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Seeker. Striver. Good egg. “Creation signifies, above all, emotion, and that not in literature or art alone... Genius has been defined as an infinite capacity for taking pains.” ~ Henri Bergson
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2026 World Cup. So the question now is: Will it be in the United States or will it be elsewhere. Orangecycle just keeps on and on and on and on.

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I have been saying this for 25 years.

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All that is left to us by tradition is mere words. It is up to us to find out what they mean. — Ibn Arabi

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Yunseo Chung, the Columbia student and green-card holder who has been in hiding since ICE tried to disappear her in March, wins sweeping order preventing her arrest and detention. She becomes the first of these pro-Palestinian advocates to circumvent the Trump administration policy to deport them.

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AOC: “The girls are fighting, aren’t they?”

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Really potent example of the difference between a government of laws and a government of men; a government of institutions vs a government of personalities. We're all following this degrading spectacle because we know there are real consequences at stake- all hinging on arbitrary whims and impulses

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It was a frantic day for Chicagoans yesterday as ICE operations in the city escalated. Agents abducted a longtime organizer at an ICE check-in site, and separated families inside immigration court. City council members and activists tried to halt the vans. CPD was there:

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must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away

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We're about to have transcripts on CourtListener for over 3.2 million minutes of oral argument recordings. Fully searchable. Read along as you listen. This has been on the to-do list since 2016 and advances in AI finally made it possible. If you want in the beta, drop a DM!

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“The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.” — James Madison, 4th President of the United States (1809–1817) and principal author of the Bill of Rights

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Nature presents us with 80 "octaves" of light, of which humans can see exactly 1. Bringing the other 79 octaves into view has taken two centuries of effort, but it has transformed our ability to sense our place in the cosmic order. My new Aeon essay: 🧪🔭 aeon.co/essays/willi...

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"Our calculations suggest that the proposed budgetary cuts to the NIH will create a social cost that is 16 times greater than the savings that the administration is attempting to achieve." jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

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this is the way

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i’ve seen enough: it’s time for NY progressives to line up behind zohran mamdani so we don’t end up with andrew fucking cuomo as our mayor

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Jane Borden's "Cults Like Us: Why Doomsday Thinking Drives America" develops a simple thesis: The Pilgrims were essentially a doomsday cult who passed on seven key elements of belief that have shaped America ever since. My author interview: 1/13 www.salon.com/2025/05/26/h...

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“Preserving art, literature, and philosophy will require no less than the creation of an environment totally and uncompromisingly committed to abolishing the linguistic alienation created by AI and reintroducing students to the indispensability of their own voice.“

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It is a beautiful song. Also, check out the behavior of these balloons that had been tethered together before being released. (at 3:05) youtu.be/0Hegd4xNfRo?...

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