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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 2h

In dollar value, the Venezuela oil scheme ($13 billion) is TWO ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE worse than Iran Contra ($140 million, inflation-adjusted). It's impossible to overstate how much MORE corrupt Trump is than every single American who has ever come before him. We're completely without precedent.

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Michael McLean @michaelmclean.me · 1h

The America you remember no longer exists. Yikes.

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 13h

Billions of dollars’ worth of contracts predicting oil would fall and the S&P 500 would rise were placed about 15 minutes before Trump announced a U-turn on Iran in a post on Truth Social. CFTC staff began to investigate...then were told to lay off. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

bloomberg.com

CFTC Staff Were Told to Retract Analysis of Suspicious Oil Trades

Chairman’s adviser intervened to take over examination of lucrative bets that were made around Trump reversal on Iran power plant attack.

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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 5h

It would have been helpful to mention that Zacharia’s “bumpy debut” included repeated violations of the Hatch Act. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/13/u...

nytimes.com

Katie Zacharia Makes Bumpy Debut as Trump’s New Press Secretary

Ms. Zacharia spent eight minutes reading from a script, called on only three reporters and made an awkward slip-up.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 9h

Non-zero chance Elon cut Starlink on his own bc the last thing the Masters of the Universe need is for people to understand data centers can be bombed.

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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 4h

Recording a lecture on SNAP and forgot that last year when I was writing most of these slides, I'd included the George W. Bush quote, "I know how hard it is to put food on your family." Not doing any Bush revisionism - he was awful - but it feels quaint having thought he'd be as bad as it could get

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

We (Ron Lieber at NYT, Lauren Rivera at Northwestern, and me) actually discussed this in a panel on admissions at Chicago. I'll try to find it. chicagomaroon.com/53804/viewpo...

chicagomaroon.com

Creating a Manosphere at the University of Chicago

Why does the University of Chicago reject so many women?

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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

At the University of Chicago, male applicants are now nearly twice as likely to be admitted as female applicants are. chicagomaroon.com/53804/viewpo...

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Daniel Tobon @dtobon.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Emails from your wife that remind you while you fell in love with her. *This is about our oldest child's school pictures.

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Daniel Tobon @dtobon.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

These three graphs need to be put into a text book as a prime example of attribution error.

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Daniel Tobon @dtobon.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

This intersection was a nightmare to bike through. Glad it's finally being addressed.

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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

What words can really capture the scale of the lying we've experienced these past two years? Orwellian? Authoritarian? It's staggering.

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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Trump’s obsession with demonizing the Somali community is dangerous and reprehensible. Hate to break it to him: Somali Minnesotans are resilient. We will not let Trump intimidate us. Our neighbors have our back.

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Daniel Tobon @dtobon.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Don’t threaten me with a good time.

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Daniel Tobon @dtobon.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I got to have dinner next to da coach at his restaurant and then see his jersey get retired later that night. It was one of my most memorable sports experiences as a Chicagoan. #BearDown

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 06/10/2026

This is a good illustration of how so much of AI theft isn't indirect (ie, data sucked into a model to train the chatbot) - it's actually **direct** copying, but *enabled* by GenAI. Of course it is: chatbots absolutely suck at creating good, new stuff.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 07/10/2026

Via @kathrynpost.bsky.social: “I don’t have words,” (Martín Alonso Soto Hernandez, who helped organize a hunger and labor strike at Delaney Hall) said in Spanish, holding his wife and children… “Thank you so much for everything. I always, always stayed in prayer.” religionnews.com/2026/10/07/i...

religionnews.com

Immigrant who helped set off Delaney Hall hunger strike released from ICE custody

ELIZABETH, New Jersey (RNS) — 'I don’t have words,' Martín Alonso Soto Hernandez said in Spanish while holding his wife and two children. 'Thank you so much for everything. I always, always stayed in ...

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Daniel Tobon @dtobon.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

We need to have so many trials after all this is over.

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 07/10/2026

This Talon Air ICE flight has now landed in Ghana, a possible third-country removal. Migrant passengers onboard have been shackled at the ankles, wrists and waist for at least 14 hours.

An ADSBx map showing N120LW landing in Accra.

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Vittoria Elliott @telliotter.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

SCOOP: Last week the National Design Studio announced a new AI website, America.gov. Turns out some NDS workers are on loan to the government and are actually employed by a newly formed nonprofit, founded by the general counsel of SpaceXAI who is himself a DOGE alum. www.wired.com/story/myster...

wired.com

A Mysterious Nonprofit Run by SpaceXAI’s Top Lawyer Is Paying the Salaries of Government Workers

The National Design Studio has been something of a successor agency to DOGE. A WIRED investigation finds some of its members are on loan from a nonprofit run by SpaceXAI’s general counsel.

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Daniel Tobon @dtobon.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Good lord, if JB is involved in this . . .

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Daniel Tobon @dtobon.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Palmer Square is an amazing green space and incredibly we're lucky to have it. It was recently the first Chicago park to be named an arboretum. You can help push our elected to make the area round it safer and more enjoyable for everyone to use. blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/07/p...

blockclubchicago.org

Palmer Square Park Named Chicago Park District's First Arboretum

The nearly eight-acre park has 28 species of trees, making it the first Northwest Side urban arboretum. An effort to create a tree sanctuary in the park has been underway since 1980.

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Daniel Tobon @dtobon.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

If you want to check out what it would mean to the are you should watch this video. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5REV...

youtube.com

Taking Back Space from Cars Doesn't Have to Be Hard

YouTube video by Car Free Keith

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Daniel Tobon @dtobon.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Chicago NWS peeps, specially if you live in the 1st, 26th, or 35th Wards. You should fill this out in support of the Palmer Square Redesign Study. airtable.com/appzWPBWupXr...

airtable.com

Airtable | Everyone's app platform

Airtable is a low-code platform for building collaborative apps. Customize your workflow, collaborate, and achieve ambitious outcomes. Get started for free.

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Daniel Tobon @dtobon.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This is odd. I have been repeatedly told that the people who have spent the past decade doing Left-NIMBY stuff are now are all the sudden YIMBYs. It must be just a coincidence that this sudden change of heart happened to take place right before an election. 🤔

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Daniel Tobon @dtobon.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

However it happens, we need to yeet aldermanic prerogative into the sun.

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Michael McLean @michaelmclean.me · 06/10/2026

The only practical way to fix this is state level reform. Alders will almost certainly never give up this discretionary power for their entire ward.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

“.. days after co-founder Palmer Luckey was named to a Pentagon future weapons task force.” @cnbc.com www.cnbc.com/2026/10/06/a...

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Lanrick Bennett @lanrickbennett.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This rabbit hole seems (is) a litte (a lot) scarier than it needs to be.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Today would be a particularly great, long overdue day for the Chancellor of the University of Wisconsin - Madison to get up in front of microphones & explain to the public, voters, students, & their families that we are facing an existential crisis because of the GOP’s illegal federal funding cuts.

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Daniel Tobon @dtobon.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It really is quite shocking how many people believe this. We need something akin to a truth and reconciliation commission and there need to be consequences. A large part of this country, specially it's political class seem to be allergic to accountability.

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CNN @cnn.com · 03/10/2026

A CNN investigation has found that while Jared Kushner acted as a key Middle East peace negotiator, his private equity firm held the largest stake in an Israeli company backing businesses tied to Israel’s military campaign in Gaza, including its largest arms manufacturer. cnn.it/4AIwBQs

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Truly incredible that this is how the media is choosing to eulogize the longest-serving Republican Speaker of the House in US history, who was a serial sexual abuser of children. For all the talk about "deep state" plots to abuse children, no one even remembers this case.

From CBS News: "Former Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert, who represented Illinois for two decades in Congress and was later jailed for violating banking laws, has died."

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Daniel Tobon @dtobon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The ELN and FARC stopped being principly ideologically driven by leftist principles many decades ago. It's just window dressing and marketing for groups that became a loose association of local criminal organizations. It's like saying the paramilitaries are RWDS.

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 01/10/2026

hey friends! our flight angels need to pay a $300 fee to get an unaccompanied minor on an international flight (the miles were donated) we don’t hold any money and everyone is a volunteer. if you have some extra bucks can you venmo me @ziibiing so we can make this happen?

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Brian Lyman @brianlyman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This Supreme Court allowed Alabama to keep killing people in 2022 after the state repeatedly botched its executions and left inmates on gurneys, cut up by needles. Of all the Roberts Court’s sins, its death penalty rulings have been especially nihilistic.

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Daniel Tobon @dtobon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I was assured they were already profitable*. *according to a newly made up definition of the term that they just came up with.

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Hannah Harris Green @whatsitlike.me · 28/09/2026

When I set out to fact check “The Cities That Said Yes to Drugs” which argues that harm reduction may increase overdoses, I expected some cherry picking and misdirection. But not to find basic math errors and debunked right wing talking points asserted as fact in the Atlantic’s print edition.

whatsitlike.me

Atlantic's anti-harm reduction screed riddled with errors

A close read of "The Cities That Said Yes to Drugs" found errors in basic arithmetic as well as more deliberately misleading elements

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

One of my goals in writing this book was to get a copy in every college library so that survivors entering the Title IX system would know what they were getting into—and be able to use that knowledge however they wanted. But a lot of schools banned the book.

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Daniel Tobon @dtobon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I used to live and work not too far from here, so this one hits especially hard.

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Daniel Tobon @dtobon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Lord, I've seen what you've done for others . . .

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Stephanie Kollmann @slkollmann.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Based on membership scans at the gym, [stalking victim] M.W. and [18-year Indianapolis Police Officer] Schultz arrived at the gym within one hour of the other on June 12, 2026; June 15, 2026; June 23, 2026; June 26, 2026; July 9, 2026; July 15, 2026; July 21, 2026; July 25, 2026; and August 1, 2026.

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

@ariberman.bsky.social and @pemalevy.bsky.social have a damning new story about how the Roberts Court is reviving Jim Crow, relying on the same legal tactics used to undermine the Reconstruction. A must read to understand the stakes of this election. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Cover of Mother Jones issue on the new Jim Crow

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SideStreets @sidestreets.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Your every-few-days reminder that the NITA board, which Director Alvarez serves on, has the statutory authority to declare any roadway lane a bus lane.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 22/09/2026

"OpenAI co-founder and president Greg Brockman gave Trump's super PAC a whopping $25 million" is one of those things that could really stand to be pointed out more:

finance.yahoo.com

OpenAI exec becomes top Trump donor with $25 million gift

The super PAC will help fund Republicans' midterm election battle.

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