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“everyone is twelve now” theory

We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.

"They had the Black people in one van, and the immigrants in another van”—a report from a Chicago apartment building. These are essentially white nationalist attacks on US residents, including children, being paid for with our tax dollars

Thread on Chicagoland ICE activity today

Some immigrants in Chicago now fear ICE more than gunfire Donald Trump's deployment of federal agents to cities is based on the disproven claim that immigrants commit a disproportionate number of violent crimes.

“They are taking innocent people, and it’s affecting the community,” Raquel said. “You can’t even be at peace in your own home.”

There seems to be an inverse correlation between how much you talk about free speech and how much you actually believe in it when it opposes your worldview.

i’m confused lol did anyone consider abolishing the dept of education will make the AI training material even way more dumber?

oh hell yeah

a man in a suit and tie is eating popcorn from a container that says inside ALT: a man in a suit and tie is eating popcorn from a container that says inside

the richest man on earth is on his own twitter roasting the president of the united states

the president is on his own twitter roasting the richest man on earth

and here we all are on a way cooler third twitter

what a time to be alive 🫠

elon musk to donald trump at every meeting in the oval office: “you are in the epstein files. meet my 3 year old son”

Hello my car drives itself and my computer is my wife, I'd like to purchase a firearm

The heartbreaking statement from Jonathan Joss’s husband about his death.

my birthplace 🥹

despite everything, palestine will one day be free

There are many reasons why journalism is not attractive to wealthy donors. The pitch for funding real journalism is, essentially, “Give us money. You can’t tell us anything about what to do with it. Then we will write stories inimical to your interests. Over the course of years, civic society will be strengthened.” This tends to strike rich people as unattractive. They are generally looking for something more along the lines of, “Our publication will be the equivalent of injecting an undecided voter with a powerful drug that will indoctrinate them into our way of thinking, like an acid-crazed Manson acolyte.” Journalism cannot promise this sort of ROI. Propaganda can. The confident pitches of propagandists often turn out to be little more than attempts to soak well-intentioned rich people for as much money as possible, using oversimplified promises of grand influence in record time. Oh well. That’s what you get for believing propagandists.

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do NOT walk into the dentist and tell them to line your shit up 😬🫣😭

job seekers use AI to write cover letters

job providers use AI to read cover letters

cover letters are fan fiction about working for someone

what are we doing here lol

tesla is a terrorist organization

the Knicks beating the Celtics is the most anyone has done to fight fascism in America in 2025

is anyone else already able to immediately clock when someone is overly reliant on AI?

what kinda dab rig do they got in the sistine chapel 👀

Pablo Escobar didn’t kill himself

“xAI tried to train me to appeal to the right” says so much about the current moment we live in

The protest songs that drove the Wobblies a century ago are still lighting fires - Chicago Reader Labor firebrand Joe Hill wrote some of the most enduring anthems in the IWW’s Little Red Songbook—and today’s activists carry on his legacy.

It’s International Workers’ Day, which is a good moment to revisit this heater of a Reader music story by the great @kimkelly.bsky.social

been treating social media like a drunk cigarette lately everyone should be doing this

street signs

pretty crazy they straight up told the country that they would crash the economy and no one really brought it up or cared

Fellas, is it a terrorism to say bad things about overpriced cars that fall apart because they’ve been recalled for not having been glued correctly

The Tesla takedown poster riffing on the city of Chicago rat abatement signs is art www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/iv2o2...