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Mamdani got 222,000 more votes in a mayoral primary than Wyoming Senator John Barrasso did in the 2024 general election.

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A deaf and mute Mongolian man seeking asylum has spent more than 80 days at an ICE facility. During that time, he has not had an opportunity to see a judge or communicate with anyone who understands Mongolian Sign Language, according to his sister and lawyer.

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This is extremely dangerous. ICE detained people, including a family with 3 children, in an office building basement in California without enough food or water. Rampant human rights abuses daily. Guardian article: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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The world is going to hell in a hand basket, it’s the final day of voting in the primaries for NYC’s mayor, and it’s so so hot out. But! I’m also introducing a newsletter about economics for people with less than fond memories of Econ classes in their past! ninaeichacker.substack.com/p/welcome-to...

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ICE has imprisoned the wife of a Marine veteran who was still breastfeeding a 3-month-old baby because her mother failed to attend a hearing in 2018 apnews.com/article/ice-...

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NEW: The Supreme Court's conservatives halt a preliminary injunction that had restricted the Trump administration's ability to rapidly deport migrants to "third countries" where they have never lived and where allegedly face torture. All three liberals dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

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Lots to digest in the NY Times article on the Turning Point USA Young Women's Leadership conference, but attempting to depoliticize "relationships, faith and parenting" is, of course, a deeply political move. Article here: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/23/s...

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Capital charges and leverage ratios are core parts of the post-2008 financial regulatory landscape. They are technical -- and sometimes arbitrary in terms of the exact thresholds, multipliers, and parameters -- but they're essential to sound systemic risk management, and reducing them is alarming.

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“He has always worked hard to put food on the table for us and my mom,” said Alejandro. “He was always careful and always did his taxes on time. He never caused any problems and he is known as a kind and helping person by everyone in our community.” santanero.org/2025/06/21/l...

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Interestingly, I don't see anyone calling this cringe, but I've read multiple leftist essays and posts about how, even if it's the right thing to do, participating in mass protests with the goofy homemade signs and tshirts is kind of cringe. Bookmarking for a future "Politics of Cringe" project.

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Really, really insightful article from @pinstripebungle.bsky.social that sums up so much of the cognitive dissonance from working in the contemporary foreign policy/national security space: www.thenation.com/article/worl...

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"I asked ChatGPT" yeah well I took my love and I took it down, climbed a mountain and I turned around and I saw my reflection on the snow-covered hills till the landslide brought me down

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Michael Pham fled Vietnam at the age of 13. He was named bishop of San Diego a month ago. Today, he stood watch at a courthouse: ICE agents were “standing there covered with masks as we walked toward the courtroom. Eventually the agents scattered and went away” timesofsandiego.com/life/2025/06...

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Yes, a ten-year moratorium on AI regulation seems entirely appropriate to what we currently understand about this technology, including what its developers are telling us about it.

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Someone in the replies called this doordash for bears and I can't stop laughing

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Anyone know what's up with the instruction in this paper for LLMs to only read the summary table of results? The paper is: "Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task" by Kosmyna et al., linked here: arxiv.org/pdf/2506.088...

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Harriet Tubman #quilt by my Mom, Vera P. Hall, who makes quilts celebrating Black people who fought for their own freedom. This seems to be the crowd favorite of the “We Didn’t Wait for Freedom” series. Happy #Juneteenth #quilting

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Look, I don't want to oversimplify, but the fact that ChatGPT tells you that the existence of non-black non-crows does not confirm that all crows are black but that the existence of non-black non-ravens DOES confirm that all ravens are black tells you a lot about what it is and is not doing.

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Look, I don't want to oversimplify, but the fact that ChatGPT tells you that the existence of non-black non-crows does not confirm that all crows are black but that the existence of non-black non-ravens DOES confirm that all ravens are black tells you a lot about what it is and is not doing.

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Trump as Wallfacer

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I've always wondered how Polymarket isn't trading in illegal event contracts/banned by the CFTC and assumed there must be some regulatory loophole I was unaware of. This is a really good read on why that's not the case: they're just betting (probably correctly) on the law not being enforced.

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This is great work, especially in terms of emphasizing the risks of increased (de facto) dollarization through the proliferation of USD-backed stablecoins outside of the US.

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"High quality liquid assets" would be such a good name for a niche microbrewery.

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Hey Chuck, this decision rips health care away from Americans

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It's an annual one but: obsessing about how to optimize the cross breeze with the right combination of fans and open doors and windows to cool the upstairs off at night during the summer.

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It's that, plus the thinnest fig leaf of deniability given the average person's lack of understanding of what cryptocurrencies actually are, which is itself bolstered by an industry that -- like AI -- obfuscates with hype.

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I still can't get past the idea that people in America are now supposed to accept that this is a valid form of law enforcement and just assume it's fine when random dudes in groups with face-coverings, no ID, no warrant, & no uniform grab people off the street and force them into unmarked vehicles

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This month seven years ago ... Abolish ICE. Asylum is a human right.

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The secret final test of the PhD is whether your dissertation chair can successfully perform this highly detailed choreography on stage. (I am nervous. I am also very excited! I'm hooding my first PhD students today!)

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#NoKings Newport Beach, all along the PCH

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