Banks permitted millions in suspicious transactions tied to Epstein—and former 60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi had the story months ago. But the report would never air. trib.al/ZShZlIS
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“Yikes is the word”: CNN’s Harry Enten on Trump’s collapsing support among moderate Republicans: “Versus Kamala Harris, Trump easily was winning amongst them by 69 points…right now we’re talking about, we’re talking about just a +10 net approval rate. This is within his own party.”
Lakeview Homeowner Sues Feds Over Warrantless Immigration Raid At His Home. Thank you Leo Feler for standing up for what is right. I know it is not easy. blockclubchicago.org/2026/07/28/l...
Lakeview Homeowner Sues Feds Over Warrantless Immigration Raid At His Home
Leo Feler said federal agents damaged his property and violated his constitutional rights during a chaotic immigration raid last fall.
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HOORAY! E-Scooters Are Now Blocked On Busy Stretch Of Sheridan Road In Edgewater. Now if they could only block the old fashioned kind of scooters and all bikes too. Too many idiots prefer terrorizing pedestrians when there are bike lanes 1 and 2 blocks west. blockclubchicago.org/2026/07/26/e...
E-Scooters Are Now Blocked On Busy Stretch Of Sheridan Road In Edgewater
The city enacted geofencing on Sheridan Road that prevents e-scooters from being used due to safety concerns. Ald. Leni Manaa-Hoppenworth is working to get e-bikes restricted in the area, too.
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You know what’s sad? Americans deserve the truth about an elected official and not one republican will step out of line to tell the truth about Mitch McConnell. And it’s even sadder that there’s a damn line at all. I’m so tired of this god forsaken era we’re all being forced to live through.
Officials, Neighbors Question If City Policies Aimed At Protecting Immigrants Are Being Followed blockclubchicago.org/2026/07/20/o...
Officials, Neighbors Question If City Policies Aimed At Protecting Immigrants Are Being Followed
The mayor asked Chicagoans to report crimes by immigration agents to police on the same day a city committee decried the slow adoption of a policy on investigating agents' unlawful conduct.
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Trump reportedly wants FIFA chief Gianni Infantino to lead the U.N., turning a World Cup alliance into a startling push to shape the future of the world’s premier diplomatic body. (free article) theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/trump-repo...
Trump Reportedly Wants FIFA’s Gianni Infantino Considered to Lead the United Nations
Trump reportedly wants FIFA chief Gianni Infantino to lead the U.N., turning a World Cup alliance into a startling push to shape the future of the world’s premier diplomatic body.
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This movie better do box office shattering sales. This looks so goddamn good.
Kevin Daly@kevinddaly.bsky.social · 2w agoThis looks DELIGHTFUL.
Food experts say that Taylor Farms iceberg lettuce can give you cyclosporiasis. A guy who snorts cocaine off toilet seats and drives around with dead bear cubs in his car says it can cure COVID. For busy eaters, it can be hard to know who to trust.
“The mounting level of US government debt, on track for $40 trillion courtesy of this summer’s “big beautiful bill,” risks a tectonic crash for the US economy” www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Social Security Will Start Running Out Earlier Than Expected
The date when the Social Security trust fund will be unable to pay 100% of benefits just got moved up.
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what i take away from this is that while Taco Bell has been exceedingly transparent, Taylor Farms has been equally opaque about being the actual epicenter of this
Taylor Farms Expands Iceberg Lettuce Recall to 27 States Amid Cyclospora Outbreak (Gift Article)
The implicated products were marketed under several brands, and had been shipped as recently as Thursday.
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Study finds when prominent scholars amplified women econ job candidates research on Twitter, the candidates received 0.9 more job offers than women whose research was not amplified. Among men, the promotion showed no significant effect on job offers. www.scienceofmoney.org/when-a-famou...
The economics of getting noticed: what a Twitter experiment revealed about academic hiring
A field experiment on Twitter found that when prominent economists shared job candidates' papers, the work drew far more attention and candidates landed more campus visits, with women seeing a notable...
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BREAKING: Federal judge finds that Trump's IRS suit was improper because Trump controlled both sides of the litigation. Judge Kathleen Williams also sanctions Trump's lawyers, issues monetary sanctions, and harshly criticizes DOJ's "untenable" conduct. More to come at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com
Buttigieg: You can see it in the carnival of corruption that is Washington, D.C., today. The leader of the free world flying around in a secondhand jumbo jet from a foreign country while he makes a billion dollars on crypto deals propped up by foreign leaders.
This thing where members of congress keep disappearing for months with health problems and no explanation is bad, but also how would anything be different if every member of congress was in a coma right now
The falling away of the feigning of decency is one of the most dramatic changes in American elite culture in the last decade. It's ubiquitous, and explains so much of our collapse, but happily it's not universal.
Gwen Snyder is uncivil@gwensnyder.bsky.social · 4w agoI don't think these times have been a solvent for decency at all. This has been a precipitation process. It has made decent people coalesce & show themselves. We're also seeing how many people had just been superficially feigning decency, because that used to be a social/professional expectation.
Florida Republican says deporting Haitians with TPS would be ‘huge mistake’ "It's Haitians who, many times, are taking care of your mom or your dad who has Alzheimer's, taking care of family members who might be in a nursing” www.yahoo.com/news/politic... via @@YahooNews
Florida Republican says deporting Haitians with TPS would be ‘huge mistake’
‘Haiti is a failed state’, says Carlos Giménez, congressman and Miami Cuban exile, after controversial court ruling
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The regime's rule was simple: lock them up, don't let them out. Eight months in a cell, no bond hearing, for a man who's lived here 20 years with a US citizen daughter. This week four appeals courts and 450 judges said no. He goes home. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/republican...
Breaking 4th of July and Immigration BOMBSHELL from founding father, first president and military legend George Washington‼️ WARNING: Excessive reposting of this historical FACT may cause the world’s biggest diaper explosion.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last mo.Mamdani: "Those who led through exclusion & isolation have tried to win power & enrich themselves by turning us against one another ... today, too many of our leaders do not believe in a vision of this nation as an asylum for the persecuted, but rather as one that persecutes those seeking asylum"
From Charleston to T-Town, severe storms and tornadoes have wreaked havoc on our communities. We will get through this together, Illinois. I want to thank those on the ground from our state agencies as well as the local first responders for the work they’re doing to save lives.
Trump's financial disclosures just came in. We’re talking big money and big looting. But he doesn’t have any conflicts of interest, really. That’s because he has only one interest: lining his own pockets. Some thoughts... https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-most-troubling-thing-about-trump
Trump Has No Conflicts of Interest
He only has one interest, and he's not at all conflicted about it
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two things. first, always an irony that alito recapitulates the exact same arguments made against his immigrant forbearers. second, if this is all the 14th amendment did it would not have repudiated dred scott
Gabriel Malor@gabrielmalor.bsky.social · last mo.Justice Alito, in dissent, says the constitution does not "degrade the concept of United States citizenship" by confering citizenship on the children of "birth tourists." Degrade. As if the quality of Alito's citizenship depends on excluding others from citizenship.
I’m in Canada at the moment, and someone behind me in the grocery line said, after finding out I’m American, ‘No worries, we got you. We know you don’t support him. And honestly, it’s been a good wake up call for us.’ I almost cried.
ICE Is a Job Killer Everywhere It Goes www.nytimes.com/2026/06/26/o...
Opinion | ICE Is a Job Killer Everywhere It Goes
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The US is so paranoid about Chinese tech, they've forced Polestar to withdraw from the US. Polestar is the best alternative to Tesla with high quality sedans, not to mention the excellent Android integration. What an absolute mess and self-own by the government. finance.yahoo.com/markets/stoc...
Polestar exits US market after government bans sales due to connected vehicle tech
Swedish-based EV-maker Polestar says it will no longer sell cars in the US, after the Commerce Department banned it from selling its cars in the country.
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