🇸🇮🇪🇪🇺Chicago born Irish-American. History of Science / Cultural Astronomy: Medieval and Native American. USNavy 1961-7. Husband, father, grandfather. Catholic, Democrat, West Virginian.
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Print dictionaries: the original large language models
11/18/25
November 17, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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A judge ordered agents involved in the Chicago deportation blitz to have "visible identification … prominently displayed."

But they've been missing in dozens of @chicago.suntimes.com photographs.

From @bylaurenfitz.bsky.social, Anthony Vazquez and Ashlee Rezin: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
IDs are mismatched, illegible or still missing 3 weeks after judge’s order to immigration officers
In dozens of photographs at four locations, Chicago Sun-Times photojournalists documented federal officers failing to wear the “visible identification” needed to hold individuals accountable during th...
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October 31, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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“The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.”
DOJ submits new, air-brushed sentencing memo for Taylor Taranto, scrubbing references to his role in Jan. 6 Capitol Siege and Trump's social media post that led him to go to Obama's neighborhood with weapons. Here's the first scrubbing
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October 29, 2025 at 10:56 PM
“[T]o those immigrants without documents. Most of you have been here for years. You have worked hard. You have raised families. You have contributed to this nation. You have earned our respect.… You are our brothers and sisters. We stand with you.
God bless you all.”
NEW: Cardinal Blase Cupich, the Archbishop of Chicago, has issued a new statement declaring that Chicago "communities are shaken by immigration raids and detentions. These actions wound the soul of our city. Let me be clear. The Church stands with migrants."
October 21, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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*this* is how to legally and humanly deal with suspected drug smuggling vessels
October 12, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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we can destroy that (aspirational)
October 4, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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US Magistrate Judge Vaala trying to untangle Lindsey Halligan's first adventure in indicting someone:
September 28, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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Celebrating 40 years of Music and Poetry of the Kesh by Ursula K. Le Guin and Todd Barton. 4pm this Wednesday afternoon at the IWA in UL. Tower Seminar organized by Dr Aileen Dillane.

www.ul.ie/irish-world-...
Tower Seminar: Celebrating 40 years of Music and Poetry of the Kesh by Ursula K. Le Guin and Todd Barton
Venue: Theatre 2Time: 4pm-5.30pmPresenter: Todd Barton and Dr Aileen Dillane Chair: Dr Aileen DillaneSeptember 2025 marks the fortieth anniversary of the release of the recording 'Music and Poetry of ...
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September 22, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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You can search the Museum of Northern Arizona collections online.
Go to musnaz.org/collections/ and tap the Collections Online button.
Collections
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September 21, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Gonzalez’s art is “a way of pointing out the hypocrisy within a sector of the population that is anti-immigrant yet considers themselves Christian.”
Column by Philip Kennicott: The painting “Immigrants Crossing the Border Wall Into South Texas” was included on a list of Smithsonian artworks, exhibitions and programming that the Trump administration considers woke or anti-American.
Column | His art is inspired by Rubens and Velázquez. Trump says it’s woke.
The administration’s campaign against what it calls divisive art targets realism, representation, empathy and Christianity.
www.washingtonpost.com
September 13, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Well done Senator Gallego.
Sen. Ruben Gallego: "Ashli Babbitt was a traitor. She was a traitor to this country. She was part of a violent mob that tried to overthrow our democracy...She didn't die protecting our country. She died trying to turn it down...She wasn't a martyr. She was and is a traitor."
September 11, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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Book review: The history of science in Islamicate culture #histsci
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September 10, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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US colleagues in #philsci #sts #histsci #histmed, please encourage your students to consider the Gates Cambridge Scholarships. Deadline for US residents is October 15th. They need to first apply for admission to the Department of HPS for MPhil or PhD (2026 entry) www.hps.cam.ac.uk/study/postgr...
International Scholarship at The University of Cambridge
International postgraduate scholarships at the University of Cambridge
www.gatescambridge.org
August 25, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Is Connecticut’s experience with privatized hospitals a foretaste of what West Virginia looks forward to?

governor.wv.gov/article/gove...
August 20, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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The Hopi Tribe in Arizona has to tell 650 households that the electricity they were getting through the $7 billion Solar for All program was canceled. "It feels like we stepped back 100 years," Hopi Chairman Tim Nuvangyaoma said of the government's broken promise. tinyurl.com/ym959wcu
August 11, 2025 at 2:02 PM
“The president, she said, could end up playing a role like that of Boris Yeltsin, who brought on the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. ‘Trump is deconstructing the United States, just as Yeltsin deconstructed the Soviet Union.’”
July 22, 2025 at 12:52 PM
“As an experienced papal diplomat told me a few weeks ago: ‘What is happening in the U.S. today reminds me of Cuba.’ Making America ‘great again’ is not a response to external threats but rather a campaign against internal ‘enemies.’”
July 18, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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kind of Ordo amoris according to Vatican II (from Orm Rush’s 2019 book)
July 16, 2025 at 9:20 AM
“The influential writer William F. Buckley Jr. once defined a conservative as someone standing athwart history and yelling, ‘Stop!’ Mr. Trump seems to be standing athwart history yelling, ‘Go back!’”
For diversity to science to foreign policy, Trump has moved aggressively to reopen long-settled issues and dismantle long-established institutions. At times, it seems like he's trying to repeal much of the 20th century. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/13/u...
From Science to Diversity, Trump Hits the Reverse Button on Decades of Change
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July 13, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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Republicans may lie about what's in their budget bill but the numbers sure don't.
June 29, 2025 at 12:15 AM
@padilla.senate.gov
Thought you’d be interested in this.
Might it be time to reconsider the post 9/11 decision to consolidate a range of law enforcement functions within a single Department of Homeland Security?
It seems to have provided an institutional structure for oppression.
June 20, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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Too soon, too close.
June 20, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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Modern miners are contracting black lung at younger ages and at rates not seen since the 1970s. Federal cuts risk putting a solution further out of reach.
How Black Lung Came Roaring Back to Coal Country
Once nearly eradicated, the “old man’s disease” is back and suffocating younger miners. Federal cuts risk putting a solution further out of reach.
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June 19, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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Not an original point but worth saying again - there is not a single element in this picture that identifies any of these folks as law enforcement agents. No badges, no uniforms, no vests. Out of context it just looks like a bunch of random guys are kidnapping a mayoral candidate.
Breaking News: Brad Lander, the New York City comptroller who is running for mayor, was detained by ICE agents at an immigration court as he tried to escort a migrant out of the courthouse to prevent his arrest. nyti.ms/4jWkANE
June 17, 2025 at 6:21 PM