Jeff Nichols

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UIC grad student talks about finding Eastland disaster film footage Jeff Nichols has lived in Chicago for 20 years, so when he stumbled upon 100-year-old film clips of the SS Eastland disaster, the UIC graduate student knew the significance of what he had found. &#…

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If I go. There is a weird cheap fare, but there are a lot of moving parts.

I missed this! Thanks!

private equity reading this like "I smell an opportunity to improve operational efficiency!"

ha ha ha

among other things, it's very very funny to imagine Trump having granular knowledge and strong opinions about various obscure Iranian regime figures possibly in the running.

oof

German historians: does Bundesarchiv in Koblenz have stands for cameras in their reading rooms? I don't want to shlep a tripod with me.

i really don't think Hegseth realized the diplomatic consequences of that strike

it is ai

From FT comments

US Attorney Pirro v © @USAttyPirro We cannot comment on ongoing investigations Michael S. Schmidt • @nytmike • 19h EXCLUSIVE and BREAKING: Despite pressure from Trump, DOJ tried -- but failed -- to build a criminal case against Biden and his aides for the use of the autopen. This is latest example of DOJ failing to follow through on Trump's desires to use criminal justice system to indict and g ... 9:56 AM • Mar 5, 2026 • 23.8K Views

Also, “we cannot comment on investigations that were pointless and illegal and that we screwed up anyway.”

AI slopberg ahead

The headline... it's not even English...

Nobody hates living veterans more than Republicans. Dead veterans they can exploit in videos. But living veterans with opinions and medical needs are literally offensive to conservatives.

With any luck, this failure will be so catastrophic it will make AOL-Time Warner look like brilliant business strategy in comparison.

Who got us into "a situation like this?" Comer on "boots on the ground" in Iran: "Sometimes that's unavoidable in a situation like this"

you have to marvel sometimes about the dramatic twists the world gives you

Painting of a wedding party outdoors in a hillside everyone is dressed in kimonos and Japanese traditional dress the bride and groom are under a big red round umbrella all of the members of the party have Fox heads has a Japanese Yokai except in the back there's one tall guy with a black head of a jackal that being the Egyptian god Anubis

The Fox's Wedding (Anubis Meets Yōkai) — Joanna Karpowicz, 2022
acrylic on canvas

It is wild to me that DOGE/Musk could dismantle so much of the government in just a few months from a combination of anti-regulatory personal greed and fascism-tinged stupidity and no one will ever face any consequence for it.

This is what weak and insecure people think confidence looks like: buffoonish bluster and swagger, like a 12-year-old bully. It doesn‘t inspire trust or security. It inspires grave concern for the lives of the people serving our nation whose fate is in the hands of these overcompensating oafs.

Saw a thoughtful thread about AI, don't want to QT or argue. But. The biggest rage factor with LLMs is the people who, because genAI is transformative for coding, think it's transformative for everything else, because they devalue every other form of work and labor and knowledge.

My thing with Hegseth is that he wants you to think he was a scary, war-criming, door-kicker when he was actually a Minnesota National Guardsman assigned to the 101st Airborne Division as a replacement in Iraq, then quickly pulled from the line and shuffled off to a Civil Affairs unit mid-tour.

So, in launching a huge bombing campaign on Iran they apparently didn't plan for:

- Who takes over;
- Interceptor shortages from sustained drone retaliation;
- How to defend US bases in the region;
- Threats to ships in the Strait of Hormuz; and
- How to evacuate Americans with airspace closed.

oh man, they didnt have a plan for this at all

Trump, suffering from dementia, is confused about where his father was born. It was in the Bronx, not in Germany. Trump's grandfather was an immigrant who came here after getting kicked out of Germany for evading the draft.

a man wearing a helmet and a headset says " this is when the fun begins " Alt: anakin says " this is when the fun begins "

they're shutting in rumaila, iraqi exports going to zero www.bloomberg.com/news/article...