'Did Biden win the 2020 election?' is a question with a binary answer that Republicans pretend needs a nuanced answer. 'What is a woman?'is a question with a nuanced answer that Republicans pretend needs a binary answer.
Jeff Nichols
@backwardsriver.bsky.social
Chicago blueystorian, UIC ABD jeffnicholshistory.com
Your little oopsie "mistakes" had me worrying for a year of my life about my partner going to jail for up to a decade based on lies likely fed to you by the top of the federal government. Show everyone what you're covering up in these emails and texts. There's a reason you don't want them released.
Boutros acknowledges 'mistakes' in 'Broadview 6' case but says sanctions, special counsel aren't needed
Chicago's top federal prosecutor noted in a court filing that his office has already dropped charges in the case, implemented “robust root-cause changes” and started the process of reviewing over 1,00...
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Half the discourse this summer has been about the Second World War and half about Homeric Greece but yes there’s clearly no future for students trained in history
Glen O'Hara@gsoh31.bsky.social · 3d agoSo it's farewell to the History subject area at the University of Hertfordshire, not the first nor the last to go. One of the best departments in the country, just extinguished like a snap of the fingers. Think of the waste. (1/2)
So why isn't Fox news televising interviews of all the happy people who live near data centers so we can hear what a treat it is to live with the constant noise, lights, increased utility costs and non-existent new jobs?
The @chicagoreader.com is and has been consistently excellent. I really hope that they get the resources they need to continue for 50 more years. Why are rich progressives not funding local independent media? This piece is excellent and would only be written by a local outlet.
The Cook County jail’s new $7 million visitation center
Cook County wants to create an oasis inside the infamous jail. But the renovation will do little to address the harm of incarceration itself
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No one works in a data center but at least he's right about people not being able to sleep near a data center because of all the noise they make
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d agoHassett: "Data centers are very good for towns bc they create so many jobs & bring people in with high incomes that can buy houses & stuff like that. So if you take a sleepy town that hasn't seen much in the last 30 years & put a data center there, there are gonna be a bunch of happy residents."
The craziest thing to me is that the greatest concentration of money & brain power in the world right now is dedicated to accelerating a machine that murders all stories
Justina Ireland@justinaireland.com · 5d agoLook, this story is bananas. A whole bunch of people read an AI manuscript and wanted to throw money at it. But the craziest thing here is that PUBLISHERS MARKETPLACE RAN AN AUTHOR’S MANUSCRIPT THROUGH AN AI DETECTOR. Like, WTF are we doing here, guys?
omg, it comes with its own haunted mirror 😍
Eric Erins@ericerins.bsky.social · 5d agoSomehow I missed this $4.3M Art Nouveau apartment that hit the market. It looks out over Oak Street Beach. Clocking in at 4K square feet, I've never seen anything quite like this in Chicago before. Asking $4.3M www.realtor.com/realestatean...
One point of maintaining a diplomatic corps — and not shredding it to give a billionaire’s 23-year-old acolytes some jollies — is having people able to say who “the right Iranian officials” are on the payroll, a call away.
Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4mo agoCan they transfer us to the right department. 🤡
This is Middle Ages-level superstition and ignorance. The cause of cardiopulmonary issues like those he's describing is covid, not vaccines.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.Sen. Roger Marshall: "Who didn't have a friend who took this vaccine and had some time of complication? A stroke, a blood clot, a young man getting some type of heart inflammation. That's what destroyed the trust in the American people for our government."
TikTok has incredible moderation team. Our InfoWars video about Multiple Horse Theory — the idea that there are many horses in the world and not just one — has been fully deemed misinformation and lost the formal appeals process. Confirmed by Larry Ellison: There is only one horse on Earth.
𝖭𝖺𝗏𝖺𝗋𝗋𝗈 𝗎𝗌𝖾𝖽 𝖣𝗂𝗅𝖻𝖾𝗋𝗍 𝖼𝗈𝗆𝗂𝖼 𝗌𝗍𝗋𝗂𝗉 𝖼𝗋𝖾𝖺𝗍𝗈𝗋, 𝖲𝖼𝗈𝗍𝗍 𝖠𝖽𝖺𝗆𝗌, 𝖺𝗌 𝖺𝗇 𝗂𝗏𝖾𝗋𝗆𝖾𝖼𝗍𝗂𝗇 𝖾𝗑𝗉𝖾𝗋𝗍 𝖻𝖾𝖼𝖺𝗎𝗌𝖾 𝖠𝖽𝖺𝗆𝗌 𝗆𝖺𝖽𝖾 𝖺 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘴 𝗏𝗂𝖽𝖾𝗈😂😂 “𝘏𝘦 𝘥𝘪𝘥 𝘢 𝘣𝘦𝘢𝘶𝘵𝘪𝘧𝘶𝘭 𝘷𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘰 𝘰𝘯 𝘛𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳 & 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘷𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘰 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘊𝘕𝘕 𝘮𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘣𝘦 𝘬𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 1000𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺’𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵. 𝘐’𝘭𝘭 𝘭𝘦𝘵 𝘚𝘤𝘰𝘵𝘵 𝘈𝘥𝘢𝘮𝘴 𝘣𝘦 𝘮𝘺 𝘥𝘦𝘧𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘦 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴.“
CNN’s Burnett presses Navarro on hydroxychloroquine in combative interview: ‘You’re an economist, not a scientist’
CNN’s Erin Burnett pressed White House trade advisor Peter Navarro over his support for hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for the coronavirus despite public health experts, including several within…
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The quintessential Barton moment for me is when he cited a scene from a Louis L'amour book as a historical episode and when people traced it back to the book he went "uhh well his books were based on real history"
David Barton Admits Getting Gun-Toting Students Story From Louis L'Amour, But It's OK Because L'Amour Said It Really Happened
See how much a story can change in just one retelling? A gunman from San Francisco in the 1860s became a gunman from New England in the 1850s. How much might the story have already changed from whatev...
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Judd Legum@juddlegum.bsky.social · last wk.David Barton is a fake historian who wrote a book on Thomas Jefferson that was so inaccurate his publisher was forced to pull it from the shelves. Now Barton, and his son Tim, are advising Trump on his anti-Smithsonian crusade.
Ukrainians scrawled "children" on the Mariupol theatre, a desperate plea for mercy as families sought refuge inside. But Russia's bombs did not spare the innocent. This here is a warehouse.
From the film 1974 filmstrip How to Get Gonorrhea. humanoidhistory.tumblr.com/post/8234794...
“Why does Musk get a pass? Why do politicians, journalists and commentators treat his far-right racist radicalism as a sideshow rather than the core of his political, ideological and industrial project”
Opinion | Why Do We Tolerate Elon Musk’s Racist Commentary?
Why does the owner of X get a pass for what he says and does there?
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"Debates over World War II became popular at Heritage, with a lot of “rehashing and going through who was the bad guy and who were the good guys,”" Also, sounds like a lot of anti-Semitism at the Heritage Foundation. Maybe Trump's task force on anti-Semitism could look into this!
There was an era not too long ago when the White House publicly promoting tobacco products would've been seen as a faux pas
Manosphere grifters have figured out that some men are easily manipulated by making them feel insecure about their masculinity. The GOP has turned this sales pitch into both an ideology and a campaign strategy. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
This is the sort of thing the leader of Belarus would say, reflecting his vassal status.
Olga Nesterova@onestpress.onestnetwork.com · last wk.Trump on Zelenskyy’s claim that Russia is helping Iran target the US bases in the Gulf: “I’ll ask Putin. I don’t think they do and if they do, it’s been very unimpactful”
Once more: Mamdani understands that you can't just do things in politics and expect voters will notice on their own and thank you for it. You've got to work just as hard selling yourself to voters once you're in office as you did selling yourself to them to get into office. This is the way.
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · last wk.Now serving: a new era for small business.
People who think Emily Wilson is being mean have clearly never presented a paper at an academic conference
It would be very, very funny if Oracle ends up being the leading edge of the market crash. Not SpaceX/Tesla-funny. But pretty damn close.
Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · last wk.“.. Despite all this government backing, Oracle’s stock price has been on a wild round trip to nowhere .. “.. S&P Global Ratings downgraded the .. debt to one level above junk, and the threat of a Moody’s Ratings cut looms.” @markgongloff.bsky.social $ORCL $PSKY www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
