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Edited the Chicago Reader during what you might call its heyday. Now: various. “Conspiracy theories are underrated” —me

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Scoop: Dialog, a secretive forum, plans D.C.-area campus The secretive, invite-only network is preparing a major expansion.

“Dialog , a secretive…network founded 2 decades ago by Peter Thiel & Auren Hoffman” reportedly plans to build a campus in the DC suburbs. Past Dialog participants reportedly include Elon Musk, Tulsi Gabbard, Scott Bessent, Eric Schmidt, Ted Cruz, Cory Booker, Gary Kasparov, etc. 8/7/25 … 1/

06.03.2026 02:01 — 👍 27    🔁 20    💬 4    📌 1

*65. Even worse.

05.03.2026 18:54 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

No word on fuckbuddy.

05.03.2026 18:53 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Surveillance state blues: Imagine being 64 years old and going to jail for a year by mistake.

05.03.2026 18:51 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Screenshot of a CDC webpage. The page title reads “Mental Health,” with a subheading: “Poor Mental Health Effects Adolescent Well-being.” 

“Per a court order, HHS is required to restore this website as of 11:59PM ET, February 14, 2025. Any information on this page promoting gender ideology is extremely inaccurate and disconnected from the immutable biological reality that there are two sexes, male and female. The Trump Administration rejects gender ideology and condemns the harms it causes to children, by promoting their chemical and surgical mutilation, and to women, by depriving them of their dignity, safety, well-being, and opportunities. This page does not reflect biological reality and therefore the Administration and this Department rejects it.”

Screenshot of a CDC webpage. The page title reads “Mental Health,” with a subheading: “Poor Mental Health Effects Adolescent Well-being.” “Per a court order, HHS is required to restore this website as of 11:59PM ET, February 14, 2025. Any information on this page promoting gender ideology is extremely inaccurate and disconnected from the immutable biological reality that there are two sexes, male and female. The Trump Administration rejects gender ideology and condemns the harms it causes to children, by promoting their chemical and surgical mutilation, and to women, by depriving them of their dignity, safety, well-being, and opportunities. This page does not reflect biological reality and therefore the Administration and this Department rejects it.”

Starting research for a new project on youth mental health, I went to the CDC website.

This brazenly discriminatory anti-trans notice is tacked to the top of the page.

05.03.2026 16:55 — 👍 47    🔁 21    💬 6    📌 8

The US and Iran have obviously not been at war for 47 years, as regime propagandists tell us. What has been going on for 47 years is the Saudi-Iranian regional proxy war. So the propaganda defines us as a Saudi proxy state.

05.03.2026 16:00 — 👍 1507    🔁 457    💬 40    📌 15
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Corporate Media Buries Story of US and Israel Killing 168 in Girls School Attack No front-page stories in NYT, WSJ, WaPo. No mention on NBC and CBS Sunday Shows. No stand alone segments on Evening News shows. A death count on par with the OKC bombing is relegated to the back page.

“No front-page stories in NYT, WSJ, WaPo. No mention on NBC and CBS Sunday Shows. No stand alone segments on Evening News shows. A death count on par with the OKC bombing is relegated to the back page.” www.columnblog.com/p/corporate-...

05.03.2026 04:01 — 👍 4098    🔁 2074    💬 61    📌 74

so this one time a lorry of rice showed up at my family home

05.03.2026 04:02 — 👍 1137    🔁 45    💬 38    📌 6
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hell yeah

05.03.2026 00:11 — 👍 959    🔁 110    💬 22    📌 44

“Between the first half of 2024 and 2025, her policies contributed to an additional 1,068 people being locked up. When Cook County experiences historic decreases in both property and violent crime, there should be fewer pretrial detention motions, not more.”

04.03.2026 16:14 — 👍 34    🔁 21    💬 1    📌 1

Too bad there's no opposition party that could run a 48 hour Youtube telethon program with 48 elected officials each programming one hour to point out the awfulness of the war on Iran. That would definitely not get any media or other attention.

04.03.2026 22:47 — 👍 1099    🔁 236    💬 11    📌 1
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Education Department Hangs Banner Of Man Who Told Kids College Was A Scam “We are living in the weirdest timeline,” one social media user noted.

“We are living in the weirdest timeline,” one social media user noted.

05.03.2026 00:37 — 👍 36    🔁 12    💬 1    📌 0
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A Running Count of How Many People ICE Has Killed and Injured - The American Prospect ICE is not required to report any use-of-force incidents against the public. So The American Prospect created our own running tally.

We updated our record of people immigration agents have killed or caused to die since Trump took office in January 2025.

As of today, agents have killed at least 28 people in the field and 48 people in custody.

04.03.2026 21:06 — 👍 987    🔁 590    💬 21    📌 15

Murica.

05.03.2026 00:34 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Blankie-gate 🤣

04.03.2026 15:54 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Brendan Reilly is basically Paul Vallas if Paul Vallas sometimes got punched in the face and tossed out of bars.

17.02.2026 23:32 — 👍 203    🔁 58    💬 7    📌 6

Co-sign. “If we’ve learned one thing from the Epstein files, it’s this: The problem is never just one man, one moment, or one action. It’s the hundreds or thousands of other people who willingly enable him so they can profit.”

04.03.2026 15:38 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Because of the economic ramifications.

04.03.2026 04:51 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Long COVID — Here’s What To Know And The Challenges Ahead Six years after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the virus still exists. A public health expert explains what Long COVID is, and the challenges associated with it.

Explicitly capitalist media again shares a new piece that Long COVID is concerning, has no cure and again, embarrassingly, is doing better public health comms about this than most public health orgs. www.forbes.com/sites/omeraw...

03.03.2026 21:52 — 👍 332    🔁 133    💬 7    📌 10

How can Congress pass a supplemental funding bill for a war it has not authorized?

04.03.2026 01:14 — 👍 771    🔁 304    💬 47    📌 11

NB: the Daily Mail doesn’t consider MAGA influencers “normal Americans.”

04.03.2026 01:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Are people in IL talking about the fact that Kelly is a decade older than Stratton and would be 75/76 years old if she won and served a full term?

04.03.2026 01:24 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

We really do need to hammer home reducing police budgets and using them to bolster teacher salaries immediately. The fact we have these massive goon squads playing candy crush all day at their jobs meanwhile teachers are having to get second incomes is frankly embarrassing as a rich country.

03.03.2026 17:12 — 👍 1296    🔁 387    💬 15    📌 6

A much smaller scale, but during the recent eruption in Puerta Vallarta, the Canadian and British govts were providing citizens with travel updates and assistance. USG: crickets.

03.03.2026 18:18 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I wish some major media outlets would do broad reports on the impact of death threats on our politics, and on who's doing them (MAGA men mostly from what I can tell), and why law enforcement appears to be doing so little about them. They are such a big (submerged) part of our politics now.

03.03.2026 15:20 — 👍 1886    🔁 676    💬 27    📌 25

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Let's fight misinformation, help good journalists to make a decent living, and stick a big ol' finger in Jeff Bezos' eye.

13.02.2026 18:50 — 👍 184    🔁 324    💬 28    📌 35
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"The trade was not that you were getting exposed to geopolitics when moving to Dubai."

02.03.2026 15:19 — 👍 4009    🔁 660    💬 218    📌 554
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After Detention, Families Stranded in Border Town Face Harrowing Journey Home Parents and children from a detention center in Texas found themselves dropped at a border town shelter with few means to leave.

After detaining children and parents for weeks, or months, inside Dilley detention center, ICE is dumping them at a shelter in Laredo, TX. They are often thousands of miles away from where they were arrested, with no money to get back home. THREAD (1/)
www.themarshallproject.org/2026/03/02/i...

02.03.2026 14:49 — 👍 566    🔁 362    💬 16    📌 32

If you were OK with “Substack, the Nazi Bar,” maybe “Substack, a front for the gambling on life and death casino” might convince you.

02.03.2026 14:52 — 👍 550    🔁 296    💬 6    📌 8