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Edited the Chicago Reader during what you might call its “heyday.”

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public health guy@publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 11h ago

i get the sense that a lot of people don’t know that the term “ethnic cleansing” isn’t limited to mass murder. mass deportations targeting a race/ethnicity/nationality counts too. and we’ve been doing that for over a year now and our politicians won’t call it what it is

a libi rose@rose-alibi.interferencer.com · 10h ago

one of the teenagers i worked with last year taught themself docker in order to build out a personal music streaming server because spotify suggested a single AI generated song to them, can't imagine how they would take their parents spying on them with AI to "get to know them"

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 10h ago

A consistent pitch by the makers of ai wearables is that they solve the problem of getting to know your child. www.businessinsider.com/parents-brea...

Molly, who runs a startup to help parents book activities for kids, is willing to use AI for logistics, like meal planning or sorting through her email to surface the most important messages from their daughter's school. Sean, who works in tech sales, wants to go further. He has his eyes on Omi necklace, an AI wearable that listens in on your day and includes a feature called Parent Whisperer. It records and analyzes interactions between parent and child, logging things like school assignments and supplies to order. The device also picks up on tone, alerting parents when their kid may be unhappy — registering everything from "from toddler tantrums to teenage mood swings," per its ad copy — and offering "expert-backed guidance" on how to respond.
Kate Riga@kateriga.bsky.social · 14h ago

Maybe the most candid a justice has been yet about the majority's partisan lean: Jackson writes that it "inappropriately transforms our discretionary emergency docket into a forum for mandatory review of this Administration’s arguments." Neither Sotomayor nor Kagan joined her dissent

Annie Waldman@anniewaldman.bsky.social · 20h ago

And as we reported last year, foreign food inspections plummeted to a historic low after the Trump administration took over due to staffing cuts at the FDA. Food safety experts told us, “It’s only a matter of time before people die." www.propublica.org/article/fore...

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Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 21h ago

"A recent report by the Government Accountability Office found that FDA averaged only 917 foreign food-facility inspections annually from fiscal years 2018 through 2023 — less than 5 percent of the statutory target established under the Food Safety Modernization Act."

Jared Rutecki@jaredrutecki.bsky.social · 20h ago

Chiwcago taxpayers must send $4.17 million to the attorneys who represented two men who sued the city after being wrongfully convicted of a 2003 murder, setting a new city record, a federal judge ordered.

Chicago Taxpayers Must Pay $4.2M to Attorneys for 2 Men Wrongfully Convicted of 2003 Murder After Record-Setting Verdict: Federal Judge

Lawyers for the city of Chicago have appealed that verdict, the largest ever in a lawsuit alleging misconduct by members of the Chicago Police Department.

news.wttw.com

The NewsGuild-CWA@newsguild.org · 21h ago

🚨 Journalists at the Daily Herald in Illinois are unionizing after experiencing eight rounds of buyouts and layoffs over the past 10 years, culminating with the dismissal of 12 workers earlier this month.

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Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · 2d ago

An employe at McMahon's company, WWE was accused of systematically sexually assaulting vulnerable boys who worked at the company. McMahon persuaded them not to sue, and told one she would support his education. When his grades dropped, she stopped paying tuition support. He later killed himself.

In 1992, Cole, then twenty-one years old, and another ring boy told the San Diego Union-Tribune that Phillips had molested them. They said that he groped their feet for hours at a time. (Phillips would lock the kids into wrestling holds.) Sometimes he rubbed their feet on his penis. (Later, other ring boys alleged that Phillips had forced them into oral sex, ejaculated on them, and attempted to have penetrative sex with them; the McMahons have denied knowledge of the actions.) Cole later accused a W.W.E. executive named Pat Patterson of groping his butt, and an executive named Terry Garvin of turning on pornography and asking to perform oral sex on Cole during a work conversation. When the story broke, the three men left the company. According to one account, the McMahons let Patterson go personally, at the mansion, and both Vince and Linda cried. (Patterson was reinstated soon afterward.) Vince held a series of damage-control phone calls with Phil Mushnick, a sports writer with the New York Post. Mushnick later testified in a deposition that Vince told him, “We had known for some time that Mel had a peculiar and unnatural interest and attachment to children.” Vince said that they’d fired Phillips before, years earlier, but had subsequently rehired him “out of the goodness of our hearts.” He framed this as a joint decision: “We brought him back with the caveat that he steer clear of children.”Cole threatened to sue the company. At a meeting with the McMahons in New York to discuss a settlement, Cole’s attorney left the room several times, leaving him alone with the McMahons. Cole recollected that Linda seemed compassionate. “I thought having her present and a mother’s instincts were invaluable,” the company’s longtime lawyer, Jerry McDevitt, later said. Cole said she told him that she believed him, and that she wanted to help. He remembered her saying, “I consider you in a sense like a son. I want to look at it that way. I want you to come to me with your problems.” Cole opened up. At a later meeting at W.W.E. headquarters, according to Cole, the McMahons sought the names of other potential accusers with whom he, along with his brother Lee, was communicating. At the McMahons’ coaxing, he gave them access to his brother’s answering machine. (Vince denies this.) His lawyer had sought a monetary settlement, but Cole, who’d left the company, said that he just wanted his job back. The McMahons agreed, and also gave him fifty thousand dollars in back pay. Linda McMahon and Cole also made a separate agreement: he’d be paid as an employee but would return to school, as McMahon wanted. “I talked to this young man as I would my son, and told him how supportive of him we would be,” she later recounted. He signed a document that she’d prepared, agreeing that his employment was contingent on his academics.As the journalist David Bixenspan, who has reported on the ring-boy allegations, has detailed, Cole enrolled at a community college. McMahon corresponded with his professors. Cole found that he was still traumatized by the abuse and had a hard time concentrating. He asked McMahon if he could drop out and resume working for the company. She told him to stick with it. Cole stopped attending class. He failed. His transcript was sent to McMahon. “I was very disappointed in your performance,” she wrote to him. “At this point we believe that we have done everything we can. Therefore, this letter is to advise you of your termination with Titan Sports, effective immediately.” She concluded, “The opportunity of a lifetime is a terrible thing to waste.”
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d ago

BASH: One of the things that's happening is there's a push to start students down a trade school track as early as elementary school. Is that too early? LINDA McMAHON: I don't think so BASH: But elementary school? McMAHON: I think you can have some introduction of skilled trades in elementary

Quilty Mama 🪡🧵@jannaps.bsky.social · 3d ago

I had a little trouble finding the disaster relief fund for Gary, Indiana, as they deal with storm damage and an extended power outage. Here is some info and a link to donate.

Standing With Our Neighbors: Legacy Foundation Mobilizes Major Relief Fund After Severe Storms

Standing With Our Neighbors: Legacy Foundation Mobilizes Major Relief Fund After Severe Storms

lakeshorepublicmedia.org

Popchinski@6puma.bsky.social · 3d ago

New Orleans knows all about this. If you can help folks in Gary Indiana see the links here:

flyingrodent@flyingrodent.bsky.social · 4d ago

It’s wild that the IDF just straight up murdered some British ex-marines for no real reason except to demonstrate they can and will kill *anyone*, and maybe also as a big fuck you to Barack Obama personally, a patron of the charity. And it wasn’t even an issue, glossed over within one day.

Stephen Doughty HC MP • @SDoughtyMP X.com Appalled and angry for the families of John Chapman, James Henderson and James Kirby after the Israeli authorities decided to bring no criminal action over the fatal strikes on a @WCKitchen convoy in Gaza. 1/2 19:29 • 20/08/2026 • 122K Views 59 L7 197 752 31 Relevant v View quotes > Stephen Doughty HC MP • @ For more than two years, we have pressed the Government of Israel to deliver the justice and accountability that the families deserve. This is not good enough. We have raised this with the Israeli authorities today and will continue to push for urgent answers. 2/2
Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis@kendrawrites.com · 4d ago

This is the funniest shit. Florida allows religious exemptions for vaccines. Catholic schools in Florida: we require vaccines. Florida's attorney general, who is Catholic, is threatening to pull vouchers if they don't allow for religious exemptions The Bishops: separation of church & state

Catholic bishops remind attorney general about separation of church and state

“The government may not decide that Church teaching is insufficiently religious,” wrote the Florida Conference of Catholic Bishops.

miamiherald.com

emptywheel@emptywheel.bsky.social · 7d ago

I'd like to see someone far smarter than me to draw these four things together: 1) Highest borrowing in 25 years. 2) Debt accelerating by the month. 3) No long range missiles left -- Whiskey Pete shot his wad and left us defenseless. 4) SPR emptying at steady clip.

Mohamed A. El-Erian@elerianm.bsky.social · 2w ago

From the Financial Times: "A $25bn Treasury auction of 30-year bonds on Thursday drew yields as high as 5.22 per cent, according to the US Treasury department. It marked the highest yield since the 5.52 per cent paid in August 2001, after which 30-year auctions were suspended for almost five years"

elia ayoub@ayoub.bsky.social · last wk.

The NYT knows very well what it's doing here. I was at the largest vigil for Jason Arday. There were no calls for censorship. There were calls for accountability. This is intentionally misrepresenting calls by Black people throughout the UK as a way of silencing them.

"After a Scholar's Awful Death, Mistaken Calls for Censorship"