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Evanston councilmembers one upping themselves with displays of courage

Councilmember Harris: "I'mma sleep tonight, and it won't be as mayor."

Councilmember Geracaris: "I don't want to be mayor, so please don't nominate me."

Councilmember Geracaris: "Don't nominate anyone who doesn't want to be mayor." Councilmember Suffredin: "Why don't we just ask who wants to be mayor?"

this is all a pretext to go through her communications and make a performance of trying her for some absurdity when it is revealed that she, like most living humans, is wondering how to dismantle this insane and murderous kleptocratic regime

Let’s learn from past crashes and be ready w bold transformative demands. No AI bail outs. No impunity.

LL Cool J correctly identifies the trinity here, something actual military theorists (like Martin van Creveld) struggle with.

the tech industry is about to invent books

We shall sell ourselves the rope with which we shall hang ourselves - v. lenin

OSSOFF: REVENGE and plow the earth with salt where they stood EMANUEL: We must embrace our good friends, the Republican rapists murderers and thieves The Ossoff message will attract a tidal wave of eager supporters; Emanuel will only drive everyone away again like they did with Walz in '24

Here’s Pike’s 2024 constitutional rights complaint challenging Tennessee’s new lethal injection protocol: “it fails to provide a contingency plan with emergency medical services on-site in the event of a botch“

Diplomacy, baby

Flying into Portland is always a treat

Look I got the color wrong, but I was way too close here

Oh my fucking god bro

Going to have to put every linguist and intel shop into a concentration camp to meet the goals of this policy

New market signal: Tik tok hustlegrind landlord influencers appearing in obituaries

It sure sounds a lot like these guys are just committing a whole bunch of serious crimes and pretending a wizard did it.

We are now entering the Autumnal Equinox time. In this town, it's known as Chicagohenge.

Mark Zuckerberg spent a trillion dollars trying to make this and this guy.. just posts it

Interim Secretary of the Army. No expertise other than time as a Republican legislative staffer and then corruption enforcement goon during his 1 year at the Corps of Engineers.

Pour one out for my homies teaching geopolitics

I don't think there is a more obvious candidate for a new Chicago train station than in Humboldt Park along the MD-N,MD-W and NCS Metra tracks. We should talk about this more. @nitachicago.org do something

we can learn a lot how Magyar launched “Operation Cleansing Fire” to reform the courts and completely de-orbanize Hungary the funniest things to me though is that 1. this has been an extinction-level event for Fidesz 2. human rights Watch is mad about it for some reason, truly beyond parody

The discipline this is actually coming for is my own, we are 100% getting AI-Powered Originalism where we simply ask James Madison the answer

The fact that Canadians are taught the actual discourse, headlines, and political discussions around the founding of our country is a thing most Americans do not understand, cannot relate to, and find deeply insulting because they were the looming threat that drove it.

After 18 years of litigation, the Fourth Circuit just wiped away a $42 million jury verdict against CACI for its role in torture at Abu Ghraib—a verdict the same court had *affirmed* earlier this year. Why? Because of #SCOTUS's 6-3 June 23 ruling in Cisco, which eviscerated the Alien Tort Statute:

conference proposal // conference paper

how much more arrogance is embedded in our national security strategy

Became a tourist for the day

“I have a bad habit of reading, I’m so sorry“ hits the dopamine button v nicely

Just to brighten up this thread: here are five books by women that I've read recently and loved:

this is an actual problem

“Shut the fuck up Stephen”

what STEM does to a mf

Why are they like this? Chicago already has one of the highest number of officers per capita in the country and as we shaved 2k from the force crime has dropped precipitously! This is political malpractice—throwing taxpayer money into bonfire

geography crimes punishable by death

Important anti fascist skill to learn is being brave enough to yell "shut the fuck up" at someone in public

"Now, at 90 years old, he has written a book on Marx’s magnum opus for the generations who came after the New Left rupture of 1968. The Story of Capital connects two worlds: the world of the ivory tower and the world of the street protest." newrepublic.com/article/2113...