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If your R1 alma mater didn't sign, why not? www.forbes.com/sites/michae...

CPD in the last two weeks: chased and killed a teenager, assisted ICE by responding to their distress call, shot a guy in a car chase, crashed into a tree in another car chase, killed one of their own and then, you won't believe it, crashed their car trying to get her to a hospital

kind of just endlessly sad and grieving that there are so few voices in the public sphere making the basic principled argument that immigration is an affirmative good in every way and the best way for this country to serve humanity is to welcome people who want or need to leave their homes

I think everyone should read this, just to ensure we all understand the number of people he targets here, from Black Lives Matter to middle school teachers to defund advocates to universities to Occupy Wall Street to the Google employees he claims don't exist despite high-profile protests

Sigh. Once again.

"I feel pretty horrible about getting money from an immigration prison, but I’m the only beneficiary of the trust who cares...[I]t feels unethical. My husband and his family think this is ridiculous" On top of bad ethics, the answer has "shut up about your terrible husband & his family, honey" vibes

Wow no one could have predicted this. I’m sure AI will fix all this up. futurism.com/computer-sci...

I have a new sunshirt with an unwelcome amount of lettering and slack cuffs and almost every time I look at my watch the last 2+ letters are obscured and my brain says "omni-shambles"

This is wonderful news and makes the push for a 'flex curfew' all the more ridiculous and unfounded.

"The states not experiencing mass death refused to change their policies to more closely resemble the states experiencing mass death."

Folks, the way to read the NYT article about OpenAI and higher education is to recognize that the person OpenAI hired to lead their effort came from Coursera. Remember when Coursera and MOOCs were going to cause the reinvention of higher education?

every day there's some fresh actual nazi shit that 99% of people were never taught is actual nazi shit

But actually "A.I.-naive universities" amirite

Elementary school graduation.

ICE told Emerson Colindres, who just graduated HS, to get fitted for ankle monitor. It was a trick. They put him in Butler Jail to deport him bc he has path to legal status. If his family gives OK, I’ll share more. Hear from his mom + soccer coach in Cincinnati. www.fox19.com/video/2025/0...

If you set a budget for eating out to $50 put $140 cash in your wallet spent just about $50 cash at restaurants but also swiped your credit card at restaurants all over town, which you budget as "credit card payment" not "restaurants" Are you fooling yourself? See: Chicago police "budget"

Without more info, looks like CPD tactical officers ignored foot pursuit policy and killed a police officer. news.wttw.com/2025/06/06/c...

It's such a bizarre unforced error to affirmatively vouch for the actions of a law enforcement agency you don't control much less when that agency is the Chicago Police Department IDK everything that happened so I'm not going to allege specific CPD lawbreaking but it breaks the law every single day

I am just short of halfway through this article and I need to take a break. This reporting is deeply unethical, in addition to flawed.

CPD claim: "Officers arrived without knowledge of immigration enforcement occurring at the location” OH, REALLY - who made the "officer assist call"/what did they say - how did so many Chicagoans show up to protest but your $2B agency didn't have a clue and these people want "snap curfew" 🙄

“The University of Michigan is using private, undercover investigators to surveil pro-Palestinian campus groups, including trailing them on and off campus, furtively recording them and eavesdropping on their conversations…”

always the shittiest people u most expect

As someone who only found this out a few months ago I love it when people realize this. And I'm sure monsoon wedding was great but special fondness for people who reference Mississippi Masala because that movie is everything we were told movies couldn't be

I'm afraid my mute list for these dudes is hiding the best jokes from me

Lawyers and politicians who were on the ground for Wednesday’s immigration raid are still questioning the role Chicago police played. And they say federal agents broke the law. www.wbez.org/immigration/...

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

*rooting for attrition*

I love the mango lassi ranked choice voting explanation.

one of the weird things about the reactionary centrist Covid revisionists is that they appear to have passed the pandemic in a European social democracy with a strong centralized response as opposed to in the United States of America

please stop whatever you're doing and look at this coyote that the wildlife rehab center of MN posted. little grumpy baby.