Christopher D. Brown Ph.D.

YouTube video by incognito White House Chief of Staff Ben Cafferty | Best Quotes

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Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

‘Fear and hopelessness’: study finds one in four professors consider leaving US south Survey by American Association of Professors shows nearly quarter of respondents are switching due to states’s politics

Discussing this phenomenon w/ a group of profs. Someone morbidly joked, “& northern profs are fleeing the country.” The next person said…”even if we were all willing & able to abandon this place there are not enough jobs for us globally and the U.S. employs a huge # of international scholars too.”

University drops bid to fire professor for Charlie Kirk post Phillip Michael Hook wrote online that he did not “give a flying f***” about Kirk, whom he described as a “hate spreading Nazi.”

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This is the Katie Porter I have heard about.

Someone who used to work with Katie Porter sent me this clip from a train wreck interview with her and said “now imagine what she’s like when there aren’t cameras around.”

two women are standing in a living room and one of them says that 's not how this works ALT: two women are standing in a living room and one of them says that 's not how this works

Hi.

Nearly 30 years of government service under my belt.

Let me just say...

Guys... I think he lied when he said he only wanted to be a dictator on Day One.

THIS THIS THIS

RNC-Hired Mapmaker Denies Using Racial Data in Texas Gerrymander, Sparks Debate Read more here.

BREAKING: The GOP operative who drew Texas’ gerrymandered map testified that, at a White House meeting, he saw a draft of a letter written by DOJ officials urging the state to redistrict.

Speaker Mike Johnson is seen, in 2024, with Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. all linked to Jeffrey Epstein. Trump Jr. is also present, known for his public and personal ties to Andrew Tate, who faces human-trafficking charges. #OpDeathEaters

Nobel Prize in Physics 2025 The Nobel Prize in Physics 2025 was awarded jointly to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis "for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an...

Congratulations to this year’s Nobel Physics laureates — all 3 @uofcalifornia.bsky.social professors.

Home to groundbreaking physicists, including 2 immigrants leading the world in innovation & possibility, California is proud to dream big & deliver even bigger.

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Tweet from @laura_n_rod Text: A federal agent points a weapon at a woman who was recording them. Jess, a U.S. citizen and member of a neighborhood patrol team that documents and shares ICE activity across the city, was filming when the incident occurred earlier today in the Berwyn area. Photo: shows a federal agent in a truck pointing a gun

Another incident of federal agents pointing guns at Chicago area residents.

EXCLUSIVE: The Trump administration is considering selling off parts of the government's $1.6 trillion federal student loan portfolio to private investors, three people familiar with the discussions tell us.

What it could mean for borrowers: ow.ly/Zka650X7Zjb

YouTube video by NCS | NewscastStudio CNN "This Is An Apple" Promo

Why did @cnn.com stop running this promo?

Oh yeah...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=003p...

Thank you. Truth.

seeing otherwise smart people share the story that a south carolina judge’s beach house was burned to the ground because of a ruling against trump despite there being no evidence of that has been frustrating. just because the other side has abandoned facts doesn’t mean we can, too.

There is no REASON to spend BILLIONS to automate these jobs.

Waymo has done an amazing thing - but was that amazing thing even needed?

It's also a classic example solving a completely non-existent problem.

There is no shortage of Cab Drivers, Uber Drivers or even Truck Drivers (except HazMat). These are somewhat good paying jobs that folks with limited educations can reasonably expect to get.

Am I a Swifty.

Nope.

Also not just a radom "hey let's hate on a hot successful, powerful woman."

She is doing what SHE wants with the MONEY SHE earned.

The rest is none of my business.

Did she release a song about her man's penis? Apparently. It's HER album she can do whatever she wants.

What does her mom think? Seems like something between Taylor and her Mom. (I bet mom is happy that her daughter is in love and happy).

Is it "not as good" as her other albums...who cares? It is the album she put out.

Is she "not hot anymore" umm.. objectively no. But who cares and it's weird that you want to link that to her album.

Is she still speaking for herself and her fans? Yup I think so.

I see we are reaching the part of the Taylor Swift cycle in which people say nasty things about her and album because it is supposedly somehow a failure.

Taylor has more money then she could ever spend. She put out the album SHE wanted to put out. Seems like her fans like it.

based on the standards set by hegseth and others in the administration, this clearly means that hegseth should be fired

Draw on your own experience:

Is there any situation you've ever been part of, with you or anyone else in the hot seat, in which a person who does NOT have something to hide, reacts the way Bondi does?

I've been on trial juries that concluded "we can't trust that witness," after evasions like this

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YouTube video by Johnny's War Stories Top Secret - The Shootout

On a loop in my brain.

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Great chart -

williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/publications...

Had to go check -

"Among U.S. adults, 0.8% (over 2.1 million people) identify as transgender."

Higher percentage of younger folks brings it up to about 1%.